Understanding how the latest enhancements can help your organization
With all the newest enhancements, you may be wondering how these can help you in your backup environment. The following sections will look at the improvements from the previous section, Understanding Linux proxy enhancements and what's new in v11a.
A Linux proxy server can be physical or virtual
With the proxy transport modes changing, you can now have the Linux proxy server as either a physical server or a VM within your virtual infrastructure. By deploying a Linux proxy in your virtual infrastructure, you will save the cost of physical hardware, maintenance, and support. Instead, it becomes part of your virtual environment, allowing for easier maintenance, updating, and so on. However, if you choose a physical server, this allows for storage integration with iSCSI or Fiber Channel and faster network backups when using a 10 GB network or higher. There is added cost for physical hardware to replace failed...