The Bacula Enterprise VMWare plugin now supports the HotAdd Transport mode for VMware. In HotAdd mode, virtual disks from the VM being backed up are mounted to the proxy where the FD is running, so those disks can be accessed by the proxy as local disks. If SAN mode is not available, HotAdd mode can achieve better performance than NDB and is closer to SAN mode performance.
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Rob Morrison started his IT career with Silicon Graphics in Switzerland, which developed into a wide variety of IT management roles for almost 10 years. He has subsequently held various management positions in professional open source companies such as JBoss, Red Hat and Pentaho, contributing to the growth of these well-known companies. He is a graduate of Plymouth University and holds an Digital Media and Communications BSc Honours degree, and completed an Overseas Studies Program.