Wan Accelerator - Proxy Relationship

[crackocain]

Hi everyone

I want to ask what is the best practise about Proxy & Wan Accelerator. Wan Accelerator & Proxy should be in the same virtual machine or this two roles separated? What is the pros and cons? I'm reinstalling one of my clients and deployment is this.

Primary site
VM1 - VeeamBackupServer - SAN Proxy
VM2 - ScaleoutBackupRepository - 2 RDM 1 ISCSI extent - and Backup Proxy
VM3 - WanAcc1 80 GB Cache - non proxy
VM4 - WanAcc2 80 GB Cache - non proxy
VM5 - WanAcc3 80 GB Cache - non proxy
VM6 - WanAcc4 80 GB Cache - non proxy

DR Site
VM - Wan Acc - 2TB Cache and Proxy

Could i add WanAcc's to proxy role? Or Wan Accelerators should work only Wan Cache?

[PTide]

Hi,

Accelerator and proxies can be two separate machines. Data flows from source proxy to the source WANacc., then from the source WANacc. to target WANacc. and finally to the target proxy. Eliminating additional links between proxies and accelerators might be beneficial in case you cannot provide good connection between them. On the other hand you should keep in mind system requirements.

Or Wan Accelerators should work only Wan Cache?

Actually there is no way how you could move global cache away from target WANacc. - Global Cache always sits there.

All that applies only if you use Replication Job. If you use Backup Copy Job then proxy does not take part in data transfer process.

Thanks