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FalconStor StorSafe (SMB/CIFS)

Veeam Ready Repository - Primary Target
Alliance Partner:

FalconStor Software
Alliance Product:

StorSafe

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:

447
Veeam Product(s):
  • Veeam Backup & Replication 12
  • Veeam Backup & Replication 11
Features and Attributes:
  • Backup Target - Disk SMB
Publication date:

2022-12-07
Last modified date:

2024-08-16
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.
SMB write-through is supported on this platform and was used in the Veeam Ready testing. You must enable the SMB write-through setting on the storage to avoid issues that are described in the following knowledge base entry: KB3124.
Veeam Ready validation for FalconStor StorSafe 11.14 was conducted utilizing storage equipped with 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6250 3.9G, 8C/16T CPUs and 384 GB DDR4 memory. Therefore, this classification is specifically relevant to configurations possessing equivalent CPU performance and an equal or greater amount of memory. Deviating from this specified configuration may negatively impact performance.

Product Details

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

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 recommended configuration

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

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