WAN Accelerators - User Guide for VMware vSphere
helpcenter.veeam.com › wan_acceleratorsAug 18, 2021 · Technically, WAN accelerators add a new layer in the backup infrastructure — between Veeam Data Movers on the source side and the Veeam Data Mover on the target side. WAN Accelerators Deployment. To enable WAN acceleration and data deduplication technologies, you must deploy a pair of WAN accelerators in your backup infrastructure. One WAN accelerator is deployed on the source site, closer to the source backup repository or source host.
System Requirements - User Guide for VMware vSphere
helpcenter.veeam.com › system_requirementsSource WAN Accelerator requires 20 GB per 1 TB of source data to store digests of data blocks of source VM disks. Disk space consumption is dynamic and changes as unique VMs are added to (or removed from) jobs with WAN Acceleration enabled. Target WAN Accelerator requires global cache size as defined by user (fixed amount). Disk space is reserved immediately upon selecting the WAN Accelerator as a target one in any job.