As usual with any new release, Anton Gostev, Director of Product Management at Veeam (or better, the man behind Veeam Backup & Replication), has just published the complete “What’s new” paper about the upcoming latest version of their product. If you can’t wait to read it, you can download it here….
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Don’t save your VM backups in the SAN where you run them!
As Dr. Egon Spengler said in the Ghostbusters movie, “Don’t cross the streams. It’s would be BAD” 🙂 It happens at times to talk with some customers, thinking about the possibility to save the backups of their VMs right into the same SAN where they are used to execute them….
Veeam Backup & Replication 7: I nailed both top secret features!
Have you even wondered how it felt to foresee the future like Cassandra? Well, last week I felt a little bit like her… You are going to find in the next few days many articles about the new features of Veeam Backup & Replication 7, kept secret until today. I…
Data Protection in Depth: the 3-2-1 rule for data protection
I’m starting today a new category on my blog, dedicated to Data Protection. I’ve talked since many years about data protection, backup and disaster recovery, but until today I never created a dedicated section. You will find in this category overview articles, some theory, and practical tests with several Data…
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Veeam backup methods and the impact on destination storage I/O
Veeam Backup & Replication allows users to choose among several different backup methods to fit their need. Each method has its own strenghs and weeknesses, and there is always a tradeoff between used space on the backup storage and the amount of activity (both from the cpu and the IOPS generated on the storage) required to complete the backup.
However, backup designers often evaluate only the used space, keeping low attention on the impact each chosen method has on destination backup I/O. This is fundamental in the choice of the backup appliance so that backup times do not go over the desired backup window.
We will analyze in this paper the available methods and their pros and cons. We will assume standard disk storage is used; different analysis may be required if deduplication storage appliances or other different systems are used.