@JaredBusch said in Hardware Design for SAM-DR Small Rackmount Backup Device: @matteo-nunziati said in Hardware Design for SAM-DR Small Rackmount Backup Device: @scottalanmiller just a question (sw not hw) why veeam rather than say.. altaro. Just curious! There is no backup software on this device. It is a storage target. One assumes that @scottalanmiller will be using some base OS that lets you setup basically any type of connectivity. Ok! Got it wrong! Thanks for clarifying

@NerdyDad said in Deployment Scenarios for the Dell PowerEdge FX: Its a nice concept, but unless you can purchase more than 2 chassis for ultimate redundancies, your eggs are still in one basket, shared with the storage. But in IT, eggs in one basket is a good thing, not a bad one. It's better to have your storage in the same basket as your servers, even when doing an IPOD. The worst option is to separate them.

@Tim_G said in Deployment Scenarios for the Dell PowerEdge VRTX: I'd certainly love one of these for a home lab. That's for sure! I can see the whole ROBO deployment scenario. Even in single/several use situations, like you mentioned... such as for specific critical high-performing services that won't outgrow it. Anywhere else, I'd feel stuck with it... what happens if you start to outgrow the resources? How scalable is it? That's what would determine it's worth for usage in place of regular 2u deployment servers. Maybe I'm just not a blade type person. It's really meant for contained scenarios where you know how big you will grow. For a normal SMB, the issue is growing into it, rather than outgrowing it.

I know a guy who built his own blade unit. Wooden blade enclosure and some simply power supplies and his own fans, then made it allow straight motherboards to slide in so that it make having a handful of systems running in a cluster super cheap. Pointless for production, but for a lab was very interesting.