Step 5. Configure General Settings

At the Options step of the wizard, you can configure additional storage vault settings such as the storage size and the maximum number of allowed connections.

Storage Consumption Settings

The cost of storing backups in storage vaults depends on how much data is actually saved to these vaults.

To optimize the cost of storing backed-up data in a storage vault, you can limit the amount of storage space that Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure is allowed to use in the vault. To do that, select the Limit object storage consumption to check box and specify the maximum number of data storage units (in MBs, GBs or TBs) that can be used to store backups in the vault.

Load Control Settings

While backing up Azure resources, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure launches worker instances responsible for processing and transferring backed-up data to storage vaults. When a backup policy addresses a storage vault, worker instances establish connections with the vault to retrieve data. To learn how Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure performs backup operations, see Overview.

Too many connections to a storage vault at a time may cause performance issues due to Microsoft Azure limitations for storage accounts. To avoid these issues, you can limit the number of concurrent connections to the vault. The number of concurrent tasks defines how many worker instances can be launched to process Azure resources whose backups will be stored in this vault.

To limit the number of concurrent connections, select the Limit concurrent backup tasks to check box and specify the maximum number of tasks that can be simultaneously processed when addressing the vault.