Accelerate your backups with StarWind Virtual Tape Library and Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager
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StarWind Virtual Tape Library converts existing hardware into virtual tapes becoming a perfect backup repository solution for Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager. Integrating StarWind VTL with SCDPM 2016 allows to replace slow physical tapes with a virtual tape library and improve the performance of your backup infrastructure while achieving the 3-2-1 backup rule.
Watch our webinar to learn how StarWind VTL and SCDPM combine to increase your backup infrastructure performance.
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I've been working on this now, actually
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@Tim_G said in Accelerate your backups with StarWind Virtual Tape Library and Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager:
I've been working on this now, actually
Mind sharing YOUR feedback / results so far?
Meanwhile StarWind VTL ...
... is going to have a major feature update announced on VeeamOn 2017 in New Orleans
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@KOOLER said in Accelerate your backups with StarWind Virtual Tape Library and Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager:
Meanwhile StarWind VTL ...
... is going to have a major feature update announced on VeeamOn 2017 in New Orleans
What a tease! Lol. Now I'm guessing at what kind of integration could take place between Veeam and StarWind.
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@KOOLER said in Accelerate your backups with StarWind Virtual Tape Library and Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager:
@Tim_G said in Accelerate your backups with StarWind Virtual Tape Library and Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager:
I've been working on this now, actually
Mind sharing YOUR feedback / results so far?
Meanwhile StarWind VTL ...
... is going to have a major feature update announced on VeeamOn 2017 in New Orleans
So far it's going well. I've pretty much set it up in the same way as in the guide Charbel Nemnom made: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/technical_papers/virtual-tape-library-used-with-microsoft-system-center-data-protection-manager-2016.pdf
The performance is good and backup is fast. My test was with 8 LTO5 virtual tapes using 4 virtual slots. I limited the tapes to 250 GB each for testing certain things.
I also want to try having the virtual tape files living on a volume that is deduplicated. I haven't found anything that says whether or not it will work well with the StarWind VTL, or how efficient it will be... so I'm just going to try it and see what happens!
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Everything on the StarWind VTL side is great. It was quick and easy to install. I installed it on Hyper-V Server 2016, and it went flawlessly. I was able to remotely connect to and manage the VTL without issue across two sites.
The more time consuming parts was setting up SCDPM. But it's Microsoft, so you'll have that.
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@Tim_G said in Accelerate your backups with StarWind Virtual Tape Library and Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager:
@KOOLER said in Accelerate your backups with StarWind Virtual Tape Library and Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager:
@Tim_G said in Accelerate your backups with StarWind Virtual Tape Library and Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager:
I've been working on this now, actually
Mind sharing YOUR feedback / results so far?
Meanwhile StarWind VTL ...
... is going to have a major feature update announced on VeeamOn 2017 in New Orleans
So far it's going well. I've pretty much set it up in the same way as in the guide Charbel Nemnom made: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/technical_papers/virtual-tape-library-used-with-microsoft-system-center-data-protection-manager-2016.pdf
The performance is good and backup is fast. My test was with 8 LTO5 virtual tapes using 4 virtual slots. I limited the tapes to 250 GB each for testing certain things.
I also want to try having the virtual tape files living on a volume that is deduplicated. I haven't found anything that says whether or not it will work well with the StarWind VTL, or how efficient it will be... so I'm just going to try it and see what happens!
StarWind has own dedupe but it's inline and implemented to handle streaming writes for primary storage. For backup target it's absolutely OK to use Windows Server built-in dedupe. Veeam has own but it's not that good on the multiple images.
P.S. Yes, when we'll re-publish VTL as a Linux VSA (soon) we'll have dedupe issues - there's no good dedupe in Linux standard distros so far...
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@Tim_G said in Accelerate your backups with StarWind Virtual Tape Library and Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager:
Everything on the StarWind VTL side is great. It was quick and easy to install. I installed it on Hyper-V Server 2016, and it went flawlessly. I was able to remotely connect to and manage the VTL without issue across two sites.
The more time consuming parts was setting up SCDPM. But it's Microsoft, so you'll have that.
We'll simplify virtual images delivery (seed & back-seed) with the next update
