FalconStor StorSafe (SMB/CIFS)

Storage Category: Software Defined Storage
Drive quantity, size, type:

• For FalconStor StorSafe 11.14 verification: 6 x 2TB SSD
• For FalconStor StorSafe 11.11 verification: 8 x 2TB SSD

Storage configuration: RAID 5
Firmware version:

• For FalconStor StorSafe 11.14 verification: v11.14 Build 12418
• For FalconStor StorSafe 11.11 verification: v11.11 Build 12179

Connection protocol and speed: 10 GbE SMB/CIFS
Additional support: Deployments of FalconStor StorSafe 11.11 or 11.14 for S3 compatible storage on hardware with specifications equivalent or greater than above. 

General product family overview:
StorSafe is a 100% software product that runs on industry-standard servers or VMs located on-premises and in clouds and provides NAS resources with SMB/CIFS protocol while shrinking backup images with advanced compression and patented deduplication.

Veeam Testing Configuration for FalconStor StorSafe 11.14:
Veeam Build Number: 12.1.2.172

Veeam Testing Configuration for FalconStor StorSafe 11.11:
Veeam Build Number: 11.0.1.1261 P20220302
Job Settings: Deduplication - enabled; Compression - optimal; Storage optimization - LAN target
Repository Settings: Repository type - SMB 3.1, Linux; Align backup file blocks - enabled; Decompress before storing - disabled; Per-VM Backup Files - enabled. 

Vendor Settings for FalconStor StorSafe 11.14:

• Networking: MTU=9000
• Caching used: yes
• Read/write caching: the read cache size is 256MB. It is used/cached when reading the SIR data unit which returns hash data. 
• Does vendor solution support SMB write-through? Yes
• Was SMB write-through enabled during the testing? Yes 
• How was SMB write-through enabled during the testing? 
  • strict sync = yes 
  • sync always = yes
• Multipathing / link aggregation used? No
• Array deduplication used in testing: Yes
• Array compression used in testing: Yes
    
   

Vendor Settings for FalconStor StorSafe 11.11:

• Networking: MTU=9000
• Caching used: yes
• Read/write caching:
  • Write cache policy: Write Back
  • Read cache policy: Read Ahead
  • Disk Cache: Default
• Does vendor solution support SMB write-through? 
  • strict sync = yes
  • sync always = yes
• Is SMB write-through enabled during the testing? Yes
• Multipathing / link aggregation used? No
• Array deduplication used in testing: Yes
• Array compression used in testing: No