Feature Request - Network Throttling

[ChrisAnderson_2019]

Hi Team,
As we begin to move more of our clients towards S3 for offsite / long-term / immutable data protection.
It has become apparent a "nice-to-have" feature would be the ability to have two different internet throttling rules.

The scenario being, 24x7 operations where we cannot un-throttle completely, but certainly decrease the throttle during quieter hours (weekends / night shifts).

Appreciate this could be a task implemented at the firewall, but it would be great as a Veeam admin to have the ability to do this in the console.
(unless I've completed overlooked something, in which case apologies).

Cheers.

[Gostev]

Hi, Chris. It sounds like you're rather asking about day/hour based throttling, correct? May be we should expand the corresponding throttling scheduling control with this functionality, instead of having multiple Internet rules which it will be impossible to see how they intersect and what is the resulting throttling.

By the way, I do agree with the view that any "baseline" throttling that admins should never be able to "un-throttle completely" must be implemented at the router itself. It is almost counter-intuitive to put such "mandatory" throttling in control of backup admins, thus enabling them to accidentally impact production environment.

[ChrisAnderson_2019]

Hi Gostev,
Thanks for the reply.
Yes that's exactly the request
The ability to define different throttling thresholds based on, like you say, day or hour.
As an example say 15Mbps Monday - Friday 0900-1700, then 30Mbps Monday-Friday 1700-0900 and 60Mbps Friday 1700 to Monday 0900.... Be interesting to know if other folk out there would find this useful also..

Cheers,
Chris.

[Egor Yakovlev]

Hi Chris,
according to Veeam QA, two network rules pointed to same IP subnets, but split in time via "Throttle during specific time period only" option, shall take place independently.

So you can have Network Throttling rules set to:

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Source your.source.ip.range
Target your.s3.bucket.range
Throttle to: X Mbps during 08:00 to 22:00

+

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Source your.source.ip.range
Target your.s3.bucket.range
Throttle to: Y Mbps during 22:01 to 07:59

and that shall just work!

Also note, that any time of a day in case rules are crossed, the most restrictive rule takes place. So even if you have 24\7 rule of 50Mbps and special rule to same subnets during working hours set to 5Mbps, any job that starts during working hours will be throttled down to 5Mbps.

/Cheers!

[ChrisAnderson_2019]

Brilliant thanks Egor, I'll try this.
Cheers.

[ChrisAnderson_2019]

Just to confirm... We implemented the above suggestion and it works as expected.
Cheers.

[Egor Yakovlev]

Thanks for update, I'm glad it worked!
/Cheers!