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TrueNAS H-Series

Veeam Ready Repository - Primary Target
Alliance Partner:

TrueNAS
Alliance Product:

H-Series
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:

1417
Veeam Product(s):
  • Veeam Backup & Replication 12
  • Veeam Backup & Replication 13
Features and Attributes:
  • Backup Target - Disk SMB
Publication date:

2025-03-13
Last modified date:

2026-04-14
SMB write-through is supported on this platform and was used in the Veeam Ready testing. Continuous availability must be enabled for SMB share at the time of creation as it cannot be configured retrospectively. For more details about continuous availability read more at KB3124

Product Details

Model number: TrueNAS H10, 128 GB with TrueNAS Enterprise 25.10
Storage Category: Hybrid Storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 8 x 3.64 TiB HDD (HUS726T4TAL4201)
Storage configuration: RAID 5, two 4-wide RAID-Z1 vdevs (3 usable + 1 parity & 3 usable + 1 parity)
Software version: TrueNAS Enterprise 25.10.2
Connection protocol and speed: SMB/CIFS, 10 GbE
Additional support: All configurations of TrueNAS H-Series wih TrueNAS Enterprise 25.10.2 with specifications equivalent or greater than the above

General product family overview:
TrueNAS is a unified storage that supports different configurations. The TrueNAS H-Series is a compact, 2U system offering optional dual controllers.


Best practices: https://www.truenas.com/docs/solutions/integrations/veeam/

Veeam Testing Configuration

Veeam Build Number: 13.0.1.180

Vendor recommended configuration

Vendor Settings:

  • Caching used: No
  • Does vendor solution support SMB write-through? Yes
  • How SMB write-through enabled/disabled? Enabled by default
  • Was SMB write-through enabled during the testing? Yes
  • Multipathing / link aggregation used: No
  • Array deduplication used in testing: No
  • Array compression used in testing: Yes
Details on TrueNAS H-Series testing with Veeam Backup & Replication v12
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: TrueNAS H10, 64 GB
Storage Category: Hybrid Storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 

  • 6 x 8TiB SAS HDD (HUH728080AL4200). Arranged in 3 pairs of mirrors. Each pair of mirrors is striped.
  • 1 x 4TiB SAS SSD (iXTPON4DCBD3T8R1). Used for ZFS L2ARC
  • 1 x 2TiB overprovisioned to 16GiB SAS SSD (KPM7VRUG1T92). Used for ZFS SLOG


Storage configuration: The main array is three sets of ZFS mirrors in a strip configuration with SSDs for read/write cache
Firmware version: 24.10
Connection protocol and speed: SMB/CIFS, 10 GbE
Additional support: All configurations of TrueNAS H-Series with specifications equivalent or greater than the above

General product family overview:
TrueNAS is a unified storage that supports different configurations. The TrueNAS H-Series is a compact, 2U system offering optional dual controllers.

Veeam Testing Configuration

Veeam Build Number: 12.2.0.334

Vendor recommended configuration

Vendor Settings:

  • Caching used: Yes
  • Read/write caching: One SSD is used as a secondary ZFS ARC device for read caching. One SSD is used as ZFS SLOG device.
  • Does vendor solution support SMB write-through? Yes
  • How SMB write-through enabled/disabled? Access the Datasets page and select the dataset being used for the SMB share. Select Edit and then modify the Sync setting.
  • Was SMB write-through enabled during the testing? Yes
  • Multipathing / link aggregation used: No
  • Array deduplication used in testing: No
  • Array compression used in testing: Yes

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