Use schedule policies to manage the timing of each type of protection operation.
Schedule IntelliSnap and streaming VADP protection operations at different times, to avoid contention issues at the hypervisor or storage level.
Schedule virtual server agent (VSA) and guest-based application agent protection operations at different times. Both protection methods create application consistent backups; they should run at different times to avoid any potential conflicts.
Examples
The following tables provide examples of how different classes of VMs and protection methods can be scheduled.
|
VM Class |
Tier 1 |
Tier 2 |
Tier 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Protection Method |
IntelliSnap plus Backup Copy |
IntelliSnap plus Backup Copy |
Traditional Streaming VADP |
|
Backup Frequency |
Every 6 hours |
Daily |
Daily |
|
Copies |
3 |
2 |
2 |
|
Copy Frequency |
Every 6 hours |
Daily |
Daily |
|
Schedule |
Daily at 6 am, noon, 6 pm, midnight |
Daily at 3 am, 3 pm |
Daily at 8 pm |
|
Backup Copy daily at 1 am |
Backup Copy daily at 4 am |
Synthetic Full daily at 10 pm |
|
|
Retention |
Copy 1 – 7 days |
Copy 1 – 30 days |
Copy 1 – 7 days |