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DataCore Swarm, Object Storage Software

Veeam Ready Repository - Capacity Target
Alliance Partner:

DataCore
Alliance Product:

Swarm, Object Storage Software
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:

367
Veeam Product(s):
  • Veeam Backup & Replication 13
  • Veeam Backup & Replication 12
  • Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 8
  • Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 7.0
  • 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:
  • Backup Target - Object
  • Immutability
  • Smart Object Storage API
  • Governance
Publication date:

2021-11-11
Last modified date:

2026-10-22

Product Details

Software version: DataCore Swarm v18, Object Storage Software
Storage Category: S3-compatible Object Storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 32 x 2.4 TB SAS HDD (EG002400JWJNT HP G8-G10)
Cluster configuration: 4 x  HP ProLiant DL360 Gen10 servers with 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4208 CPU @ 2.10GHz, 128GB RAM, and 8 x HDD.
Storage configuration: JBOD. The Swarm data protection policy utilized for these tests is software-based Erasure Coding 4:2.
Connection protocol and speed: 10GbE
SOSAPI features (only supported by Veeam Backup & Replication): CapacityInfo
Additional support: Deployments of DataCore Swarm v18, 17, or 15 for S3 compatible storage on hardware with specifications equivalent or greater than above.   

General product family overview:
Swarm is object storage software that installs on any mix of x86 server hardware. Swarm virtualizes the underlying infrastructure creating a scalable pool of resources. Swarm includes two web-based UI's: one for administrators to manage the system, data protection policies and tenants (authorization and authentication), and the other for end-users to access, upload, search and share their content.

Testing was performed using the following software versions: DataCore Swarm 18.1.0 with CloudGateway  9.0.1

Veeam Testing Configuration

Veeam Build Number: 13.1.1.18

Vendor recommended configuration

Vendor Settings:

  • Caching used: No
  • Multipathing / link aggregation used: No
  • Array deduplication used in testing: No
  • Array compression used in testing: No

Additional Considerations:

Deletion performance tuning:
Improve the deletion performance by tuning the following parameters in /etc/caringo/cloudgateway/gateway.cfg

  • RecursiveDeleteMaxThreads , the vendor recommends 400 ( default is 50 )
  • MaxConnections, the vendor recommends 4000
  • MaxConnectionsPerRoute, the vendor recommends 400
  • Threads, the vendor recommends 1000
Details on DataCore Swarm v17 testing with Veeam Backup & Replication 13.0.1.180
Please note: Governance was tested only with Veeam Backup & Replication 13.1.1.18

Product Details

Software version: DataCore Swarm v17, Object Storage Software
Storage Category: S3-compatible Object Storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 32 x 2.4 TB SAS HDD (EG002400JWJNT HP G8-G10)
Cluster configuration: 4 x  HP ProLiant DL360 Gen10 servers with 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4208 CPU @ 2.10GHz  and 128GB RAM
Storage configuration: JBOD. The Swarm data protection policy utilized for these tests is software-based Erasure Coding 4:2.
Connection protocol and speed: 10GbE
SOSAPI features (only supported by Veeam Backup & Replication): CapacityInfo
Additional support: Deployments of DataCore Swarm v17 or v15 for S3 compatible storage on hardware with specifications equivalent or greater than above.   

General product family overview:
Swarm is object storage software that installs on any mix of x86 server hardware. Swarm virtualizes the underlying infrastructure creating a scalable pool of resources. Swarm includes two web-based UI's: one for administrators to manage the system, data protection policies and tenants (authorization and authentication), and the other for end-users to access, upload, search and share their content.

Testing was performed using the following software versions: DataCore Swarm 17.0.5 with CloudGateway  8.3.2.

Veeam Testing Configuration

Veeam Build Number: 13.0.1.180

Vendor recommended configuration

Vendor Settings:

  • Caching used: No
  • Multipathing / link aggregation used: No
  • Array deduplication used in testing: No
  • Array compression used in testing: No

Additional Considerations:

Deletion performance tuning:
Improve the deletion performance by tuning the following parameters in /etc/caringo/cloudgateway/gateway.cfg

  • RecursiveDeleteMaxThreads , The vendor recommends 400 ( default is 50 )
  • MaxConnections, the vendor recommends 4000
  • MaxConnectionsPerRoute, the vendor recommends 400
  • Threads, the vendor recommends 1000
Details on DataCore Swarm v15 testing with Veeam Backup & Replication v12
Please note: Governance was tested only with Veeam Backup & Replication 13.1.1.18

Product Details

Software version: DataCore Swarm v17, Object Storage Software
Storage Category: S3-compatible Object Storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 32 x 2.4 TB SAS HDD (EG002400JWJNT HP G8-G10)
Cluster configuration: 4 x  HP ProLiant DL360 Gen10 servers with 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4208 CPU @ 2.10GHz  and 128GB RAM
Storage configuration: JBOD. The Swarm data protection policy utilized for these tests is software-based Erasure Coding 4:2.
Connection protocol and speed: 10GbE
SOSAPI features (only supported by Veeam Backup & Replication): CapacityInfo
Additional support: Deployments of DataCore Swarm v17 or v15 for S3 compatible storage on hardware with specifications equivalent or greater than above.   

General product family overview:
Swarm is object storage software that installs on any mix of x86 server hardware. Swarm virtualizes the underlying infrastructure creating a scalable pool of resources. Swarm includes two web-based UI's: one for administrators to manage the system, data protection policies and tenants (authorization and authentication), and the other for end-users to access, upload, search and share their content.

Testing was performed using the following software versions: DataCore Swarm 17.0.5 with CloudGateway  8.3.2.

Veeam Testing Configuration

Veeam Build Number: 13.0.1.180

Vendor recommended configuration

Vendor Settings:

  • Caching used: No
  • Multipathing / link aggregation used: No
  • Array deduplication used in testing: No
  • Array compression used in testing: No

Additional Considerations:

Deletion performance tuning:
Improve the deletion performance by tuning the following parameters in /etc/caringo/cloudgateway/gateway.cfg

  • RecursiveDeleteMaxThreads , The vendor recommends 400 ( default is 50 )
  • MaxConnections, the vendor recommends 4000
  • MaxConnectionsPerRoute, the vendor recommends 400
  • Threads, the vendor recommends 1000

Product Details

Model number: DataCore Swarm v15, Object Storage Software
Storage Category: Software Defined Object Storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 32 x EG002400JWJNT HP G8-G10 2.4-TB 12G 10K 2.5 SAS
The test was performed on HP ProLiant DL360 Gen10 servers with 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4208 CPU @ 2.10GHz  and 128GB RAM
Storage configuration: Drives are configured as JBOD. 
The Swarm data protection policy utilized for these tests is software based Erasure Coding 4:2.
Firmware version: HPE Smart Array P408i-a SR Gen10 using firmware 4.11
Connection protocol and speed: 10GbE
Additional support: All configurations of DataCore Swarm v15, Object Storage Software for S3 compatible storage with specifications equivalent or greater than the above.  

General product family overview:
Swarm is object storage software that installs on any mix of x86 server hardware. Swarm virtualizes the underlying infrastructure creating a scalable pool of resources. Swarm includes two web-based UI's: one for administrators to manage the system, data protection policies and tenants (authorization and authentication), and the other for end-users to access, upload, search and share their content.
Testing was performed using the following software versions: DataCore Swarm 15.2.0 with CloudGateway 7.10.4

Veeam Testing Configuration

Veeam Build Number: 12.0.0.1420

Vendor recommended configuration

Vendor Settings:

  • MPIO - yes (Balance-alb over single 10 GbE nic per storage node)

Additional Considerations:

  •  The default block size was used for Veeam Ready tests. Increasing the block size increases read and write performance considerably, decreasing backup windows and increasing Recovery Time Objective (RTO).
    Using larger block size can yield up to 3.5x faster performance. The vendor recommends at least 4MB block size.

  • Deletion performance tuning:

Improve the deletion performance by tuning the following 2 parameters in /etc/caringo/cloudgateway/gateway.cfg

o   RecursiveDeleteMaxThreads , The vendor recommends 200 ( default is 50 )

o   MaxConnections, the vendor recommends 500 ( default is 200 )

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