Retire the Landing Zone: Instant Recoveries Now Run Straight from Dell Data Domain
Veeam, Friday, November 6th, 2026
Dell Data Domain earned Veeam Ready primary target certification, so Instant VM Recovery can run directly from it without a landing zone.
Veeam users with Dell Data Domain often paid for a separate fast disk landing zone because random I/O workloads like Instant VM Recovery ran slowly on deduplicated storage.
Data Domain has now passed the Veeam Ready Repository Primary Target certification, tested on the entry DD3410 and therefore covering the full current lineup.
Dell reworked DDOS read handling and added flash metadata caching, while Veeam added storage-aware Instant Recovery, RAM block caching, prefetching, DD Boost integration and automatic best-practice settings.
Since Veeam Backup & Replication v13, the integration also supports Retention Lock compliance and governance modes and DD Boost Managed File Replication.