Question regarding Network Traffic Rules in VBR ...

[Didi7]

Hi guys,

I would like to clarify something regarding Network Traffic Rules.

Let's assume there exists 3 locations (one central location and two offsite locations, each offsite location is connected through a 100 MBit/s WAN-connection with the central location).

The central location and each offsite location has one WAN accelerator each. There exists one B2D-job for VMs in each offsite location and one BackupCopy-Job, which should copy the VMs to the central location. The central location has a physical server system with a backup repository.

In this case, there is a source and target WAN-accelerator, whereas the central target WAN-accelerator works with each offsite source WAN-accelerator.

The traffic for the BackupCopy-Job between the offsite and central location should be limited (let's say 25MBits/s). The offsite B2D-data is in a backup repository on a physical server system in the offsite location.

As far as I understand now, the B2D-data is copied from the source backup repository to the target backup repository using the WAN-accelerator systems and without any proxy involved, right?

Therefore the Network Traffic throttling could be limited between the central and the offsite WAN-accelerators, right?

Or am I mistaken?

Regards,
Didi7

[david.domask]

Hi Didi7,

Yes, your understanding is correct. See the entry for Backup Copy, no proxies involved it's repository to repository communication or through WAN Accelerators if configured.

[Didi7]

Hello David,

thanks for replying so fast. I already finished Network Throttling for 12 offsite locations this way a couple of seconds ago.