Scharbag
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The company I work for uses HP SANs for our production environment. They are expensive but they work well it seems (not my job to manage). We also have some Synology UC3200 systems at some remote sites that suit our needs but they cannot expand to what we need for bulk backups.
We are looking for more cost effective bulk storage for backups as the HP gear is not really priced appropriately for this use. We currently have Fiber Channel tape backups as well as some spinning rust in QNAP etc. Our use case for bulk storage is for backups only. We use Veeam currently. We need compatibility with SAP and SQL backups.
Questions that I have is:
So, if there are any peeps on this forum that have M-Series devices in production, or other like type TrueNAS systems, please let me know your thoughts. We are at the very beginning of the journey and I would like to have some options to spur conversation.
Thank you!
We are looking for more cost effective bulk storage for backups as the HP gear is not really priced appropriately for this use. We currently have Fiber Channel tape backups as well as some spinning rust in QNAP etc. Our use case for bulk storage is for backups only. We use Veeam currently. We need compatibility with SAP and SQL backups.
Questions that I have is:
- Is ZFS compatible with SQL and SAP (SAP points us towards BTRFS)
- Would a TrueNAS M-Series system meet these needs?
- Initial repository expected to be ~1PB
- Needs to have fault tolerance
- Should be expandable for future use
- Prefer the ability synchronize with an off site repository (we have a sister site with a 2Gbps 60GHz link between us and them - initial sync would be done locally...)
So, if there are any peeps on this forum that have M-Series devices in production, or other like type TrueNAS systems, please let me know your thoughts. We are at the very beginning of the journey and I would like to have some options to spur conversation.
Thank you!