How fast can VBR backup to, and recovery from, Pure FlashArray//C?

[markdpolin]

As the global solutions architect for Veeam's Pure Storage alliance, I have been asked this question many times. We now have performance results!

Active Full backup performance of 4GB/s
Full restore performance of 4.7GB/s

Check out the Pure Storage Reference Architecture white paper for more results and how the environment was configured:
https://www.purestorage.com/docs.html?i ... eprint.pdf

Also, this reference architecture aligns with the Veeam Security Blueprint for 1000 VMs and 100 physical servers. Check that out here:
https://community.veeam.com/alliance-ve ... 13&fid=150

[wejohnson]

Any performance data on backup and recovery from a Flashblade/E, file or object based?

[simo77]

Can we have also the compression ratio?

[markdpolin]

Hi @wejohnson
Unfortunately, FlashBlade as a source was not part of the scope of this test. I will pass along your request that FlashBlade be tested as a source with VBR.

Thank you, Mark

[markdpolin]

Hi @s@simo77
Thank you for your question. I see that the white paper mentions VBR's data reduction of 1.2:1, but does not mention the data reduction rate of the FlashArray//C target. I have asked Pure for this information, and will provide an update as soon as I receive a reply.

[markdpolin]

Hi @simo77
I checked with Pure on the data reduction they observed during the testing. Unfortunately, they are unable to identify specific backup job data reduction rates because many jobs and many backups were sent to the same FlashArray//C-based backup repository. The FlashArray//C used for backup storage in their testing reports a Data Reduction Rate (DRR) of 15:1. This is high because the array is deduplicating across all the different jobs.

One other point is that Pure used incompressible data (see page 12) for their testing.

Thankfully, Pure, through it’s Pure1 management software, collects information from participating customers on the Data Reduction Rate for various types of data stored on FlashArrays, including Veeam backup repository data. Pure routinely sees DRR with Veeam between 3:1 and 4:1.