Hi,
I have a small company that has about 30 ESX VMs running. If we want to expand our current storage, which would be better - building a FreeNAS box, or purchasing a commercial unit such as QNAP?
Do the benefits of having VMWare supported and certified hardware outweigh the benefits of using ZFS? I spoke to several VM techs who said that FreeNAS was only supported for making backups, not be supported for production use. Not that we can afford a VMWare support contract right now anyways.
Switching to Proxmox doesn't seem to make sense, because it doesn't look like a very smooth transition from VMWare to Proxmox. It doesn't look running them both at the same time would be fun either.
From looking, it does not look like QNAP has many features to transfer filesystem snapshots offsite like ZFS has, which would be a nice feature to have.
I have a small company that has about 30 ESX VMs running. If we want to expand our current storage, which would be better - building a FreeNAS box, or purchasing a commercial unit such as QNAP?
Do the benefits of having VMWare supported and certified hardware outweigh the benefits of using ZFS? I spoke to several VM techs who said that FreeNAS was only supported for making backups, not be supported for production use. Not that we can afford a VMWare support contract right now anyways.
Switching to Proxmox doesn't seem to make sense, because it doesn't look like a very smooth transition from VMWare to Proxmox. It doesn't look running them both at the same time would be fun either.
From looking, it does not look like QNAP has many features to transfer filesystem snapshots offsite like ZFS has, which would be a nice feature to have.