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Hotadd vs NBD

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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?
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Re: Hotadd vs NBD

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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.
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Re: Hotadd vs NBD

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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.
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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.
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Re: Hotadd vs NBD

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