Modifying Workloads

Published : September 27, 2005

DPM offers several methods that you can use to modify protection workloads and thereby improve performance. Table 3.4 lists the methods you can use to modify protection workloads and indicates what you can expect from each.

Table 3.4   Methods for Modifying Protection Workloads

Method	Impact
Using network bandwidth usage throttling	Jobs use less bandwidth, but take longer to complete
Using on-the-wire compression	Reduces size of data transfer, but increases CPU utilization on the DPM server and the protected file servers
Staggering synchronization start times	Balances the loads of synchronization jobs across protection groups
Scheduling consistency checks during off peak hours	Prevents DPM from interfering with regular business use of protected file servers
Creating replicas manually	Replica creation may be faster; no performance load on file server or network resources.