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How many proxy required for 1000 server

  • April 22, 2023
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how many VM Proxy required for 1000 servers to run backup in hotadd mode. 

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  • Vaulter
  • April 23, 2023

Good morning.  What version of vCenter are  you using?


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vsphere client version 7.0.3


Damian Andre
Vaulter
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Difficult to calculate exactly as it depends on a lot of environmental factors - like how many disk each VM has, size of VMs, what your RPO is etc.

HotAdd requires SCSI slots, and a maximum of 60 disks can be mounted at once if you have 4x scsi controllers on the HotAdd proxy. Each disk on a VM will use a scsi slot during backup - although performance of the proxy is usually exhausted long before the 60 slot limit is reached.

In either case, there is a guide here on sizing proxies vs front end terabytes (i.e how much VM data you need to protect)

https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/expert/32813_vsa_hardware_requirements.html