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iXsystems TrueNAS R-Series (ISCSI)

Veeam Ready - Repository
Alliance Partner:

iXsystems

Alliance Product:

TrueNAS R-Series

Program Category:

Veeam Ready - Repository

Category Description:

Primary backup target solutions that have been qualified as meeting or exceeding both functional and performance tests for backup and restore operations.

Article ID:

784

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

2023-12-04

Last modified date:

2023-12-04

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: TrueNAS R20
Storage Category: Software Defined Storage - Hybrid
Drive quantity, size, type:

  • 10 x 10TB SAS HDD HUH721010AL4200
  • 1 x 3.84TB SAS SSD XS3840SE70055 (Read cache)
  • 1 x 960GB SAS SSD XS960SE70055 (Write cache)

Storage configuration: 5x ZFS mirrors, 1x ZFS L2ARC read cache, 1x ZFS SLOG write cache device
Firmware version: 23.10.0
Connection protocol and speed: 10 GbE iSCSI
Additional support: All models and configurations of TrueNAS R-Series R20 with specifications equivalent or greater than the above

General product family overview:
TrueNAS is an Open Source storage operating system built on OpenZFS. With the TrueNAS R-Series, iXsystems integrates TrueNAS with the single-controller hardware that has configurable performance.
The TrueNAS R20 single controller hardware is a compact 2U system with 12 drives.

Veeam Testing Configuration

Veeam Build Number: 12.0.0.1420 P20230718

Vendor recommended configuration

Vendor Settings:

  • Caching used: Yes
  • Read/write caching: Secondary ARC device acts as a read cache. ZFS uses ARC to cache recently and frequently accessed data. As new data is added to primary ARC the older data is moved to secondary ARC, which can be accessed faster than data off of the HDD array. In this test the 960GB SAS SSD was used as secondary ARC. ZFS SLOG is used for synchronous writes. Data is first written to RAM, then to the SLOG device, and then moved to the HDD array. For synchronous writes this allows the file system to confirm that data is written to non-volatile storage far faster than HDD allows. This test used the 3.84TB SAS SSD as SLOG, overprovisioned to 16GB.
  • Networking: MTU=9000
  • Multipathing / link aggregation used: No
  • Array deduplication used in testing: No
  • Array compression used in testing: Yes

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