Backup performance of VMware VVOLs

Posted on December 6, 2016November 27, 2016 by Luca Dell'Oca

Virtual Volumes, or VVOLs, has been one of the biggest addition in VMware vSphere 6. If your storage array supports them, you can start to play with it and decide if it’s time to migrate from monolithic VMFS volumes to this new exciting storage technology. VVOLs have several advantages over regular VMFS volumes, from the granularity of the volume management (essentially, we have now one “LUN” per virtual disk), to policy-based management, and so on. One of the aspects that people didn’t focused too much is the impact on backup operations coming from VVOLs.

An example of Veeam Scale-Out Backup Repository mixing whitebox servers

Posted on December 9, 2015November 22, 2015 by Luca Dell'Oca 2 Comments

Since Veeam announced the Scale-Out Backup Repository technology coming in Veeam Backup & Replication v9, I’ve been asked already multiple times to give some practical examples on how to leverage it. Let’s see together one interesting way to leverage the “performance” policy available in Scale-Out Backup Repository.

Your Veeam backups are slow? Check the stripe size!

Posted on February 17, 2015March 15, 2018 by Luca Dell'Oca 24 Comments

When dealing with backup repositories, be careful about the stripe size and its impact on performances!

New whitepaper: Designing and planning Veeam backup repository performance

Posted on February 10, 2015September 20, 2015 by Luca Dell'Oca

I’ve just published a new Veeam whitepaper “Veeam Backup & Replication v8: Designing and planning backup repository performance”; in it you will learn about all the available backup modes, their I/O profile, and how to properly test a storage system to estimate the expected performances.