Last month Veeam announced that Veeam
Availability Suite v8 will support EMC Data Domain Boost and gave us an idea of
what this means for anyone using an EMC Data Domain as part of their Veeam
backup Infrastructure.
If you have not heard of DD Boost it
distributes parts of the Data Domain deduplication process to the backup server
enabling client-side deduplication to take place for faster, more efficient
backups.
Faster Backups
Over on the VeeamBlog Rick Vanover has been doing some testing using an internal preview
with some truly amazing results.
In the below example Rick has shown that by
utilising DD Boost a synthetic full backup, which would normally take 2 hours
and 54 minutes, had its running time slashed to just 11 minutes and 27 seconds
making it over 15 times faster!
If you are interested in seeing more, a
replay of a short webinar from Veeam hosted by Rick is available here.
Easy Setup
One of the other changes is around how we
configure a Data Domain in Veeam.
In older versions of Veeam a Data Domain would
be made available by adding a CIFS backup repository but with v8 this will all
change. When adding a backup repository with v8 there will be an option
specifically for Data Domain making it quick and easy to configure.
With this new repository option we also
have the ability to use fibre channel connectivity for backup to the Data
Domain allowing us to leverage the storage network for LAN free backup of your
virtual environment.
DD Boost along with a host of other new
features coming in v8 are likely to see Veeam extend its lead as the #1 backup
product for virtual environments.
Barry Knox, Technical Consultant, Celerity Limited
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