I know it’s late on a Friday, but I wanted to get this out of my head and off my mind before I forgot. For our internal backup infrastructure, I’m the proud owner of a new Dell PowerEdge R550 with lots of space on local disk. It’s going to replace a Synology RackStation that is slowly dying and is several years old. The new server also has dual 25Gb connectivity (and dual 1Gb connectivity) that will allow me direct ISCSI access to our PowerStore 500T array. This server will be the primary backup repository for our primary site.
I am aware that if set this server up as a VHR/LHR, I cannot utilize direct storage access because functions required as a proxy server are not available when the server is hardened. If I choose to forgo the direct storage access capabilities as a proxy server and move forward with a LHR, are there any caveats of using a LHR as your primary repo? I don’t really NEED direct storage access. There’s not that much data to backup every day, and I can still use a proxy on the ESXI cluster and transfer to the repo over the 25Gb network instead, but after utilizing direct storage access on client’s SAN’s with 12Gb SAS cabling, it’s hard to pass up the sexiness of 25Gb direct storage access.
What do you feel is the best option? Both have the server as the primary repo, but LHR or Direct Storage Access?
