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Exaba Object Storage

Veeam Ready Repository - Capacity Target
Alliance Partner:

Exaba
Alliance Product:

Object Storage
Program Category:

Veeam Ready Repository - Capacity Target
Category Description:

Secondary backup target solutions that support object storage and are confirmed to be compatible with Veeam products’ object storage features and meet or exceed performance tests
Article ID:

1933
Veeam Product(s):
  • Veeam Backup & Replication 13
  • Veeam Backup & Replication 12
  • Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 8
  • Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 13
  • Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 6.0
  • Veeam Agent for Linux 13
  • Veeam Agent for Linux 6.0
  • Veeam Agent for Mac 13
  • Veeam Agent for Mac 2.0
Features and Attributes:
  • Immutability
  • Backup Target - Object
  • Governance
  • Smart Object Storage API
Publication date:

2025-12-15
Last modified date:

2026-02-27
This Veeam Ready test was performed on storage configured with SSD/Flash for metadata. Using non-SSD/Flash storage for metadata may negatively impact performance.

Product Details

Model number: Exaba Object Storage V1.0 
Storage Category: S3-compatible object storage
Drive quantity, size, type:

  • 12 x 24 TB SAS HDD (HPE P68583-K21) per node (Data drives)
  • 2 x 15 TB NVMe (HPE VV015360KXNTP) per node (Metadata drives)

Cluster configuration: 3-node cluster running with 2+1 node resilience. Each node configured with 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6526Y CPU (16 Cores) and 256GB of memory
Storage configuration: Erasure coding. 
15+9 data erasure disaggregated across the cluster with 2 NVMes per node for disaggregated metadata resilience and write ingest cache.
Software version: Exaba Object Storage V1.0 (build 27e6e63)
Connection speed: 10 GbE
SOSAPI features (only supported by Veeam Backup & Replication): CapacityInfo
Additional support: Deployments of Exaba Object Storage v 1.0 for S3 compatible storage on hardware with specifications equivalent or greater than above.    

General product family overview:
Exaba is a software-defined, S3-compatible object storage platform designed as a high-performance backup target for Veeam. Exaba supports S3 Object Lock for immutable backup repositories. 

Veeam Testing Configuration

Veeam Build Number: 13.0.1.180

Vendor recommended configuration

Vendor Settings:

  • Array deduplication used in testing: No
  • Array compression used in testing: No
  • Multipathing / link aggregation used: No
Details on Exaba Object Storage testing with Veeam Backup & Replication v12
Please note: Smart Object Storage API was tested only with Veeam Backup & Replication v13.

Product Details

Model number: Exaba Object Storage V1.0
Storage Category: S3-compatible object storage
Drive quantity, size, type:

  • 12 x 24 TB SAS HDD (HPE P68583-K21) per node (Data drives)
  • 2 x 15 TB NVMe (HPE VV015360KXNTP) per node (Meta drives)

Cluster configuration: 3-node cluster running with 2+1 node resilience. Each node configured with 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6526Y CPU (16 Cores) and 256GB of memory
Storage configuration: Erasure coding. 
15+9 data erasure disaggregated across the cluster with 2 NVMes per node for disaggregated metadata resilience and write ingest cache.
Software version: Exaba Object Storage V1.0 (build f20ae6f)
Connection speed: 10 GbE
Additional support: Deployments of Exaba Object Storage v 1.0 for S3 compatible storage on hardware with specifications equivalent or greater than above.    

General product family overview:
Exaba is a software-defined, S3-compatible object storage platform designed as a high-performance backup target for Veeam. Exaba supports S3 Object Lock for immutable backup repositories. 

Veeam Testing Configuration

Veeam Build Number: 12.3.2.3617

Vendor recommended configuration

Vendor Settings:

  • Networking: 10 GbE
  • Array deduplication used in testing: No
  • Array compression used in testing: No
  • Multipathing / link aggregation used: No

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