<\/span><\/h2>\nPeople often call Veeam’s Direct Storage Access “SAN transport mode.”<\/p>\n
In SAN mode, Veeam’s proxy server gets to the data through the storage fabric, which is usually Fibre Channel.<\/p>\n
Backups go much faster in this mode because Veeam reads data directly from the storage LUNs.<\/p>\n
In a SAN-based Veeam setup, storage teams give the VMware datastore LUNs directly to the Veeam proxy server.<\/p>\n
Instead of pulling the data across the network, Veeam reads it from the proxy during the backup.<\/p>\n
The fact that it reads from the local SAN is what makes Veeam backups work so well in SAN mode.<\/p>\n