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.
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/