ABR11 Virtual Edition and Dell PowerVault MD3200 VSS
While researching the very slow performance of our backups I ran into some article that was talking about the VSS provider used by ABR11. I had it set to system default which I'm guessing contributed to the slowness. I also noticed that when backups were running the Hyper-V CSV began to shrink at a constant rate in a 1:1 ratio with the backup that was being created.
Over the weekend I updated the firmware of MD3200 controllers and NVRAM and had set the cache size to 16KB. I think it helped a bit, but I can't be 100% sure. As part of the firmware upgrades I had to upgrade the management software too which installed and updated version of the VSS provider.
Now, I've set the VSS provider inside of Acronis to Hardware/Software Automatic and I'm making the assumption that once the backup process starts it will use the MD3200 VSS provider. Is that true? If so, can I expect to see a performance improvement?
Thanks,
Alex

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