Using Veeam WAN Accelerators AND 3rd party WAN Op

[wa15]

We are taking advantage of the Veeam WAN Accelerator for backup copy jobs, but also are trying to see if we will gain any benefits from using Veeam WAN Accelerator in conjunction with third party WAN Op, in this case SilverPeak. For the backup copy job, we have the compression set to "Dedup friendly" but are not seeing much of an advantage on Silverpeak as far as compression/reduction is concerned. Any recommendations?

This is over a 20Mb pipe, but throttled down to 10Mb from within Veeam.

Thanks!

[tsightler]

You are unlikely to see any performance advantage from nesting WAN acceleration products and will mostly just be wasting cache space on the WAN optimizer. Also, the backup copy job "Dedupe Friendly" only affect direct mode copy jobs, not jobs via WAN accelerator which uses it's own, significantly more advanced data reduction technique.

[dellock6]

I would say that two wan acceleration into the same data path are going to give you worst results, at least in terms of latency. The first one is going to create an optimized data structure, and these data will have few informations for the next one to be further optimized, so it will waste time to try to optimize it.
Our WAN acceleration is designed to be "self sufficient", it does not require additional optimization.