Configuring CDP proxies and settings
The CDP proxy is the component that performs the data movement and transfers data between the source and target hosts. It serves the following tasks:
- It receives VM data from the production storage.
- It aggregates the changed data.
- It prepares data for short-term restore points.
- It compresses and deduplicates data.
- It encrypts and decrypts data.
- It sends data to the storage in the disaster recovery site or another VMware CDP proxy.
The following depicts a typical CDP proxy deployment on both a source and target cluster:
Veeam also recommends that you design your CDP environment so that the CDP proxy is only used as a source or target proxy, not both. A great example would be having cross-cluster or cross-host replication (from ESXi 1 to ESXi 2 and from ESXi 2 to ESXi 1). In this scenario, you would have four CDP proxy servers as follows...