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Nexsan VHR-Series Appliance

Veeam Ready Repository - Primary Target
Alliance Partner:

Nexsan
Alliance Product:

VHR-Series Appliance
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:

2471
Veeam Product(s):
  • Veeam Backup & Replication 13
Features and Attributes:
  • Backup Target - Disk DAS
Publication date:

2026-06-26
Last modified date:

2026-06-26
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: Nexsan VHR-64
Storage Category: RAID Storage Array
Drive quantity, size, type:

  • 2 x 480GB SATA SSD (SSD 2.5" SATA 480GB <2DWPD TLC D, 7mm) - OS Disk, RAID 1;
  • 10 x 8TB 7200RPM SAS HDD (HUS728T8TALS6L4) - data disks, RAID 6.

Storage configuration: 10 x Raid 6 for Data
Firmware version: V13
Connection protocol and speed: Direct attached 12 Gbit/s SAS-3
Operating system: Veeam Infrastructure Appliance
File system: XFS
Additional support: All configurations of Nexsan VHR-Series with specifications equivalent or greater than the above

General product family overview: VHR (Veeam Hardened Repository Appliance) refers to the Hardened Repository configuration option within Veeam Backup & Replication. 

Veeam Testing Configuration

Veeam Build Number: 13.0.1.2067

Vendor Recommended Configuration

Vendor Settings:

  • Caching used: Yes
  • Read/write caching: Read Cache – Write Cache enabled
  • Multipathing / link aggregation used: No
  • Array deduplication used in testing: No
  • Array compression used in testing: No