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Re: V12: Main Benefits of using Local Object Storage vs. Linux Repo

Post by mkretzer » 1 person likes this post

There is one more benefit using Linux: In theory, if you use premium hardware with lots of redundancies (like we do) you can span the LVM over multiple storage systems (especially for primary storage and if you have a also premium backup copy target). Also, since you can migrate LVM online i still believe that at these sizes XFS + LVM is *much* more flexible.
Still, jorgedlcruz's comment comes into play here: you have to be very comfortable with Linux and have to know exactly what you are doing!

I hope for the foreseeable future Veeam still invests in/supports XFS as for us its one of the best features Veeam has ever provided!
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Two use-cases I'm the most excited about:

- Much simpler conversation in SMB - if they want to use a QNAP or TrueNAS you can! Just enable the built-in S3 connector and no more tricky conversations about iSCSI or Linux VMs. Which includes Agent Backups
- Multiple Buckets! Each "Tenant" in an MSP or Department" in a business can have their own bucket. This makes billing and chargeback of raw consumption much easier than trying to do that with volumes on XFS
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@dhnz: In your opinion how reliable are the S3 services of QNAP, Synology, etc? If SMB and at some point iSCSI aren't seen as reliable, can we trust the S3 implementations?
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Exactly. It was never their focus in the first place, so I would expect that to be a checkbox-quality functionality in terms of performance and scalability at least, and possibly reliability.
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Re: V12: Main Benefits of using Local Object Storage vs. Linux Repo

Post by chris.childerhose »

dhnz wrote: Jul 15, 2022 3:38 am Two use-cases I'm the most excited about:

- Much simpler conversation in SMB - if they want to use a QNAP or TrueNAS you can! Just enable the built-in S3 connector and no more tricky conversations about iSCSI or Linux VMs. Which includes Agent Backups
- Multiple Buckets! Each "Tenant" in an MSP or Department" in a business can have their own bucket. This makes billing and chargeback of raw consumption much easier than trying to do that with volumes on XFS
This will be interesting as I have a Synology at home I can test with this theory. Going to be something we will look at being an MSP since we are now moving away from ReFS to XFS now to add immutability.
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