Hello-
I am working to enable backup from storage snapshots on my jobs which are running against a vSphere 7 environment which is backed by a Pure Storage array connected to each host via iSCSI. My Veeam proxies are virtual machines which I have enabled MS iSCSI and also installed MPIO on. I have configured 2 additional NICs on the Proxy servers and configured their IP addresses for the A/B side of the Storage Network and tested connectivity. I have installed the Pure Storage plugin and scanned the storage and verified that it connects via iSCSI. In this environment I have 135 virtual machines which are backed up daily in Veeam by one of 18 jobs (jobs are created one for each Folder in vCenter and VMs reside in one of 18 folders.) I altered a job and turned on "Enable Backup from storage snapshots" in the Advanced Settings for the job and also checked "Failover to standard backup" and "Failover to primary storage snapshot" on the settings but did not enable "Limit processed VM count per storage snapshot" checkbox. I am looking for a little clarification and advice as to how to tweak these settings for my 18 jobs. Basically I fire off the 18 jobs at various hours through the evening but I am certain that many of them run concurrently. Since all the VMs are housed within a single VMware datastore which coincides with a single Pure storage volume, snapping that volume essentially contains ALL 135 of my VMs. Can all 18 jobs share the same snapshot from another job which is still running if the job starts when another job is already running (ie no real need to snap again in my opinion if the storage snap was within the same hour or so)? Also what the "Failover to primary storage snapshot" setting do? What primary snapshot? And finally, I don't think MPIO is working properly as I see "Single controller connection" warnings for the proxies in the Pure panel when the jobs are running. What additional steps do I need to take so that the proxy makes use of MPIO and both storage network links while backing up? Thanks!
I am working to enable backup from storage snapshots on my jobs which are running against a vSphere 7 environment which is backed by a Pure Storage array connected to each host via iSCSI. My Veeam proxies are virtual machines which I have enabled MS iSCSI and also installed MPIO on. I have configured 2 additional NICs on the Proxy servers and configured their IP addresses for the A/B side of the Storage Network and tested connectivity. I have installed the Pure Storage plugin and scanned the storage and verified that it connects via iSCSI. In this environment I have 135 virtual machines which are backed up daily in Veeam by one of 18 jobs (jobs are created one for each Folder in vCenter and VMs reside in one of 18 folders.) I altered a job and turned on "Enable Backup from storage snapshots" in the Advanced Settings for the job and also checked "Failover to standard backup" and "Failover to primary storage snapshot" on the settings but did not enable "Limit processed VM count per storage snapshot" checkbox. I am looking for a little clarification and advice as to how to tweak these settings for my 18 jobs. Basically I fire off the 18 jobs at various hours through the evening but I am certain that many of them run concurrently. Since all the VMs are housed within a single VMware datastore which coincides with a single Pure storage volume, snapping that volume essentially contains ALL 135 of my VMs. Can all 18 jobs share the same snapshot from another job which is still running if the job starts when another job is already running (ie no real need to snap again in my opinion if the storage snap was within the same hour or so)? Also what the "Failover to primary storage snapshot" setting do? What primary snapshot? And finally, I don't think MPIO is working properly as I see "Single controller connection" warnings for the proxies in the Pure panel when the jobs are running. What additional steps do I need to take so that the proxy makes use of MPIO and both storage network links while backing up? Thanks!
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