Jim-90
9 years agoLevel 6
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