Hi Matthew Can you tell us some more about your infrastructure? What kind of disk storage network are you using? iSCSI? FC? block-data? NAS?
Are your stated rates for image backups, or file-level incremental? What version of TSM are you using? Best regards, Mike, x7942 RMD IT Client Services On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Matthew McGeary < matthew.mcge...@potashcorp.com> wrote: > I've searched quite a bit and can't seem to find any guidelines on the > following: > > 1) VMWare VSwitch configuration to maximize throughput for VM > backups/restores > 2) Expected throughput using 10Gb adapters > > We are in a situation at the moment where mass backups work quite well and > are very fast: as fast as the TSM server can handle. However, individual > restores/backups are quite slow. We've tested on a VMWare cluster with > 1Gbps NICs attached to the management network and with 10Gbps attached to > the management network. Both scenarios are quite a bit slower than I'd > expect. Average backup/restore transfer rates are in the 25 MB/s range > using 1Gb NICs and around 55 MB/s using 10Gb NICs. > > How do I improve the throughput on these single-VM backup and restore > sessions? > > Thanks! > > Matthew McGeary > Technical Specialist > PotashCorp - Saskatoon > 306.933.8921 >
