[RELEASE] Managed Hardened Repository ISO by Veeam

[musicwallaby]

I wanted to say a massive thank you to Veeam for providing this ISO.

I have a few customers who have spare hardware laying around but they don't have super deep pockets and this has made a really easy way to get an additional set of backup copies in place that are immutable and where we don't have to manage Linux systems in depth to do it.

Really impressed.

If I was to offer one tiny criticism it's the disk requirements. I get why it's done the way it is but it would be great if there was a way to partition a one disk system because that single disk might be a 50TB hardware RAID6/60/10 whatever volume underneath.

Jas

[Gostev]

Why would you want to further divide such already small disk?

[musicwallaby]

Hello

Some question/feature request
To install, you need 2 devices (sda/sdb), it would be nice to make it possible to install with one device on which to make 2 partitions (sda1/sda2).
I have to allocate 2 disks to a separate raid group, which is not very good for free space. For example, if I had a server with 8 disks, I would just make 7 disks with raid6 + spare, but now I have to make 2 disks raid 1 + 5 disks raid6 + spare.

It's this sort of thing mate.

With some enterprise servers like Dell you can only make virtual disks from physical disks so if I have a spare server with 8x2TB drives and I want to repurpose for this, without buying extra drives (and the chassis having space) I need to use at least 1x2TB drive just for the boot disk of the repo so I can "only" use 7x2TB to hold backups.

It's not a massive issue just something that would be nice if with a single 8x2TB RAID6 disk the installer could create the boot volume and then use the rest for storage.

Hope that makes sense.

Jas

[HannesK]

Hello,
yes, it makes sense.

As of today, the solution would be to use self-managed Linux distros (Ubuntu, Rocky, etc.). The background of the decision to require two disks was to have a simple implementation option for a "repair" mode (which just deletes the smallest disk and re-installs the operating system on that smallest disk).

Best regards
Hannes

[musicwallaby]

Thanks and yes from that perspective it makes sense.

I'm happy to lose the capacity it's just something for the "nice to have" list maybe.

But I far prefer just using the Veeam supplied ISO