Does it make sense....
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I don't see the point unless you are planning on replacing the failed drive.
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@Breffni-Potter said in Does it make sense....:
@DustinB3403 said in Does it make sense....:
@Breffni-Potter said in Does it make sense....:
Why do you want to do it
- What is the goal?As a backup medium for production VMs
If you don't care about the backups and don't care if you cannot restore, go for it.
If you want it as a working backup medium, alas try something else.
And that was my hesitation as well... if anything in the world happens to that iSCSI target...
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@Dashrender There are no NAS functions at all. Only iSCSI capabilities on this unit.
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@DustinB3403 said
And that was my hesitation as well... if anything in the world happens to that iSCSI target...
Yep.
Now, how much data do you need to backup? And how long can you wait to restore the data?
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@Breffni-Potter said in Does it make sense....:
@DustinB3403 said
And that was my hesitation as well... if anything in the world happens to that iSCSI target...
Yep.
Now, how much data do you need to backup? And how long can you wait to restore the data?
Currently I'm backing up ~1TB of VM's, restoring would be "as soon as possible" in any event from which I need to restore.
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What's the budget to do this?
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@DustinB3403 said in Does it make sense....:
@Dashrender There are no NAS functions at all. Only iSCSI capabilities on this unit.
My bad - you're right, this is SAN functionality, not NAS, but in this case, does it matter? it's just a dumping ground, though a bit more complex - Yeah it's probably not worth using.
I have the same issue with my ancient Drobo
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@Breffni-Potter said in Does it make sense....:
What's the budget to do this?
"Using existing in office hours, and no additional hardware"
Meaning I can't replace the failed drive or purchase 4 higher capacity drives.
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@DustinB3403 said in Does it make sense....:
@Breffni-Potter said in Does it make sense....:
What's the budget to do this?
"Using existing in office hours, and no additional hardware"
Meaning I can't replace the failed drive or purchase 4 higher capacity drives.
Even if the drive is replaced or the capacity is increased, what if the controller fails on the unit? or the PSU?
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@Breffni-Potter I know this is rhetorical.
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I would say it's not possible. If they insist, I'd keep the email of them signing off on your concerns. Then when restoring a failed VM takes the SAN over the brink and causes your restore to also fail, you'll have something to show them.
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So everyone is in agreement with me.
it's not worth using it, and it's scrap metal at this point.
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@DustinB3403 said in Does it make sense....:
@Breffni-Potter said in Does it make sense....:
Why do you want to do it
- What is the goal?As a backup medium for production VMs
If the goal is to take backups, it's good. If the goal is to restore those backups in case of a disaster, this is almost useless.
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Unless you can replace that drive then this is garbage.
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The idea from the MSP was to just let the array silver over as new, and see if the drive comes back.
This to me sounds like a bad idea, to try and save costs.
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@DustinB3403 said in Does it make sense....:
The idea from the MSP was to just let the array silver over as new, and see if the drive comes back.
This to me sounds like a bad idea, to try and save costs.
Then the data isn't worth anything. Sounds like this will work.
