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1 Deduplication Best Practices with Veeam Backup & Replication Rick Vanover vexpert, VCP, MCITP Product Strategy Specialist Veeam Software Blog:

2 Administrative points on this webinar About this material This will be deep technical content related to deduplication and Veeam Backup & Replication. Mix of PowerPoint and in product demo: Something for everyone General product demos are available at: More featured webinars are available for replay at: Questions Attendees can use the virtual Q&A panel. This webinar is recorded and available for replay after a few days. Stick around until the end of the webinar! Winners will receive a choice of books!

3 Agenda and objectives Background on Veeam Backup & Replication and vpower Define how Veeam deduplication works Source-based Best way to organize jobs for optimal deduplication Demo Job configuration and write behavior

4 Veeam Backup & Replication

5 Reality check! All virtual machines are not created equal All source storage controllers are not created equal All backup targets are not created equal

6 Compression and deduplication With Veeam: These go well together Extra considerations if using a deduplication appliance (discussed later) Compressed data does not deduplicate well Job options Included with all editions of Veeam Backup & Replication (vsphere and Hyper-V) Enabled by default for backup jobs

7 What is Veeam s source deduplication? The VMDK and VHD files are the source data Regions are hashed for matches within that virtual machine or other virtual machines in that job Match: Non-match: Pointer is inserted Data transfer Veeam doesn t own the disks (source or target) Regions are fixed-size: WAN/256 KB: Least bandwidth, most dedupe, highest CPU LAN/512 KB: Medium bandwidth, middle dedupe, medium CPU Local/1 MB: Most bandwidth, least dedupe, least CPU

8 How it works 512 KB example

9 Deduplication and compression configuration

10 Job options Hyper-V and VMware have the same options for jobs (Storage tab) for deduplication and compression Proxy moves data to processing engine in similar manner Jobs can include one or the other type

11 Repository Options v6 includes deduplication enhancement for repository

12 Best deduplication helpers: Templates Same source template will provide best deduplication Including one-offs are fine Example: Domain controllers for vpower Recommendation: Gravitate to the vsphere folder for backups Also consider datastores as containers

13 Next best thing: Same OS Same operating system, whether or not from same template will also help deduplication Slight variance from series: Enterprise, Standard, etc. on Windows Deduplication of a job with Linux, Windows and others will not do well.

14 Deduplication appliances Requires consideration and best configuration options vpower tasks push storage to perform like primary storage resources Configuration tweaks for virtual machine profile Disable compression on jobs Consider disabling deduplication within Veeam

15 Demo Deduplication behavior Job with no compression and deduplication Job with default compression and deduplication Job with repository configuration for deduplication Best case deduplication job example

16 General recommendation Examine data profile Tweak job options to best meet all needs Performance Storage allocation Organization More Select best configuration for those interests

17 Additional Veeam Resources Veeam forums and Veeam support Chances are, you are not the first! Product demos Version 6 webinar series VMworld SPO3981 Veeam Backup & Replication: A Look Under the Hood Replay at: Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide and Release Notes User Guide (vsphere) User Guide (Hyper-V) Release notes:

18 Questions and Answers Winners receive their choice from the following books Thank you for attending! Resources: Blog: Eval: Veeam.com

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VMware admins: Can your DR do this? Veeam Backup & Replication v6 Rick Vanover vexpert, VCP, MCITP Product Strategy Specialist Twitter @RickVanover Administrative Points on this Webinar Technical content,