Managing Worker Profiles

A profile is the VM size of a worker instance that Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure launches in a specific Azure region to perform a backup, restore, retention, archive, file share indexing, repository synchronization or health check operation. Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure launches one worker instance per each Azure resource added to a backup policy or restore task.

Out of the box, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure comes with the default set of worker profiles where the primary profile is Standard_F2s_v2 and the archive profile is Standard_E2_v5. However, to boost operational performance, you can add custom sets of worker profiles to specify VM sizes of worker instances that will operate in different regions. When configuring worker profiles, you can choose the profile of each launched worker instance depending on the performed operation and the total size of the processed data:

Worker Profile	Default Azure VM Size	Usage
Small	Standard_F2s_v2	Backup and restore of the following workloads: Azure VMs whose total disk size is less than 100 GB Azure SQL databases whose total size is less than 1 GB Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL clusters whose total size is less than 22 GB File-level recovery of Azure VMs Backup retention, repository synchronization, file share indexing and health check
Medium	Standard_F4s_v2	Backup and restore of the following workloads: Azure VMs whose total disk size is between 100 GB and 1 TB Azure SQL databases whose total size is between 1 GB and 50 GB Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL clusters whose total size is between 22 GB and 112 GB
Large	Standard_F8s_v2	Backup and restore of the following workloads: Azure VMs whose total disk size is more than 1 TB Azure SQL databases whose total size is more than 50 GB Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL clusters whose total size is more than 112 GB
Archiving	Standard_E2_v5	Backup archiving Data retrieval operations

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