Network traffic rules not working

[Raaert]

Hi all,

We've tried to setup network traffic rules to limit network traffic to 200 Mbps, however it seems it is not taking any effect.

Ive tried 3 different ways, ive even tried source range & dest range as 1.1.1.1 - 255.255.255.255, however the rule is not "kicking in".
Time period is set to anytime.

Any suggestions?

[Mike Resseler]

Hi Raaert,

First: Welcome to the forums!
Second: Between which components do you want to throttle the traffic? What IP ranges do these components have?

[Raaert]

Hi Mike,

Thanks.

vSphere cluster hosts: 10.1.1.71 & .81
vCenter: 10.1.1.87
Veeam: 10.1.1.65 (also acts as proxy)
Onsite storage: 10.1.1.61 (iscsi)
Offsite storage: 10.1.1.62 (iscsi)

Ive also tried creating the rule with 10.1.1.0 to 10.1.1.255 in both source & destination.

Ideally i want to make sure that Veeam does not exceed 200 Mbit traffic anywhere on any transfer between components.

[Mike Resseler]

Maybe something stupid (I am guessing at this moment to be honest) but I never created a rule with .0 as the last identifier. I always use .1 so can you change it to 10.1.1.1 to 10.1.1.255? As a test?

[Raaert]

Hi Mike,

Ive changed .0 to .1

Will check tomorrow when backup has run again.
Thanks.

[veremin]

Network throttling rules work only between pair of datamovers, such as proxy, repository, etc. So, you cannot apply rules between vSphere host and backup server, as there is only one datamover installed (backup server). Thanks.

[Raaert]

Network throttling rules work only between pair of datamovers, such as proxy, repository, etc. So, you cannot apply rules between vSphere host and backup server, as there is only one datamover installed (backup server). Thanks.

Hi Eremin,

That explains it.
On Hyper-V i usually use on-host proxy, which means i can throttle backup between the hyper-v host and the backup server - but on vSphere this is not possible?

[tdewin]

Well it is possible between the proxy and repository but if they run on the same server, they talk in memory to each other and thus no network throttling is applied. If you make a separate proxy, you would be able to throttle

You can also throttle on the repository but it is not 100% the same:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... tml?ver=95