Which feature of Veeam is recommended when it's working with OceanProtect Backup Storage?

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Options

• ARemote replication
• BCornpression
• CDedupe
• DInstant recovery

• A
  3% (1)
• B
  6% (2)
• C
  15% (5)
• D
  76% (25)

Explanation

Instant Recovery is the recommended Veeam feature with OceanProtect Backup Storage because OceanProtect is designed to serve as high-performance backup storage that Veeam can directly mount and run workloads from, enabling VMs to be recovered and operational within minutes without a full restore. Compression (B) and Dedupe (C) are incorrect because OceanProtect has native hardware-level compression and deduplication built in; enabling these redundant software-layer features in Veeam wastes processing resources and can actually reduce OceanProtect's native deduplication efficiency by pre-processing data before it reaches the storage. Remote replication (A) is a valid Veeam capability but is not a recommended feature specific to the OceanProtect integration -- it addresses disaster recovery topology, not storage efficiency or performance with this particular appliance.

Memory tip: OceanProtect already handles compression and dedupe at the hardware level, so Veeam's job is to use the storage's speed for Instant Recovery, not duplicate what the appliance does natively. If the storage does the data reduction, Veeam's role is rapid access, not redundant processing.

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