rhipe has created a series of tips and tricks to help you, our partner optimise and fine tune your deployments. Our aim is that these tips help to provide cost and operational efficiencies.

rhipe with support from Veeam has created a team of experts dedicated to increasing Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) program benefits, reducing your business risk, optimising your deployments, and costs to drive greater value for you and your customers.

We understand the impact on your business and your clients during challenging times and we want to do all we can to help. Our key objective is to ensure business continuity for you and your customers so we have created a list of 4 tips and tricks focused on cost savings, usage improvements and innovative solutions that will help fine tune your customers’ infrastructure.

The Veeam Cloud & Service Provider Program (VCSP) is a pay-as-you-go/grow subscription model for you to offer Data Protection services to your customers through various Veeam products consumed every month. At rhipe, we believe it is important that our partners understand how to monitor resource consumption within your offerings, fine-tune and optimise them wherever possible. This document provides some of the guidelines that could help you with reducing your monthly licensing costs. 

Before undertaking this exercise, rhipe recommends creating a report which lists all the objects protected – Physical Servers, Virtual Machines and O365 users using Veeam along with the Retention Policy attached to each object. 

Circulate and discuss this list with individual Business Group owners to confirm if the appropriate retention is configured based on the organisation’s compliance requirements.   

Given your total Costs under the VCSP = (Total Instances Protected x Product Points) x per point price, below are a few options to be reviewed and validated as every environment is different. 

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    4 Tips & Tricks for Optimise Your Veeam environment

    Explore these tips and tricks and reach out to the rhipe team for more advice on the best way to implement these changes.

      1. Protect relevant Data and workloads
      2. Reduce data protection retention
      3. Remove Non-Critical workloads from Veeam One
      4. Per Point price

    1. Protect relevant Data and workloads

    If you are protecting any workloads that are NOT Business Critical (for example Dev-Test), check if you can remove them from backups. This suggestion can also apply for Secondary VMs that are currently provisioned for Application High Availability purposes such as Domain Controllers Web Servers and Remote Desktop session hosts etc. 

    After removing the non-critical workload, consider protecting your new critical assets where data might be getting saved such as end-user laptops which are now likely being highly leveraged for Work from Home purposes. 

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    2. Reduce data protection retention

    A significant cost in the Data Protection solution is contributed towards the storage where backup data resides. You could modify the Data retention configuration to save unnecessary disk consumption where possible. The same recommendation could apply to your Veeam Replication retention configuration. 

    Another option is to leverage Microsoft Azure BLOB (object storage) to store the secondary copy of your backups. Below are some of the advantages of using Microsoft Azure BLOB (object storage): 
    1. PAYG model - Full managed storage available at consumption model. Pay for only what you consume without the necessity of storage array management. 
    2. Near to infinite capacity - Public cloud provides near to infinite storage capacity removing the need to buy additional storage upfront, spending time and effort to physically install the storage within the Datacentre and finally, configuring it within Virtualisation platform to make it available to the customer. This makes BLOB storage a cheaper alternative. 
    3. Resiliency - Microsoft maintains three copies of data stored in BLOB storage at no additional cost. In case, one copy gets corrupted, Microsoft can create another copy from the other available copies without impacting the end user requests (backup and restoration operations). 

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    3. Remove Non-Critical workloads from Veeam One

    If you are monitoring any workloads that are NOT Business Critical (for example Dev-Test), please check if you could remove them from Veeam One monitoring. 

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    4. Per point price

    Each point-plan in the Rental License model has a different price per point. Upgrading the point-plan provides a better discount, and this can be done anytime during the contractual period (recurring 12 months). An additional discount is available if you switch from a Non-commit plan to a Veeam Rental Agreement with specific points based on your current consumption. However, downgrading a point-plan would be applicable at the end of your contractual term. Please compare the total quantity of points reported and determine whether an upgrade, commitment or downgrade is required. Our Operations team can help you with your renewal date. 


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    These options do not necessarily apply to all the Veeam products, so we highly recommend prior to applying any of these tips, to please consult with our rhipe Team to ensure Best Practices are chosen. 

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