Veeam Sizers

Basic Veeam Sizing Questions

1. How much source data are you protecting (in TB)?

2. How many VMs/Servers need to be protected? (Optional: Number of disks?) 

3. What is your backup window (in hours)?

4. What is the daily change rate in percentage? 

   • 2 to 3% optimistic-9% conservative. See note on Change Rates below.

5. What is the required retention schedule? (Optional: What are your RPO and RTO values?)

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.

NOTE: Veeam Sizer Archive

Updated Inventory & Calculator Scripts

Updated Inventory & Calculator Scripts for counting Cores/TiBs for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF)

• https://williamlam.com/2024/02/updated-inventory-calculator-scripts-for-counting-cores-tibs-for-vmware-cloud-foundation-vcf-and-vmware-vsphere-foundation-vvf.html

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 (VBM) Calculators

1. • Veeam Backup for Office 365 capacity calculator - All calculation results are estimate and may differ from real-life usage scenario.

     • - You can either connect it to your real account and retrieve needed data or manually input data

   • Office 365 Mailbox Size Report with PowerShell

Storage Decision Guide for Microsoft 365 Backups 

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.

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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