Backu/Replication bandwith throttling

[fabienrouach]

Hi,

I have a simplivity federation of 7 clusters (each on a different site) with 2 node each.

2 sites are the "Mains" ones and I need to backup all VM of other sites to them.

Some of the 5 others sites have slow Wan link and I want to avoid saturate them (specially for the first backup), and i'm looking for the best way to do it.

I understand that replication traffic goes throught federation or management network, so at first I thought i would do bandwith throttling on it at ESX level.  In our infra, federation network is routed between every site so simplivity should use this one.

But i think that if I do that on federation network, it will impact communication between 2 nodes inside the same cluster (same site). Am I correct?

Even if I was doing it on management network, it would impact the speed of 3rd party backup (veeam), so that doesn't work.

I guess best is to do the throttling at network level, routers between sites.

Limitations should be put between OVC federation IPs, right?

What TCP/UDP ports are used for replication?

Or am I totally wrong on the way to do it?

Thanks

[Parvez_Admin]

Hello @fabienrouach ,

As there is no response yet to the query, I would recommend to directly contact technical support and log a support call.

https://support.hpe.com/help/en/Content/supportAndOtherResources.html

https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/A00039121ENW