VM with 20 Tb spanned volume

[ManuelRighi]

Hello,
I have VM (Windows Server 2012 Standard) with 20Tb single volume (spanned with multiple 2tb vmdk disks).
With Veam Backup 6.5 I have a problem with this spanned volume ?
Or all is ok and restore with FLR work ?

TNx in advance
Manuel

[foggy]

Manuel, Windows native FLR from spanned disks should work fine with v6.5. Note, that if this volume is deduplicated, you need backup server to be also installed on Windows Server 2012 with Data Deduplication feature turned on to restore files from it.

[ManuelRighi]

Manuel, Windows native FLR from spanned disks should work fine with v6.5. Note, that if this volume is deduplicated, you need backup server to be also installed on Windows Server 2012 with Data Deduplication feature turned on to restore files from it.

Tnx foggy
Veeam Backup is installed on this VM.
So I should not have problems

Tnx

[Gostev]

Hi Manuel, you will definitely want to change the storage optimization for the corresponding backup job to 16+ TB backup files (see Advanced job settings). Thanks!

[ManuelRighi]

Tnx gostev

[LarsWulf]

Hi everybody,

I am currently thinking about moving our fileserver from a EMC VNX fileserver to a virtual Windows Server 2012.

This is what we have now:
File server based on EMC VNX filesystem with 20 TB of data, reduced to about 10TB because of EMC deduplication.
This is accessed mainly by Windows system through CIFS shares. Only a small part is accessed by our ESXi hosts as ISO storage using read only NFS.
Backup is done using SAN NDMP from Backup Exec from Monday to Friday incremental to disk and on weekend Full backup to tape to bring the data out of the datacenter.

This is what I think about:
Moving the filesystem to a virtualiazed Windows Server 2012 with enabled Fileystem deduplication hosted on vSphere 5.0 / 5.1.
The disks would be placed on FC LUNs running on the EMC VNX.
Backup with Veeam would be done through physical servers using SAN mode. With Reversed Incremental backups from Monday to Friday. These should be taken to tape over weekend to bring them out of the datacenter.

Anybody had any experience with the backup of similar Fileservers with Veeam ?
Will FLR work with Server 2012 and active deduplication ?

If there are any questions on details feel free to ask ?

[foggy]

Lars, you've been merged into existing thread discussing similar setup, please review it for the answers and feel free to ask any additional questions. Thanks!

[LarsWulf]

Hi foggy, no problem.

So my question regarding deduplication is anwsered.
But I would still be interested if somebody is doing Veeam Backups of 10 TB or more fileservers. And what there experiences are.

Regards
Lars

[foggy]

There is another existing topic regarding that, probably discussing what you are looking for: What size is the largest vm you backup ?.

[LarsWulf]

Good post that helps me a lot.
And I will comment on it to get some more details.

[foggy]

Sure, feel free to ask any additional questions in either of the topics.