[Klug-general] Wan optimisation

[J D Freeman]

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On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:54:33PM +0100, dan attwood wrote:
> Hello
> 
> We curently have two main offices at work - one in London and one in 
> Wrexham.
> 
> they are joined by a 2 meg leased line vpn and each office will have a 
> set of virtual machines and a netapp filer. The two netapps are sycnhing 
> data between them but were having problems due to the amount of 
> changable data. In many cases they just aren't sycning correctly.
> 
> Apart form the obivous answer of buy a bigger pipe, Does anyone have any 
> experience with wan optimisation and if so are there any products they 
> would recommend. This can be pyhsical or virtual, closed or open source

The first question really is what sort of data are you storing? Stuff that
is already compressed for example, wont really benifit if you were to turn
on compression on the vpn. 

Also, what is the VPN setup you are using?

Thanks

Julia
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