Hi
I am completely new to FreeNAS so I am reading up on all the documentation at the moment so I can have a better understanding of it.
I thought I would post a thread regarding hardware specs early on as alot of the documentation relates to the the NAS being used as a filestore however the purpose of my NAS will be to store Veeam backups from a Server 2012 Hyper-V environment.
With this in mind could anyone recommend what hardware I should be looking at?
Also what RAID (10?) level should I be planning for? I was hoping to go for at least 4TB useable storage and with it being a store for backups (Will be replicated to another NAS in time) so at least 8TB of physical storage would be needed.
Should I be looking at SAS or SATA? I read 7200 RPM Sata disk are not a good choice for multi-user writes, so this shouldnt affect me as only one server would be backing up to it.
16GB/32GB RAM?
i3 Ivybridge processor?
Should I use an IBM Express ServeRAID M1015?
FreeNAS to be installed on a USB thumb drive?
The server hosting Server 2012 will have mutlitple gigabit NIC's which can be teamed if needed so should I purchase a quad NIC card to go in the NAS?
Any recommendations on cases? Or at least the form factor so I can investigate which case/psu/motherboard would fit best?
Configuration wise I am guessing I should not look at using deduplication or am I best forgetting this as it may affect the backups? deduplication is already run at block level with Server 2012 and then Veeam will deduplicate the backups as well. This will have an effect on how much memory I need for the machine.
Any help appreciated and sorry if the above is vague it is something I am only just looking into for the first time. In the past I have used cheap Buffalo products but Veeam is showing the Buffalo as the bottleneck at present so I wanted to investigate different options. :)
Cheers
Chris
I am completely new to FreeNAS so I am reading up on all the documentation at the moment so I can have a better understanding of it.
I thought I would post a thread regarding hardware specs early on as alot of the documentation relates to the the NAS being used as a filestore however the purpose of my NAS will be to store Veeam backups from a Server 2012 Hyper-V environment.
With this in mind could anyone recommend what hardware I should be looking at?
Also what RAID (10?) level should I be planning for? I was hoping to go for at least 4TB useable storage and with it being a store for backups (Will be replicated to another NAS in time) so at least 8TB of physical storage would be needed.
Should I be looking at SAS or SATA? I read 7200 RPM Sata disk are not a good choice for multi-user writes, so this shouldnt affect me as only one server would be backing up to it.
16GB/32GB RAM?
i3 Ivybridge processor?
Should I use an IBM Express ServeRAID M1015?
FreeNAS to be installed on a USB thumb drive?
The server hosting Server 2012 will have mutlitple gigabit NIC's which can be teamed if needed so should I purchase a quad NIC card to go in the NAS?
Any recommendations on cases? Or at least the form factor so I can investigate which case/psu/motherboard would fit best?
Configuration wise I am guessing I should not look at using deduplication or am I best forgetting this as it may affect the backups? deduplication is already run at block level with Server 2012 and then Veeam will deduplicate the backups as well. This will have an effect on how much memory I need for the machine.
Any help appreciated and sorry if the above is vague it is something I am only just looking into for the first time. In the past I have used cheap Buffalo products but Veeam is showing the Buffalo as the bottleneck at present so I wanted to investigate different options. :)
Cheers
Chris
