HotAdd Transport mode limitations with vSAN datastore

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

The purpose of the this article is to explain the  limitations of HotAdd transport mode with vSAN datastore.

Environment

VMware vSphere 6.5.x
VMware vSphere 6.7.x

Resolution

1) Target machine in vSAN datastore and backup proxy in non vSAN datastore is not supported as it’s a limitation since vSphere 6.5. As of now, there is no workaround to this and will be fixed in a future release.

2) Target machine in VMFS/NFS datastore and backup proxy in vSAN datastore is not supported when there are SEsparse disks.

The disks as their snapshots are created in SEsparse format on VMFS5 or NFS datastore and the disk size > 2TB.
The disks as their snapshots are created in SEsparse format on VMFS6 datastore.