Veeam CDP for the little ones

The CDP function (aka Continuous Data Protection) is now seen by many as heavenly manna. After all, it allows you to reduce the risks of data loss to near-zero values ​​(RTO and RPO - units of seconds), while not using snapshots that slow down everything around you, and not depend on the limitations of classic replication options. 





This is what we'll talk about today: what kind of magic is this, how it works and how we implemented it in Veeam Backup & Replication v11.





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ESXi

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# ps | grep iof 
# kill -9 <PID>  
      
      



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# /etc/init.d/iofilterd-vvr stop/start
      
      



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# tail -n 100 -f /var/log/iofilterd-vvr.log
      
      



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# vsish -e get /sched/memClients/[iofilterd-PID]/SchedGroupID
      
      



# memstats -r group-stats -s name:min:max:eMin:rMinPeak:consumed:flags -g [iofilterd-ScheddGroupID] -u mb
      
      



. vib





# esxcli software vib list | grep veecdp
      
      






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