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slow performance hyper-V file server on dedup enabled VHDX

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We've recently installed Veeam Backup & Replication.
All VM's are backup-ed at normal speed. However, our file server (about 1.1TB) is backing up at slow rate of +-6MB/s.
This is taking so long, that the backup task fails every time.
To exclude interference, I've created a separate backup task which runs alone.

Veeam server is a Hyper-V VM Windows server 2012R2 (8GB RAM, 4 cores)
Backup target is Q-Nap
File server contains multiple VHDX, only the ones with server 2012 data-dedup appear to experience this problem.
Bottleneck according to Veeam is 'target'. Normal file copy's to the target are high speed.
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Re: slow performance hyper-V file server on dedup enabled VH

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Hi Nicolas,

Do you see normal job performance when you exclude these disks from the backup job? If yes, then what are the rates? Do you store these disks on the same storage?

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When I exclude these disk, get a processing rate of 16MB/s (which is still rather slow) but this time the bottleneck moved to the network. (I'll need to look into that)
The original VHDX run on a MSA2040 SAN and are backup-ed to a Q-Nap NAS
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What are full bottleneck stats (including all components) for this job?
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Re: slow performance hyper-V file server on dedup enabled VH

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where can i find these stats? (Job has never been fully completed)
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Re: slow performance hyper-V file server on dedup enabled VH

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They are logged at the end of the job session. I recommend contacting support with this though.
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