Hi All,
I'm working on building a dedicated appliance to use for Veeam backups in my lab. Ideally Veeam will run in a VM in my normal vSAN clsuter, so this server will only run storage for Veeam. I know ZFS isnt great for block storage for VM datastores, but it should be just fine for a Veeam repository. Is there any other OS's I should check out? Ive got a pair of 400GB Enterprise SAS SSD's that I was planning on using in either server for either an l2 arc or slog. Would either be benificial for just dumping backups? I can get Veeam to saturate a 10g nic easily, so looking for a little performance boost.
I'm planning on using either one of these two servers and having it scheduled to turn on overnight for a few hours to avoid wasting power 24/7 on spinning rust just to grab backups for 3 hours a day or so.
Server 1:
HP DL380 G9 SFF
1x Xeon E5 2650 v4 12 Core
12x 16gb = 192GB DDR4 ECC
22x 1.2TB SAS 10k Hard Drives
2x 400GB SAS SSD
128GB M.2 (boot)
dual intel 10g x540 Nic
Server 2:
Dell R630 10 bay
Dual Xeon E5 2620 v4 8 core (16 total)
12x 16gb = 192GB DDR4 ECC
8x 1.2TB SAS 10k Hard Drives
2x 400GB SAS SSD
128GB M.2 (boot)
dual intel 10g x540 Nic
I dont love the HP and have it kicking around without a use, however I figured since it has 24 bays it would make a decent archive / backup server, however its a bit louder and more power hungry than the dell (and ~8tb should be sufficient for what im backing up)
Any other OS's / backup solutions to consider? All of my servers run in Vm's on ESXI 8.0, and I have a Nutanix AOS lab as well, so thats the requirement for compatability (nutanix is just for testing, dont *need* backups, but it would be nice)