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Qumulo K-Series

Veeam Ready - Repository
Alliance Partner:

Qumulo

Alliance Product:

Qumulo K-Series

Program Category:

Veeam Ready - Repository

Category Description:

Primary backup target solutions that have been qualified as meeting or exceeding both functional and performance tests for backup and restore operations.

Article ID:

203

Veeam Product(s):
  • Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4b
Features and Attributes:
  • Backup Target - Disk SMB
Publication date:

2019-11-12

Last modified date:

2020-11-10

Solution

Product Details:

Model number: K-168T
Storage Category: Hybrid Storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 12 – 14TB SATA HDDs and 3 – 960GB SATA SSDs per node
Storage configuration: 4 node configuration, erasure encoded
Firmware version: Qumulo Core 2.14.0
Connection protocol and speed: SMB – 10GbE
Additional support: All models and configurations of Qumulo K-Series with specifications equivalent or greater than the above. Qumulo K-series includes multiple capacity points (K144T, and K168T) with identical performance requirements.

General product family overview:
The Qumulo K-Series is a 1U Hybrid Flash Appliance. 4 nodes create an initial cluster. Qumulo Core software provides a high performance, scale-out NAS with SMB/NFS/FTP/RESTful protocol interfaces and standard enterprise features.

 

 

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: 9.5.4.2866

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:

  • No array deduplication used in testing
  • No array compression used in testing
Warning about SMB Write-Through
SMB write-through is supported on this platform and was used in the Veeam Ready testing. You must enable the SMB write-through setting on the storage to avoid issues that are described in the following knowledge base entry: KB3124.

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