Slow Restore Performance With Direct SAN Mode

Challenge When performing an Entire VM Restore or Virtual Disk Restore using Direct SAN Restore, the performance may be sub-optimal when the restored Disk Type Setting is set to Thick lazy zeroed. Cause When using Direct SAN to restore a disk with its disk type set to Thick lazy zeroed, overall...

Direct SAN Restore for thick disk VDDK error: One of the parameters supplied is invalid

Challenge When performing a write operation using Direct-SAN transport mode e.g., Entire VM Restore, VM Hard Disk Restore, or initial run of a replication job the task fails with the error: Unable to execute write operation using advanced transport, failing over to network mode... ERR |VDDK error...

Direct-SAN Transport mode – Requirements and Troubleshooting

Purpose This article documents how to set up Direct SAN Access for use with Veeam Backup & Replication. The Direct SAN access transport mode is recommended for VMs whose disks are located on shared VMFS SAN LUNs that are connected to ESXi hosts over FC, FCoE, iSCSI, and on shared SAS storage. In...

How to setup SAN access for use with Veeam Backup & Replication.

Purpose This article documents how to set up Direct SAN Access for use with Veeam Backup & Replication. The Direct SAN access transport mode is recommended for VMs whose disks are located on shared VMFS SAN LUNs that are connected to ESXi hosts over FC, FCoE, iSCSI, and on shared SAS storage. In...