StoneFly Scale Out Cloud Storage for Veeam in Microsoft Azure

StoneFly Cloud Drive

StoneFly Scale Out NAS Enterprise Cloud Drive for Veeam

in Microsoft Azure

Veeam and Microsoft have partnered with StoneFly to offer state-of-the-art storage options leveraging StoneFly’s Scale Out Cloud Storage in Azure for the ultimate backup and disaster recovery solution

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Securely replicate on-premises Veeam backups with Veeam Cloud Connect to StoneFly Scale Out Cloud Storage in

Microsoft Azure

Backups can be restored directly into Azure as VMs for the ultimate in

business continuity.

By combining Veeam and StoneFly solutions, customers can:

• Bypass the capacity size constraints within Azure.• Quickly and easily add more capacity without

sacrificing performance and throughput.• And best of all, manage multiple Cloud Drive nodes

with just a single interface.



• Store Veeam backup files larger than 1TB (up to the volume size on that node).

StoneFly’s Scale Out NAS Enterprise Cloud Drive in Microsoft Azure can be used to:


• Store Veeam backup files larger than 1TB (up to the volume size on that node).• Create volumes up to 8TB/16TB/32TB/64TB per node

(size depends on maximum number of Azure data disks included for the machine size selected).

• Scale out those volumes across multiple nodes for nearly an unlimited amount of storage in each volume.


• Scale out those volumes across multiple nodes for nearly an unlimited amount of storage in each volume.• Scale up your performance – data throughput

aggregates as you add more storage nodes.


• Scale out those volumes across multiple nodes for nearly an unlimited amount of storage in each volume.• Scale up your performance – data throughput

aggregates as you add more storage nodes.• Easily integrate with existing Active Directory servers

to simplify setup and secure data access.


Microsoft Azure CertifiedStoneFly Cloud Storage can be found around the world in

Microsoft Azure datacenters. Our partnership with Microsoft provides our customers

with uniform deployment of our storage, hyper-converged backup and disaster recovery appliances as physical or virtual solutions via on premise, remote, private or public cloud installations.

We also have a turnkey solution for enterprises that allows them to connect their on premise Veeam instances to Microsoft Azure, and we offer a full range of Veeam backup appliances for your on premise and remote location requirements.

Microsoft Azure CertifiedAzure datacenters can be found in:• North America: Central US (Iowa) East US & East US 2 (Virginia),

North Central US (Illinois), South Central US (Texas), West US (California), West US 2, West Central US, US Government (Iowa & Virginia), Canada Central (Toronto), Canada East (Quebec City) • South America: Brazil South (Sao Paulo State) • Europe: North Europe (Ireland), West Europe (Netherlands) • Asia: East Asia (Hong Kong), Southeast Asia (Singapore), Japan

East (Tokyo) & Japan West (Osaka), China East (Shanghai), China North (Beijing), Central India (Pune), South India (Chennai), West India (Mumbai) • Australia: Australia East (New South Wales), Australia Southeast

(Victoria)

Your Virtual Dedicated Storage is hosted on Microsoft Azure's world-class cloud storage. You own your own data. You are in control of your own data. Microsoft Azure sets and adheres to stringent privacy standards.

Microsoft Azure Certified

Azure Storage Limitations: The Problem

• One or more 1TB disks (page blobs) can be attached to Virtual Machines created in Microsoft Azure.

• Each disk is set at 1023GB.

• The maximum number of disks that can be attached to a single VM depends on the Azure machine size. Typical Azure VMs support a maximum of 8 or 16 disks, although a few of the more pricey machines can support 32TB or 64TB per VM.

• Windows and Linux operating systems can be configured to span or stripe these disks to create a single 16TB volume. However, even though this volume can store up to 16TB of data, it cannot store any individual files larger than 1TB because of the Azure page blobs in the back end.

• The 1TB file size limit is a critical problem for anyone trying to use Veeam Cloud Connect to upload a Veeam backup file to a backup repository in Microsoft Azure for disaster recovery.


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StoneFly's Scale Out NAS Cloud Drive for Microsoft Azure not only solves the 1TB file size limitation, but also allows the user to "scale out" one or more volumes across multiple Azure VMs to create a nearly unlimited amount of storage for your Veeam backups.


Azure Storage Limitations: The Solution

StoneFly Cloud Storage is affordable and flexible, allowing customers to only purchase the storage they need now and only add more storage to the scale out as their storage needs grow.


Management is easy: Only one GUI login is needed to manage all of the Cloud Drive nodes in the StoneFly Scale Out configuration in Microsoft Azure.

StoneFly Scale Out Cloud Storage easily integrate with existing Active Directory servers to simplify user setup and secure data access.


Remote Scale Out NAS Storage Hostedin Microsoft Azure

• StoneFly Cloud Storage with Scale Out NAS allows you to "scale out" as your business grows by adding nodes without losing performance and bypassing any storage capacity size constraints that Azure may have. • With the StoneFly Cloud Storage with Scale Out you

can expand one or more volumes across multiple StoneFly Cloud Drives and Azure blobs using no metadata and a single namespace.

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• Performance increases as new StoneFly Cloud Drive nodes are added. • Each time the StoneFly Cloud Drive is scaled out, it

adds more capacity, more throughput, and more concurrency. • Installation, management and scaling is simple to

achieve at any size.

Remote Scale Out NAS Storage Hostedin Microsoft Azure

What is Scale Out NAS?

• Scale Out NAS is a distributed file system that can scale to several petabytes all while handling thousands of clients. • It functions as a distributed data overlay, polling

together storage building blocks over TCP/IP, aggregating disk resources and managing data in a single global namespace.• The unified platform handles blocks, files, objects and

big data.

Scale Out NAS solves enterprise storage requirements, including:• Enterprise-wide file sharing with a single access point

across data storage locations.• Nearline storage for infrequently accessed data that

needs to be online. • Rich media (audio and video) content distribution

with petabyte-scale storage and high-read performance requirements.

Scale Out NAS solves enterprise storage requirements, including:• High-performance storage for bandwidth-intensive

applications like weather prediction and oil and gas exploration. • Centralized storage-as-a-service to enterprise

applications. • Backup target and archive for off-site data protection.

StoneFly Cloud Drive – Features (1/3)

• Supports NAS Protocols: CIFS/SMB and NFS • Scale Out NAS using a Single Name Space to Scale

Capacity and Performance Across Multiple Azure Nodes • Easy Active Directory Integration • Bypass Azure's Inherent 1TB File Size Limitations Multi-

Appliance Campus Mirroring and Spanning


• Multi-Appliance Campus Mirroring and Spanning • Central Management System with Web-Based GUI • Disk Space Quota Management for Directory & Volume

Usage • Graphical Performance and Utilization Reporting


• Logical Volume Creation and Patented Advanced Storage Virtualization Services• Volume-Level Access Control and Dynamic Volume

Management • Automated Online Volume / Storage Expansion • Support for SNMP Traps and Call Home

Step 1 – Set up one or more StoneFly Scale Out NAS Cloud Drive Virtual Machines in Microsoft Azure portal.1

Log into the Microsoft Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com/

Click on Marketplace. Type stonefly in the search box and hit Enter.

Select StoneFly Scale Out NAS Cloud Storage.

Review the product description then click on the Create button at the bottom.

Fill in the required fields.

Make sure that the Name is 12 characters or less.

Each node in the Scale Out should share the same Subscription, Resource group, and Location.

The machine size selected must be A3 or higher (4 Cores + 7GB Memory). The number of data disks will depend on your total space requirements. Each Azure data disk has a maximum size of 1023GB. An A3 Standard VM supports up to 8 Azure data disks for a maximum of 8TB per machine. An A4 Standard VM supports up to 16 Azure data disks for a maximum of 16TB per machine. The machine size can be changed later if needed.

Review the default settings, make changes if necessary, and click OK.

The Summary will be displayed.

Click OK.

Review the Offer details, Terms of Use, and click Purchase.

While the first Scale Out Node is being generated in Azure, repeat the steps to purchase additional StoneFly Scale Out NAS Cloud Storage nodes as needed.

Node 2:




Node 3:




Once the status has changed from Creating to Running, then you can begin configuring the VM.

Click on the hyperlink for the Public IP address/DNS name label field.

Click on Configuration in the Settings pane.

Fill in the DNS name label in the Configuration pane and click on Save. To simplify management, we recommend that the DNS name label matches the name you assigned to the VM and is no longer than 12 characters.

Scroll left to return to the Virtual machine pane and click on All settings in the Essentials section.

The Settings pane will open. Click on Disks in the Settings pane and the Disks pane will open.

Click on Attach new.

Select Read/Write for Host caching in the Attach new disk pane.

Edit other fields as necessary then click on the OK button at the bottom of the pane.

Make sure to wait until each disk is successfully attached before attempting to add the next disk.

Repeat adding additional disks as needed (up to 8/16/32/64 disks as permitted by the Azure machine size you purchased).

The Azure machine size can be changed at any time if you need more resources or data disks.

For example, change from A3 Standard which supports only 8 data disks to A4 Standard which supports up to 16 data disks.

ScaleOut1 node is an A4 Standard Azure machine configured with 16 x 1TB data disks.

Once the status has changed to Running on the additional Scale Out nodes, you can begin configuring them using the same methods that the first node was configured.

Attach disks to the second Scale Out node.


Attach disks to the third (or fourth, fifth, etc.) Scale Out node.


Copy the DNS name field on the Public IP address page and paste it into the address bar of a browser window after https:// and hit Enter to bring up the web-based management interface.

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StoneFly Scale Out Cloud Storage for Veeam in Microsoft Azure