Isilon S3 buckets limitation

Question

Hi all, We are excited about using the S3 bucket option instead of SMB on the Isilon (PowerScale 8 nodes 25GbE) for our Veeam backups, but we have a question about the limitations. The details below were extracted from the technical guide.       For the maximum 1 million object limit – is that referring to child folders and all recursive folders under the root bucket?   Root bucket (no limitation?) |___child folder 1 (1 million limit?) |          |____sub-folder 1 (1 million limit?) |___child folder 2 (1 million limit?)     For the maximum object size (aka file size), which limit applies to us? The 4TB or 16TB (specific PowerScale hardware configuration)?

DELL-Sam L · Answer

Hello gujumax99, Which Isilon or Powerscale system do you have as you didn’t list it in your post.

gujumax99 · Answer

A200 8 nodes cluster. Also, can I use SyncIQ to copy data from a NO WORM folder on one PowerScale cluster over to another PowerScale cluster with SmartLock enabled on the destination path?

DELL-Sam L · Answer

Hello gujumax99, It is best for you to open a support case so that we can get some more detail as to what you are trying to achieve with your configuration.

storageSysAdmin · Answer

Its a recommendation to not have more than 1million files per DIR I believe, but not an actual technical limitation, as I have DIRs just over that limit, but utilising SMB/NFS rather than S3. Veeam does generate a staggering amount of tiny files via S3 so that might be more overhead.

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