We are currently evaluating Veem Backup and Replication in our ESX Server Environment and trying to optimize the backup performance.
We have 2 ESX Hosts running 7 Virtual Machines. The load of both ESX Servers is around 20-30% average, the RAM usage is around 40% on both hosts.
We want to perform a full backup of all virtual machines every Night with a capacity of 1,44TB on a NAS Storage.
The Backup should be performend via LAN/NBD directly from the ESX Hosts to the NAS Storage via Gigabit Ethernet.
There is almost no load on the Switch in the night, except the backup process.
ESX Host 01/02 --------------- NBD -----------> Backup Server ------------------> NAS Storage
Our hardware setup is the following:
ESX Servers:
#ESX01 | HP Proliant DL385 G6 (AMD Opteron 6 x 2,4Ghz / 32GB RAM) | connected with 3 x GigaBit Ethernet
#ESX02 | HP Proliant DL385 G6 (AMD Opteron 6 x 2,4Ghz / 32GB RAM) | connected with 3 x GigaBit Ethernet
#VMFS_Store | HP StorageWorks MSA2024 2.5" | connected via 2x extern mSAS to each server
Backup Server:
#Backup01 | HP Proliant DL380 G4 (Intel Xenon 2x 3,4 GHz / 3,5GB RAM) | connected via 2x Gigabit Ethernet
Backup Storage:
#Backup_Store01 | Western Digital my world edition II with 4TB | Western Digital Caviar Green HDD with troughut of ~100MB/s | connected with Gigabit Ethernet
Network:
HP ProCurve 2510-48G with GigaBit Ethernet
The current backup-speed average is at 44MB/s but we should have atleast 60 MB/s to process the backup in the given time.
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Are there any common ways how we could tweak or backup performance to the maximum?
Thanks in Advance,
DS