replication - throttle network traffic

[grzegorz]

Hi,
I have two ESX servers. I'm performing a virtual machine replication task between them using VBR. The task is using the full bandwidth of the connection. The proxy is installed on a virtual machine with Veeam B&R (it is in the same network as the first ESX1 along with the NAS. The second ESX2 is in a different network). I would like to set a speed limit for this replication. I know that VBR allows creating a network rule. What rule should I create? Should the source address be the ESX1 and Veeam machine network, and the destination address be the ESX2 address?

[david.domask]

Hi Greg,

Veeam's throttling works between our data mover agents installed on backup infrastructure components (e.g., Repositories, Proxies). Right now sounds like you have just a single proxy handling the replication -- while this will work for replication, it will not work for throttling as we can only throttle between our data mover components and for connections to the Internet.

Simple answer is to add a proxy on the DR site and set it as the target proxy on this step of the Replica Job settings. Then you can create a rule for the IP range for the proxies and enable throttling.