veeam backup and replication 9 best practices

Source Servers: IBM x3550 on IBM DS3512 Storage RAID 10 & 5 Hardware and specs for the current tests: Thank you all for the help to accomplish this objective!! I'll be working on concurrent jobs to see the performance for both replication & Backup. I'm not sure if there is any other good practice to improve replication times under these conditions, but so far current replication performance meets the RPO and fulfills the expectations. > 50% faster on network mode replicating on LAN speeds with Optimal Compression and WAN Target Dedup.ĮSXi Operations takes only few seconds to complete, even though the bottleneck is the source. Certainly this is very easy to test by simply setting the proxies to network mode and running a few job cycles.įor example, if it takes 2 minutes to do reconfiguration for hotadd in your environment, and those 2 minutes goes away completely, then it doesn't really matter if the transfer takes 15 seconds longer, you've still saved 95 seconds of total time.Īfter changing the transport mode on both local and remote proxy on the VB&R located on DR hardware which handles the replication I got much better results.

Network mode has far less overhead since it doesn't require a reconfiguration of the proxies on job start/stop so even if it's slightly slower transferring the data, the job will probably take less time overall. Not only that, but in most replication cases link speeds between environments are the limiting factor for data transfer, although I didn't seen where you've mentioned anything about your link speeds.įor near-continuous replication there is usually not that much data transferred per-replication cycle, so the focus should be on reducing the amount of overhead per job run.

In theory, virtual appliance mode can transfer data faster than network mode, which is important for full backups, however, as you have seen, when looking to replicate incremental data it's not all about speed of data transfer but rather the total time per job run includes all of the overhead in setting up and tearing down the proxies for replicaiton. isn't network mode slower than virtual appliance? Guillermo.lozano wrote:It's clear for me the action after your explanation.

Veeam backup and replication 9 best practices