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General Storage dsmISI

Veeam Ready - Repository
Alliance Partner:

General Storage

Alliance Product:

dsmISI

Program Category:

Veeam Ready - Repository

Category Description:

Verified backup storage that supports all Veeam backup and restore features.

Article ID:

119

Veeam Product(s):
  • Veeam Backup & Replication 12
Features and Attributes:
  • Backup Target - Disk DAS
  • Backup Target - Disk NFS
Publication date:

2017-01-13

Last modified date:

2023-08-30

This Veeam Ready test was performed with storage having a configuration that includes SSD/Flash.  As such, this classification only applies to similar configurations in which the same amount or more SSD drives are used.  The use of non-SSD drives may negatively impact performance.

Product Details

Model number: dsmISI load balancing software (used together with Dell PowerScale A300)
Storage Category: Scale-out NAS
Drive quantity, size, type: 15 – 4TB SATA HDD, 2 – 1.6TB 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: dsmISI for Veeam version V2.3 (together with Dell PowerScale OneFS 9.5).  Scale out NAS Storage need careful planning around capacity and Veeam IO pattern, please contact the vendors for sizing guidelines and do a POC at large scale.
Connection protocol and speed: Linux Repository -  25 GbE
Additional support: dsmISI is available for all Dell PowerScale  Series

General product family overview: dsmISI for Veeam – accelerated filing of Veeam repository in Dell PowerScale (OneFS Scale-out storage). In principle, dsmISI for Veeam implements dynamic multi pathing, which automatically spreads reads and writes symmetrically across all available network paths and Isilon nodes, guaranteeing maximum throughput for any attached Veeam Repository server. dsmISI for Veeam is installed on the Linux operating system and communicates with Isilon clusters, creates NFS/SMB connections to all nodes and presents them to Veeam Repository as a single, very fast XFS file system, providing support for FastClone and immutability. dsmISI for Veeam automatically detects whenever Isilon nodes fail or when nodes are removed from or added to a cluster. Failovers are executed transparently for Veeam Repository server. Dynamic load balancing at runtime ensures that all nodes of a cluster are being utilized equally. 

Veeam testing configuration:

Veeam build number: 12.0.0.1420 P20230223

Vendor recommended configuration

Vendor Settings:

  • Caching used: SSD
  • Read/write caching: The OneFS L1, L2, and L3 cache are described in the following article

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