Anyone using Netapp ONTAP S3 in compatible release

[KarmaKuma]

Anybody using Netapp ONTAP S3 in one of the newer/compatible releases as repo for Veeam in production? It reached compatibility plus immutability support with 9.14.1 P1.

Interested in general feedback and also performance figures on Netapp AFF C250...

Thanks!

[Andreas Neufert]

Hi, maybe some of the customers can comment on their experiences. From our side it is important to note, that the sizing should consider I/O (S3 Operations) beside capacity in the planning. NetApp System Engineers usually can help with this. We are working very closely with the vendors to share details which they translate into system specific requirements. Usually performance depends as well on number of controller and their resources.

For AFF and FAS I would maybe go and give Veeam a FC or iSCSI based block volume that I protect with Immutable Snapshots that are scheduled independent of Veeam. Maybe compare performance of both options.

[KarmaKuma]

Thanks Andreas, I do hope to get some real wolrd feedback

[MatzeB]

Hi, i use ontap s3 with C400 NetApp storage at a customer but already started with ontap 9.12.x - it is officially supported, but not with object lock - but is still running today. Object Lock support started with 9.14.1 P1. There were some Bugs in 9.14 in the beginning, regarding time difference and backup verification failures, but in the meantime all fixed. 9.14.1 is working with object lock, but is not officially qualified.

I documented the whole process on our blog - https://tecblog.au.de/ontap-9-14-1p1-ve ... ject-lock/
Performance is very well, especially with SSDs - i think thats because of the architecture with the NVRAM.

Regards
Matze

[KarmaKuma]

Hey MatzeB
I read your blog post already before opening this thread, what a coincidence

Do you have some performance figures for backup and restore throughput? Maybe also som info on object lock scrubbing times?

Thanks a lot in advance!

[MatzeB]

Hey,

perfect I haven't tested with any benchmarks. But i remember the project, primary storage was also All Flash, Target C400. What is can say performance was really enought >1gb/s - but i don't have exact numbers.
At the moment ontap s3 is no good solution for me, thats the reason why i dont put that much focus on. It needs to be verified with object lock, before this it doesn't make sense.

If you are looking for a veeam storage solution on NetApp i highly recommend eSeries with a Server as Linux Hardened Repository - if you need technical Details reach out to me.

Regards
Matze