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Tips & Tricks From Veeam Sizing

This document provides tips and best practices for sizing Veeam infrastructure components. It recommends 1 CPU core and 4GB of RAM per 10 concurrently running jobs for Veeam servers. For SQL databases, SQL Express can support up to 300-400 VMs, while a dedicated SQL server may be needed for more. Proxy servers should be sized to 30 VMs per CPU core as a starting point. Repository storage needs to account for compression and free space, and per-VM backups work best around 300 VMs per job. Resources for sizing tools and best practices documentation are also provided.

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Tips & Tricks From Veeam Sizing

This document provides tips and best practices for sizing Veeam infrastructure components. It recommends 1 CPU core and 4GB of RAM per 10 concurrently running jobs for Veeam servers. For SQL databases, SQL Express can support up to 300-400 VMs, while a dedicated SQL server may be needed for more. Proxy servers should be sized to 30 VMs per CPU core as a starting point. Repository storage needs to account for compression and free space, and per-VM backups work best around 300 VMs per job. Resources for sizing tools and best practices documentation are also provided.

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Availability made easy for your Virtual

infrastructure: Tips & tricks from Veeam

Matt Crape Veeam Vanguard


Twitter: @MattThatITGuy
Mario Marquez – Sr Systems Engineer, Veeam Canada
Twitter: @veeamspeed
Veeam Sizing and Best Practices
Veeam Server Sizing Best Practices
• 1 CPU core (physical or virtual) and 4 GB RAM per 10 concurrently
running jobs.

• If Virtual 4vCPU Cores and 8GB RAM good for 300-400 VMs, and
backup/BCJ/Replication/Surebackup/Surereplica jobs included!!!

• Simple, just keep an eye on resources, ESX and Storage


resources…VeeamOne helps to let us know.

• Consideration

• SQL DB Express 300-400 VMs Max


Veeam SQL database sizing
• SQL Express 2014
• Each instance uses only up to 1 GB of RAM
• Each instance uses only up to 4 cores of the first CPU
• Database size cannot exceed 10 GB
• Up to 300-400 VMs is all good for backups/replication/BCJ etc.

• What about Staging servers?


• Explores SQL, Exchange, Oracle, SPS, AD, 10GB DBs?
• File to tape jobs
• SQL Versioning
• Dedicated SQL Server?
SQL Server Sizing cont.
:

Number of concurrently
CPU RAM
running jobs

Up to 25 2 4 GB

Up to 50 4 8 GB

Up to 100 8 16 GB

If possible follow these guidelines


Proxy Sizing Best Practices.
• Calculating Overall “Task” Count Examples
• Sample infrastructure has the following configuration:
• 480 VMs
• 48 TB used data
• Backup window: 8 hours Watch your Storage and Network
• Change rate: 5%
• For that, the following calculation can be used as a starting point.
• Using the "30 VMs per CPU core" rule, we get following result:
• +
• 480 VMs / 30 VMs per core = 16 CPU cores
• Each CPU core must have 2 GB RAM:
• 16 CPU cores x 2 GB RAM = 32 GB RAM.
• Result: 16 CPU cores and 32 GB RAM.
Repository Sizing and Flavors
• Server-Based Repository: DAS or SAN
• Windows or Linux?
• Physical or Virtual?
• Dedup Appliances ?

• Per Job = 1 CPU/Core + 4GB

• The more disks the better for safety and performance.


Repository Sizing cont.
• How much storage do we need?
• Be conservative
• Assume 2:1 Compression + 25% Free Sapce
• 10TB + 25% = 12.5TB
• VeeamOne has the numbers
• Sizing Tools http://rps.dewin.me/

• Per VM Backups
Sweet spot at around 300 VMs per backup job
• More available storage required, better synthetics performance
• Careful with BCJ, Health checks with large jobs

• SOBR Scale Out Backup Repository


• Less admin, Logical name, Per VM backups is a good option
Best Practices Resources
• Documentation
https://bp.veeam.expert/

• Sizing Tools
• Repository http://rps.dewin.me/
• VeeamOne Sizing http://one.mrferik.com/par.html
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