StoreOnce Backup System Maximum Values for vRanger
When configuring backup jobs to a StoreOnce Backup System, consider the following limits. This information is
particularly relevant to the maximum number of tasks running per Repository setting described above.
Figure 7:
Maximum and guideline values for StoreOnce Backup Systems when used with Quest vRanger
D2D2502 G2
D2D2504 G2
D2D4106 G2
D2D4112 G2
D2D4312 G2
D2D4324 G2
Max usable capacity
1.5 TB
3.0 TB
4.5 TB
18 TB
D2D4312
36 TB
D2D4324
72 TB
Max NAS Shares
4
8
16
24
50
Max fan out: per appliance
/Share
2/1
2/1
4/1
4/1
8/1
Max fan in: per appliance
/Share
4/1
8/1
16/1
24/1
50/1
Approx Housekeeping time per
100 GB overwritten backup data
6 minutes
6 minutes
4 minutes
4 minutes
2 minutes
Connectivity
2 x 1 GbE
2 x 1 GbE
2 x 1 GbE
2 x 1 GbE
2 x 1 GbE
2 x 10 GbE
Max open files >24 MB
per Share/per appliance
32/32
48/48
64/64
64/64
128/128
Max total open files per
appliance
96
112
128
128
640
Max total files per Share
25,000
25,000
25,000
25,000
25,000
Maximum concurrent vRanger
backup streams per appliance
4
4
6
6
12
Repositories
vRanger uses a Repository to store backup Savepoints. A best practice is to create the Repository on a
StoreOnce Backup System CIFS Share. The Repository is organized using a human readable directory structure
with three files for each Savepoint (see Figure 8). The format of the files for each backup job is:
Manifest data:
VMname_Date_Time_BackupType
(Full/Inc/Diff).
Manifest.metadata
Config data:
VMname_Date_Time_BackupType
(Full/Inc/Diff).
VmConfig.metadata
Backup file:
VMname_Date_Time_BackupType
(Full/Inc/Diff)_
VMname.vmdk.var
