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Dell PowerProtect Data Domain series

Veeam Ready Repository - Primary Target
Alliance Partner:

Dell Technologies
Alliance Product:

PowerProtect Data Domain
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:

3024
Veeam Product(s):
  • Veeam Backup & Replication 13
Features and Attributes:
  • Backup Target - Deduplication
Publication date:

2026-11-02
Last modified date:

2026-11-02
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 number: DD3410 
Software version: DDOS 8.8
Storage Category: Purpose-Built Backup Appliance
Drive quantity, size, type:

  • 10 × 8 TB HDDs for backup data
  • 1 × 1.92 TB SSD for cache

Storage configuration: Protection Pools (RAID-6 equivalent)
Connection protocol and speed: Ethernet 25 GbE 
Additional support: All configurations of Dell PowerProtect Data Domain with specifications equivalent or greater than the above

General product family overview: Dell PowerProtect Data Domain is a Dell data protection appliance family for backup storage and cyber resilience across on-premises and multicloud environments.

Veeam Testing Configuration

Veeam Build Number: 13.1.2.57

Vendor Recommended Configuration

Vendor Settings:

  • Caching used: Yes
  • Read / write caching: Cache Tier for metadata caching and read acceleration. Cache behavior is vendor-managed; no user-selectable write-back/write-through mode is specified. Protected write handling is provided separately by NVRAM/SDPM, while customer data resides on the Active Tier.
  • Networking: MTU=9000
  • Multipathing / link aggregation used: No
  • Array deduplication used in testing: Yes
  • Array compression used in testing: Yes