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Quantum ActiveScale Object Storage

Veeam Ready Repository - Archive Target
Alliance Partner:

Quantum Corporation
Alliance Product:

ActiveScale Object Storage
Program Category:

Veeam Ready Repository - Archive Target
Category Description:

Archival object storage-based backup target solutions that are confirmed to be compatible with Veeam Backup & Replication's feature Archive Tier
Article ID:

1766
Veeam Product(s):
  • Veeam Backup & Replication 13
  • Veeam Backup & Replication 12
Features and Attributes:
  • Archive Tier - On-premises
  • Smart Object Storage API
Publication date:

2025-12-18
Last modified date:

2026-06-01
Important: This solution has a delay of up to 10 minutes after a bucket is created before it can be added to Veeam Backup & Replication as an archive target.

Product Details

Software version: Active Scale 7.3
Storage Category:  S3-compatible object storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 36 x 10 TB HDDs (HGST)
Cluster configuration: 3-node cluster with 12 x 10 TB HDDs per node. Each node consists of 16 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU D-1541 @ 2.10GHz, 64 GB memory.
Storage configuration: Erasure coding
Connection speed: 10 GbE
Additional support: Deployments of ActiveScale Object Storage 7.3 for S3 compatible storage on hardware with specifications equivalent or greater than above.  

General product family overview:
Quantum ActiveScale is an object storage software based solution designed for massive data archives and offering storage for both active and cold data.

Veeam Testing Configuration

Veeam Backup & Replication Build Number:  13.0.1.2067

Vendor recommended configuration

Vendor Settings:

  • Caching used: No
  • Array deduplication used in testing: No
  • Array compression used in testing: No
  • Multipathing / link aggregation used: No
Details on Quantum ActiveScale Object Storage testing with Veeam Backup & Replication v12

Product Details

Immutability was tested only with Veeam Backup & Replication v12.
Software version: Active Scale 6.5, Active Scale 7.0
Storage Category:  S3 compatible object storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 36 x 10 TB HDDs
Cluster configuration: 3-node cluster. Each node consists of 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU D-1541 @ 2.10GHz, 64 GB memory, and 12 disks.
Storage configuration: ActiveScale is a software defined object store. Each drive is treated as an individual storage unit. Data protection and durability is achieved by erasure encoding objects and storing the “shards” over multiple  disks.
Connection speed: 10 GbE
Additional support: Deployments of ActiveScale Object Storage 6.5 or 7.0 for S3 compatible storage on hardware with specifications equivalent or greater than above.  

General product family overview:
Quantum ActiveScale is an object storage software based solution designed for massive data archives and offering storage for both active and cold data.

Veeam Testing Configuration

Veeam Testing Configuration for ActiveScale 6.5:

Veeam Backup & Replication Build Number:  12.1.1.56

Veeam Testing Configuration for ActiveScale 7.0:

Veeam Backup & Replication Build Number: 12.1.2.172

Vendor recommended configuration

Vendor Settings:

  • Array deduplication used in testing: No
  • Array compression used in testing: No
  • Multipathing / link aggregation used: No

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