Veeam Restores

[thuizenga]

Just curious if i am missing something or just running into a physical limitation.

I am doing some testing and when i select 4 vm's from a backup job to restore, it kicks of a separate task for each vm being restored but at this point the 4 jobs seam to run sequentially. Is there some way to have multiple restores going at one time?

For my test all the vm's are in the same job, using a single backup proxy and repository and all restoring to the same volume on the same host. I know one might say that in this situation one steam will be most efficient but that besides the point.

Also is it safe to say that a restore doesn't show you where the bottle neck is? I am only getting around 250 MB/s restore and i am trying to figure out if i can squeeze more out of the system.

[foggy]

Travis, restoring multiple VMs in parallel should work, I'd check the maximum allowed number of concurrent tasks on involved components (proxy/repository).

[thuizenga]

well under the same situations i can backup in parallel so i assume the same settings should apply to restores. If that is the case i will do some additionally testing, i just didn't want to keep trying different thing to later find out that it is a limitation.

Does veeam try to limit multiple sessions to the same datastore? Because my backups are usually scattered across different vmware disk volumes, where my restores were to the same volume.

[Vitaliy S.]

Are you doing hotadd or network mode for VM restores? When the restore process is triggered is it going through the same proxy?