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Jim-90
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9 years ago

Throttle bandwidth on VMware backups

Any ideas how you would throttle the bandwidth of a media server that only does VMware VADP backups i.e. none of the clients have an agent installed.

In the master server properties you can throttle bandwidth of the clients of a designated media server. My understanding is the throttling is done on the client-side via the NBU agent.  

The idea here is to restrict the bandwidth leaving a media server that goes through a physical firewall port.  Current throttling is by limiting job count on policies. 

  • Other than Mariannes suggestions, all I can think is QoS on the ESX hosts or the in network

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  • All I can think is to limit bandwidth for the Backup host. Maybe look at options available under Resource Limits to limit number of concurrent backups.
  • Other than Mariannes suggestions, all I can think is QoS on the ESX hosts or the in network