KillerJupe
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I'm new and but have been searching around and haven't found a good answer yet.
I inherited an IT dept with a limited budget but "big" storage needs and a few software licences.
Veeam, and vsphere licences
We have 2 servers that are identical.
SM w/ dual E5's and 64gb of ram.
I have one new production server with about 10tb of storage.
One old server is populated w/ 20 4tb 2.5" sata drives (direct connected w/ HBA's).
My thought are:
1. Set up old server 1 as another esxi 6.0 host (no hardrives)
2. Set up old server 2 as Freenas 9.3 w/ the 20 4tb drives
3. Create a datastore on the FN server
4. connect esxi host to freenas
5. use veeam to replicate and backup the production server to the backup server. It will hopefully only be used for nightly backups so the slow drives won't really matter.
My questions are:
1. Should I use NFS, CIFS, or iSCSI to make the esxi -> FN connection. I believe iscsi is the best choice, but i've also seen where it says i should keep iscsi usage to under 50% of total raid capacity.
2. Does this even sound like a good plan for long term usage?
3. I know the more vdevs the faster the performance, but i figured 10 drives by 2 z3 configuration would be the way to go.
Thanks for any advice, sorry if this is in the wrong area :/
I inherited an IT dept with a limited budget but "big" storage needs and a few software licences.
Veeam, and vsphere licences
We have 2 servers that are identical.
SM w/ dual E5's and 64gb of ram.
I have one new production server with about 10tb of storage.
One old server is populated w/ 20 4tb 2.5" sata drives (direct connected w/ HBA's).
My thought are:
1. Set up old server 1 as another esxi 6.0 host (no hardrives)
2. Set up old server 2 as Freenas 9.3 w/ the 20 4tb drives
3. Create a datastore on the FN server
4. connect esxi host to freenas
5. use veeam to replicate and backup the production server to the backup server. It will hopefully only be used for nightly backups so the slow drives won't really matter.
My questions are:
1. Should I use NFS, CIFS, or iSCSI to make the esxi -> FN connection. I believe iscsi is the best choice, but i've also seen where it says i should keep iscsi usage to under 50% of total raid capacity.
2. Does this even sound like a good plan for long term usage?
3. I know the more vdevs the faster the performance, but i figured 10 drives by 2 z3 configuration would be the way to go.
Thanks for any advice, sorry if this is in the wrong area :/
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