WAN Acceleration

[gmorris]

I was very excited to hear that WAN Acceleration was included in the product [Enterprise Plus] but I thought that it would be available to backup and replication not just offsite copy jobs, is there any plans to make WAN Acceleration work the entire product in a future update?

[dellock6]

Glen, WAN acceleration is a caching mechanism that read and stores deduplicated blocks.
Since their technology relies on proxies creating those deduped blocks and than move them around (towards a repository for backup or to another proxy for replica) the extension of WAN acceleration to other features is (imho) something totally expected. I recall Anton Gostev said it was already planned for Replicas and did not made the v7.0 final only because of time constraints.

Luca.

[foggy]

Yes, we are looking to adding WAN acceleration functionality to replication jobs in future releases.

[itfnb]

Do you know if that (WAN-accelerated replication jobs) would be in a 7.x release down the road or further out than that? Thanks!

[Gostev]

7.x or whatever the next release will be called.

[itfnb]

YAAAAAAAYYYY!!!

[IT_Vision]

Greetings,

Since I am seeing a lot of information regarding WAN accelerator around backup copy jobs I wanted to see if someone could provide some clarification on something.

I have multiple remote sites that we have deployed VM environments in. Since local storage is limited at these locations I wanted to know if I could standup a Veeam proxy server and WAN accelerator at these locations and backup the VMs over the WAN?

Can I utilize a backup copy job to backup the VMs at the remote sites to take advantage of WAN Accleraton? Or and I missing the idea totally.

Would I need to perform standard backup jobs to local storage at the remote site and then utilize a backup copy job to send it across the wire utilizing WAN accelerators?

I am mainly trying to get an idea of the best way to backup VMs that are remote and where local storage is limited.

Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.

Cheers!

[foggy]

Would I need to perform standard backup jobs to local storage at the remote site and then utilize a backup copy job to send it across the wire utilizing WAN accelerators?

Yes, you would need enough local storage to keep at least a couple of restore points to be able to use backup copy jobs for offsite copying.

[Vitaliy S.]

I am mainly trying to get an idea of the best way to backup VMs that are remote and where local storage is limited.

BTW, what kind of connection (bandwidth) do you have to the remote site?

[IT_Vision]

Greetings,

Thank you for the response. Most of the locations have a 3MB or more pipe back to the Data Center.

Cheers

[Vitaliy S.]

In this case you need to have a local backup copy and then use WAN accelerators to transfer your backups offsite, as Alexander has posted above. Thanks!

[IT_Vision]

Sounds good. Thank you for the response.

[wallstrum]

i have a related question, if you don't mind. i am in the process of setting up a DR site that i am planning on replicating my vm's to with veeam. if i setup the standard replication job now, will i be able to enable the use of the wan accelerator features down the road when it is implemented in veeam for replication jobs without having to re-replicate everything?

thanks!

wally

[Vitaliy S.]

Yes, I believe it should be possible to do, but I can double-check it with the dev team.

[wallstrum]

Yes, I believe it should be possible to do, but I can double-check it with the dev team.

that would be great if you wouldn't mind.

thanks!

wally

[Vitaliy S.]

Just checked - yes, this is the plan

[wallstrum]

awesome

[osin_1]

So are you looking at implementing WAN acceleration with Replication jobs in the 7.5 release?

[Vitaliy S.]

Bruiser, yes, we are planning to have it in the next release, whatever it will be called. Stay tuned to our website for more announcements on what's coming next.