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)
General product family overview:
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:
| 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: 9.5.0.1536
Job Settings:
| Deduplication: | Enabled (Default) |
| Compression: | Optimal (Default) |
| Storage Optimization: | LAN Target |
Repository Settings:
| Repository Type: | Shared Folder (CIFS) |
| Align backup file blocks: | Disabled (Default) |
| Decompress before storing: | Disabled (Default) |
| Per-VM Backup Files: | Enabled |
Vendor recommended configuration:
Hardware Settings:
- Read-ahead option for NAS file transfer: 1M