SAN Direct- More than one Proxy

[rmcdonald75]

Hi all,

I am pretty sure i know the answer but wanted to double check.

Backing up VMs now with SAN Direct, Veeam is running all on one VM. Console, Veeam Backup Proxy, etc. It has access to the iSCSI array and can see the VMFS volumes without any issues and backup run SAN Access without errors.

Now if i add another VM Veeam Backup Proxy i am assuming the same steps needed to be done so this Proxy sees the ISCSI array, expose the VMFS to this new backup proxy as well?

Thanks
Ray

[DaveWatkins]

Yes, but if your Veeam server is a VM, you don't really gain anything over HotAdd mode by doing direct SAN backups. The idea of Direct SAN is your proxy using that mode is a physical server and so you're moving the data reading load off the storage and network fabric of the ESX host. At the point you're doing it from a VM anyway, those benefits are lost