Cloud Object Storage Configuration for Veeam Optimization

Introduction

This document is intended to provide Expedient clients configuration best practices set on the Veeam side to ensure optimal performance with Expedient's Cloud Object Storage (COS)

SOBR Configurations

Max Bucket Size

Each SOBR configuration/bucket should be configured with a max bucket size of 250TB as per vendor recommendations to optimize performance.

Backup Job Configurations

Storage Settings

You should configure the max bucket size to use Local Target (Large Blocks). This should equate to a 4MB object size that can be compressed to 2MB. This helps optimize performance by reducing the metadata table footprint.

References

Please click the following link to download the vendor's Best Practices guide for Veeam Object Storage:
Veeam Backup & Replication Best Practices