Best way to throttle AUX Copy between sites.

Question

I need to limit bandwidth usage to 50% during 8am-5PM for AUX copies. What is the best way to accomplish this?

I am planning to select the source media agent and the destination media agents under the properties of the source media agent. Then I will configure the rules to only use 50% usage during 8am-5PM.

What all does this impact? The destination media agents are used for multiple other copies coming from different media agents and I do not want them to be limited.

Really just looking for confirmation that if I setup the throttling on the source media agent and select the destination media agents in addition to the source that it will only impact the AUX Copy between these source and destination and will not throttle any backups running to the source media agent or any other media agents writing to the destination media agents.

Harsh Desai · Accepted Answer

@Zach,There are 2 ways of throttling data transfer operations:Throttling at the client or client group levelThrottling at the copy levelThere are pros and cons to both:Throttling at the client or client group level will allow you to throttle during certain times of the day but will be an all or nothing kind of throttling between those 2 clients. For example if you setup throttling between 2 MAs, all data transfer operations between those 2 MAs will be affected.https://documentation.commvault.com/11.24/expert/7486_enabling_and_configuring_network_bandwidth_throttling_for_clients_or_client_groups.htmlIf you throttle at the copy level, you wont have the ability to choose the times at which the throttling is applied but will make it so that only the copy in question is affected.https://documentation.commvault.com/11.24/expert/7494_setting_network_bandwidth_throttling_for_storage_policy_copy.htmlHope this helps.Cheers

tph · Answer

Hey @Zachthere is a good post that discusses the different options depending on your scenario. I will refrain from adding more info to avoid confusion. Take a look

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