Posted on by Luis Freixas

Object First OOTBI: Unboxing

The day has finally arrived!

I finally got to open the box that had been waiting for me for weeks. After a little effort, we’ve finally unboxed it.

It’s an OOTBI appliance from Object First,
As you know, it’s an immutable S3 storage solution for Veeam.
Here’s some more information!

Let’s get to it. I’ll share photos and explain what we find along the way:

The fun begins: everything is well packed and labeled.
Inside, there’s a box with accessories and rails for rack mounting.
A poster with instructions—I love it! I’ll hang it in my office.
The back of the poster.
Oh yes, the front panel we’ve all been waiting for.
Goodies…
Let’s get to it.
Wow!
A beautiful front panel with 12 3.5-inch bays.
It comes with 11 drives like this one. This appliance is the 128 TB effective-capacity model.
The drive in the tray labeled NVMe is the high-speed cache drive!
The rear panel and its backplane with two 2.5-inch drives look great!
Not to forget the two 10 Gbps Ethernet ports, two 10 Gbps SFP+ ports, and the IPMI port.
The two 2.5-inch drives at the rear.
Hot-swappable power supplies: it comes with two for redundancy.
This is the rear panel with the network cables connected.
One last look at the rear—what a great design!
Here it is inside: clean and orderly, with its fans, SFP+ card, disk controller and battery, backplane, processors, and memory.
I couldn’t resist looking under the hood. It’s a beast!

That’s my first impression of the hardware and first power-on.

The build quality is excellent—Supermicro’s best.
Along with high-quality drives offering great capacity and speed!

Next time: booting the OS, integrating it with Veeam VBR 12.1, and sharing first tests and impressions.

I’ll show you the front panel again; I think it looks beautiful!
It would look fantastic hanging on the wall of my office like a picture!

Regards!