Challenge
Product Information:
Company name: Quantum Corporation
Product Family: ActiveScale
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: P100
Storage Category: S3 compatible object storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 72 – 10TB SAS HDD
Storage configuration: ActiveScale is a software defined object store. Each drive is treated as an individual storage unit. Data protection and durability is achieved by erasure encoding objects and storing the “shards” over multiple disks.
Firmware version: 5.5.3
Connection protocol and speed: 6 – 10GbE network interfaces
Additional support: All models and configurations of ActiveScale for S3 compatible storage with specifications equivalent or greater than the above.
General product family overview:
ActiveScale is Quantum’s object storage system that provides a data-forever storage infrastructure. ActiveScale was designed from the ground up as a self-healing, highly scalable, object storage system. The ActiveScale system architecture accommodates storing primary copy of multi-petabyte-scale datasets that are highly durable and facilitates long-term data retention with minimal administrative overhead.
Veeam testing configuration:
Veeam Build Number: 10.0.0.4461 P2
Vendor recommended configuration:
Vendor Settings:
- Factory defaults were used for all testing