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Network traffic between SOBR Performance and Capacity Tier

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My environment:

Site A and B that are separate physical locations connected by dark fiber
Site A has our Veeam environment of B&R 10, Gateway, and Proxies (Windows VMs)
Site B consists of a SOBR with a performance tier (SMB) and capacity tier (Object Storage)

I understand that when SOBR Offload occurs, it's copying data from the performance tier to the capacity tier, but does that network traffic have to traverse back to Site A (since our Veeam environment is located at Site A) or does it stay at Site B?

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Re: Network traffic between SOBR Performance and Capacity Tier

Post by HannesK » 1 person likes this post

Hello,
and welcome to the forums.

it depends where you configured the gateway server. The SMB machine (whatever it is) cannot talk directly to S3. Only Veeam components can do that.

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Hannes

PS: having all backups in one site is a risk... see 3-2-1 rule
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Re: Network traffic between SOBR Performance and Capacity Tier

Post by oleg.feoktistov » 1 person likes this post

Hi @DHarper,

Overall, in your case, network traffic is traversed back to site A anyways as backup components need to respond to VBR on query status, progress etc.
The question is how backup data traffic is routed.
Given the fact that you have SMB shares on Performance Tier and gateway usage is disabled for Object storage repository on Capacity Tier,
during SOBR offload backup data traffic goes the way: SMB | Site B -> Gateway Server (for SMB) | Site A -> Object Storage | Site B

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Oleg
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Re: Network traffic between SOBR Performance and Capacity Tier

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HannesK wrote: Mar 06, 2020 8:13 am PS: having all backups in one site is a risk... see 3-2-1 rule
Thank you for your help. The Object Storage at Site B has another node at Site A that it replicates to. I know the environment isn't optimal, but it's what I have to live with at the moment. :D
oleg.feoktistov wrote: Mar 06, 2020 11:11 am Given the fact that you have SMB shares on Performance Tier and gateway usage is disabled for Object storage repository on Capacity Tier,
during SOBR offload backup data traffic goes the way: SMB | Site B -> Gateway Server (for SMB) | Site A -> Object Storage | Site B
Thank you, that makes perfect sense. Would I be correct that if I added a Gateway at Site B and configured SMB to use it, the backup data traffic would stay at Site B?

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Re: Network traffic between SOBR Performance and Capacity Tier

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Would I be correct that if I added a Gateway at Site B and configured SMB to use it, the backup data traffic would stay at Site B?
Yes, that is correct. Also, make sure the gateway you use for SMB has internet access.
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