Challenge
Product Information:
Company name: QSAN
Product Family: XCubeSAN
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: XS3200
Drive quantity, size, type: 8 - SSD
Firmware version: 1.2.1
Connection protocol and speed: iSCSI | 10 GbE
General product family overview:
QSAN XCubeSAN XS3200 series is the high performance, simple, secure, scalable, and affordable SAN storage systems for enterprise and SMB. It is an ideal solution to the applications of mission critical data center, virtualization integration, media and entertainment, or large scale surveillance; and also backup and disaster recovery in enterprise, SMB or ROBO (Remote Office/Branch Office) deployments.
Veeam testing configuration:
| Note: The following settings were used by the vendor to meet Veeam Ready testing requirements and should not be considered best practices. Additional changes or settings may be needed to meet the storage efficiency or performance needs for each environment. For each setting, reference links are provided for further clarification. |
Veeam Build Number: 9.5.0.1038
Job Settings:
| Deduplication: | Enabled (Default) |
| Compression: | Optimal (Default) |
| Storage Optimization: | Local Target (Default) |
Repository Settings:
| Repository Type: | Windows |
| Align backup file blocks: | Disabled (Default) |
| Decompress before storing: | Disabled (Default) |
| Per-VM Backup Files: | Disabled (Default) |