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Scality RING

Veeam Ready Repository - Primary Target
Alliance Partner:

Scality
Alliance Product:

RING
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:

590
Veeam Product(s):
  • Veeam Backup & Replication 13
  • Veeam Backup & Replication 12
Features and Attributes:
  • Backup Target - Object
  • Immutability
  • IAM & STS
  • Governance
Publication date:

2023-07-05
Last modified date:

2026-08-03
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

Software version: 9.5.2.0
Storage Category: Software-defined storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 

  • 2 x 894.3 G NVMe (Datacenter Class) per node - Metadata
  • 10 x 7T NVMe (Datacenter Class) per node - data

Storage configuration: Local Erasure Coding 4+2
Cluster configuration: 3 nodes, each node configured with 32 x INTEL(R) XEON(R) GOLD 5515+ CPU cores and 256 GB of memory
Connection protocol and speed: S3 25 GbE 
Additional support: Deployments of Scality RING 9.5.2.0 for S3 compatible storage on hardware with specifications equivalent or greater than above.


General product family overview:
Scality RING is software that turns a cluster of standard x86 servers into cloud-scale storage.

Veeam Testing Configuration

Veeam Build Number: 13.0.1.2067

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
Details on the Scality RING testing with Veeam Backup & Replication v12
Please note that Governance was not tested with Scality RING 8.5.5
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

Storage Category: S3 Compatible Object Storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 

  • Metadata Drive: 1 × 3.2 TB nVMe
  • Data Drives: 12 × 3.84 TB SSD SAS

Storage configuration:

  • OS: RAID1
  • Data Drives: Network Erasure coding 9+3

Firmware version: 8.5.5
Connection protocol and speed: S3 25 GbE 
Additional support: All configurations of 6-nodes Scality RING with specifications equivalent or greater than the above

General product family overview:
Scality RING is software that turns a cluster of standard x86 servers into cloud-scale storage, accessible over object (S3) or file (NFS/SMB) interfaces.

Veeam Testing Configuration

Veeam Build Number: 12.0.0.1420 P20230412

Vendor recommended configuration

Vendor Settings:

  • 6-nodes RING was used for testing
  • Caching used: No
  • Read/write caching: Write cache on the RAID card, if available.   
  • Array deduplication used in testing: No
  • Array compression used in testing: No

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