WAN Bandwidth Requirement

[scott.anderson]

Hi, Has anyone got any advice on how to calculate the WAN requirements of Veeam Replication?

I have a customer that is considering using Veeam Backup & Replication but wants to know what kind of link bandwidth will be needed prior to commiting to it.

I appreciate that its hard to predect the compression and de-duplication ratios that a specific set of VM's may achieve but is there any rule of thumb that I can give him?

At the moment All I've got from him is the volume of data on SAN and some SAN I/O stats for a high load period.

Any advice would be appreciated!

[Vitaliy S.]

Hello Scott,

Yes, you're right, there are too many variables, but if you want to estimate WAN link bandwidth requirement, please look through these guidelines:
http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=91
http://jpaul.me/?p=1316

Hope this helps.

[mleskela]

Hi Scott, if your thinking about implementing a DR accelerator, check out HyperIP, its a VM and can be downloaded and configured in about an hour.

-Mitch
HyperIP Team at NetEx