Integration with Storage Snapshots : Vendor Roadmap

[ndolson]

+2 for Nutanix

[vMario156]

+1 Nutanix !!

[rewa]

IBM Storwize / SVC

[Workbooster]

+1 for DataCore SANsymphony-V

[cgrvy]

IBM Storwize

PureStorage

[mquayle]

Hi Guys,
I have a question mostly for the DEV team regarding the newly released EMC Unity platform. I was wondering if there is a timeline or ETA for support of this platform in regards to direct storage integration. The VNX and VNXe platforms are supported so I imagine Unity will be as well, I am just interested if anyone knows how long it will be. I have a deployment coming up that will most likely be using a Unity and Veeam B&R, storage integration sure would be nice to have.

[foggy]

Hi Michael, we typically do not share our plans for future releases.

[sshadler]

+1 for Nutanix

We are moving to Nutanix and VMware from our Dell EqualLogic/Hyper-V system.

[bpayne]

Vote for EMC XtremIO. We have had one for about 6 months now.

[Spex]

IBM Storwize SVC ~ 1200 VMs

[kryptoem]

Veeam Devs! Why are you adding/extending functionality to support little known vendors before sorting out support for the big 5: HP, DELL, EMC, IBM, NetApp.

[kryptoem]

IBM v3750 + 5000 + 7000 + 9000

[kryptoem]

Please add support for NetApp CIFS / shared folder volume and / snapmirrors to Veeam Repos.

[foggy]

Veeam Devs! Why are you adding/extending functionality to support little known vendors before sorting out support for the big 5: HP, DELL, EMC, IBM, NetApp.

Criteria for selecting integration partners are fully explained in this topic.

[foggy]

Please add support for NetApp CIFS / shared folder volume and / snapmirrors to Veeam Repos.

Both are already supported as backup targets.

[kryptoem]

Both are already supported as backup targets.

Veeam is not able to backup NetApp CIFS snapmirrors; only VMs from what I can see.

If so please send me the KB - I did have a good look.

[raymondgoh]

Feature request to support Huawei storage. 2015 Gartner Global Ranking:

Global Market:-
- Revenue = #7
- Units and Capacity shipped = #6
- Growth Rate = #1

China Market:-
- Revenue = #1
- Units and Capacity shipped = #1
- Growth Rate = #1

[foggy]

Veeam is not able to backup NetApp CIFS snapmirrors; only VMs from what I can see.

You've mentioned "Veeam Repos" in your initial request so I took it as you're talking about backing up to those. Apologies for that.

[ober72]

Hi Folks,

Could not find this in the forum and support said that I should ask here so ... any plans for PURE STORAGE Snapshot integration?

thanks

[nielsengelen]

Thank you for the request. Currently it is not planned. The next vendor will be Nimble Storage.

[pirx]

So still no IBM/SVC support in sight? That is kind of frustrating, given the market share of Nimble. Based on what criteria does Veeam choose a vendor? I'd expect that Veeam chooses a vendor based on how useful he is for their user base (wide distribution). Right now we are evaluating Veeam and a other product that comes with IBM SVC support. At the moment it is a show stopper for us that Veeam does not support SVC snapshots. Which also means that we wont buy 200+ socket licenses. Given the speed Veeam adds new vendors and the small list of vendors Veeam supports right now and without a clear roadmap, we can not hope that sometimes there might be support for our primary backup.

[Vitaliy S.]

I'd expect that Veeam chooses a vendor based on how useful he is for their user base (wide distribution)

Yes, this is one of the criteria. Your vote for IBM support is also counted.

[Gostev]

That is kind of frustrating, given the market share of Nimble. Based on what criteria does Veeam choose a vendor? I'd expect that Veeam chooses a vendor based on how useful he is for their user base (wide distribution).

Absolutely correct. And Nimble is currently [by far] #1 TAP partner for Veeam in terms of influenced revenue (out of those vendors we still don't integrate with).

[romura]

Hello - Are there any plans to integrate Veeam and the EMC Unity platform in the future?

[pirx]

You mean there are more VM's runing on Nimble storage than on IBM?

[emachabert]

No he does not mean that.
He is speaking about influenced revenue.
Nimble and the others who already are integrated with veeam, are teaming with Veeam to win deals, they promote Veeam's technology as an enhancer for their own products.

[pirx]

I'd expect that Veeam chooses a vendor based on how useful he is for their user base (wide distribution).

Nimble and the others who already are integrated with veeam, are teaming with Veeam to win deals, they promote Veeam's technology as an enhancer for their own products.

Then I get the feeling that it's not so important to Veeam which vendor is used by their customers. It's more important which vendors sponsors an integration. Given that IBM does have their own backup products I can imagine that the motivation to support another tool might not be so big. But it should be for Veeam.

[skrause]

Storage integration is a partnership, Veeam can't just make it happen on an island. Requesting integration on this thread is how Veeam tracks how many customers are interested in integration with various storage vendors. Those requests are what they need for leverage with IBM, etc. to show them that it is worth it to their shared customer base for them to work together.

[pirx]

That is absolutely correct. But given that other backup programs support >20 storage vendors / array types, Veeam has to catch up fast. Maybe this is not so important for others but for us this currently is a show stopper. Our next backup tool renewal will be in 5 years so let's check this again then.

[cberberabe]

I would like to know if there are plans to or has been any considerations for Veeam to have integration with Hitachi storage? We're considering going with Hitachi and would love to have the storage snapshot integrations.

Thanks