Backup proxy for replication

[matteu]

Hello,

I would like to know if destination backup proxy is mandatory for Replication ?

My customer has production datacenter and DR datacenter with 10GB between both. I would like to know if there are some benefits to use a target proxy on the DR site with this "high" bandwith.

It will be arround 150/200 VM replication scheduled each 6 hours.

There are 8 proxy on the source side (vsan with 8 nodes) and 4 nodes on the DR sites. If proxy is needed, how much proxy do you think is a good number ?

thanks

[veremin]

No, it isn't mandatory, but without it the traffic will flow over the network in uncompressed and non-deduplicated state.

[PetrM]

Hello,

I'd also add that the target proxy will be suitable if you can leverage HotAdd or Direct SAN transport modes on target. Probably, the deployment with target proxy which retrieves data from the source one over 10 GB link and writes data to the target datastore in HotAdd/SAN mode will give higher processing rate. I'd suggest to start with the same number of proxies that you have on source side. Later, you can fine-tune proxies if jobs do not fit 6 hours.

Thanks!

[matteu]

Thanks for both answer

I will start with 2 proxy on the destination and I will see it