Veeam Backup Manager creates a separate task for each drive to be processed in the replication process.
The flow of a replication process with Veeam is as described below: WAN Accelerators and QOS-like technologies such as Network Throttling also enable fair distribution and efficient use of available resources.ĭetailed description of the replication process.To enable replication over WAN links or slow connections in general, Veeam uses technologies such as deduplication and compression to optimize traffic.With Veeam Backup & Replication you can orchestrate replicas for HA purposes within a site or remote replication across sites for DR purposes.Veeam uses Changed Block Tracking technology for this. All subsequent replication cycles are incremental, and Veeam Backup & Replication only transfers data blocks that have changed since the last job was run.Similar to an incremental backup, a complete image of the original VM is transferred to the target host during the first replica cycle.The VM Snapshot can be viewed as a continuous point-in-time state of a VM, including the configuration of the guest operating system, OS, applications, and files.Veeam Backup & Replication does not require an agent within the VM guest operating system for the replication process as it uses VMware's snapshot functionality to replicate data.2 Detailed description of the replication process.But I always preferred using VMWare directly for these features anyway. The only features you really lose compared to Veeam is the ability to clone machines, or replicate off site.
My only advice is to pre-add the share to your VMWare environment as an NFS store to further speed up the recovery time should you urgently need to boot up a VM from the Synology, as some of our hosts had issues connecting when we did our trial by fire. The ability to instantly spin up VM’s from the Synology is a godsend, and we recently had a use case for it when a couple of VM’s corrupted minutes before the production day started.
As far as value goes, it’s incredible that they’re giving this away for free- although we did purchase an extra rack station solely for this, so they got their money in the end.
Performance is outstanding, and I’d say the interface is easier to use than Veeam. We’ve since cancelled our Veeam subscription.
Initially ran it on a DS1819+ for testing and evaluation, and we’ve since graduated it to an RS3617xs+ for the full 110 backup. We ran both side by side in an environment with over 110 production VM’s. There is no way I would put this change in front of management You know Veeam won't tank your whole vSphere cluster because they are both approved for each other. The level of work that Veeam and VMware do together is unmatched. Need cloud backup? find a partner and its just done. The CloudConnect Functionallity in Veeam in unmatched. No seeding, no WAN Acceleration and no CBT across the entire repository You can't use Synology CloudStation sync to replicate multiple sites effecticly without wasting a shit-ton of bandwidth. You can save 50% storage space by using ReFS with Veeam, no go with Synology You are a high if you think anything like that will happen with Synology, even with SRS I have had a mission critical issue with a backup in Veeam and opened a P1 support case and gotten transferred directly to an engineer in the USA who got on a WebEx with me and worked for hours to fix a problem. You get best effort support with Synology. You get active support with Veeam and access to engineers.