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TrueNAS M-Series

Veeam Ready Repository - Primary Target
Alliance Partner:

TrueNAS
Alliance Product:

M-Series
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:

837
Veeam Product(s):
  • Veeam Backup & Replication 12
  • Veeam Backup & Replication 13
Features and Attributes:
  • Backup Target - Disk SMB
Publication date:

2024-01-12
Last modified date:

2026-04-27
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.

Product Details

Model number: TrueNAS M30 with TrueNAS Enterprise 25.10
Storage Category: Hybrid Storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 5 x 3.64 TiB HDD (HUS726T4TAL4201)
Storage configuration: ZFS RAID group with Integrity checks (RAIDZ1)
Software version: TrueNAS Enterprise 25.10.2
Connection protocol and speed: 10GbE SMB
Additional support: All configurations of TrueNAS M-Series with specifications equivalent or greater than the above.

General product family overview:
TrueNAS is a unified storage that supports different configurations. The TrueNAS M-Series modular hardware architecture supports multiple applications with its hybrid flash and disk storage pools.
The TrueNAS M-30 is a 4U system with dual controllers.

Best practices: https://www.truenas.com/docs/solutions/integrations/veeam/

Veeam Testing Configuration

Veeam Build Number: 13.0.1.2067

Vendor recommended configuration

Vendor Settings:

  • Caching used: No
  • Does vendor solution support SMB write-through? Yes
  • How SMB write-through enabled/disabled? Enabled by default
  • Was SMB write-through enabled during the testing? Yes
  • Multipathing / link aggregation used: No
  • Array deduplication used in testing: No
  • Array compression used in testing: Yes
Details on TrueNAS M-Series (SMB) testing with Veeam Backup & Replication v12
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 M30
Storage Category: Hybrid Storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 

  • 20 x 10 TB SAS HDD HUH721010AL4200
  • 1 x 3.84 TB SAS SSD XS3840SE70055

Storage configuration: ZFS array of striped 2x HDD mirrors with 1 SSD1 for read cache.
Firmware version: TrueNAS SCALE 23.10.0
Connection protocol and speed: 10GbE SMB
Additional support: All configurations of TrueNAS M-Series with specifications equivalent or greater than the above

General product family overview:
TrueNAS is a unified storage that supports different configurations. The TrueNAS M-Series modular hardware architecture supports multiple applications with its hybrid flash and disk storage pools.
The TrueNAS M-30 is a 4U system with dual controllers.

Veeam Testing Configuration

Veeam Build Number: 12.0.0.1420 P20230718

Vendor recommended configuration

Vendor Settings:

  • Caching used: Yes
  • Read/write caching: One SSD is used as a secondary ZFS ARC device for read caching.
  • Does vendor solution support SMB write-through? Yes
  • How SMB write-through enabled/disabled? Access the Datasets page and select the dataset being used for the SMB share. Select Edit and then modify the Sync setting.
  • Was SMB write-through enabled during the testing? Yes
  • Networking: MTU = 9000
  • Multipathing / link aggregation used: No
  • Array deduplication used in testing: No
  • Array compression used in testing: Yes

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