New-VBRStorageOptions

Short Description

Defines storage optimization settings for backup jobs.

Applies to

Product Edition: Community, Standard, Enterprise, Enterprise Plus, Veeam Universal License

Syntax

New-VBRStorageOptions -CompressionLevel <VBRCompressionLevel> {None | DedupeFriendly | Optimal | High | Extreme} -StorageOptimizationType <VBRStorageOptimizationType> {LocalTarget | LocalTargetHugeBackup | LANTarget | WANTarget} [-EnableEncryption] [-EncryptionKey <VBREncryptionKey>] [-KMSServer <VBRKMSServer>] [<CommonParameters>]

Detailed Description

This cmdlet creates the VBRStorageOptions object that contains the storage optimization settings that you can apply to Veeam Agent backup jobs. These settings allow you to modify the following options for the storage:

Data compression options
Data optimization options
Encryption options

For more information about job storage settings, see the Data Compression and Deduplication section of User Guide for VMware vSphere.

For more information about job encryption settings, see the Storage Settings section in the Veeam Agent Management Guide.

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Type	Required	Position	Accept Pipeline Input
CompressionLevel	Specifies the compression level of backups: None: use this option if you do not want to enable data compression. Dedupe-friendly: use this option to set a dedupe-friendly compression level. Optimal: use this option to set an optimal compression level. High: use this option to set a high compression level. Extreme: use this option to set an extreme compression level. Default: Optimal.	VBRCompressionLevel	True	Named	False
StorageOptimizationType	Specifies the type of the storage that you plan to use as a backup target. LocalTarget: use this option for backup to SAN, DAS or local storage. LocalTargetHugeBackup: use this option for Veeam Agent jobs that can produce backup files larger than 16 TB. LANTarget: use this option for backup to NAS and for onsite backup. WANTarget: use this option if you plan to use WAN for offsite backup. Depending on the selected storage type, the job will use data blocks of different size to optimize the size of backup files. Default: LocalTarget.	VBRStorageOptimizationType	True	Named	False
EnableEncryption	Enables the option for the Veeam Agent backup job to encrypt the backup data.	SwitchParameter	False	Named	False
EncryptionKey	For the EnableEncryption parameter. Specifies the encryption key that you want to use to encrypt the data.	Accepts the VBREncryptionKey object. To create this object, run the Add-VBREncryptionKey cmdlet.	False	Named	False
KMSServer	Specifies KMS servers added to the Veeam Backup & Replication console. The cmdlet will decrypt data encrypted by this server.	Accepts the VBRKMSServer object. To get this object, run the Get-VBRKMSServer cmdlet.	False	Named	False

This cmdlet supports Microsoft PowerShell common parameters. For more information on common parameters, see Microsoft Docs.

Output Object

This cmdlet returns the VBRStorageOptions object that contains storage optimization settings for backup jobs.

Examples

Specifying Data Compression and Storage Optimization Settings

This example shows how to specify data compression and storage optimization settings that you can apply to a backup job. The job with these settings will run as follows:

The backup job will encrypt the data and will apply the optimal compression level.
The storage optimization type is set to keep backups larger than 16 TB on the local storage.

$key = Add-VBREncryptionKey -Description Mypass

New-VBRStorageOptions -CompressionLevel Optimal -StorageOptimizationType LocalTargetHugeBackup -EnableEncryption -EncryptionKey $key

Perform the following steps:

Run the Add-VBREncryptionKey cmdlet. Specify the Description parameter value. Save the result to the $key variable.
Run the New-VBRStorageOptions cmdlet. Specify the following settings:

Set the Optimal option for the CompressionLevel parameter.
Set the LocalTargetHugeBackup option for the StorageOptimizationType parameter.
Provide the EnableEncryption parameter.
Set the $key variable as the EncryptionKey parameter value.

Related Commands

Add-VBREncryptionKey