Backup Storage -- What's the best way
Hi everyone,
I have reprovisioned Dell 2950 with six 1TB sas drives to use as a storage server for backups and staff storage.
I plan to configure the array as an OBR 10 to maximize space yet maintain redundancy.
As mentioned, the storage will be for individual Hyper-V backups from two 2008R2 host machines.
I will intially use Windows Backup to make a BMR of each host.
Since my backup space requirements are not huge 500-750GB, I would like to use some of the storage for staff usage. 50users x20GB.
Questions: Does this scenario sound reasonable or should I think of something different?
Should I set the 2950 up as a network share or should I consider using iSCSI for the Backups and a Network Share for the staff? What is the performance difference?
If I use iSCSI, is there a way to use dedicated network ports from each host server to the backup server? Most the machines will have at least four network ports.
Has anyone come up with a restore disk to do a BMR off an iSCSI drive?
If I use iSCSI, should I create a separate target drive on the Backup machine for each host machine?
Hope you can help
--SM
I have reprovisioned Dell 2950 with six 1TB sas drives to use as a storage server for backups and staff storage.
I plan to configure the array as an OBR 10 to maximize space yet maintain redundancy.
As mentioned, the storage will be for individual Hyper-V backups from two 2008R2 host machines.
I will intially use Windows Backup to make a BMR of each host.
Since my backup space requirements are not huge 500-750GB, I would like to use some of the storage for staff usage. 50users x20GB.
Questions: Does this scenario sound reasonable or should I think of something different?
Should I set the 2950 up as a network share or should I consider using iSCSI for the Backups and a Network Share for the staff? What is the performance difference?
If I use iSCSI, is there a way to use dedicated network ports from each host server to the backup server? Most the machines will have at least four network ports.
Has anyone come up with a restore disk to do a BMR off an iSCSI drive?
If I use iSCSI, should I create a separate target drive on the Backup machine for each host machine?
Hope you can help
--SM
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I personally wouldn't even mess with iSCSI then. I think your solution will work just fine. The DC's would be the only part I would worry about, but seeing that you have two, you should be covered when you need to actually bring the VM's up on another server. I have no experience with Backupchain, but their website is pretty!
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I am looking at BackupChain as my software as it is quite affordable for non-profits and can do pretty much do everything I need except the BMR of the hosts.