The hosts and the vCenter Server are not the only components that need to be protected in your infrastructure. Once you have fired up your virtual infrastructure, the VM deployed in your environment must be protected against failures, data loss, and service disruptions.
Protecting the workloads
Transport modes
Software backup solutions use different protocols called transport modes to retrieve VM data from the storage. The transport mode to use for backups depends on the design of the network and the storage architecture.
There are four main transport modes that are supported for handling data:
- Network Block Device (NBD): The ESXi host reads data from the storage and sends it to the application, across the network, using...
