Backing up a cluster and standalone hosts

[wilsonb05]

A few quick questions one of our customers is wanting to backup there hyper v cluster and also some stand alone hosts that are outside the cluster. In terms of a proxy do they need a proxy for the cluster and one to do the stand-alone hosts or will one proxy be enough for both. Also does the proxy need to be part of the cluster ?

The next question is they want to do all the backup traffic on there storage network , this wouldn't be a problem apart from the cluster only has a production IP address is it possible to give the cluster another IP on a different range ?

[Shestakov]

Hello Bailey and welcome to the community!
2 proxies are not needed unless you want to backup the hosts and cluster in parallel. Check how much time each backup job takes and see if proxy is a bottleneck at all.
As for the traffic, yes you can give the cluster another IP. Do you want to route traffic from the cluster to backup proxy?
Thanks!

[foggy]

If you plan to backup a cluster using off-host mode, you need a proxy on a host that is not a part of a cluster (could be one of your standalone hosts).

[wilsonb05]

Hi all, thanks for the replies that really helped. I have just realised if I add the repository using its storage network ip it will force the proxy to send the traffic across the storage network (in theory)
I will give this all a try and feedback.

Cheers