Veeam Overhaul...

[Brian_ONA]

We are in the process of doing a major overall of Veeam and picked up a few QNAP’s to use for repos. Our PROD SAN is EMC Unity 480F’s and few Unity 300F as well.

Picked up 3 x TDS-16489U all going to be running QES (Too much bloatware on QTS) which mean ZFS file system. Full specs of each unit below.

Today we have two EMC Unity in each of the data centers. Our 480F/300F are PROD (90TB) and our 300 (NL) is used for backups (70TB). Our think is the Unity 300 will hold 7 days and everything else moved off to the QNAP.

Current specs for each of the QNAP (Nothing configured as this point)

4 x 12TB SAS Seagate = System Volume
12 x 16TB SAS Seagate = Data Volumes (Used for NFS and iSCSI)
4 x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus on (QM2-4P-384 - Quad M.2) – SSD cache?
4 x 4TB Samsung 860 PRO = Small SSD Volume
4 x 10G (LACP) Between the units for syncing data
1 x 25G Dual-port (LACP to Cisco Nexus 9k) NFS/iSCSI traffic

VMWARE shop and everything we do is file today. Started playing with ReFS a few months back on the fence. Lost the volume a few times and didn’t recovery all that well and had to bring the backup back from another source.

Looking for advise of how you guys would set them up.

Thanks in advance…

[HannesK]

Hello,
and welcome to the forums.

From Veeam side: the backup copy jobs pointing to the NAS systems need to be configured with "Read the entire restore point from source instead of synthesizing it from increments" to avoid merges. And NFS needs to be used.

Started playing with ReFS a few months back on the fence

yes, it's an unsupported setup with these NAS systems via iSCSI. Microsoft requires hardware, that is on the Windows server hardware compatibility list for REFS

I cannot say any specifics about configuring QNAPs. But cache is usually a good idea. So if the option is available, I would give it a try.

Best regards,
Hannes

PS: looks like it's too late already, but the recommendation is to use block storage (server with internal disks plus proper RAID controller plus REFS / XFS).