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What better strategy to improve backup performance?

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Hi,

i have four vmware host.

two hosts in cluster A and two in another cluster B, but using the same vcenter.

The "Veem" server is also the proxy and is located on one of the cluster B hosts.

The repository is an IOMEGA presented via iSCSI for the virtual server Veem on a 1G network.

The volume is formatted with ReFS and 64K blocks.

Native deduplication is enabled on the JOB.

There are 20 servers with small disks (~100GB).

I realize that the backup when it runs on the VMs in the same cluster B is fast, but when it runs on cluster A it takes too long.

If I add a proxy in cluster A and keep the proxy in cluster B do I help with data processing / transfer?

If so, what proxy configuration can I use? Is there an appliance version of Veem?

Thanks.
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Re: What better strategy to improve backup performance?

Post by HannesK » 1 person likes this post

Hello,
everything you describe looks expected. I assume that your ESXi hosts also have only 1G network connection.

Yes, a proxy on the second cluster probably improves speed. You can use Windows (including core edition) or Linux as proxy. Please see user guide for more details

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Re: What better strategy to improve backup performance?

Post by foggy » 1 person likes this post

Hi Sandro, indeed, your cluster A backups are currently using network transport mode while cluster B benefits from hotadd. You can check the job bottleneck stats to make sure the primary bottleneck for cluster A backups is source. If you set up virtual proxies on cluster A, this will enable hotadd there as well.
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