Hello.
I'm brand new to FreeNAS and building out servers, so please pardon my innocence.
I'm looking to build out a FreeNAS server that would act as a passive backup server for our primary storage(4-node Isilon cluster). By no means do I expect to run regular HPC load on this FreeNAS server. It needs to be there as a silent backup to be used carefully in case of a disaster.
In that context, would it be a good idea to install FreeNAS on SuperMicro SuperStorage Server 6049P-E1CR36H and export NFS out?
A dedicated backup server would be rsync-ing content from primary storage to this over a dedicated N/W, and I expect to use a few snapshots to serve as backups.
The server would have
96GB of DDR4 ECC memory,
an intel Xeon-SP Gold processor,
with 28 X Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD 6TB 4Kn SAS disk drives - total = 168 TB raw before RAID.
intel 10GbE NIC
Anything I need to know before venturing into this? Any suggestions, tips, advice?
/ Aravindh
I'm brand new to FreeNAS and building out servers, so please pardon my innocence.
I'm looking to build out a FreeNAS server that would act as a passive backup server for our primary storage(4-node Isilon cluster). By no means do I expect to run regular HPC load on this FreeNAS server. It needs to be there as a silent backup to be used carefully in case of a disaster.
In that context, would it be a good idea to install FreeNAS on SuperMicro SuperStorage Server 6049P-E1CR36H and export NFS out?
A dedicated backup server would be rsync-ing content from primary storage to this over a dedicated N/W, and I expect to use a few snapshots to serve as backups.
The server would have
96GB of DDR4 ECC memory,
an intel Xeon-SP Gold processor,
with 28 X Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD 6TB 4Kn SAS disk drives - total = 168 TB raw before RAID.
intel 10GbE NIC
Anything I need to know before venturing into this? Any suggestions, tips, advice?
/ Aravindh