Should I use a dedicated VLAN for Time Machine Backups

iHeartMacs

Explorer

Jan 23, 2018

Hi,

I have 25 Macs backing up to my FreeNAS connected to the switch via 10Gbe SFP. Should I have a dedicated VLAN for backups?

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FreeNAS-9.10.2-U3
12-bay Supermicro SC826E16-R1200LPB
Supermicro X8DT6-F
dual Xeon E5645 @ 2.40GHz
96GB ECC PC3-10600R
mirrored Silicon Power 32GB USB boot
Intel X520-DA2 10GbE
LSI SAS9207-4i4e
LSI SAS9211-8i
LSI2008-IT
12 x 2TB SATA (internal, mirrored, photos/generic file server)
- Kingston Digital HyperX Predator 240 GB PCIe Gen2 x4 (slog) - removed, no performance improvement
- Intel 540s Series 180GB (l2arc) - removed, no performance improvement
4 x 960GB SSD SATA (internal, mirrored, XenServer VMs)
12 x 3TB SAS (HP D2600, RAID-Z2, security video)

FreeNAS-11.0-U4
HP DL360 G5
dual Xeon E5430 @ 2.66GHz
32GB ECC
dual Sandisk 8GB USB boot
Intel X520-DA2 10GbE
LSI SAS9205-8e
7 x 600 GB SAS (HP D2700, RAID-Z2, replicated data from primary)
10 x 1TB SAS (HP D2700, RAID-Z2, replicated data from primary)

FreeNAS-11.0-U4
Supermicro X10SDV-TLN4F-O
Fractal Design Node 804
Samsung MEM-DR416L-SL01-ER21 16GB DDR4-2133 ECC (four for 64GB)
WD Red 4TB (four), striped mirror, 8TB available
Corsair RM550x
Samsung 960 EVO 250GB PCIe NVMe M.2 (boot)
Noctua NF-F12 PWM Cooling Fan (two)

one = Cisco SG500X-48 48-Port GB plus 10-GB
two - Cisco SG500X-24 24-Port GB plus 10-GB
seven - Cisco SG200-50p
four - Cisco SG200-26p

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