How many jobs to run at the same time

[marky]

I've read many threads/post about this and it seems to come down to how your Veeam setup is configured.

Our Veeam server is 2012/16gb physical DL380 g8 and configured for Direct SAN access (not that it's made any difference whatsoever because snapshot release is still pathetically slow, but that's another story)

Would it be safe to run all the jobs at the same time, 21 of them (taking into consideration these are jobs that were last run in March on different days which I've now edited as reversed, 31 restore points, active backup every Wednesday). Wondering if it would have been better to group all the three levels of VM type into one job?

Thanks

[foggy]

Basically, you need 2 GB RAM plus 200MB for each concurrent task running on the proxy server (which is your Veeam B&R server, by default). So depending on the number of VMs and their disks in your jobs, you can decide on whether it is capable of running all of them concurrently. In any case, you can still start all of them at the same time and limit the maximum number of concurrent tasks on the proxy server. Thus, all jobs will be processed in the minimum required time (resources will be automatically assigned to tasks in queue once released). Make sure parallel processing is enabled in the Veeam B&R settings.

That said, you should consider your target storage here as well, as too many concurrent reverse incremental jobs can kill it at some point.