Miscellaneous - Sizers and Calculators

The three most popular Common Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) Calculators...

Number 1: The Restore Point Calculator - By Timothy Dewin, SE working for Veeam

1. • Best used for Performance Tier and Capacity Tier sizing.

   • How much space am I saving thanks to ReFS block clone?

Number 2: The Veeam Backup Capacity Calculator

• Best used for Primary Backup (Performance Tier), Backup Copy, and Capacity Tier sizing.

• "Sizing, component, architecture and costing recommendations for an end users on-premise, hybrid and/or multi cloud set of VBR solution requirements".

Number 3: The Veeam Size Estimation Tool (VSE) - From the Veeam Architects Site

1. • Best used for management requirements, repository capacities, and per-site proxy and repository requirements (CPU, RAM, storage, etc...).

   • NOTE the option to import data from RVTools.

   • "Quick tip: If you want to calculate ONLY using Cloud as a copy target for offsite data - do not turn on Capacity Tier under Workload settings - then go to the Object tab and you can select the Copy Only mode."

   • How to Size Veeam for YOUR Environment - Veeam Size Estimation Tool

   • SQL Express is bundled with Veeam. Consider using the full blown SQL if you are protecting more than 500 VMs or using files to tape extensively.

IMPORTANT note on "Change Rates": In 35% of environments the daily change rate is 3% or less. In 50% of environments the change rate is 5% or less. In 70% of environments the change rate is 10% or less. In 90% of environments the change rate is 20% or less.

Examples...

1. • Example 1: 200 VMs consuming 100TB of data, with a 10% growth rate. a three-year scope, an 8-hour backup window, a 5% daily change rate, assuming a 50% data reduction rate, using ReFS, with 21 daily recovery points, would result in ~150TB in a backup repository.

   • Example 2: The exact same scenario as above, only with 14 daily, 4 weekly, 6 monthly, and 3 yearly recovery points (GFS), with backups moved to a Capacity Tier after 21 days, would result in ~150TB in a SOBR Performance Tier and ~200TB in a SOBR Capacity Tier/Archive Tier (S3-compatible).

Veeam Backup for Office 365 (VBO) Calculators...

1. Veeam Backup for Office 365 capacity calculator - You can either connect it to your real account and retrieve needed data or manually input data

2. Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 Calculator

3. "VBO-Calculator-Community-1.XLS" - Contact Me Directly

4. "VBO-Calculator_2-2.XLS" - Contact Me Directly

5. NEW!! Veeam Backup for Salesforce Server Sizing Tool

• Sizing and Scalability Guidelines for Veeam Backup for Public Cloud solutions

Miscellaneous Cloud Calculators...

1. AWS Pricing Calculator - AWS

2. AWS S3 Pricing Calculator - AWS

   • Announcing the new Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval storage class - the lowest cost archive storage with milliseconds retrieval

3. AWS S3 Standard vs S3 Infrequent Access - Gulam Shakir

4. Unofficial Amazon AWS Glacier Calculator - Wong Liang Zan

5. Azure Pricing Calculator - Microsoft

   • https://www.exitcertified.com/blog/microsoft-azure-storage-types

6. Google Storage Pricing - Google

7. Wasabi Cloud Storage Pricing - "Cloud storage pricing that is 80% less than Amazon S3" according to Wasabi" - Note: No data transfer fees,

   • Veeam: Backups protected against Ransomware thanks to Wasabi with Object Lock, step by step - Jorge de la Cruz - 11:52 video

   • "There are Two ways to purchase Wasabi: Pay-as-you-Go and Reserved Capacity Storage..."

     1. Reserved Capacity Storage (RCS) helps you save money by committing to a period of 1 to 5 year plans for cloud storage capacity. RCS purchases start at 25TB for 1 year.

     2. Pay-as-you-Go costs $5.99 per TB/mo. We'll charge your credit card a minimum of 1 TB per month ($5.99). After that, we'll charge $0.0059/GB/month. Wasabi has no fees for egress or API requests.

**all pricing below is reflective of Jan 2022 pricing on a 1-year reserved 1TB capacity**

• Wasabi (1TB) - $5.99 - No Ingress, Immutability Available

• Azure (1TB) - Hot: $18-21, Cool: $10-$15, Archive: $0.99-$2

• AWS (1TB) - Hot: $21-$26, Cool: $12-$14, Archive: $0.99-$4, Immutability Available

• Google Cloud (1TB) - Hot: $21, Cool: $7.15, Archive: $2.56

• iLand (1TB) - Hot: $14 - No Ingress

• 2023 could be the year of public cloud repatriation

Forums: Wasabi vs Backblaze B2 vs iDrive E2 - June 29, 2022

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