After installing Veeam Enterprise Plus and enabling the WAN Acceleration feature the size of the backups did start to drop but not enough to overcome the limitations of the single Shaw \u201cpipes\u201d at either end of the installation. My customer was seeing Internet performance \u201ccrawl\u201d at each location while backups were running and, because we couldn\u2019t get backups to \u201cthin out\u201d enough to run to completion within the defined backup windows, we decided to shutdown the remote backups for now. And this was also the case at the second installation where we had hoped to do replication to a remote DR site; the single Shaw pipes at each end were just not sufficient to handle the traffic generated by Veeam as well as all of the other production traffic.<\/p>\n
I want to state emphatically that this is not a failure of Veeam; not in any way or any shape. Rather, it is a stark reminder that \u201cinexpensive\u201d low-bandwidth pipes can\u2019t hope to meet the growing data transmission needs of many organizations. Bandwidth \u201crules\u201d and it will make or break a project like the ones I\u2019ve been attempting.<\/p>\n
We are going to look into the possibility of installing additional Shaw pipes to handle only the Veeam traffic as the process itself works and there is massive value in having backup data automatically \u201clive\u201d in multiple locations. And we are going to pray to the network gods that Shaw will actually rollout the long-promised upgrade in bandwidth and upload speeds that we have all been waiting for for oh so long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"