Experience with Dell Powerscale/Isilon with OneFS 9.5

[soehl]

Hi,
we are currently operating a Dell PowerScale/Isilon that run with OneFS 9.4 that we backup with Veeam.
Due to an issue unrelated to Veeam, Dell recommends updating to OneFS 9.5.
We are aware that Veeam only supports OneFS 9.4 or lower, and I have already contacted the Veeam support without success. (Case #6133355)
They suggested reaching out to the forum to see if anyone has experience running this particular combination.

Thanks and regards,
Sebastian

[HannesK]

Hello,
let me check with my colleagues on the status of supporting OneFS. Agree with support, that I would not upgrade before.

Best regards,
Hannes

[ronnmartin61]

@soehl like @HannesK says it's definitely best to wait until OneFS 9.5 is officially supported. I bounced this off my Dell counterpart and it should be compatible however he mentioned that other backup partners have experienced an inactivity timeout issue with OneFS 9.3+ so if you do test with Veeam please apply OneFS Roll-Up Patch 9.5.0.3 to your PowerScale cluster which resolves this issue.

[HannesK]

Hello,
everything is fine with OneFS 9.5 and we will update the user guide.

Best regards,
Hannes

[andrewfox68]

Hello,
We currently run Veeam v12 and OneFS 9.5.0.5 and we are able to backup successfully. The only issue is the backups going through the one Isilon node which will (hopefully) be resolved with v12.1

[HannesK]

Hello,
good to hear, and yes, SmartConnect support is in 12.1

Best regards,
Hannes

[andrewfox68]

Is there a list available of the new features in v12.1 ?

[HannesK]

If you cannot wait for https://www.veeam.com/veeamon-resiliency-summit I suggest talking to your Veeam Systems Engineer