Challenge
Product Information:
Company name: NetApp
Product Family: StorageGrid
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: SG5760
Storage Category: Webscale Object Storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 240 x 4TB NS-SAS drives
Storage configuration: 4x SG5760s each with 60x4TB NL-SAS drives, configured using dynamic disk pools (8+2)
Firmware version: 11.1.1.3-20181130.1854.43f37b8
Connection protocol and speed: 10GbE
Additional support: All models and configurations of StorageGrid for S3 compatible storage with specifications equivalent or greater than the above.
General product family overview:
NetApp StorageGRID Webscale (SGWS) is an Object Storage platform which is flexible and highly scalable while supporting multiple RESTful APIs for storing and managing data. Efficient, Durable, and Flexible. Drive cost savings without sacrificing durability with NetApp StorageGRID Webscale’s hierarchical erasure coding. Protecting at the node level and with geo-distributed coding, customers can create policy-driven data protection with multiple levels of granularity. They can choose a combination of full copies and/or geo-distributed coded copies to balance performance needs and cost savings between different sets of data or during the object’s lifecycle.
Veeam testing configuration:
Veeam Build Number: 9.5.4.2399
Vendor recommended configuration:
Vendor Settings:
- For data protection, used default 2-copy rule