Review baseline performance tests
In the Aux Copy operation, four Commvault MediaAgents backed up data to a NetApp AFF A300 system and an auxiliary copy was created on NetApp StorageGRID.
The tests were performed with 100 VMs and 1000 VMs, both tests with a 50/50 mix of Windows and CentOS VMs. The following table shows the results from our baseline performance tests:
| Operation | Backup Speed | Restore Speed |
|---|---|---|
Aux Copy |
2 TB/hour |
1.27 TB/hour |
Direct to and from object (Deduplication On) |
2.2 TB/hour |
1.22 TB/hour |
To test age-off performance, 2.5 million objects were deleted. As shown in Figures 2 and 3, the delete run was completed in less than 3 hours and freed up more than 80TB of space. The delete run started at 10:30 AM.
Figure 1: Deletion of 2.5 million (80TB) objects in less than 3 hours.

Figure 2: Freeing up 80TB of storage in less than 3 hours.
