Backup Job is using too much memory

[jprates]

I have a backup job for hyper-v that is using 100% host memory. We are using the on-host option, with a job and only one VM.
Is it possible to limit the use of memory on the on-host in any way?
We are already doing one task at a time.

Windows Serve 2008
Veem B&R - V10

[Egor Yakovlev]

Hi Jeferson,

There is no option to control memory consumption on Veeam data movers. You can try changing Compression\Deduplication settings in the job, but I doubt that will have much effect.
Your behavior does seem abnormal, and taking a fact your production system is quite outdated it would be best to troubleshoot with Support - feel free to open a ticket.

/Thanks!

[Andreas Neufert]

By design a task slot can take up to 2 GB of Memory. Do you mean you do not have this resource available ?

Can you give an example ?
And is the Veeam Server running on the Hyper-V server directly as well ?

[jprates]

Andreas,

My Proxy Server is onhost and have available 16GB memory. But when execute backup the Veeam is using all hyper-v (Proxy on-host) server memory.
VM Size to backup is 900GB

My veeam server is running on another structure (VMware).

[foggy]

What is the backup repository in this case and how many disks does the VM have in question have?

[Andreas Neufert]

Strange... maybe Antivirus on the host checking our network traffic and consuming therefore that amount of RAM?

As well what compression level did you have selected in the job?

[Andreas Neufert]

As well you said Hyper-V 2008 (R2?)?
Do you have a Hyper-V cluster with Cluster Shared Disks? This needs special planning as Hyper-v Cluster jumps in redirect IO mode and the Hyper-V backend consum lot´s of extra resources to handle this traffic.