High Performance Object Storage for Veeam Backups

MinIO has collaborated with Veeam to add high-performance, private cloud object storage to the portfolio of S3 endpoints.

Veeam Backup and Replication offers a diverse range of software-defined, optimized backup solutions. We partnered together to add high performance object storage as an endpoint—disaggregating computation and storage in the backup context, all while delivering superior performance, scalability and economics. A single instance of MinIO can serve as a Veeam endpoint for anything from VMs, Oracle, SAP, and MS Office.

Veeam Backups for VMware ESXi using MinIO

Use Veeam to seamlessly backup virtual infrastructure to object storage, giving you the flexibility of nearly limitless object storage capacity. You control costs and security, giving you control over how your data is accessed.

Veeam Backups for Office 365 using MinIO

Back up the entire Microsoft product line including One Drive, Sharepoint, Office 365 and Outlook/Exchange with speed, confidence and scale.

Veeam Backups for SAP HANA using MinIO

Veeam backup solutions for SAP HANA are faster and more secure with MinIO.

Veeam Backups for Oracle using MinIO

Backing up Oracle workloads demand performance, resilience and security. Optimize this mission critical backup using MinIO object storage.

Veeam Backup and Replication

Veeam and MinIO are natural partners

Both Veeam and MinIO offer best-in-class software solutions for their respective technologies. From VMs to Office 365, performance at scale is the metric by which end-to-end solutions are measured. MinIO object storage offers the most scalable and high performance object storage solution in the market today - making it the ideal option for Veeam customers.

Fast Backups Are One Thing, Fast Restore is Another

Backups and restores need to go quickly no matter the size. With the ability to read/write at speeds in excess of 160GiB/s in a single 32 node cluster, MinIO for Veeam Backup and Replication can backup and restore from object storage at speeds once considered impossible.

Metadata as an Advantage

Because MinIO writes metadata atomically along with the object data, your Veeam backups do not require an external metadata database (Cassandra in most cases). This eliminates the performance penalty associated with small objects. MinIO delivers performance across Veeam’s recommended range of object sizes facilitating fast deletes and dedupe.

Inline and Strictly Consistent

Data in MinIO is always readable and consistent since all of the I/O is committed synchronously with inline erasure-code, bitrot hash and encryption. The S3 service provided by MinIO is resilient to any disruption or restarts in the middle of busy transactions. There is no caching or staging of data for asynchronous I/O. This guarantees all backup operations are guaranteed to succeed.

Hardware Agnostic

Like Veeam, MinIO is software-defined and hardware agnostic. This approach delivers massive savings and flexibility to Veeam customers as they design systems to accommodate a range of different backup use cases.

MinIO and Veeam: Backup and Restore from Object Storage

MinIO and Veeam are better together! Deploying MinIO object storage in conjunction with Veeam offers multiple benefits. These include the benefits associated with software defined solutions, the performance characteristics of fast backup and restore and finally the resilience and flexibility of an object store that writes metadata atomically.