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Status Future consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 10, 2021

RELATED IDEAS

Enable individual throttling for Replication and Cloud copy jobs. Also add support for Internet Proxy for Cloud offloads.

We use IBM Spectrum Protect Plus offload (copy) to Cloud feature in addition to Replication (another copy) to a IBM Spectrum Protect (classic) repository server for a subsequent tape backup.

Due to a huge volume of data already being backed up by vSnap servers we need to throttle Cloud offload process not to flood ExpressRoute to 100%, which would impact users' performance in Office 365. Unfortunately vSnap throttling was deprecated and the Site throttling also throttles a Replication copy process as well. Our Replication goes over 10Gbit WAN link while Cloud copy over 900Mbit link only. We need to have an ability to set separate throttling for Replication and Cloud.

It also would be nice to configure an outgoing proxy server in the same page since normally our servers do not have direct access to the Internet. Or have support for the 2nd for a replication or cloud jobs (subject of assignment)

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Jun 30, 2021

    This request may not be delivered within the release currently under development, but the theme is aligned with the current multi-year strategy. IBM may consider and evaluate any RFE Community feedback for this request through activities such as voting. IBM will update this request in the future.

  • Guest
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    |     Jun 11, 2021

    When I was working at Volvo, we used to create a crontab scheduled task to throttle data using the linux OS "tc" (traffic control) command.
    That solved our issues.
    Other ways are more complex and expensive solutions, such as MPLS using different WAN prioritizations, but that requires both ends agree on the prioritizations policies.
    WAN optimization tools exists too, that investigates the type of data going over WAN to prioritize different traffic pattern over other type of data patterns.

    Regards Tomas

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