Hotadd vs NBD

[sergeadam]

I'm backing up to my DR site. My VEEAM proxy is on a VM at the DR site. Both sites are connected with a Layer 2 1Gbps connection. Right now, the hosts at the DR site do not see the production datastores, so VEEAM uses NBD to backup. Would there be a significant speed advantage to configure the DR hosts to see the production datastores so the proxy would use HotAdd?

[foggy]

Serge, a better approach would be to have proxy as a VM on one of the hosts at the source site, close to the production data. That would allow to retrieve data via hotadd and transfer it in a compressed format to the target site.

[sergeadam]

I know, but I have an issue where iSCSI commands are not getting through the connection. The iSCSI initiator sees the array but can't connect. And I don't have the time to pursue it right now.

[dellock6]

You can deploy proxies at source site as virtual machines and use hotadd, no iscsi connections to production datastore is needed, that one is only for directsan.

[veremin]

Check our sticky FAQ for more information about this mode.

[sergeadam]

The iSCSI issue has been solved. It was never about the connections to the source datastores, but rather to the target array.