Challenge
Product Information:
Company name: MinIO
Product Family: MinIO
Status: Veeam Ready – Object
Classification Description: Verified object storage solutions that has been tested with Veeam Backup & Replication Cloud Tier features.
| *This Veeam Ready test was performed with storage having a configuration that includes SSD/Flash. As such, this classification only applies to similar configurations in which the same amount or more SSD drives are used. The use of non-SSD drives may negatively impact performance. |
Solution
Product Details:
Model number: 2020-03-05T18:56:39Z
Storage Category: S3 Compatible Object Storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 16 - 450GB NVME, 4 per system in a 4-node system
Storage configuration: JBOD with 4 disk set erasure coding enabled
Connection protocol and speed: 2 X 10Gbps links
Additional support: All models and configurations of MinIO for S3 compatible storage with specifications equivalent or greater than the above.
General product family overview:
MinIO is a high-performance, software defined, S3 compatible object store. MinIO was purpose-built to serve only objects and its single-layer architecture can run in user space and is easily containerized and can be orchestrated using Kubernetes. The software is scalable and offers resilience through inline erasure coding and bitrot protection. The software also contains a number of important security features including encryption for data in flight and at rest, object locking, auditing and identity management.
Veeam testing configuration:
Veeam Build Number: 10.0.0.4461
Vendor recommended configuration:
Vendor Settings:
- Vendor configuration used in testing – Linux version
- Vendor settings - Per object encryption and https enabled
- Multipath used during testing – link aggregation
- Array deduplication used in testing – no
- Array compression used in testing – no