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Dell Isilon
Alliance Partner: |
Dell Technologies |
Alliance Product: |
Isilon |
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: |
256 |
Veeam Product(s): |
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Features and Attributes: |
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Publication date: |
2021-03-24 |
Last modified date: |
2021-03-24 |
Product Details
Model number: A200
Storage Category: Scale-out NAS
Drive quantity, size, type: 15 – 1TB SATA HDD, 2 – 400GB SSD (per node)
Storage configuration: Default +2d:1n protection was used (OneFS erasure coding protection level that protects against two drive failures or one node failure)
Firmware version: OneFS 8.2
Connection protocol and speed: SMB 10 GbE
Additional support: All models and configurations of Dell Isilon with specifications equivalent or greater than the above
General product family overview:
Dell Isilon is a scale-out NAS that supports 3 to 252 nodes in a cluster. Files are automatically distributed, balanced, and protected across the cluster and all files are accessible from all nodes. Connectivity options include SMB, NFS with 10/25/40/100GbE
Veeam testing configuration
Veeam Build Number: 10.0.1.4854
Job Settings:
| Deduplication: | Enabled (Default) |
| Compression: | Optimal (Default) |
| Storage Optimization: | Local target (large blocks) |
Repository Settings:
| Repository Type: | SMB Shared Folder |
| Align backup file blocks: | Disabled (Default) |
| Decompress before storing: | Disabled (Default) |
| Per-VM Backup Files: | Enabled |
Vendor recommended configuration
Vendor Settings:
- Vendor recommendation - Disable the write coalescer on the share directory and all sub-directories used by Veeam.
Additional Considerations:
- Dell Technologies Isilon has a default maximum file size limitation of 4TiB. OneFS 8.2.2 or later has the option to increase the maximum file size limitation to 16TiB. Active Full + Incremental processing is advised.
- Veeam Scale Out Backup Repository can distribute the load across the Isilon cluster via multiple Backup Repository Extents each defined to use a different cluster node DNS A record and path. When backups exceed the maximum file size limitation even with Veeam deduplication and compression, other considerations should be made.
- A software load balancer can mitigate these limitations as well, including file size limitations, adding block cloning for fast synthetic processing and to save space (ex. KB2221).
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