If you're taking offsite backups over the WAN / VPN / Fiber connections or even running Replication and especially going over a slow connection, you might be looking to throttle the bandwidth available for the offsite backups via VM Backup.
VM Backup does not offer throttling natively as it stands, but fortunately Windows gives you the functionality to do this built-in.
Version 9
All you have to do is open PowerShell and run the following command on the VM Backup machine and ALL Hyper-V Hosts:
Syntax for Offsite Backups going to an Offsite Backup Server:
New-NetQosPolicy "OBS Throttle" -IPDstPortStartMatchCondition 36000-IPDstPortEndMatchCondition 36001 -ThrottleRateActionBitsPerSecond 10000000
Syntax for Offsite Backups going to a Cloud Backup Location:
New-NetQosPolicy "Cloud Backup Throttle Port 80" -IPPort 80 -IPProtocol TCP -ThrottleRateActionBitsPerSecond 10000000 -AppPathNameMatchCondition 'C:\Program Files\Hornetsecurity\VMBackup\VMBackup.SubAgent.exe'
New-NetQosPolicy "Cloud Backup Throttle Port 443" -IPPort 443 -IPProtocol TCP -ThrottleRateActionBitsPerSecond 10000000 -AppPathNameMatchCondition 'C:\Program Files\Hornetsecurity\VMBackup\VMBackup.SubAgent.exe'
Syntax for Replication:
New-NetQosPolicy "OBS Replication Throttle" -IPDstPortMatchCondition 36100 -ThrottleRateActionBitsPerSecond 10000000
The ThrottleRateActionBitsPerSecond must be specified in bits. So for instance;
- 3 Mbps = 3000000 Bits
- 10 Mbps = 10000000 Bits
Note:
- For VMware hosts, this only needs to be applied on the machine running VM Backup
If you wish to remove the QoS Policies, you can run the following commands:
Remove-NetQosPolicy -Name "OBS Throttle"
Remove-NetQosPolicy -Name "Cloud Backup Throttle Port 80"
Remove-NetQosPolicy -Name "Cloud Backup Throttle Port 443"
Remove-NetQosPolicy -Name "OBS Replication Throttle"
Version 8
All you have to do is open PowerShell and run the following command on the VM Backup machine and ALL Hyper-V Hosts:
Syntax for Offsite Backups going to an Offsite Backup Server:
New-NetQosPolicy "OBS Throttle" -IPDstPortStartMatchCondition 35116 -IPDstPortEndMatchCondition 35117 -ThrottleRateActionBitsPerSecond 10000000
Syntax for Offsite Backups going to a Cloud Backup Location:
New-NetQosPolicy "Cloud Backup Throttle Port 80" -IPPort 80 -IPProtocol TCP -ThrottleRateActionBitsPerSecond 10000000 -AppPathNameMatchCondition 'C:\Program Files\Altaro\Altaro Backup\Altaro.Services.BackupAgent.exe'
New-NetQosPolicy "Cloud Backup Throttle Port 443" -IPPort 443 -IPProtocol TCP -ThrottleRateActionBitsPerSecond 10000000 -AppPathNameMatchCondition 'C:\Program Files\Altaro\Altaro Backup\Altaro.Services.BackupAgent.exe'
Syntax for Replication:
New-NetQosPolicy "OBS Replication Throttle" -IPDstPortMatchCondition 35120 -ThrottleRateActionBitsPerSecond 10000000
The ThrottleRateActionBitsPerSecond must be specified in bits. So for instance;
- 3 Mbps = 3000000 Bits
- 10 Mbps = 10000000 Bits
Note:
- For VMware hosts, this only needs to be applied on the machine running VM Backup
If you wish to remove the QoS Policies, you can run the following commands:
Remove-NetQosPolicy -Name "OBS Throttle"
Remove-NetQosPolicy -Name "Cloud Backup Throttle Port 80"
Remove-NetQosPolicy -Name "Cloud Backup Throttle Port 443"
Remove-NetQosPolicy -Name "OBS Replication Throttle"