Veeam Backup Scale-out repositories

Scale-out repositories in Veeam Backup & Replication provide a way to consolidate multiple storage repositories into a single logical unit. This feature enhances scalability, performance, and manageability of your backup infrastructure. Here's some information about Veeam backup scale-out repositories:

Logical Storage Pool: A scale-out repository combines multiple repositories into a single logical storage pool. This pool appears as a single entity within the Veeam Backup & Replication interface, simplifying management and eliminating the need to manage individual repositories separately.

Scalability: Scale-out repositories allow you to add new storage resources to the pool as needed. This scalability feature enables you to expand your backup storage capacity seamlessly without disrupting ongoing backup or restore operations.

Load Balancing: Veeam Backup & Replication distributes incoming backup jobs across the available storage resources within the scale-out repository. This load balancing ensures optimal utilization of storage resources, improving backup and restore performance.

Performance Optimization: Scale-out repositories optimize performance by allowing concurrent processing of multiple backup or restore operations. This capability helps reduce backup windows and improve recovery time objectives (RTOs).

Fault Tolerance: Veeam Backup & Replication provides fault tolerance for scale-out repositories. If one of the underlying repositories within the pool becomes unavailable, backups and restores can continue to run uninterrupted using the remaining available repositories.

Data Locality: Veeam intelligently stores backup files within the scale-out repository to optimize data locality. This means that data from the same backup job is stored on the same underlying repository, improving restore performance by reducing the need to retrieve data from multiple storage locations.

Policy-Based Data Placement: Scale-out repositories offer policy-based data placement options. You can define rules to control how backup files are distributed across the underlying repositories based on factors such as performance, capacity, or retention requirements.

Expansion and Retention Settings: Scale-out repositories allow you to define expansion policies for adding new storage resources and retention policies for managing how long backups are retained within the repository. This provides flexibility in tailoring your backup storage infrastructure to meet specific data retention and growth needs.

By implementing scale-out repositories, Veeam Backup & Replication streamlines management, improves performance, and simplifies scalability of your backup infrastructure. It provides a centralized and efficient approach to handle storage resources, ensuring optimized backup and restore operations for your data.