Storage Best Practice

[acliff]

Are there any best practices for setting up storage to be used by VEEAM Backup for Office 365 backup repository?

Thanks.

[Polina]

Hi Andrew and welcome to the Community!

First, I'd suggest you check out the recommendations provided in this Best Practices guide.

In general, setting up a repository on either a local directory or a DAS storage may provide better performance than SMB3/SAN (here you can see the full list of the supported repository types). For large O365 organizations, it's also a good practice to create different repositories for storing SharePoint and Exchange data.

[acliff]

Polina,
sorry for the late reply. Is there anyway of utilizing SSD storage to be used by the application as cache?

Thanks,
Andrew

[Polina]

Hi Andrew,

We didn't test such scenarios specifically, but I assume that when used on a machine running a VBO proxy (with repository databases) it may increase the overall performance.