Challenge

4/26/2016 4:48:52 AM   4004  INFO                    Connecting to mssql, connection string: Provider='sqloledb';Data Source='(local)\SQL2012SP1';Integrated Security='SSPI';Persist Security Info=False, timeout: 15
4/26/2016 4:49:08 AM   4004  WARN                                      Code = 0x80004005
4/26/2016 4:49:08 AM   4004  WARN                                      Code meaning = Unspecified error
4/26/2016 4:49:08 AM   4004  WARN                                      Source = Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server
4/26/2016 4:49:08 AM   4004  WARN                                      Description = [DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen (SECCreateCredentials()).]SSL Security error.
4/26/2016 4:49:08 AM   4004  WARN                        COM error:  Code: 0x80004005

Cause

Solution

Challenge

• Backup to certain tape libraries fails with error 1117. Restore from encrypted tapes fails if a tape library has its hardware encryption setting is set to "Application managed" (data stored on tapes is however consistent, so the restore can be performed successfully once the hotfix is deployed). For more information and to download the hotfix, see KB2981

Cause

Solution

• Microsoft Windows 10 May 2019 Update and Microsoft Windows Server version 1903 support as guest VMs, and for the installation of Veeam Backup & Replication and its components.
• Microsoft Windows 10 May 2019 Update and Microsoft Windows Server version 1903 support by the Veeam Agent for Windows 3.0.2 (included in the update).
• Linux Kernel version 5.0 support by the updated Veeam Agent for Linux 3.0.2 (included in the update).
• Ubuntu 19.04, SLES 15 SP1, RHEL 8 and openSUSE Leap 15.1 distributions support in the Veeam Backup & Replication agent management functionality.
• VMware vCloud Director 9.7 compatibility at the existing Update 4 feature level.
• VMware vSphere 6.5 U3 readiness based on the pre-release build. The official support will still require the full regression testing performed on the generally available (GA) build. UPDATE: vSphere 6.5 U3 GA is officially supported with Update 4b.
• VMware vSphere 6.7 U3 readiness based on the pre-release build. The official support will still require the full regression testing performed on the generally available (GA) build. UPDATE: vSphere 6.7 U3 GA is officially supported with Update 4b.

• Oracle 19c on Linux support for RMAN-based and OCI-based application-aware processing, redo log backup and Veeam Explorer for Oracle in most configurations. Due to the recent availability of Oracle 19c, testing of DataGuard and RAC configurations is still being performed. This record will be updated with further information and the official support statement based on results.
• Oracle 19c on Windows support for RMAN-based and OCI-based application-aware processing, redo log backup and Veeam Explorer for Oracle in basic configurations only. Due to the most recent availability of Oracle 19c for Windows, testing of advanced configurations (DataGuard, RAC, ASM, Pluggable DB, flashback, virtual accounts) is still to be performed. This record will be updated with further information and the official support statement based on results. UPDATE: ASM, Pluggable DB, flashback and virtual accounts are officially supported with Update 4b.

• Veeam Backup & Replication will now periodically update the list of supported Amazon AWS regions from the Veeam update server. The list will be updated as Veeam QC validates compatibility with the newly added Amazon region. This functionality requires that you opt in for automatic product update check via the existing Check for product and hypervisor updates periodically check box in the Notification settings.

• Dell EMC Unity OE version 4.5 support.
• The proprietary NFS client has been updated for compatibility with the Western Digital IntelliFlash (formerly Tegile) Universal Storage API plug-in. The plug-in will be made generally available along with the Update 4b release.

• Tape virtual full backup reliability and performance, tape drive detection logic, WORM media support and NDMP backup reliability.
• Agent-based backup jobs may create unnecessary full backups under certain circumstances, or fail in the environments with very long backup repository paths.
• Scale-out backup repository race condition causes synthetic backup operations to dead lock when a very powerful backup proxy server is used.
• PowerShell Direct calls may hang under certain circumstances in the application-aware processing logic of Hyper-V backup.
• Veeam Agent for Windows: CBT driver block map reset issue; inability to failover to backup cache when it is hosted on a USB storage; inability to open a support case from the product UI under a restricted user account; improved command line tool for the Recovery Media creation.
• Veeam Agent for Linux: Dell servers with NUMA enabled may crash during the snapshot creation; intermittent backup jobs failures when processing XFS volumes; entire computer backup failure on Ubuntu 18.04 with Intel Software RAID; enhanced encrypted devices compatibility through redesigned device enumerator; CLI improvements for backup scope specification.
• NetApp ONTAP Snapvault retention processing in 7-mode clusters.
• Performance and resource usage optimizations in a number of backup infrastructure components.

More Information

If you have 9.5 Update 4 installed (RTM build 9.5.4.2399, GA build 9.5.4.2615, or Update 4a build 9.5.4.2753), you can upgrade to Update 4b using the following update package:

[[DOWNLOAD|DOWNLOAD UPDATE|https://www.veeam.com/download_add_packs/vmware-esx-backup/update4b_exe/]]
MD5: 5b75cb6da06b656c18b7ba782109273d
SHA1: a80968efe6d265dd4494ff1854a0132092c5a0fa

For new installations and upgrades from the previous versions, use the 9.5 Update 4b ISO image:

[[DOWNLOAD|DOWNLOAD ISO|https://www.veeam.com/download_add_packs/vmware-esx-backup/update4b_iso/]]
MD5: 9bd7f50c393bf368f42d6bd58dd9d3c1
SHA1: 24e230f19244d64d23db2b3660ebbc991835076f

Should you have any questions at all, please contact Veeam Support and we'll be happy to assist you with the upgrade.

Challenge

Cause

Solution

More Information

• VMware Cloud on AWS and Veeam - VMware KB
• VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC 1.6 - VMware Compatibility Guide Listing
• VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC 1.5 - VMware Compatibility Guide Listing
• VMware vSAN and Veeam - VMware KB
• VMware vSAN 6.7 U1 - VMware Compatibility Guide Listing
• VMware vSAN 6.0-6.5 - VMware Compatibility Guide Listing

Challenge

Cause

The full list of ESXi/ESX hosts and compatible VM hardware versions is available in this VMware KB article.

Solution

• Downgrade the version of the original VM hardware. For details, see this VMware KB article;
• Upgrade the target host.

Challenge

When accessing backup files on a CIFS (SMB) repository, Veeam Backup and Replication reports either of the following errors:

The specified network name is no longer available. (code 59, 0x8007003B)

An unexpected network error occurred. (code 64, 0x80070040)

Veeam Backup & Replication uses SMB connections for backup repositories, guest processing, and when first adding a Windows server to the Backup Infrastructure. This KB only addresses error messages that occur in the context of a backup file path, such as:

The specified network name is no longer available. Failed to read data from the file [\\10.0.0.81\backups\SQL VM New\SQL VM New2015-09-23T200441.vbk].

Note: If the failure is occurring in a tape job and no UNC path is specified in the error message, please contact Veeam Support.

Cause

These error messages are passed directly from Microsoft Windows, and indicate that some unknown problem led to a sudden failure of the connection between the repository gateway (acting as Server Message Block client) and the SMB server (typically a NAS appliance).

There are many possible reasons the SMB connection might fail: 

• Network issues are a common reason, constituting a potentially unlimited variety of hardware failure or network hardware configuration problems; such issues may or may not involve packet loss.
• Simple firewalls may block a connection consistently, while advanced firewalls might destroy an existing connection seemingly at random or under very specific conditions.
• Either client or server might close the connection due to one of a number of timeouts or retry limits either at the SMB protocol layer or the underlying TCP layer; such limits are often encountered due to network congestion or excessive load on the storage.
• The NAS may stop responding entirely due to hardware or software issues; it may in some cases be misconfigured. Appliances using post-process deduplication may stop responding if the process starts prematurely.
• In specific circumstances, various GPO security policies might limit the connection, for instance - Microsoft network client: Digitally sign communications. Make sure that source and target hosts are able to communicate using this policy, otherwise, in case of any network failures, consider this to disable. More QoS policies can be enabled on SMB client or target, creating unreasonably low bandwidth.

Solution

Common Workarounds

• If the repository share is located on a Windows server, try creating a Windows repository on that server instead of a CIFS (SMB) repository.
• Reboot both the SMB client machine (repository gateway) and the SMB server (NAS).
• If other storage is available, try writing the backup to the other storage as both verification of the problem and as a temporary workaround.
• Consider reconfiguring the NAS as iSCSI or an NFS mount on a separate Linux repository server, depending on what is supported by the NAS. This change may involve data loss. iSCSI usually offers the best performance.
• Writing backup files to SMB shares over a slow or unreliable network, such as a WAN connection, is not recommended. Deploy a gateway server with a fast (Ethernet 100Mbps+) connection to the share. 
• To rule out interference from a firewall, temporarily disable any software firewalls (including certain antivirus products) on the SMB client or server, as well as any hardware firewalls between them.

Registry Settings

These registry values must be created on the the SMB gateway, which is specified in the repository settings as “Gateway server”. If the gateway is set to “automatic”, add these registry values to all Windows servers managed by Veeam Backup & Replication.

• NetUseShareAccess
  For Veeam B&R 8.0.0.917 or later, the following registry value allows Data Movers to open backup files by a resilient method similar to the Windows net use command.
   

  Key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication\
  DWORD: NetUseShareAccess
  Value: 1
   

  Note: If credentials are required, specify Domain\User or Host\User in the repository settings. .\User credentials are not supported with NetUseShareAccess. For example, specify “NAS-01\Admin” instead of “.\Admin”.
   
• SessTimeout
  This increases the amount of time the Windows SMB client will wait for a response from an SMB server before it aborts the connection. The default timeout is one minute.
  Note: Reboot Required
   

  Key: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters\
  DWORD: SessTimeout
  Value: 600
   

  Note: This is a value in seconds. Try a value of 600 decimal (10 minutes).
   
• TcpMaxDataRetransmissions
  This increases the number of times the Windows TCP implementation will retransmit a data segment before it aborts the connection.
  Note: Reboot Required
   

  Key: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
  DWORD: TcpMaxDataRetransmissions
  Value: 10 (Default: 5)

Additional Troubleshooting

• Open the repository settings and enable Limit combined data rate. If you can measure the existing data rate, start with a limit between 50% and 70% of that value to verify that reducing throughput prevents the error. If the network is still congested after limiting the repository data rate, and the source of the congestion is due to other Veeam processes, enable throttling for the relevant connections. 
• Change the gateway server in the repository settings to test whether particular routes to the share perform better than others. For example, if connections from any Windows server on an ESXi host tend to fail, but connections from a physical Windows machine do not fail, the root cause probably involves that ESXi host or its network connection. 
• If the SMB connection consistently fails after 10 hours, it may be due to expiration of a Kerberos service ticket. The most reliable workaround is to create non-domain credentials on the NAS, then specify those credentials in the repository settings. For more information and other possible workarounds, see this SAMBA mailing list discussion and the Authentication Expiration Timer heading in this MSDN blog post.

Challenge

This KB article provides a list of all versions and respective build numbers for the following products:

• Veeam Agent for Windows
• Veeam Agent for Linux
• Veeam Endpoint Backup

Solution

Veeam Agent for Windows

Veeam Agent for Linux

Veeam Endpoint Backup

Challenge

Product Information:

Company name: Panzura, Inc.
Product Family: Freedom NAS
Status: Veeam Ready - Repository*
Classification Description: Verified backup storage that supports all Veeam backup and restore features.

Solution

Product Details:

Model number: 5500
Storage Category: Cloud-out NAS Storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 12 - 800GB, SAS SSD
Storage configuration: RAID50 via automatic software configuration
Firmware version: 7.0.2.5
Connection protocol and speed: SMB, 2 x 10GbE
Additional support: All models and configurations of Freedom NAS with specifications equivalent or greater than the above

Panzura FreedomTM is an intelligent hybrid cloud storage solution underpinned by Panzura CloudFS. Panzura CloudFS is a scale-out, distributed file system purpose-built for the cloud. Programmatically accessible through REST APIs, it utilizes high performance flash in the data center, and integrates the cloud for economics, scalability, and durability. Unlike NAS, it scales globally across multiple sites and multiple clouds.

Veeam testing configuration:

Veeam Build Number: 9.5.0.1536

Job Settings:

Repository Settings:

Vendor recommended configuration:

Hardware Settings: The default configuration enables auto-tuning for all Panzura settings, which work well with the Veeam application. The caching policy should be set to pinned (as opposed to autotune) to ensure the administrator controls which backup sets are available locally. All Veeam backup data must be pinned locally to ensure fast restores and effective data operations within Veeam, without cloud reads.

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Challenge

Product Information:

Company name: Fujitsu (Fujitsu Technology Solutions)
Product Family: ETERNUS CS
Status: Veeam Ready - Repository
Classification Description: Verified backup storage that supports all Veeam backup and restore features.

Solution

Product Details:

Model number: CS8000 V7.1
Storage Category: RAID Storage Array
Drive quantity, size, type: 24 – 960GB SSD 2.5” drives
Storage configuration: RAID5
Firmware version: V7.1A2140-SP00
Connection protocol and speed: CIFS 10GbE
Additional support: All models and configurations of ETERNUS CS8000 with specifications equivalent or greater than the above

Veeam testing configuration:

Veeam Build Number: 9.5.4.2615

Job Settings:

Repository Settings:

Vendor recommended configuration:

Hardware Settings:

• No array deduplication used in testing
• No array compression used in testing
• Jumbo frames used in testing (MTU=9000)

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Challenge

Product Information:

Company name: Fujitsu
Product Family: ETERNUS CS
Status: Veeam Ready - Repository
Classification Description: Verified backup storage that supports all Veeam backup and restore features.

Solution

Product Details:

Model number: CS8000
Drive quantity, size, type: 10 - SAS HDD
Firmware version: V6.1A7120-SP03
General product family overview:

ETERNUS CS8000 is a datacenter solution for backup storage for mainframe and open systems. Its intelligent process automation and pooling of storage capacity reduces the TCO for complex backup environments by 40%. Unique scalability in capacity and performance makes ETERNUS CS8000 a viable solution, delivering ongoing cost savings.

Veeam testing configuration:

Veeam Build Number: 9.5.x

Job Settings:

Repository Settings:

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Challenge

Product Information:

Company name: Adistec
Product Family: Data Protection Appliance Series
Status: Veeam Ready - Repository
Classification Description: Verified backup storage that supports all Veeam backup and restore features.

Solution

Product Details:

Model number: DPA M (M24)
Storage Category: Integrated Data Protection Appliance
Drive quantity, size, type: 4, 8TB, SAS HDD | (32TB total)
Storage configuration: RAID5 configured HDDs (12Gbps SAS) with read/write cache
Firmware version: V2
Connection protocol and speed: 10GbE ISCSI
Additional support: All models and configurations of DPA M with specifications equivalent or greater than the above: M, L & XL

Adistec Data Protection Appliances for VEEAM combine: customized Intel hardware platform, Veeam Availability Suite software, and Adistec Enterprise Cloud services resulting in a robust solution to protect your customer’s data supported by Adistec Total Support and Veeam. Simplify the Backup Storage’s infrastructure, eliminate complexity and maximize data availability and protection with this turnkey solution at an affordable price. Three models available in one and two RUs, with single Quad-Core or dual Octa-Core processors configuration. Starting with four 3.5” disks up to twelve, getting 16TB to 120TB of usable capacity.

Veeam testing configuration:

Veeam Build Number: 9.5.0.1536

Job Settings:

Repository Settings:

Vendor recommended configuration:

Hardware Settings:

• HDD – 1GB read cache on RAID controller, write back policy using backup battery
• Jumbo Frames used during testing (9000 MTU)
• Multipathing using Windows Server NIC teaming

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Challenge

Product Information:

Company name: Hedvig Inc.
Product Family: Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform
Status: Veeam Ready - Repository
Classification Description: Verified backup storage that supports all Veeam backup and restore features.

Solution

Product Details:

Model number: Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform
Drive quantity, size, type: 1x 300GB SSD | 15x 1TB HDD (x3 Nodes)
Firmware version: 3.7.2
Connection protocol and speed: iSCSI, 10GbE
Additional support: All configurations of Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform with specifications equivalent or greater than the above

Hedvig provides multi-site software-defined storage for primary and secondary applications for private-, multi-, and hybrid-cloud deployments. Unique capabilities like replication policy, deduplication, compression, and encryption can be enabled per application. This programmable platform can scale from 10’s of TB to multi-PB with no practical limit.

Veeam testing configuration:

Veeam Build Number: 9.5.0.711

Job Settings:

Repository Settings:

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Challenge

Product Information:

Company name: Hitachi Data Systems
Product Family: Hitachi Content Platform (HCP)
Status: Veeam Ready – Archive
Classification Description: Verified disk archive storage that can be used as a Backup Copy target. Synthetic full backups, granular restores, and vPower features may not provide sufficient performance or be supported.

Solution

Product Details:

Model number: Hitachi Data Ingestor
Drive quantity, size, type: 48 - 10K SAS HDD
Firmware version: 6.1
Additional support: Migration from Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) to HDI is factored into certification results.

Hitachi Data Ingestor (HDI) is a distributed object store that provides advanced storage and data management capabilities. This helps you address challenges posed by ever-growing volumes of unstructured data. HDI supports CIFS/NFS.

Veeam testing configuration:

Veeam Build Number: 9.5

Job Settings:

Repository Settings:

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Challenge

Product Information:

Company name: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Product Family: Huawei OceanStor
Status: Veeam Ready - Repository
Classification Description: Verified backup storage that supports all Veeam backup and restore features.

Solution

Product Details:

Model number: Huawei OceanStor V5 Converged StorageSystem
Drive quantity, size, type: 25 - 600GB SAS
Firmware version: V5
General product family overview:

Huawei OceanStor V5 Converged Storage provides Cloud architecture-oriented operating system, high-performance hardware platform, and a complete suite of smart management software. Convergence of file, flash, backup, high-, mid, and low-end storage, and third-party storage – allocate the resources you need, when you need them. Leading active-active integrated SAN and NAS solution, ensuring business continuity for customers.

Veeam testing configuration:

Veeam Build Number: 9.5

Job Settings:

Repository Settings:

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Challenge

Product Information:

Company name: Infortrend Technology, Inc.
Product Family: EonStor GS
Status: Veeam Ready - Repository
Classification Description: Verified backup storage that supports all Veeam backup and restore features.

Solution

Product Details:

Model number: GS 1000 Gen 2 - GS1016R2C0F0D-0032
Storage Category: Hybrid RAID Storage Array (SAN/NAS)
Drive quantity, size, type: 16, NL-SAS, 10TB
Storage configuration: RAID5 configured storage pool with 8GB controller cache (12Gb/s SAS connectivity)
Firmware version: 133H02
Connection protocol and speed: 1x10 GbE (SMB)
Additional support: All models and configurations of EonStor GS with specifications equivalent or greater than the above. This includes:

• EonStor GS 1000 Series (1012, 1016, 1024, 1024B)
• EonStor GS 2000 Series (2012, 2016, 2024, 2024B)
• EonStor GS 3000 Series (3012, 3016, 3024, 3024B, 3025B, 3060)
• EonStor GS 4000 Series (4016, 4024B)
• EonStor GS 5000 Series (5100, 5200)

EonStor GS is a high availability solution exclusively designed for enterprises, integrating SAN and NAS services to offer enterprises a powerful storage environment. Its complete product line features a hardware design of multiple form factors, flexible host boards to choose from, and stable, reliable modular design with high expandability. As for software, it comes with complete data services and simple, intuitive management interfaces. It is ideal for the common NAS and SAN infrastructures and enterprise applications.

Veeam testing configuration:

Veeam Build Number: 9.5.0.1536

Job Settings:

Repository Settings:

Vendor recommended configuration:

Hardware Settings:

• Read-ahead option for NAS file transfer: 1M

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Challenge

Product Information:

Company name: Nexenta
Product Family: NexentaStor
Status: Veeam Ready - Repository
Classification Description: Verified backup storage that supports all Veeam backup and restore features.

Solution

Product Details:

Model number: NexentaStor
Drive quantity, size, type: 24 - SAS HDD
Firmware version: 5.1
Additional support: Any NexentaStor with the listed firmware, including an equal or greater quantity of disk drives

NexentaStor delivers unified file (NFS and SMB) and block (FC and iSCSI) storage services, runs on industry standard hardware supporting all-flash, hybrid, and all-disk scaling from tens of terabytes to petabyte configurations, and includes all data management functionality by default through an easy to deploy and use graphical user interface.

Veeam testing configuration:

Veeam Build Number: 9.5

Job Settings:

Repository Settings:

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Challenge

Product Information:

Company name: Quest Software, Inc.
Product Family: QoreStor
Status: Veeam Ready – Archive
Classification Description: Verified disk archive storage that can be used as a Backup Copy target. Synthetic full backups, granular restores, and vPower features may not provide sufficient performance or be supported.

Solution

Product Details:

Model number: ADISTEC-M
Storage Category: Software Defined Secondary Storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 6 – 3.49TB SAS SSD
Storage configuration: RAID5
Firmware version: V5.1.0 Build 377
Connection protocol and speed: CIFS, 10 GbE x 2 Bonded ALB
Additional support: All models and configurations of QoreStor ADISTEC-M with specifications equivalent or greater than the above

Veeam testing configuration:

Veeam Build Number: 9.5.4.2753

Job Settings:

Repository Settings:

Vendor recommended configuration:

Hardware Settings:

• Jumbo frames used on network configuration for testing (MTU=9000)
• Array deduplication used during testing – yes
• Array compression used during testing – yes

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Challenge

Product Information:

Company name: Quest Software, Inc.
Product Family: QoreStor
Status: Veeam Ready - Repository*
Classification Description: Verified backup storage that supports all Veeam backup and restore features.

Solution

Product Details:

Model number: QoreStor – CIFS / RDCIFS (v4.0.3101.1)
Storage Category: Software Defined Secondary Storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 22 – 1.92TB SAS SSD (data) | 2- 400GB SAS SSD (OS)
Storage configuration: RAID6 (20+2) for storage target, RAID1 for OS
Firmware version: V5.0.1 Build 177
Connection protocol and speed: CIFS, 10 GbE x 2 Bonded ALB
Additional support: All models and configurations of QoreStor with specifications equivalent or greater than the above

Quest QoreStor is a software-defined storage platform designed for any IT organization looking to accelerate backup performance, reduce storage costs and leverage the cloud for disaster recovery, archiving and business continuity. QoreStor is the evolution of Quest's proven DR Appliance deduplication and replication technology, adopted globally across 1000’s of users of all sizes from all industry verticals.

QoreStor is installable on a single physical node, a VM on any hypervisor or deployed in any public cloud. QoreStor can scale-out to meet the capacity and performance demands of modern hybrid IT data centers supporting direct-to cloud backup as well as cross-instance replication.

QoreStor Rapid Data Access (RDA) drivers, installable on Veeam backup servers and Veeam backup proxies, with support for Windows and Linux enable source side deduplication, encryption and WAN resiliency. RDA is part of the all-inclusive QoreStor license and is critical to a high performing Veeam QoreStor Repository implementation.

Veeam testing configuration:

Veeam Build Number: 9.5.0.1922

Job Settings:

Repository Settings:

Vendor recommended configuration:

Hardware Settings:

• Jumbo frames used on network configuration for testing (MTU=9000)
• Array deduplication used during testing – yes
• Array compression used during testing – yes

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Challenge

Product Information:

Company name: Quest Software, Inc.
Product Family: QoreStor
Status: Veeam Ready - Repository
Classification Description: Verified backup storage that supports all Veeam backup and restore features.

Solution

Product Details:

Model number: DELL OEM R340p
Storage Category: Software Defined Storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 8 – 1.745TB SATA SSD
Storage configuration: RAID5
Firmware version: V5.1.0 Build 377
Connection protocol and speed: SMB, 2-10GbE bonded LACP
Additional support: All models and configurations of QoreStor 5.1 on hardware platforms with specifications equivalent or greater than the above

Veeam testing configuration:

Veeam Build Number: 9.5.4.2753

Job Settings:

Repository Settings:

Vendor recommended configuration:

Hardware Settings:

• array deduplication used in testing
• array compression used in testing
• Jumbo frames used in testing (MTU=9000)

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Challenge

Product Information:

Company name: Scality
Product Family: Scality RING
Status: Veeam Ready – Object
Classification Description: Verified object storage solutions that has been tested with Veeam Backup & Replication Cloud Tier features.

Solution

Product Details:

Model number: Scality RING
Storage Category: Web-scale Software Defined Storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 156x 6TB NL-SAS, 12x 400GB SSD
Storage configuration: ARC 9+3
Firmware version: 7.4.2
Connection protocol and speed: 40GbE
Additional support: All models and configurations of Scality RING for S3 compatible storage with specifications equivalent or greater than the above.

General product family overview:
The Scality RING is software that turns any standard x86 servers into web-scale storage. With the RING, you can store any amount of data, of any type, with incredible efficiency and 100% reliability, guaranteed—all while reducing costs by as much as 90% over legacy systems.

Veeam testing configuration:

Veeam Build Number: 9.5.4.2753

Vendor recommended configuration:

Vendor Settings:

• Jumbo frames used during testing
• Storage Servers used in testing:6x Cisco UCS S3260 M4 Dual Node, 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v4@ 2.20GHz, 128GB RAM

Challenge

Product Information:

Company name: Scality Ring
Product Family: 
Status: Veeam Ready – Archive
Classification Description: Verified disk archive storage that can be used as a Backup Copy target. Synthetic full backups, granular restores, and vPower features may not provide sufficient performance or be supported.

Solution

Product Details:

Model number: Scality Ring
Storage Category: Scale-out File and Object Storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 72 – 1TB 7200 RPM HDD, 6 – 500GB SSD
Storage configuration: ARC 9+3
Firmware version: 7.4.0.0
Connection protocol and speed: CIFS - 10GbE
Additional support: All models and configurations of Scality Ring with specifications equivalent or greater than the above.

The Scality RING is software that turns any standard x86 servers into web-scale storage. With the RING, you can store any amount of data, of any type, with incredible efficiency and 100% reliability, guaranteed—all while reducing costs by as much as 90% over legacy systems.

Veeam testing configuration:

Veeam Build Number: 9.5.0.1536

Job Settings:

Repository Settings:

Veeam recommended Backup Copy Job Configuration:

• Only full backup copy jobs are recommended to archive data to Scality
  "Read the entire restore point from source backup instead of synthesizing it from increments"

Vendor recommended configuration:

Hardware configuration used

• Storage Servers : 6x HPE Apollo 4530 Chassis, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz, 128GB RAM
• Connector Server : 1x VM, 8x vCPU Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz, 32GB RAM

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