Veeam Storage Appliance

The Hyperscalers Veeam Storage Appliance The Hyperscalers Veeam Backup and Recovery solution is holistic inclusive of hardware and software that enables service providers to perform blazingly fast (up to 51GB/s), cons

The Hyperscalers Veeam Storage Appliance

The Hyperscalers Veeam Backup and Recovery solution is holistic inclusive of hardware and software that enables service providers to perform blazingly fast (up to 51GB/s), consistent, and easy to use backups using Veeam. 

Veeam backups can be sent to various storage mediums with single point of control to set up and schedule backup of virtual machines, workstations, and hypervisors. The solution offers storage mediums such as file systems, object, and tape. The solution also offers strategies for ransomware protection, mitigation, and migration. This document focuses on few of these storage features offered by Veeam Backup and recovery aspects of Veeam Data Platform.

Infrastructure Setup

Veeam Backup and Replication software involves minimum of two nodes one for the control and scheduling aspect of the back up and disaggregated storage backend providing storage. We have validated results with the following environment.

FEATURES

Veeam Backup and Replication software features is its flexibility in attaching to the storage backend. Few of the storage options include:

1. Direct Attached Storage 

2. Network attached storage

3. Object storage

Veeam Backup and Replication also integrates with existing VMWare / Hyper-V environment to backup, replicate and migrate virtual machines and other resources. The solution also offers backup of individual workstation, desktops running Windows, Linux, Mac OS.

The following are the results of XFS in RAID 6 with Gen5 server/ drives attached to Veeam as Direct attached storage with varying IO depth and block sizes performed with FIO in the storage node.

Direct attached storage 

This type of storage can be with in the server and/or can be a directory or disk in another server over the network.

Network attached storage. 

This type of storage can be large pool of storage over the network offering File system through a cluster of servers. 

Object storage 

The solution can integrate with any on premise object storage (S3) environment and public cloud storage from leading providers.