Nexsan has launched the Nexsan VHR‑Series, a fully integrated, enterprise-class, hardened repository appliance designed explicitly for Veeam Software environments. The platform is built for organizations that require strong immutability, security, and performance to enable ransomware-resistant backup and recovery.
The Nexsan VHR offers end-to-end data immutability and integrates seamlessly with Veeam, providing a secure target without extensive custom setup. The appliance comes preloaded with the Veeam Hardened Repository ISO and is designed to resist ransomware, insider threats, and accidental or malicious data loss. Nexsan focuses on performance, rigorous QA testing, and straightforward scalability, aiming to deliver a reliable, predictable backup infrastructure for businesses.
Hardened Architecture and Data Protection Features
The VHR‑Series is built on a hardened architecture that emphasizes fast recovery and reliable data protection. The platform aims for aggressive recovery time objectives, allowing systems and services to be quickly restored after an incident. This is especially important for buyers who need to reduce downtime and uphold service-level agreements during ransomware attacks or large-scale restorations.
Battery-backed cache protection is included to safeguard in-flight data during power failures. In practice, this helps ensure that writes are not lost or corrupted during unexpected interruptions, which is critical for maintaining backup integrity. This hardware-level protection complements Veeam’s software-based immutability features, providing a more comprehensive data protection stack.
Security and compliance are key design elements. The VHR‑Series is configured to meet DISA STIG (Defense Information Systems Agency Security Technical Implementation Guide) standards, allowing deployment in environments with strict hardening and configuration requirements. For clients in regulated or high-security fields, this minimizes the manual security adjustments needed during deployment.
To reduce risk in production environments, Nexsan delivers the VHR appliances as GA-tested, certified, and supported configurations. Customers are not assembling reference architectures from separate components and hoping they work as planned. Instead, the validated appliance approach aims to simplify deployment and support, offering a more predictable experience once the system is in operation.
Nexsan also includes a standard global five-year hardware warranty across all VHR models. For enterprises, this level of long-term coverage simplifies lifecycle planning and support contracts and can help align the appliance with typical backup infrastructure refresh cycles.
Veeam Ready Appliance Designation
Aligned with the launch, the Nexsan VHR-Series has received the Veeam Ready Appliance designation. The Veeam Ready Program is a qualification process that confirms partner solutions meet Veeam’s functional and performance standards. Earning this status indicates that the VHR-Series has passed Veeam’s compatibility and performance tests for use with the Veeam Data Platform.
The Veeam Ready designation provides an additional layer of assurance that core capabilities such as hardened repositories, immutability, and recovery workflows will operate as intended. It also indicates that Nexsan and Veeam have aligned on integration and validation, which generally translates into better joint support and fewer surprises during deployment and operation.
Nexsan positions the VHR‑Series as a secure, compliant, and resilient infrastructure platform for Veeam backups at a competitive price point. The appliances offer capacities ranging from 64 TB to 3.3 PB, providing coverage from mid-size environments to large-scale enterprise deployments. This capacity range enables organizations to align system sizing with their retention policies, backup windows, and growth expectations without overspending on unused capacity.
Scalability is achieved through integration with Nexsan’s E‑Series expansion shelves. As data sets grow, customers can increase capacity while maintaining a consistent architecture and management model. This method supports longer retention periods, larger backup jobs, and expanded use of immutable copies without needing a forklift upgrade or re-architecture of the backup environment.
From a use-case perspective, the VHR‑Series targets organizations that are standardizing on Veeam for data protection and require a hardened, appliance-based repository. The platform is especially relevant in environments that need to defend against ransomware, meet strict compliance standards, and ensure consistent recovery performance.
Nexsan in the Enterprise Storage Ecosystem
These solutions are delivered through a global partner network comprising solution providers, technology partners, and OEMs. This model enables Nexsan to reach a wide range of customers while ensuring that systems are integrated and supported within larger solution stacks. The Nexsan VHR offers multiple procurement and integration options, aiming to keep business-critical data protected, compliant, and consistently accessible.
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