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Recipe: Add a New WAN Accelerator

Expected deliverables:

A WAN Accelerator for Veeam backup & Replication that combines several technologies to optimize the data transfer and reduce the amount of data going over WAN.

Time to complete: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

A pair of Windows Servers as of WAN accelerators (Virtual or Physical) with minimum of 2 cores (vCPUs) and at least 8 GB RAM each: one WAN accelerator on each side of the WAN link.
64-Bit Windows Server 2012 R2 or later.
For the source WAN Accelerator: digest disk space 2% of provisioned VM size for Low Bandwidth mode, 1% of provisioned VM size for High Bandwidth mode.
For the target WAN Accelerator: in addition to the digest disk space, for Global Cache 10 GB of disk space per every type of OS that will be processed. By default, Veeam allocates 100 GB for the global cache size.

Before you start:

You have a Veeam Backup and Replication server installed.
You have added at least one Microsoft Windows Server added in the Backup infrastructure.

Assumptions:

This guide assumes that one or more Backup Proxies are added to Veeam Backup & Replication. A Repository to be used as Cache repository must be available. Network access and the required permission to connect to the SMB share to be protected need to be ready and on-hand.

Method:

Open the Veeam Backup & Replication Console.
Select Backup Infrastructure on the bottom left menu.
Right click WAN Accelerators and choose Add WAN Accelerator.
Select the Windows Server, adjust the TCP/IP port and number of streams if needed, select whether to use the High bandwidth mode and click Next.
Define where service files and global cache data will be stored. Click Next.
Review the settings and confirm by clicking Apply.
After installation and configuration is completed, click Finish and the WAN Accelerator is ready to use.

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