10 VMware Backups Best Practices

One: Use current versions of Veeam Backup & Replication and vSphere

The latest versions of Veeam Backup & Replication improve performance and security along with VMware vSphere.

In Veeam Backup & Replication v11, Veeam laid the foundation for massive performance improvements. With “asynchronous read everywhere” and “unbuffered writes” for writing backups to the storage system, Veeam started maxing out 100Gbit/s links on one standard x86 four rack-units server. The screenshot below shows a backup job with 38 vSphere VMs running at 12GB/s to one 56 NL-SAS repository server.