LAN-Free Data Transfer

Separate backup and replication data streams from your production network. NAKIVO Backup & Replication reads the VM data directly from a SAN storage device or the VM datastore to speed up your data protection workflows and offload the LAN. The LAN-Free Data Transfer feature allows you to reduce the impact of backup and replication activities on your business-critical operations.
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Accelerate data transfer during backup and replication

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Offload VM hosts and the production LAN

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LAN-Free Data Transfer in NAKIVO Backup & Replication

Use LAN-Free Data Transfer for VMware vSphere VM, Microsoft Hyper-V VM, and Nutanix
AHV VM data protection activities. NAKIVO Backup & Replication automatically runs
workflows in the Direct SAN mode or the HotAdd mode if a SAN isn’t available.

In the direct SAN mode, VM data is transferred directly from the SAN storage device.

HotAdd

The HotAdd mode is automatically enabled when you don’t use a SAN storage device. In this mode, NAKIVO Backup & Replication reads the data directly from the VM datastores and mounts (hot-adds) a VM snapshot as a virtual disk. The VM data is transferred through the storage I/O stack and doesn’t pass over the network or through the VM host. As a result, you can achieve almost the same performance as with the Direct SAN mode.

Direct SAN access

If you use a Storage Area Network (SAN), NAKIVO Backup & Replication reads the VM data directly from SAN storage devices over ISCSI or Fibre Channel. In the direct SAN mode, the data doesn’t pass over LAN or through VM hosts. This way, you can achieve higher data transfer rates without putting an extra load on the
production network.

In the HotAdd mode, VM data is transferred directly from the VM datastore.
Asia-Pacific
“With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, the university saved time and money, while gaining peace of mind. I now spend the majority of my time not on backup administration, but on other IT-related tasks.”.
Edwardson A. Pedragosa Jr., Network Administrator at the Asia-Pacific International University
Boise Cascade
“NAKIVO’s fast VM backup and VM replication keep our critical VMs running at all times. If our VMware VMs failed, we would only need a couple of minutes to recover with VM failover and failback.”
Noel Peden, Applications Development Supervisor at Boise Cascade
IEMN
“With NAKIVO Backup & Replication installed on QNAP NAS, the backup is 2.5X faster! We found a professional solution that covers all our needs, saves money, and provides reliability.”
Mickaël Masquelin, IT Department Manager at the IEMN
MyoKardia
“With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, every hour that we save on VM backup administration can be translated into cost savings. NAKIVO Backup & Replication is resource-efficient in terms of installation and configuration. NAKIVO Backup & Replication is just what we needed.”
Samuel Riley, IT Manager at MyoKardia
One World Direct
“In NAKIVO Backup & Replication, we found a stable VM backup solution that lets us back up VMs faster and recover VMs in minutes, which is extremely helpful in order to keep our business operations available at all times.”
Steven Schmidt, System Administrator at One World Direct