The real benefits come when there need to be changes to the backup infrastructure. Like a regular repository, the SOBR holds backup data. There you can find nearly 20 sub-pages on how the SOBR can be administered and its capabilities. If you have not, please check out the SOBR pages in Veeam Help Center. These are just a few ways that the SOBR can solve real challenges in the data center for the backup infrastructure.
Invoke maintenance mode and evacuate extents as underlying repository needs change. Performance policy to keep types of backup files on appropriately performing storage resources. Data locality selection to keep backup files together within a job. The ability to easily migrate underlying backup repositories in and out of the SOBR. A few of the use cases that are available right now (and note – there will be more capabilities coming later this year) include: There are many reasons why the SOBR can add benefits to how organizations manage data in their environment. This SOBR is a collection of six extents of different types holding backups from Veeam Agents, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Nutanix AHV. A picture helps describe this, so let’s look at the figure below: The underlying repositories are referred to as extents and the parent SOBR is a collection of all the extents and will summarize their capacity. The SOBR is a logical collection of individual backup repositories (where backups go from a storage perspective) in one pool. Let’s re-introduce the SOBR! What is the SOBR? It’s easy to do this with the SOBR, but there is so much more to it. The situation was that I needed to remove a backup repository and I didn’t want to lose any backup data or restore points. The Scale-Out Backup Repository (SOBR) is a very powerful management technology that has been in Veeam Backup & Replication since v9, but I recently had a situation in our lab that made me remember how powerful this technology is, and I thought it appropriate to re-introduce this feature.