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24 Dell EMC SC Series: Veeam Backup & Replication Integration | 4061-SC-SG
The Statistics tab reveals that the recovery view volume has access to all available tiers and RAID types in
the SC Series page pool. The access is defined in the storage profile attached to the volume. This is where
view volumes achieve performance and scale beyond vPower NFS. However, restoring from a very old
snapshot likely means that frozen storage pages have data progressed down to tier 3 spinning media. While
write I/O is almost always ingested into tier 1 RAID 10, read I/O from tier 3 is not as fast as if it was in tier 1 or
tier 2. This performance degradation is only temporary, and the next step in the recovery process is to migrate
the VM back to its original datastore. This is where all pages would be ingested back into tier 1. This migration
can be carried out with a Storage vMotion, or by Veeam through the Migrate to Production feature. This
feature which will be presented after Instant VM Recovery powers on the VM.