IBM Storage Ceph
Alliance Partner: |
IBM |
Alliance Product: |
Storage Ceph |
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: |
2006 |
Veeam Product(s): |
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Features and Attributes: |
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Publication date: |
2026-01-22 |
Last modified date: |
2026-01-22 |
Product Details
Model/version number: IBM Storage Ceph 8.1 Software Defined Storage
Storage Category: S3-compatible object storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 12 x 1.2TB 2.5” HDD SAS drives.
The underlying Physical disks are HDD SAS 1.2TB, 10,000 RPM, 2.5-inch under a FUJITSU PRAID EP540i controller configured in RAID 10
Cluster configuration: 4 nodes, 3 disks per node - 1TB size. Each node is configured with 2 sockets of Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5115 CPU @ 2.40GHz cores and 64 GB RAM
Storage configuration: RAID 10. Ceph uses JBOD and applies Erasure Coding 2+2 at the software level
Connection speed: 10 GbE
Additional support: All configurations of IBM Storage Ceph 8.1 for S3 compatible storage with specifications equivalent or greater than the above.
General product family overview:
IBM Storage Ceph is a software-defined storage platform that unifies object, block, and file in a single highly scalable, distributed system. It runs on industry-standard x86 servers and provides cloud-like storage services for modern data lakehouse, AI, and analytics workloads.
Storage Category: S3-compatible object storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 12 x 1.2TB 2.5” HDD SAS drives.
The underlying Physical disks are HDD SAS 1.2TB, 10,000 RPM, 2.5-inch under a FUJITSU PRAID EP540i controller configured in RAID 10
Cluster configuration: 4 nodes, 3 disks per node - 1TB size. Each node is configured with 2 sockets of Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5115 CPU @ 2.40GHz cores and 64 GB RAM
Storage configuration: RAID 10. Ceph uses JBOD and applies Erasure Coding 2+2 at the software level
Connection speed: 10 GbE
Additional support: All configurations of IBM Storage Ceph 8.1 for S3 compatible storage with specifications equivalent or greater than the above.
General product family overview:
IBM Storage Ceph is a software-defined storage platform that unifies object, block, and file in a single highly scalable, distributed system. It runs on industry-standard x86 servers and provides cloud-like storage services for modern data lakehouse, AI, and analytics workloads.
Veeam Testing Configuration
Veeam Build Number: 12.3.2.3617
Vendor Recommended Configuration
Vendor Settings:
- Networking: MTU = 9000
- Multipathing / link aggregation used: No
- Array deduplication used in testing: No
- Array compression used in testing: No
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