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IBM Storage Ceph

Veeam Ready Repository - Primary Target
Alliance Partner:

IBM
Alliance Product:

Storage Ceph
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:

2990
Veeam Product(s):
  • Veeam Backup & Replication 13
Features and Attributes:
  • Backup Target - Object
  • Immutability
Publication date:

2026-10-13
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: Software Defined 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:

  • Caching used: No
  • Networking: MTU = 9000
  • Multipathing / link aggregation used: No
  • Array deduplication used in testing: No
  • Array compression used in testing: No

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