This is where to web-based tool shines! It provides a clear overview of: The last item in the left navigation menu reads Backup Sizing. Calculation of data usage for Veeam Backup for Office 365 You actually don’t have to calculate or export the data to get the trends, because the tool displays these trends in the lower left corner for Current State in terms of Change Rate for report Days in both MBs and percentage. By default, the tool provides graphs for storage consumption for the last 7 days, but you can view storage consumption for as long as 180 days. The Microsoft Office 365 Backup Sizing tool provides trends so you can provide accurate storage size projections for future growth, too. Many organizations have no idea on the actual size of data in Office 365 services, like Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business.įrom the navigation menu on the left of the Microsoft Office 365 Backup Sizing tool, you can see the actual storage use for Mailbox, OneDrive and SharePoint data and active users for each of the corresponding Office 365 services. Version 2 of the Microsoft Office 365 Backup Sizing Tool offers the following functionality: Overview of your Office 365 usage Veeam’s Senior Solution Architect Hal Yaman created a web-based tool to provide you all the answers you need upfront, without a need to install anything: The Microsoft Office 365 Backup Sizing tool, version 2. Introducing the Office 365 Backup Sizing toolĬalculating how much storage Veeam Backup for Office 365 requires does not have to rely on guess work. Wrong calculations of required (future) storage would make these costs increase harder, especially when blob storage needs to be reconfigured and/or migrated.

Although cloud storage may scale indefinitely, so would storage costs. Especially for organizations wanting to use this feature it’s ideal to know the size of their storage needs. Veeam Backup for Office 365 version 4, released last month, offers object storage support, where backup data is stored in cloud storage like Microsoft Azure blob storage, Amazon S3 (or compatible) and IBM Cloud Object Storage. When you use Veeam Backup for Office 365, it creates a local or cloud backup of the information stored in Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online and Microsoft OneDrive for Business. A typical question in the design phase is to calculate how much storage Veeam Backup for Office 365 requires.Įspecially with the latest version of Veeam Backup for Office 365… As organizations embrace the full suite of Office 365 and intend to extend their Veeam Availability Suite with Veeam Backup for Microsoft Officer 365, we often get the question on how to design the backup for Office 365 backup.

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