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Dell PowerScale with dsmISI
Alliance Partner: |
Dell Technologies |
Alliance Product: |
PowerScale (formerly 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: |
332 |
Veeam Product(s): |
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Features and Attributes: |
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Publication date: |
2021-08-02 |
Last modified date: |
2021-08-02 |
This Veeam Ready Test was performed with storage having a configuration that includes SSD/Flash. Additionally, this test has been performed by utilizing dsmISI load-balancing solution to optimize performance across multiple PowerScale nodes and mitigate some of the limitations of OneFS filesystem.
As such, this classification only applies to similar configurations in which one or more SSD drives are used and load-balancing implemented. The use of non-SSD drives may negatively impact performance. The lack of load-balancing solution implementation may negatively impact performance and scalability.
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 9.0
Connection protocol and speed: NFS, 10 GbE
Additional support: All models and configurations of Dell PowerScale / Isilon Gen6 with specifications equivalent or greater than the above
General product family overview:
Dell PowerScale 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.
Veeam Testing Configuration
Veeam Build Number: 11.0.0.837 P20210324
Job Settings:
| Deduplication: | Enabled (Default) |
| Compression: | Optimal (Default) |
| Storage Optimization: | Local Target (Default) |
Repository Settings:
| Repository Type: | Linux |
| Align backup file blocks: | Enabled (Default) |
| Decompress before storing: | Disabled (Default) |
| Per-VM Backup Files: | Disabled |
Vendor recommended configuration
Additional Considerations:
Dell Technologies PowerScale 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. By using the dsmISI software load balancer implemented during this test these limitations are alleviated, including file size limitations, block cloning support for fast synthetic processing and space savings.
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