Limitations for Capacity Tier

General Limitations

Consider the following limitations for capacity tier:

You can add only one type of object storage repository as a capacity extent. For example, if your first added Microsoft Azure Blob object storage as a capacity extent, you cannot add Amazon S3 object storage as a second capacity extent.
You cannot add more than one instance of Azure Databox or Snowball Edge AWS object storage repository as a capacity extent.
Before you start using the capacity tier, make sure to check the pricing plans of your cloud storage provider to avoid additional costs for offloading and downloading backup data.
Downloading or restoring data from capacity tier does not reuse the existing blocks present on performance tier if performance tier consists of object storage repositories.

Full restore points downloaded from capacity tier to XFS performance extents do not use Fast Clone.

If you use immutability and have several extents in your capacity tier, you must enable it for all extents within this tier. You cannot use mixed configuration and have only one extent with immutability enabled.

You cannot use the same object storage repository as a performance extent and as a capacity extent.
If you use the forever forward incremental backup method to create your backups, Veeam Backup & Replication will ignore the move policy and will apply the copy policy to move backups to capacity tier.

Limitations for Veeam Solutions

For more information on limitations for a specific Veeam solution that utilizes capacity tier functionality, see the following sections of the necessary guide:

Veeam Plug-in for SAP HANA — to check limitations for an SAP-certified backup and recovery solution that allows you to back up and restore SAP HANA databases.
Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN — to check limitations for an Oracle-certified backup and recovery solution that allows you to back up and restore Oracle databases.
Veeam Plug-in for SAP on Oracle — to check limitations for an SAP-certified backup and recovery solution that allows you to back up and restore Oracle databases to which an SAP application is connected.
Veeam Plug-in for Microsoft SQL Server — to check limitations for a backup and recovery solution that allows you to back up and restore Microsoft SQL Server databases.
Veeam Plug-in for IBM Db2 — to check limitations for a backup and recovery solution that allows you to back up and restore IBM Db2 databases.