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IBM Storage Ceph

Veeam Ready Repository - Capacity Target
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):
  • 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
Publication date:

2026-01-22
Last modified date:

2026-10-13
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/version number: IBM Storage Ceph 9.9.1 Software Defined Storage
Storage Category: S3-compatible object storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 6 x 960 GB NVMe (Dell DC NVMe CD7 U.2) per node
Cluster configuration: 3 Nodes,  each node is configured with 2 x  Intel Xeon Gold 5418Y and 384 GB memory
Storage configuration: Replication factor
The cluster is configured with 3-way Replication using host-level failure domain:

  • Pool Type: replicated (replicated_rule)
  • Size: size 3, min_size 2
  • Failure Domain: host
  • With size: 3 and crush-failure-domain=host, every object is stored across all 3 nodes (H1, H2, H3). This allows the cluster to survive a full node failure while maintaining 2 active copies online (min_size: 2), ensuring high availability and continuous I/O.

Connection protocol and speed: Object, 25 GbE
Additional support: Deployments of IBM Storage Ceph 9.9.1 Software Defined Storage for S3 compatible storage on hardware with specifications equivalent or greater than 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: 13.1.1.18

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
Details on IBM Storage Ceph testing with Veeam Backup & Replication v12

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.

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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