Performance issues when backing up Hyper-V cluster
Hi,
We have two Server 2008 R2 servers in a Hyper-V cluster, with five VMs stored on iSCSI targets from a NAS device. There are no performance issues on the VMs during normal usage, but when running backups performance becomes very slow, and the backup job itself takes a very long time - the total job is around 2TB to a SAS-connected HP Ultrium 5 tape drive and takes anywhere from 8 to 15 hours. As the business is a 24/7 operation we cannot afford for performance to be this slow for such a long time, so would like advice on improving the backup performance.
Currently one of the Hyper-V hosts is acting as the Acronis Management Server, with the agent deployed to the other host and each of the VMs, and we have a single job to backup the two hosts and each of the VMs in the cluster. Is there a better way of doing this that would improve performance? Remember that the VM storage is on iSCSI targets from a NAS device.
Thanks.

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