Immutable Backup Repo - Hardware Recommendations?

[Chrispyyy]

Managed to secure some budget for a replacement backup repository, and I’m looking to setup a linux immutable repository.
This is what I’ve had spec’d from my vendor. What do you think? What would you change?

• 2 x Intel Silver 4410Y 12C

• 4 x 16GB DDR4 4800MHz

• 2 x 240GB Intel S4510 SSD (OS Disk)

• 10 x 18TB SAS3 7200rpm (RAID 60 - Repo)

• Broadcom 9560-16i RAID 8Gb flash cache

• 4 x SFP28 Network Card

Backing up a Pure Storage flash array on 25Gb fabric (will be bonded), not sure what performance I’d get. The data proxy is handled by a physical appliance with direct san access.

This is moving from a NetApp E-Series, which gets around 300MB/s - which I think is quite poor.
Any pointers or hardware recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Wanting to get the best bang for my buck.

Thanks!

[Mildur]

Hi Chrispy

Hannes wrote a blog about selecting the right hardware: https://www.veeam.com/blog/hardened-lin ... tices.html

May I ask, do you have a raid controller with write cache (backed by a battery) in the server?
Maybe also reconsider the memory. Best practice would be 4GB per Core. You have 2*12 cores, which would mean you need 96GB to have the best practice design: https://bp.veeam.com/vbr/2_Design_Struc ... ositories/

Best,
Fabian