Optimizing parallel backups of virtual machines
IBM Storage Protect backup-archive client 6.4 and later provides parallel backup processing for backing up multiple virtual machines at the same time with one IBM Storage Protect data mover node.
About this task
The data mover node is the node that represents a specific IBM Storage Protect backup-archive client that moves data from one system to another.
With IBM Storage Protect for Virtual Environments, you can run parallel backup processing of incremental-forever full and incremental-forever incremental virtual machine backups.
To help optimize parallel virtual machine backups for IBM Storage Protect for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware, adjust the settings for the vmmaxparallel, vmlimitperhost, and vmlimitperdatastore options. These options can also help reduce the processor load that parallel backups can create on a host in the vSphere infrastructure.
To optimize parallel virtual machine backups for IBM Storage Protect for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for Hyper-V, adjust the settings for the vmmaxparallel option.