Are are SAN attached. We could do it the way you suggest, but then all
of the load would be on 1 server, and it does take a good bit of time
to do each snapshot. Somewhere in the order of 1GB/minute with a HDS
NSC55 SAN and GB ethernet. So we let each esx host do it's own backup.

On Nov 16, 2007 12:32 PM, Fazil Saiyed <Fazil.Saiyed AT anixter DOT com> wrote:
> Not sure if you are san attached with your ESX hosts, if you zone the
> storage for all your esx and proxy server , only one proxy server would be
> needed, this is my understanding, i have not heard of one proxy per each
> esx host atall.
>
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