Veeam Data Platform 13 Recommended Maximums
This document outlines recommended and consistently regression tested maximums for Veeam Backup & Replication product configuration. These guidelines are designed to help with deployment planning and ensure optimal performance and stability.
While these are not hard limits and many existing Veeam deployments already go well beyond these numbers, exceeding these recommendations significantly may lead to decreased efficiency or potential performance issues.
Veeam Backup & Replication Server
Virtual Machines
- 10000 VMs per Veeam Backup & Replication server
- 2000 VMs per backup or backup copy job
- 1000 parallel backup tasks
- 750 simultaneously running backup or backup copy jobs
- 1000 parallel VMware Instant Recovery sessions per Veeam Backup & Replication server
- 200 parallel VMware Instant Recovery sessions per vPowerNFS server
Veeam Agents
- 5000 Veeam Agents per Veeam Backup & Replication server
- 1000 Veeam Agents per protection group
- 1000 Veeam Agents per backup or backup copy job
- 500 parallel backup tasks
- 500 parallel backup copy tasks
NAS Backup Maximums
Recommended maximums for NAS backup haven’t been established because the NAS backup engine was designed for scalability levels that far exceed the current capacity of our QA labs. The largest production deployment of NAS backup functionality at the time of writing was as follows:
- 4.4 PB of source NAS data protected by a single backup server
- 6.5 billion files in the largest backup job
Veeam CDP
- 500 VMs (up to 2000 VM disks) protected by CDP jobs
- 100 simultaneously running CDP jobs
Scale-out Backup Repository
- 16 Extents
Veeam ONE
- Veeam Backup and Replication: 100 servers with up to 60,000 total protected workloads
- VMware Environment Monitoring and Reporting: up to 20,000 Virtual Machines
- Hyper-v Environment Monitoring and Reporting: up to 10,000 Virtual Machines
Application Plug-ins
Veeam Plug-in for Microsoft SQL Server
- 2000 databases per Microsoft SQL server
- 150 database servers and 10000 databases per Veeam Backup & Replication server
Veeam Plug-ins for Oracle RMAN, SAP HANA, SAP on Oracle and IBM Db2
- Standalone mode: 250 database servers and 2000 databases per Veeam Backup & Replication server
- Managed mode: 150 database servers and 600 databases per Veeam Backup & Replication server
File to Tape Backup
- 2 billion source files and 20 billion file versions per Veeam Backup & Replication server
Veeam Cloud Connect
- 1000 concurrent tasks per Cloud Connect server
- 1000 tenants per Cloud Connect server
- 500 concurrent tasks per Cloud Gateway
Veeam Enterprise Manager
- Backup servers: 100 Veeam Backup & Replication servers