Elasticsearch Sizing Guidance

The amount of RAM and the disk spool size that Elasticsearch needed depend on the block size chosen for Veeam. By default, Veeam uses 64KB-1MB block sizes.

Based on block sizes, for example, backing up 1.2TBs consumes 4.2 million objects on Swarm. It means that the default configuration does not use Erasure Coding since it applies to objects greater than 1MB.

The block size can be increased at the expense of a lower data reduction ratio (deduplication and compression) on the Performance Tier. This reduces the RAM and disk spooler size requirements for Elasticsearch.

Ultimately, the choice depends on the customer use case, trading storage deduplication/compression ratio against the capacity footprint of using Erasure Coding on larger objects on the capacity extent.

Refer to the Scaling Elasticsearch for more information on sizing Elasticsearch.