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V-ray best number of vADP streams per datastore ?

Michael_G_Ander
Level 6
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Wondered if somebody had some best practice regarding number of vADP streams per datastore

All I have been able to find in Symantec documents is that you use more than one stream to saturate the backup path, which in our case is 2x 4 Gbps SAN connections to the media

Netbackup 7.5.0.5

VMWARE vsphere 5.1.0 update 1 on ESX hosts and vsphere 5.1.0 on VI Center

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Mark_Solutions
Level 6
Partner Accredited Certified

If you use the query to select the clients in your VMware policies then the Master Server Host Properties - Resource Limit section can be used where you can set a limit of x per Datastore or x per VMXDatastore etc

That way you do not need so many policies but still restrict the usage as required

Hope this helps

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Mark_Solutions
Level 6
Partner Accredited Certified

From what i have heard the best is actually one at a time - powers the snapshots through quickly

In general my customers do not exceed 6 but advice is to keep it as low as possible

Sure there is a tech note somewhere - i will see if i can dig it out...

AndreaBolongaro
Level 5
Certified

Have a look at very useful links in following thread:

very-slow-vm-backups


My suggestion is start with 1 and than check and maybe set higher.

Hope it helps.

 

 

Marianne
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See http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH143191

...... NetBackup recommends creating one backup policy for each datastore and setting the "Limit jobs per policy" setting to a number no higher than four. 

Also in  NetBackup for VMware best practices
http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO70892
 

Michael_G_Ander
Level 6
Certified

Creating one policy per datastore is killing the VIP idea for us as we are running with datastore clusters

 

The standard questions: Have you checked: 1) What has changed. 2) The manual 3) If there are any tech notes or VOX posts regarding the issue

Mark_Solutions
Level 6
Partner Accredited Certified

If you use the query to select the clients in your VMware policies then the Master Server Host Properties - Resource Limit section can be used where you can set a limit of x per Datastore or x per VMXDatastore etc

That way you do not need so many policies but still restrict the usage as required

Hope this helps

RamNagalla
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hi,

for larger environment it is 1 or 2 ( not more than 2) and if it is mid or small enviornment it can be upto 4

see the below vidoes understand the other best practicies also along with the number of jobs for data stoes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmFBucbQ9tQ&list=WLvLi6vTwvGjTCOTk4w50eR0Zfa78ETIDa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY_zVpfP9BQ&list=WLvLi6vTwvGjTCOTk4w50eR0Zfa78ETIDa

 

 

as Mark soulition said.... if you are using the query builder to discover the VMs it would be easy to contol the resources.. if not you need to end of with mulitple policies and also controls in netbackup policy strems.. etc.