WAN Acceleration

[ANS]

Hey,

Im watching a presentation about Veeam and WAN Acceleration in the presentation they call it an "Appliance" Does it means that i can install it seperatly without whole veeam to install?!

Q) What im trying to do?
A) I want to backup VM's of a customer with veeam but they dont want to pay for a NAS(By any reason). I think of installing it on our site and connect to their Hyper-V server and do backups via internet!

Is that a good idea?
How WAN Acceleration can help me ?


Thank you very much

[Shestakov]

Hi,

Does it means that i can install it seperatly without whole veeam to install?!

No, it doesn`t. WAN accelerator is a built-in feature available only in the Enterprise Plus Edition of Veeam Backup & Replication.
It is a technology developed for copying backup files, with consideration of the VM backup file content.

... Is that a good idea?
How WAN Acceleration can help me ?

WAN Accelerators can help you to copy backups to a remote site by using data cache.
You can backup to a local repository and than implement backup copy job for storing copies of customer`s backups remotely(in your NAS). Here WAN accelerator will be really useful.
Or you can just backup to offsite repository.

Thank you.

[Gostev]

Also, what presentation are you watching? I wonder why anyone reference to our WAN accelerators as appliances... we need to stop this

[dellock6]

The only way I can see the WAN accelerator as an "appliance" is the ability to deploy it on a dedicated windows server to guarantee the process can use all the available resources, and it can may be a good design principle in large environments or when the wan acceleration is going to be heavily used, but this is not an appliance at all.

[ANS]

So,
If i want to backup user files on my server in remote site i should have to Veeam first on customers side and second on my side,Right?

How can i implement this When i want to backup my customers data on my site?
Is it still good solution if me and my client using ADSL2+ ?

Thanks

[Shestakov]

ANS,

If i want to backup user files on my server in remote site i should have to Veeam first on customers side and second on my side,Right?

To enable WAN acceleration you must deploy a pair of WAN accelerators in your backup infrastructure.
You need to assign the WAN accelerator role to a specific machine. You can use any 64-bit Windows-based machine in your environment, either physical or virtual. Also you can assign the role to the existing backup proxies and backup repositories.

How can i implement this When i want to backup my customers data on my site?

Could you clarify your plan?
WAN works with backup copy jobs. So it can be useful if your clients backup to local repositories and you copy their backups to your repository.

Is it still good solution if me and my client using ADSL2+ ?

Depends on the baud rate and a size of the files. But some our clients implement WAN over ADSL successfully.
Thank you.

[dellock6]

Oh, it's been the last century when I heard about baud rate for the last time :DDD

ANS, the two most important values you have to evaluate are bandwidth "and" daily change rate. After the first full backup that you can seed offline, the performances and the time it will take to do a backup will depend on both. Backup copy jobs and wan accelerators are designed exactly to cope with slow and with high latency connections, I'd give it a try also on an ADSL line.