26.10 Bandwidth Throttling during Data Transfer

Bandwidth throttling enables you to control the amount of available bandwidth consumed by direct source-to-target communication over the course of a workload migration. Throttling helps to prevent migration traffic from congesting your production network and to reduce the overall load of your PlateSpin Server. You can specify a throughput rate for each migration job. See Bandwidth Throttling.

NOTE:Throttling time is local to the source workload.

26.10.1 Bandwidth Throttling Using Migrate Client

To enable and use bandwidth throttling for data transfer:

  1. In the Jobs view, locate the required job.

  2. In the Network Configuration section of the Migration Job window, view Bandwidth Throttling.

  3. Select the Enable Throttling option, specify the required maximum value in Mbps, and optionally a time period during which to enforce the throttling.

    If no time interval is defined, bandwidth is throttled to the specified rate at all times by default. If time interval is defined and the migration job executes outside this interval, data is transferred at full speed.

  4. Click OK.

26.10.2 Bandwidth Throttling Using Migrate Web Interface

To enable and use bandwidth throttling for data transfer:

  1. On the Edit Migration Details page, go to Schedule Settings > Bandwidth Throttling.

  2. Specify the maximum bandwidth to consume in Mbps as the Throttling Rate.

    A value of Off disables bandwidth throttling.

  3. Specify one of the following throttling patterns:

    • Always: Always throttle data transfer for the replications. No throttling pattern is specified.

    • Custom: Specify the start and end time and days of the week to throttle data transfer for the replications running in that window.

  4. Click Save.