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.

VBR: The Veeam Size Estimater (VSE)

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

VBR: The Veeam Backup Capacity Calculator

The Veeam Backup Capacity Calculator

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

VBR: The Veeam Size Estimation Tool

The Veeam Size Estimation Tool

• 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 (see below).

• "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.

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/XFS, 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).

***RVTools*** 

• RVTools is a highly valuable utility in the toolkit of any IT infrastructure engineer. This free, Windows-based application is specifically designed for VMware environments. With RVTools, you can easily retrieve comprehensive information about your virtual infrastructure, including details on virtual machines, hosts, clusters, datastores, and more. 

How do I use RVTools?

• Once RVTools has been installed, you can run it by entering RVTools at the Start prompt. This will bring up the RVTools log-in interface, where you can enter the IP address or DNS and credentials of a vCenter Server or ESXi host. NOTE that RVTools can tie in directly with the "VBR: The Veeam Size Estimation Tool" listed above.

RVTools links...

• Work with VMware? You need RVTools - by ZDNet

• RVtools for VMware: In-depth guide to this essential utility - by Techgenix

• Assess Your vSphere Environment with RVTools - by Virtualization & Cloud Review

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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