Thomas, you should also take a look at the v10 capabilities linked to our orchestrated storage snapshots where we can if architected and created correctly we can now take an application consistent storage snapshot without the requirement of taking a VMware snapshot, if you think the use case here is the HIGH IO workloads that cannot withstand a VMware snapshot.

Yes my statement states that it will not impact the host production networks. It will still require a VMware snapshot but it will not traverse the ESXi network it will be direct between SAN / NAS to the proxy component

Thank you for your article which gave me some new insights.
But I was interested in the following statement rrgarding direct storage access:
“One major benefit of this transport mode is there is zero impact on hosts and production networks.”

Is this really true? From what I understand your virtualization platform still creates snapshot (not storage snaphot) which affects performance to some degree. Am I missing something?
Of course traffic will flow through SAN fabric and not your network which is always nice.

Thanks,
T.