Use the Configure > Appliances > Storage tab to manage your appliance's backup storage. Supported storage procedures vary by Unitrends appliance type:
• | Recovery-Series physical appliances come with a set amount of backup storage. You cannot add backup storage to the appliance. |
• | UEB virtual appliances deploy as virtual machines. During deployment, the initial backup storage was created using either a virtual attached disk, a SAN LUN, or a NAS share. After initial deployment, you can add more backup storage. See About adding backup storage to a UEB appliance for details. |
• | UEB Installable Software is deployed to your CentOS or RHEL server. The amount of backup storage available is determined by the size of the /backups partition. For details, see the UEB Deployment Guide for Installable Software. |
When configuring backup storage, determine the percentage to use for backups and the percentage to reserve for instant recovery. Because your appliance is designed to retain as many local backups as possible, you should reserve instant recovery space soon after initial deployment. If necessary, you can allocate instant recovery space later, but doing so may require the appliance to purge local backups to make room for the newly allocated instant recovery space.
The storage reserved for instant recovery is used to store a disk image, known as a recovery object, based on the backup selected for recovery. Once the instant recovery completes, you must tear down the recovery object so the reserved space is made available to other instant recovery processes.
For more information, see Virtual machine instant recovery and Windows instant recovery.
For both Recovery-Series and UEB appliances, you can view backup storage and modify the amount of storage allocated for backups and instant recovery.
1 | On the Configure > Appliances page, select the Storage tab. |
2 | This information displays for each storage device: name, status, type, capacity, total size, and free space. |
1 | On the Configure > Appliances page, select the Storage tab. |
2 | Select the Internal storage and click Edit. |
3 | Modify the percentages used for backups versus instant recovery, and click Save. |