I am seeing very poor performance backing up my Exchange server to iSCSI-based Backup-to-Disk. Here are my details:
Media Server Type: Virtual (ESX 4.1)
Operating System: Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard - fully updated
iSCSI Appliance: Dell MD-...
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I am using BE 2010 R3 to back up our Exchange server. As the size of our storage groups grew I no longer had enough storage space on the BE server to cover the backups. I added additional storage and created a device pool with all thre...
Thanks CraigV. I ripped out the Dell MPIO driver and went to a single IP target using the native iSCSI initiator. I got a little bit better performance, about 700 MB/sec, but I still think it's far from where it should be. Thank you for the tip an...
I see. Between Endpoint Protection, Altiris and Backup Exec I've logged many hours working problems with Symantec support. You have cited an article which is specific to hooking up a tape library to a virtual media server and are using it as justif...
I appreciate the response but I'm not sure it applies at the detail level. The sole purpose of this Backup Exec server is to back-up Microsoft Exchange to iSCSI. There is no tape drive in the equation which, I believe, makes the Alternate Configura...
What I want - ideally - is to have it use the three devices in the drive pool like a single device. I want my backup jobs to fill up all three drives and then overwrite the oldest going forward. My concern is that if I enable the setting you mentio...
Thank you pkh - very helpful! I'm curious, if I enable that option, does that space automatically become available as media on the B2D device becomes overwritable?
