Azure Limitations for different time groups

[marius402]

Hi Guys,

Can I limit offload to Azure in the following way for different performance between day & night bandwidth available?

I have seen some requests about this that goes through various steps and wizardry to do Azure specific backups. I don't need for anything else and those steps are too difficult to implement for many sites

The servers are Win2019 with Veeam 11a (with latest patches).

Examples:
https://imgur.com/DXfKljp
https://imgur.com/oxUqpFL
https://imgur.com/5SGGD0E

I need a specific limited bandwidth per day, and more (but not all available) bandwidth at night e.g.

Same sites shown for day and night
"Internet Traffic Limited 6am to 6pm (Mbps)"
Server a - 50
Server b - 40
Server c - 20
Server d - 40
Server e - 40
Server f - 20
Server g - 50
Server h - 40
Server i - 50
Server j - 50

"Internet Traffic Limited 6pm to 6am (Mbps)"
Server a - 150
Server b - 120
Server c - 50
Server d - 100
Server e - 100
Server f - 50
Server g - 150
Server h - 100
Server i - 150
Server j - 150

If this is used as described above:
- what will happen at the change-over?
- will it just adjust to the lower speed and carry on?
- will the current active connections reset (terminating the current job?

Regards

Marius

[veremin]

The second rules illustrated on the third screenshots will not work as you expected. The first range (192.168.0.1 - 255) is present inside the second one (1.1.1.1 - 255.255.255.255), so traffic will be throttled even within the private networks. Thanks!

[marius402]

What if I change the third rule into 2 rules?

Rule 3: Limit to speed to 0.0.0.1 -> 9.9.9.255
Rule 4: Limit to speed to 11.0.0.1 -> 255.255.255.255

The backup range being 10.0.0.1 -> 10.255.255.255

Regards

[veremin]

It also will not work, cause now you have production networks excluded from both rules, so traffic leaving production and going to internet will not be throttled.

Azure IP address are higher than 10.x.x.x segment, so you can configure the following rules:

source: 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
target: 11.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.255

Thanks!

[marius402]

The Backup & Production networks are all in the same IP range (10.x.x.x). If I limit the Veeam server (Azure Proxy) to limit traffic to any external IP during 6pm and 6am (night time) then it would throttle any IP going to Internet that goes through the proxy? The proxy is also the only server that can talk to any Internet, and then that is only to Azure for Blob Storage. The other bandwidth is used by people that needs Internet access.

If not throttling at night, the users still complain that they are experiencing slow Internet if Veeam uses all available bandwidth, hence the requirement for different throttle times

During the daytime I'm restricting the Veeam server to "Any to Internet" for 6am to 6pm

Any help or guidance configuring and having a dual Veeam throttling will be appreciated

Regards

Marius

[veremin]

Not sure whether I follow you on that.

If you want to have internet traffic throttled differently during different day periods, then you need to:

- Configure internet rule like you have done already (the second slide)
- Configure additional network rule like I have described in my previous response (this should be set instead of your rule on the third slide)

Thanks!

[marius402]

For anyone else looking for the my solution, here's my follow up. I have created the jobs to limit Azure traffic as follow:

Source of any backup = 10.0.0.0/16
Target of backup to throttle = 11.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.255

In the sample, business (daytime) hours are 6:00am to 5:59pm & after hours are 6:00pm to 6:00am (Night Hours)

Daytime configured to 10Mbps in example, and nighttime configured as 50Mbps

My screenshots of the jobs configured are:

https://imgur.com/WGg779L
https://imgur.com/cLcc4X6
https://imgur.com/VMbLm1v

[veremin]

The last two screenshots are the same, but based on the posted rule configuration it seems that you have set up everything correctly. Thanks!