Data Recovery - CIFS or iSCSI ?

[vontexx]

Hi,

which Solution is faster ? Backup to a Cifs Share or to a iSCSI Volume ?

We have a Qnap NAS (809) as Backup Target, which support iSCSI (Software Initiator) an many more (NFS, CIFS etc). We have 12 vm's to save between 18:00 and 06:00.

[admin]

A good rule of thumb is the following in terms of performance in descending order - but your mileage based on the actually underlying hardware that backs each storage solutions (SATA vs SAS, rpm, # of spindles, controller type, software, etc).

1. vmfs on iSCSI or FC

2. vmfs on nfs

3. cifs/smb

Other items that help overall backup performance is ensuring the VMs being protected are upgraded to HW7 and the snapshots can be hot- added to the appliance (the VDR logs will tell you if this is the mechanism it is using or it is backing up over the network- which would be slower)

[vmb01]

Using CIFS we have the deduplication too ?

[admin]

VDR deduplicates data to all supported destination disks, including CIFS