Miscellaneous - Sizers and Calculators
The three most popular Common Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) Calculators...
Number 1: The Veeam Size Estimater (from veeam.com)
The VSE calculator is supplied as a free tool to make quick estimations over multiple workloads scattered over multiple sites. It can be used in a basic 2 Site (or datacenters) Design or can be configured to simulate a complex multi-site architecture hosting different workloads. It focuses on 3 main outputs...
Compute Requirements: CPU and Memory calculations for data processing by Veeam Components
Repository Requirements: Disk usage and/or object storage to store Veeam Backups
Transactions Usages: To add object or update object in Object storage, API calls are required. These API calls are generally called "transactions" and they are important for cost sizing of object storage
If you are new to the tool, it is recommended to start with a single workload design tutorial as described in the "Getting Started Guides"
Number 2: The Veeam Backup Capacity Calculator (from veeam.com)
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 - From the Veeam Architects Site
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...
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 ~160TB 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 ~180TB in a SOBR Performance Tier and ~320TB in a SOBR Capacity Tier/Archive Tier (S3-compatible).
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The Restore Point Simulator (Version:0.4.1) - By Timothy Dewin, SE working for Veeam
VBR Sizing Calculator: "SizingMath-v10.xlsx" - Contact Me Directly
VBR Sizing Calculator: "EnvironmentDataAnalysis-1.1.02" - Contact Me Directly
Veeam Backup Sizing Tools - By vPractices
ReFS - By Timothy Dewin, SE working for Veeam
NAS Calculator - By CloudOasis
ProPartner Sizing Tool - NOTE: Veeam Partners and Internal only
"Veeam_VBR_Estimation_Calculation.XLS" - Contact Me Directly
"Object_Storage_Calculator.XLS" - Contact Me Directly
"NAS Calculator.XLS" - Contact Me Directly
HPE Assessment Foundry - HPE Sizing Tools
Quick Bandwidth - By Timothy Dewin, SE working for Veeam
Bandwidth Calculator - By Timothy Dewin, SE working for Veeam
Bandwidth Calculator - Calculate File and Data Transfer times - bobcloud.net
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Great content is also available at: rhyshammond.com
Veeam Backup for Office 365 (VBM) Calculators...
To provide an estimate for storage usage in a Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 deployment, we need the following data –
Exchange –
Total Mailbox Size in TB
Weekly Change Rate (if known)
Number of Mailboxes
OneDrive –
Total Data Size
Weekly Change Rate (if known)
Number of Accounts
SharePoint –
Total Data Size
Weekly Change Rate (if known)
Total number of Sites
Teams –
Total Number of Teams Channels
Retention Policy information is also required to estimate sizing, but please note that retention can be different between services. (e.g. Exchange retained for 3 years, OneDrive for 2 years, SharePoint for 1 year, etc.)
Please follow these steps to retrieve the information. You have the option to either extract the data from the reports, or if you are comfortable, provide them to your Veeam team for assistance. We will be using our public Veeam Calculator to provide sizing estimates. This can be accessed at https://calculator.veeam.com/vb365
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Log into the Microsoft 365 Admin Center – https://admin.microsoft.com
Exchange –
[From Admin Center] Under the Reports option select Usage
Select the Mailbox Usage tab.
Confirm the timeframe is set to 180 days.
From the Export menu select Mailbox and Storage Usage
Export both User and Shared reports.
OneDrive –
[From Admin Center] Under the Reports option select Usage
Scroll down to the OneDrive Files widget and select View More.
Under the Usage tab, confirm the timeframe is set to 180 days.
Use the Export button for the Accounts, Files, and Storage reports.
SharePoint –
[From Admin Center] Under the Reports option select Usage
Scroll down to the SharePoint Site Usage widget and select View More.
Under the Site Usage tab, confirm the timeframe is set to 180 days.
Use the Export button for the Sites, Files, and Storage reports.
Teams –
[From Admin Center] Under the Reports option select Usage
Scroll down to the Teams Usage widget and select View More.
Under the Site Usage tab, confirm the timeframe is set to 180 days.
Use the Export button for the Teams reports.
Office 365 Mailbox Size Report with PowerShell
Veeam Backup for Office 365 capacity calculator - You can either connect it to your real account and retrieve needed data or manually input data
"VBO-Calculator-Community-1.XLS" - Contact Me Directly
"VBO-Calculator_2-2.XLS" - Contact Me Directly
Miscellaneous Cloud Calculators...
AWS Pricing Calculator - AWS
Azure Pricing Calculator - Microsoft
Google Storage Pricing - Google
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..."
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.
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
Forums: Wasabi vs Backblaze B2 vs iDrive E2 - June 29, 2022
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Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage - "Seamlessly Backup Veeam to the Cloud"
Cloudian TCO Calculator - Calculate your savings.
Scality TCO Calculator - Estimate Cost Savings.
MinIO Pricing - MinIO Subscription Network
Linode Cloud Computing TCO Calculator
Linode Object Storage costs a flat rate of $5/month, and includes 250 GB of storage and 1 TB of outbound data transfer. Beyond that, it's $0.02 per GB per month.
Veeam Cloud Connect Pricing Estimator - Justin's IT Blog
Object_Storage_Calculator.xls - Contact Me Directly
*Click Here* "Roughly how much would 100TB of cloud object storage cost per month?"
NOTE: PLEASE CONTACT YOUR CLOUD PROVIDER FOR FORMAL PRICING INFORMATION. The following details are derived from publicly accessible calculators.
Amazon Web Services...
AWS S3 Standard - $2304......plus DATA TRANSFER.
AWS S3 Intelligent-Tiering - $1280 to $2304......plus DATA TRANSFER.
AWS S3 Standard - Infrequent Access - $1280......plus DATA TRANSFER.
AWS S3 One Zone - Infrequent Access - $1024......plus DATA TRANSFER.
AWS Amazon S3 Glacier - $410......plus DATA TRANSFER.
AWS Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive - $101......plus DATA TRANSFER.
Microsoft Azure...
Azure Standard Performance Hot $2,087.32......plus DATA TRANSFER.
Azure Standard Performance Cool $1,556.48......plus DATA TRANSFER.
Azure Standard Performance Archive $101.38......plus DATA TRANSFER.
Google Cloud Platform...
GCP Standard Storage: $2048......plus DATA TRANSFER.
GCP Nearline Storage: $1024......plus DATA TRANSFER.
GCP Coldline Storage: $409......plus DATA TRANSFER.
GCP Archive Storage: $122.88......plus DATA TRANSFER.
Wasabi...
Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage: $599.
Linode (Note: 50TB)...
Linode Object Storage: $1000...
50TB / 1 TB Outbound Transfer
Up to 50 Million Objects per Cluster
$.02 / GB Additional Storage / $.01 / GB Additional Outbound Transferred
Consider the following to reduce API costs...
Backups are written to the PERFORMANCE TIER (such as a Hardened Linux Repo)…
Backups get copied immediately from the PERFORMANCE TIER to the CAPACITY TIER (AWS S3).
Backups/Archives get moved from the PERFORMANCE TIER to the CAPACITY TIER (AWS S3) after XXX days (basically they are just removed from the PERFORMANCE TIER).
Backups/Archives get moved from the CAPACITY TIER (AWS S3) to the ARCHIVE TIER (AWS Glacier) after YYY days.
…………restore requests are made largely from the PERFORMANCE TIER unless the requests are for much older data. This reduces the API costs significantly.
*Contact your cloud provider for official pricing!"