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Direct connect core to server(s)

Have any of you tired this? I though of setting up a practice DR destination server in the rack and connect it directly to the core with a dedicated switch or crossover cable to keep it off the LAN. It then it occurred to me I could actually connect all of my servers back to the core each on it's own NIC to keep backup overhead off the LAN.

Thoughts?

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  • This is fairly common in larger environments. They have a dedicated nic for backup traffic. Most backup products have a setting that allows you to enter in a preferred nic to send traffic over but rapid recovery does not. In order to force this, you would have to use the IP address (vs hostname) of the nic you want when you add it to protection. And then if that nic fails, backups fail
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  • This is fairly common in larger environments. They have a dedicated nic for backup traffic. Most backup products have a setting that allows you to enter in a preferred nic to send traffic over but rapid recovery does not. In order to force this, you would have to use the IP address (vs hostname) of the nic you want when you add it to protection. And then if that nic fails, backups fail
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