Direct Network

Virtual
Storage Block
Appliance
Access Device
 • Transfers backup data over the
SAN, which bypasses ESXi hosts
and the LAN
Direct • Offers the highest data transfer
Storage speed
• Creates no extra load on VM
Access network

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 • Strongly recommended that direct storage
access proxies are physical machines
• Literal direct storage access in the proxy must
have direct access via HBA
Direct • Storage volumes must be exposed to the
Storage proxy server OS
• Volumes must be visible but must not be
Access initialized by proxy server OS
• Exposure misconfiguration can corrupt
volumes
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• Can restore only thick provisioned VM disks
Veeam Backup INSTRUCTOR • Does not support incremental restore
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 Direct Network
Virtual
Storage Block
Appliance
Access Device
 • Less efficient than direct storage
access, but more efficient than network
mode
• Recommended when a backup proxy
Virtual is a virtual machine
Appliance • Uses VMware SCSI (hot-add) to attach
VM virtual disks to the proxy server VM
• VM data is written or retrieved directly
to/from the datastore, bypassing
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network
Veeam Backup INSTRUCTOR
Alimansouri201997@gmail.com
 Direct Network
Virtual
Storage Block
Appliance
Access Device
 • Least efficient due to network data transfer
• Minimum recommended 10GB networking
• Can be used with any infrastructure
Network configuration
Block • Useful as a failback when other options
are transiently unavailable
Device

Ali Mansouri
Veeam Backup INSTRUCTOR
Alimansouri201997@gmail.com