[FEATURE-REQUEST] AHV Backup Job priority

[arogarth]

We have multiple Jobs which are backed up over 500 VMs with sime TB of Data once a day.
We have also a job which should backup soime VMs once a hour.

The Problem is that the hourly Job is wait until finished the other one - which are run for 20h or longer... So, the hourly Backup is not really working.
On VMware a Job can be define as high prio. Please add this option also to AHV Proxies.

[Mildur]

Hi arogarth

Thanks for the request.
I don’t think, that prio high jobs will not stop any backup sessions which are already processing. I need to test that someday in my lab.

The Problem is that the hourly Job is wait until finished the other one - which are run for 20h or longer

To me, that looks more likely as a known bug. If you have enough task slots available, the hourly jobs should run parallel to the other job.
I believe is something similar to this one. If yes, then there is a hotfix available so all task slots will be used by the jobs. The hourly job will then also work, even if the other is still running for a single vm.

Thanks
Fabian

[arogarth]

Hey Fabian,

the problem is, that the hourly job will process 14 VMs, the other has over 500 VMs splitted into 3 single jobs.

If I start one of the bigger job and that I start the hourly job, the first vm from the small one will process if a slot is free and no more VM in the bigger job is waiting. This is why the hourly will only process if the other jobs are nearly finished.

Thanks,
ARO

[Mildur]

Hi Aro

Ok, got it.
I first thought it was the bug I mentioned. But I understand now the issue.
Thanks for the request. It's a valid request.

Thanks
Fabian

[arogarth]

Any update on this feature?? With AHV Backup we have big problems on backup some VMs hourly....

[Mildur]

Hi Aro

No update yet.
Unfortunately, I cannot give you any ETA if and when the feature maybe added to Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV.
And as far as I see, the next version which comes out with V12 won't have this feature. But I can check again internally.

Could you maybe use Veeam Agent Backups as a workaround for the hourly jobs? They use the same license as the one for the Nutanix AHV workloads.

Thanks
Fabian

[arogarth]

Hey Fabian,
that is a alternative - but a massive network change - because backup-, management- and user-traffic is splitted in seperate network infrastructures - So I have to link every VM to the backup network and deploy agents etc... And restore is also more complicated such as restore whole VM.

Thanks
/ARO

[Mildur]

Hi Aro

Yes, understood.
You can restore an agent backup directly as a Nutanix VM. No need to use a recovery media.
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=110

Thanks
Fabian