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VMware vSAN Max

Veeam Ready Repository - Primary Target
Alliance Partner:

VMware by Broadcom
Alliance Product:

vSAN Max
Program Category:

Veeam Ready Repository - Primary Target
Category Description:

Solutions certified as a primary backup target. Passing all compatibility/functional tests, as well as extensive performance tests for both backup and restore operations
Article ID:

1388
Veeam Product(s):
  • Veeam Backup & Replication 12
Features and Attributes:
  • Backup Target - Disk DAS
Publication date:

2025-03-10
Last modified date:

2025-03-10
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.
The vSAN Max solution is intended as a secondary backup storage target.

Product Details

Model number/ Software version: 9.0
Storage Category: Software Defined Storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 

  • 1 x  1.6TB NVMe 
  • 2 x  3.84TB NVMe 

Cluster configuration: 4 node cluster. Each ESXi host has 2 CPU sockets with Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5218, 32 logical processors per CPU and 296 GB Memory.
Storage configuration: vSAN Default Storage Policy
Operating system used in testing: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9
Firmware version: 9.0
Connection protocol and speed: Direct attached storage with 22.5 Gbit/s SAS-4. Network speed between the nodes of the vSAN Max cluster - 25 Gbit/s.
Additional support: All configurations of VMware vSAN Max 9.0 with specifications equivalent or greater than the above

General product family overview:
VMware vSAN Max is an enterprise storage solution that extends traditional vSAN capabilities by disaggregating compute and storage resources across clusters, allowing for independent scaling of each. It enables organizations to create large-scale storage pools of while maintaining the simplicity of hyperconverged infrastructure management. vSAN Max leverages high-speed networking to provide shared storage access across compute clusters, offering improved resource utilization and flexibility compared to traditional vSAN deployments.

Veeam Testing Configuration

Veeam Build Number: 12.2.0.334

Vendor recommended configuration

Vendor Settings:

  • Caching used: Default
  • Networking: MTU=9000
  • Multipathing / link aggregation used: N/A
  • Array deduplication used in testing: Yes
  • Array compression used in testing: Yes

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