Dynamic NAS Protection enables automated load balancing of protection engine hosts, and automatic scaling for containers to achieve maximum backup streams and reduce manual management overhead.
Figure 4. Overview of autodistribution of backup streams
Auto-distribution of backup streams performs as follows:
- Orchestrates NAS workloads from Data Manager on multiple Protection Engines
- Spins up and tears down NAS protection containers as needed
- Provides automated calculation of containers required for a backup
- Containers are calculated based on slices and required backup window
- Provides automated load balancing of Protection Engines for every backup cycle
- Throttle up or throttle down the containers depending upon the workload
- Provides automated throttling or number of parallel streams for optimal impact on NAS array