Simplifying Architecture Decisions

Timothy Dewin
Senior Systems Engineer Benelux

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Timothy Dewin
Senior Systems Engineer Benelux
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Manager Competitive Intelligence

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 Session Overview
Size matters
Component and sizing information
- Veeam ONE
- Veeam MP
- Veeam Backup & Replication
- how this affects individual components
- example deployment scenarios
- tools to make your job as a consultant easier

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Sizing Veeam ONE
Components
 Sizing Veeam ONE Use this and the
What matters Veeam ONE sizing
spreadsheet to
Number of cluster, hosts, and VM decide between
objects advanced vs a
Advanced vs typical deployment typical deployment.
SQL Reporting Service

Impacts
SQL Performance

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 Sizing MP
Components

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 Sizing MP
What matters
Number of cluster, hosts, and VM Use this data for
objects the Veeam MP
Database and datawarehouse sizing
retention spreadsheet -
Post-deployment: Object ‘noisiness’ part of the
resource kit
found in the
Impacts install image.
Collectors required
SQL Database growth
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 Sizing B&R
How Veeam Backup & Replication works

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All-in-one : 10TB/100 VMs

All-in-one (Physical)
10TB Full processing
8-12 Cores Weekend (24 hours): 970.9 Mbit/s
32 GB of RAM
12 Spindles
4 Jobs x 25 VMs * 1TB Increment processing
Daily (8 hours): 291.3 Mbit/s

*In v9, the VM-per job count will be largely irrelevant.

 Prepare for scale : 30TB/250 VMs

Proxy and Repository 4 Cores

12 GB RAM
Proxy and Repository
12 Cores 30TB Full processing
32 GB of RAM
18 Spindles Weekend (24 hours): 2.8 Gbit/s
5 Jobs x 25 VMs *

3TB Increment processing

Daily (8 hours): 873.8 Mbit/s

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 Prepare for scale : 200TB/1000 VMs

4 Cores
4 Cores 12 GB RAM
Proxy and Repository 12 GB RAM

Proxy and Repository

100TB Full processing
12 Cores Weekend: 24hours: 9.5 Gbit/s
64 GB of RAM
36 Spindles
5 Jobs x 33 VMs * 10TB Increment processing
Daily: 8hours: 2.8 Gbit/s

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 B&R Storage sizing
One size does not fit all

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 Estimating backup sizes vee.am/rps
Restore point simulator

‐ Provides an ‘educated guess’

‐ Don’t manipulate retention
‐ Auto-calculated

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 Estimating backup sizes
Impact from policy and I/O
Reverse Incremental Forever Incremental Forward Incremental
‐ Uses minimum space ‐ Uses less space ‐ Low I/O intensity
‐ Reverse dependency ‐ Less I/O intensive (post-job stress)
‐ Active full tolerance (post-job stress) ‐ Short dependency chain
‐ V9 Improvements
(compacting)
‐ Long dependency ‐ Uses more space
chain ‐ Long dependency
‐ More I/O intensive chain
‐ Forward dependency
‐ Active Full

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The Ultimate
Backup Architecture
short term retention
‐Fast storage with limited
space
‐Allows Instant VM Recovery
and Surebackup
‐“Operational” Restores
‐14 days, 95% restores
In v9, with per-VM backup chains and scale-out
repositories this will be radically simplified.
longterm retention
- Slower, cheaper
storage with dedupe
support
- Slower restores
- Grandfather, father,
son retention (GFS)
 Change rate
Use Veeam ONE or existing backup data for estimates

‐ VBR uses VMware CBT or a Microsoft Hyper-V filter

driver.
‐ Block sizes (and alignment) affect change rate.

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 Change rate can explode
Use Veeam ONE or existing backup data for estimates

‐ VBR uses VMware CBT or a Hyper-V filter driver.

‐ Block sizes (and alignment) affect change rate.
‐ Sequential I/O is linear. Random I/O has an
‘explosion’ effect and is not always visible:
- Defragmentation
- Windows 2012 Dedupe
- DB Indexing
- Antivirus scanning...

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 Sizing B&R WAN Copy
How it works

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 Estimating bandwidth usage vee.am/bandwidth
Bandwidth calculator

‐ Native compression : 2x or 50%

‐ WAN acceleration : 5-10x
‐ Highly dependent on application
‐ Can compensate “Change Rate” explosion

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 Baseline size information
Veeam Environment Analyzer, Veeam ONE and MP

‐ Need to know how many hosts, VMs, disks,

backup window size, data set, and change rate.
‐ Used size on disk seems simple (but not really –
think thick vs thin).

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 tools mentioned in
this session can be
found at
veeam.io/veeamon

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