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Hi,
We want to throttle replication bandwidth.
In the Remote Site config in Data Protection, the option is to throttle B/W in MBps.  Is this Mbps (megabits per second) or MB/s (Megabytes per second)?  The unit implies megabytes per second (i.e. the "B" is capitalised), but that is normally a unit of throughput not bandwidth...
Obviously there is an order of magnitude in difference so its important we interpret this correctly!

Hi,
We want to throttle replication bandwidth.
In the Remote Site config in Data Protection, the option is to throttle B/W in MBps.  Is this Mbps (megabits per second) or MB/s (Megabytes per second)?  The unit implies megabytes per second (i.e. the "B" is capitalised), but that is normally a unit of throughput not bandwidth...
Obviously there is an order of magnitude in difference so its important we interpret this correctly!

Hi @AWatkins you will use megabytes here - as bandwidth can be expressed in bytes.

The Network Bandwidth is displayed as MB/sec which is referred to as MegaBytes.

BR

@AWatkins its unit of data replication throughput, so it is Mega “Bytes” per seconds.

As per:

https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/docs/details?targetId=Prism-Element-Data-Protection-Guide-v511:wc-remote-site-wc-t.html

“...you can define a policy that a Nutanix cluster should replicate data from site A to site B at less than 10 MBps between 9 a.m. to 5 p.m ...”. And also as you mentioned the “B” is capital letter.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

 

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