Determining the Best Cloud Storage Appliance Solution. Questions to ask your vendor so you get the functionality that you want. • Whats the capacity/scale of the solution; ie, how much can be cached or stored locally on a per-volume (LUN) basis, and what is the maximum number of volumes that you can store per VM? • Can you do local snapshots? Can you do cloud-based snapshots? • Can you do incremental snapshots with storage optimization? • Is the restore process WAN optimized? • Do you provide application consistency for your data protection? (ie, VSS integration for enterprise services and databases) • Do you de-duplicate the primary storage and the snapshots? • How do you do data encryption to and from the cloud provider? • Do you supply a high-availability architecture for your gateway device? • Do you support multipath I/O (MPIO)? • Does your appliance support non-destructive upgrades? • Do you have an SLA for local storage performance on the appliance? • Is the gateway plug and play and self-contained? • Is the gateway certified for my vendor hypervisor of choices VMs (VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM, Xen, Unix)? zdnet/cloud-storage-appliances-backup-and-recovery-made-simple-7000026534/#ftag=RSS14dc6a9
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