VMCE_V12 · Question #162
A customer has a large VMware vSphere virtual machine with a custom operating system with intense I/O. The customer claims the backup process is causing the virtual machine to stun, despite a very…
The correct answer is C. Use Backup from Storage Snapshots to decrease the VMware vSphere snapshot commit time. By offloading snapshot creation and commit to the storage array, Veeam drastically shortens the VMware snapshot commit phase and eliminates prolonged VM stun during high-I/O backups.
Question
A customer has a large VMware vSphere virtual machine with a custom operating system with intense I/O. The customer claims the backup process is causing the virtual machine to stun, despite a very performant production environment and Veeam proxies as powerful physical machines. What is the correct solution to deploy?
Options
- ADeploy a high performance Veeam repository to decrease the backup time.
- BUse Continuous Data Protection replication to decrease RPO and process I/O operations as soon
- CUse Backup from Storage Snapshots to decrease the VMware vSphere snapshot commit time.
- DDeploy a Veeam Agent to leverage volume-level backup and avoid using proxy servers.
How the community answered
(52 responses)- A10% (5)
- B4% (2)
- C71% (37)
- D15% (8)
Explanation
By offloading snapshot creation and commit to the storage array, Veeam drastically shortens the VMware snapshot commit phase and eliminates prolonged VM stun during high-I/O backups.
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