ONTAP S3 + Veeam immutability

[errant fjord]

Hi NetApp team, may anybody comment on the current situation with ONTAP S3 and Veeam ObjectLock / immutability support? I have heard some hiccups are ongoing and now I can see even Veeam more or less officially confirming an issue as well. Are there any ongoing discussions between Veeam and you (NetApp team) in regards of this?

Veeam says:
"Warning: While ONTAP 9.14 and above support Object Immutability, these features currently do not function with Veeam Backup and Replication version 12.0 and higher."

https://www.veeam.com/sys539

THX,
Lukas

[urban rampart]

we were able to use it successfully in our lab. A coworker of mine has written a detailed explanation here, but it is in German. I am sure Google Translare or similar will do a pretty good job of translating itif required

[errant fjord]

well, I have tested this in the lab as well, but lab and production with hundreds of locked TBs are two different things 🙂 Veeam community and it looks like Veeam itself (at least according link attached) confirming some hiccups 😕 . So it would be nice to have any NetApp more or less official comment on this...

BTW. I have already seen your link...nice wrap-up anyway!

[urban rampart]

hm, if you want something official, I guess you will have to ask Veeam instead of NetApp though...

NetApp can't say much about the compatibility of 3rd party products

[errant fjord]

sure thing, but since there is most probably intention to move this from Veeam ready program to valid / certified solution (at least I hope so 🙂 ) like StorageGrid is, somebody from NetApp could maybe comment on this

[stuck spindle]

If you have hundreds of TB on object lock data, go for StorageGrid anyway