Exablox Site Replication
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Looking to see how Exablox works with site to site replication. Need to have two sites with 10TB+ available at each site and replicated between them. Will Exablox make a single filesystem visible to both sites? How will that work and what features and limitations will that present?
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What is your change rate? What size pipe between locations?
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@Dashrender said:
What is your change rate? What size pipe between locations?
Roughly 1GB per day, 50Mb/s
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
What is your change rate? What size pipe between locations?
Roughly 1GB per day, 50Mb/s
Assuming the Exablox units can handle link interruptions between sites that could take umm.... a while to upload, lol.
Do the initial sync on site, and then move one of the exablox units off site?
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@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
What is your change rate? What size pipe between locations?
Roughly 1GB per day, 50Mb/s
Assuming the Exablox units can handle link interruptions between sites that could take umm.... a while to upload, lol.
Do the initial sync on site, and then move one of the exablox units off site?
Would you start a 10 TB sync any other way?
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@Dashrender said:
@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
What is your change rate? What size pipe between locations?
Roughly 1GB per day, 50Mb/s
Assuming the Exablox units can handle link interruptions between sites that could take umm.... a while to upload, lol.
Do the initial sync on site, and then move one of the exablox units off site?
Would you start a 10 TB sync any other way?
Only if I have no other options, lol.
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I dealt with something like this once, and I am trying to recall the finer details. It was a Unitrends installation, and the customer was archiving daily to a local Exablox device, which copied to a remote Exablox. I'm thinking that it wasn't replication in that case, but warm storage to cold storage. We even had a couple conference calls with support reps from Exablox and myself (representing Unitrends), to hammer out how both pieces would behave. I just wish I could clearly recall it all.
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What I need is both sites to work symmetrically with files locking on both sides when accessed from one. Bidirectional syncing.
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Sound more like you want a clustered file system, rather than a synchronized one.
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@scottalanmiller said:
What I need is both sites to work symmetrically with files locking on both sides when accessed from one. Bidirectional syncing.
For curiosity sake, I'll be interested to know how you solve that.
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@dafyre said:
Sound more like you want a clustered file system, rather than a synchronized one.
Yes, that would be ideal. But the bandwidth is going to make that a problem.
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@scottalanmiller Exablox replication does not provide global file locking across multiple locations. Our replication works on a per share basis so you can decide all, some, or a few shares (r/w) in the primary OneBlox Ring are replicated to shares (r/o) secondary OneBlox Ring.
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@Dashrender sshhhh. bi-directional replication is coming shortly from Exablox.
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@scottalanmiller with OneBlox remote replication, we are only replicating the deduped and compressed objects so it should be more efficient that 1GB/50Mb/s
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@art_of_shred said:
I dealt with something like this once, and I am trying to recall the finer details. It was a Unitrends installation, and the customer was archiving daily to a local Exablox device, which copied to a remote Exablox. I'm thinking that it wasn't replication in that case, but warm storage to cold storage. We even had a couple conference calls with support reps from Exablox and myself (representing Unitrends), to hammer out how both pieces would behave. I just wish I could clearly recall it all.
Yes, this is a very common use case for Exablox. Hunger Task Force is currently doing this with Unitrends. https://www.exablox.com/whats-happening/press-releases/140422-hunger_task_force.php.
Works the same way with Veeam, Backup Exec, NetBackup, others....
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@SeanExablox thanks for all of the info!
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