In the modern, data-intensive enterprise, the mandate for Zero Downtime is colliding with the reality of increasing data volumes and velocity. Veeam is the established champion of the Availability Platform, providing the operational consistency needed to ensure low Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) across hybrid cloud environments. Their architecture is designed for granular control, ensuring every workload—from virtual machines to SaaS applications—is backed up efficiently, reliably, and with the utmost integrity.
However, the efficacy of any data protection strategy is fundamentally limited by the underlying storage infrastructure. Traditional shared storage arrays often introduce latency and I/O bottlenecks that choke performance during critical operations. This is where Lightbits Labs provides the foundational shift. Lightbits delivers a truly disaggregated, scale-out storage solution built on NVMe over TCP (NVMe/TCP), offering shared, centralized NVMe flash access over standard Ethernet networking. This architecture is engineered to deliver predictable, sub-200 microsecond latency and massive IOPS at scale, eliminating the storage layer as a performance constraint for demanding workloads.
The integration detailed in our new white paper demonstrates a powerful architectural synergy, leveraging Lightbits as the high-performance source for Veeam backup repositories and for high-speed data restoration. This combination directly combats critical infrastructure failure vectors, including Hardware Failure and the severe downtime caused by Ransomware and large-scale corruption. Lightbits’ architecture inherently provides superior resiliency through its distributed data placement. Critically, by providing dedicated, ultra-low-latency NVMe/TCP storage, Lightbits dramatically reduces the RTO (Recovery Time Objective). This accelerated data retrieval capability allows Veeam to execute rapid, high-throughput restores, ensuring your business-critical applications regain full operational status in minutes, not hours.
This architectural drawing illustrates how the Lightbits NVMe/TCP cluster provides a high-speed data path for Veeam, enhancing the overall data protection and recovery envelope.
To learn more about architecting data infrastructure for high availability with Veeam and Lightbits, reference these additional resources:
- White Paper: Lightbits and Veeam: Backup and Restore Integration
