Veeam Designer

Veeam Infrastructure Sizing

Model backup capacity, infrastructure requirements, WAN demand, and storage cost across supported platforms.

Browser edition v5.0.0

Version 5.0.0 Runs locally in the browser Server deployment available through Docker or FastAPI

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Configuration

Sizing inputs

Define workload, platform, retention, and infrastructure assumptions.

Environment

Defaults applied to the current sizing model.

Profile Virtualization Platform Backup Server VMware Proxy Deployment Target RPO

hours

Compliance

Advanced parameters

Compression Ratio Dedupe Ratio Proxy Throughput Override

MB/s/core

Workload

Workload type

Virtual machine protection

Repository, data mover, backup server, retention, and WAN sizing by site.

NAS / unstructured data

File proxy, cache, repository, retention, and growth sizing for unstructured data.

Source Data

Share Count File Count

million

Concurrent Sources Data Reduction

Daily Change

Retention

days

Backup Window

hours

Annual Growth

Forecast Horizon

years

Storage-native CFT Immutability Object target

Physical / agent workloads

Proxy, repository, and network sizing for protected Windows and Linux systems.

Machine Count Average Machine Size

Daily Change

Retention

days

Backup Window

hours

Concurrent Proxy Tasks Network Bandwidth

Mbps

Operating System Mix

Replication / CDP

Replica capacity, WAN demand, and CDP sizing against the selected recovery objective.

Source Data

VM Count Daily Change

WAN to DR

Mbps

Target RPO

hours

CDP RPO

seconds

CDP Retention

hours

Measured CDP Write I/O

MB/s

Enable CDP CDP Network Encryption

Run sizing

Calculate capacity, infrastructure requirements, risk indicators, and storage cost.

Advanced

YAML / API input

Developer

Form fields are synchronized to YAML. Switch to Manual YAML to edit the definition directly.

profile: enterprise
workload_type: vm
compliance_framework: none

sites:
  - name: Primary DC
    veeam_input:
      total_data_tb: 200
      annual_growth_percent: 15
      daily_change_percent: 5
      backup_type: synthetic_full_weekly
      primary_retention_days: 30
      gfs_weekly_count: 4
      gfs_monthly_count: 12
      gfs_yearly_count: 3
      backup_window_hours: 8
      target_rpo_hours: 24
      vm_count: 600
      avg_vm_size_gb: 250
      wan_bandwidth_mbps: 1000
      repo_type: sobr
      hypervisor: vmware
      deployment_mode: software_appliance
      proxy_deployment_mode: managed_os
      has_san_access: true
      refs_xfs: true
      immutability_enabled: true
      capacity_tier_enabled: true
      capacity_tier_policy: move
      capacity_tier_operational_restore_days: 7
      concurrent_jobs: 20

- name: Recovery Site
    veeam_input:
      total_data_tb: 120
      annual_growth_percent: 10
      daily_change_percent: 4
      backup_type: synthetic_full_weekly
      primary_retention_days: 21
      gfs_weekly_count: 2
      gfs_monthly_count: 6
      gfs_yearly_count: 0
      backup_window_hours: 10
      target_rpo_hours: 24
      vm_count: 350
      avg_vm_size_gb: 220
      wan_bandwidth_mbps: 500
      repo_type: direct
      hypervisor: vmware
      deployment_mode: software_appliance
      proxy_deployment_mode: managed_os
      has_san_access: false
      refs_xfs: true
      immutability_enabled: true
      concurrent_jobs: 12