I’m in the market for new storage at 2 sites. I’m hoping to get some input from the community here if any of you have a lot of data, or fast storage.
Requirements - You need to be able to hit a minimum of 2GB/s on your Veeam jobs to post your solution. I want you to detail your proxy, repo, and storage setup as well. (This is not a competition though)
Currently I have 2 V7000’s. I can hit about 2.2GB/s sending data to 6 LTO8 drives. I am hitting about 6k IOPS but the latency starts to increase at this point. I’ve been happy with this storage, (7200RPM disks) but it’s time to upgrade, and I am looking at a few options.
Option 1) Exagrid at 2 sites. 10+ EX84 per site
- Does anyone here own Exagrid storage? What is your performance like, how about long term restores? The price is decent, I just have concerns about a large scale instant restore, synthetic operations, merges etc. (Those are my current pain points with my current v7000s It’s fast untill I run too many at once)
Option 2) Pure storage at one site, Exagrid at the second.
- More money, but should out preform the Exagid. Looking for people who own Pure or Exa to jump in here.
- Can’t use the Exagrid replication, Would have to use a copy job between sites. (currently running this way anyways)
- Second site is for DR, rarely used. This solution allows for long term at the DR site and fast at the main site.
- Still need to get faster speeds as we will start adding a few more tape drives soon and dropping down seems counter intuative.
- The Pure FlashBlade S200 is something that I am looking at. Also, seeing that we are a Fiber Channel storage shop, looking at a Flash Array C, and an IBM as a fallback option.