Previously known as Direct SAN mode, this was changed to Direct Storage as Direct NFS was added recently! With Direct Storage mode, we will utilize a physical proxy that has a connection to the storage network. This is a preferred mode in a lot of environments, as it scales easily, and – thanks to 9.5 – is now even faster is processing data! The proxy VM reads the blocks from the virtual hard drive, and deduplicates the data, and sends it out it’s virtual NIC, to the virtual switch, and out to the physical LAN, to the Backup Repository. The virtual machine we are backing up is unaffected, as it is running off of the snapshot (.vmdk-000001) file, and not the original VMDK.
In this mode, the virtual proxy’s VM is modified, and the snapshotted VM’s hard disks are mounted. This is due to the nature of how it handles the data transfer. Hot Add Mode:įirst of all, hot add mode requires virtual proxies.
#Veeam replicating vmdk files from datastore upgrade
I know it's not an ideal scenario, but I'm hoping to get a solution in place until we are able to upgrade to identical SANs at each location that can meet our I/O needs.
We do not have an EMC at siteB to replicate to, so we're stuck in the scenario that I described in my original question. Thanks for the reply and suggestions! We actually do have a NetApp at each location, but we are moving a particular department's linked-clones away from NetApp to EMC (at SiteA) due to storage I/O congestion that we're running into at SiteA. So, what kind of storage and what common denominators are there between SANs? I am wondering if Veeam or Unitrends has the capability to swoop in and backup individual persistent disks.Īssuming no, the "only" way to do this - not wanting to start any arguments, but this would be the only thing to pop into most people's minds sitting at a table and discussing this - is indeed storage replication. Good thing too that your clones and their persistent disks are on separate storage. Okay! You're using linked clones with persistent disks and you want to replicate (or backup?) the persistent disks for safety.