thanks, Chained jobs have been a product feature for as long as I can remember.
We already leverage the various controls for managing the workload parallelism.
We used to have a configuration where we'd trigger all the jobs off at 5 minute intervals and then managed the scheduling using the controls as you mentioned, but we found this wasn't practical and caused reliability issues for us (our workload size is about 500 development VMs split over 8 backup jobs), particularly on job retries.
When we switched to chained jobs reliability was more consistent and the behavior was more predictable.
We would like to continue to use chained jobs in our situation so if Veeam is unable to make changes to the scheduling, then we'll just need to work around the process I guess by adjusting the start days on each job (for the active fulls) to prevent day overlap from impacting on the schedules.
I guess we could trigger the behavior we want by triggering the jobs using "Start-VBRJob" cmdlet but then that sort of defeats the purpose of having UI based scheduler.
We already leverage the various controls for managing the workload parallelism.
We used to have a configuration where we'd trigger all the jobs off at 5 minute intervals and then managed the scheduling using the controls as you mentioned, but we found this wasn't practical and caused reliability issues for us (our workload size is about 500 development VMs split over 8 backup jobs), particularly on job retries.
When we switched to chained jobs reliability was more consistent and the behavior was more predictable.
We would like to continue to use chained jobs in our situation so if Veeam is unable to make changes to the scheduling, then we'll just need to work around the process I guess by adjusting the start days on each job (for the active fulls) to prevent day overlap from impacting on the schedules.
I guess we could trigger the behavior we want by triggering the jobs using "Start-VBRJob" cmdlet but then that sort of defeats the purpose of having UI based scheduler.
Statistics: Posted by ashleyw — Dec 11, 2023 8:12 pm
