@MattSpeller said:
So the follow up to my rant below - I need a way to generate 14TB of uncompressable data and see what happens.
You can use FIO to generate multiple 1GB unique files if you'd like and stream them to the OneBlox Ring. This is what we do internally to test and fill up our file system to 100% utilization in our QA process.
@AVI-NetworkGuy +1 on JV.
I have been using Apple JV for the past 5 years when they began making more of a push into corporations. At $100/user/year it's not insignificant, but I have found on many occasions scheduling a support call and h/w support to be well worth it.
Another benefit is loaner laptop if you have to leave yours with the Genius.
@scottalanmiller said in How Do You Teach Everything in IT?:
@wirestyle22 said in How Do You Teach Everything in IT?:
@scottalanmiller said in How Do You Teach Everything in IT?:
@wirestyle22 said in How Do You Teach Everything in IT?:
Never heard of Exablox. Learned something. I've never had anything even remotely that large either though.
You can get them relatively small. Not SMALL, but not huge. Like 36TB is where you could start with one.
Our file server is 488 GB currently
Any idea of the cost for the most basic of models? Even a round-about?
Too expensive for 488GB I'm afraid
@SeanExablox could tell you some starter prices.
@wirestyle22 it depends on how important the 488GB is to your organization. Lake Chelan Community Hospital has 1TB of medical records they need to protect from ransomware. They purchased OneBlox and with our immutable CDP they can recover from any ransomware infection.
OneBlox is $11,995 and you purchase drives at retail pricing (up to 8TB drives). We're running a promotion this month where we're giving away 72TB of storage when you purchase OneBlox...
@scottalanmiller said:
My guess, but it is only a guess, is that that number is diagnostics and will grow slightly but be generally pretty consistent over time. Maybe @SeanExablox can shed some light on that.
@scottalanmiller you're correct. Because our management is cloud-based the heartbeat and metadata comprise the payload sent over a 24 hour period. The larger and more complex the environment (#shares, users, events, etc) the amount traffic OneBlox and OneSystem pass back and forth will increase. Having said that it should be a very modest increase in traffic and it's fairly evenly distributed throughout the day.
@MattSpeller said:
Chatty little boxes! These things call home quite a bit. It's not a huge quantity of traffic (around 300mb/day/oneblox = 600mb/day total for me). Keep in mind that is without anyone actually accessing them or doing anything to them. I'm not sure if that will effect their level of communication or not. This screen cap is over 24h period.
@MattSpeller user access and storage capacity won't really impact the amount of data that OneBlox and OneSystem send to each other. If you do see a significant uptick, please let me know.
PS. apologies for the delete/repost, neglected to quote the original post.
@MattSpeller said:
Seems like the errors from last week have gotten strange. I've only been loading data to the "victoria' unit, however the "vanouver" one is showing greater storage used, along with a really sweet amount of dedupe
You'll see really good dedupe ratios like this as it's strictly a calculation based on how much data is written the Ring and then to the physical drives. Over the week and lifetime you'll get a more 'reasonable' ratio
I also prefer my TVs to be 'dumb' and in 2D. How many people cover up the cameras on their monitors or laptops? I don't
Checking my Veeam backup dedupe ratios on the OneBlox software that is going through QA now.
@MattSpeller said:
I clearly have a lot more reading and learning to do about these things.
Hi MattSpeller, I'm Sean (Sr. Director, Product Management @Exablox). As SAM mentions we're unique in this space. I'd be happy to have a conversation and answer any questions you have. Since we have an object-based file system 'under' SMB that we make accessible to applications and clients we have a lot of flexibility in managing your information efficiently.
@dafyre You should check us out now!
second gen hardware, inline VL dedupe, inline compression, bi-directional and multi-site replication, VMware and Hyper-V ready....
Copying over from other thread...
@scottalanmiller said in How Do You Teach Everything in IT?:
@SeanExablox What is a good starting TB size for looking at an Exablox solution?
ok on forked thread.
One comment on this thread before moving. It really depends on the value of the information to the company. I mentioned the ransomware sizing of 1TB, but this is the exception. We have many customers with less than 10TB backup and shared file serving problems that they start with a single OneBlox and don't fully populate. Our s/w features and scale-out mean they spend very little time managing storage, but have enterprise class features.
For those less familiar with Exablox, I just gave an Overview and demo that was recorded.
https://www.exablox.com/what-is-it/techology.php (main page)
https://vimeo.com/168718551 (overview)
https://vimeo.com/168718574 (OneSystem demo)
@scottalanmiller said in How Do You Teach Everything in IT?:
@SeanExablox What is a good starting TB size for looking at an Exablox solution?
ok on forked thread.
One comment on this thread before moving. It really depends on the value of the information to the company. I mentioned the ransomware sizing of 1TB, but this is the exception. We have many customers with less than 10TB backup and shared file serving problems that they start with a single OneBlox and don't fully populate. Our s/w features and scale-out mean they spend very little time managing storage, but have enterprise class features.
@scottalanmiller said in How Do You Teach Everything in IT?:
@wirestyle22 said in How Do You Teach Everything in IT?:
@scottalanmiller said in How Do You Teach Everything in IT?:
@wirestyle22 said in How Do You Teach Everything in IT?:
Never heard of Exablox. Learned something. I've never had anything even remotely that large either though.
You can get them relatively small. Not SMALL, but not huge. Like 36TB is where you could start with one.
Our file server is 488 GB currently
Too expensive for 488GB I'm afraid
@SeanExablox could tell you some starter prices.
@wirestyle22 it depends on how important the 488GB is to your organization. Lake Chelan Community Hospital has 1TB of medical records they need to protect from ransomware. They purchased OneBlox and with our immutable CDP they can recover from any ransomware infection.
OneBlox is $11,995 and you purchase drives at retail pricing (up to 8TB drives). We're running a promotion this month where we're giving away 72TB of storage when you purchase OneBlox...
@scottalanmiller said in How Do You Teach Everything in IT?:
@brianlittlejohn said in How Do You Teach Everything in IT?:
@scottalanmiller His response was notifications/alerts and hotspares....
Oh man, even dumber than the initial post. Hot spares for RAID 5? how dumb is this guy!?!?
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2012/07/hot-spare-or-a-hot-mess/
And it makes it worse that he's read about what a bad idea it is and recommends it and uses it regardless and acts like he didn't know that he was putting the business at risk!
I was going to chime and say hot/cold spares are irrelevant with OneBlox's distributed object store. We recover from a drive(s) failure without the need to have drive assets sitting passively by. After that's complete, we can recover from additional failures....all without replacing a hard drive. (Caveat: there needs to be enough capacity in the storage pool, but technically possible.)
@dafyre You should check us out now!
second gen hardware, inline VL dedupe, inline compression, bi-directional and multi-site replication, VMware and Hyper-V ready....
@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....
@scottalanmiller with OneBlox remote replication, we are only replicating the deduped and compressed objects so it should be more efficient that 1GB/50Mb/s
@Dashrender sshhhh. bi-directional replication is coming shortly from Exablox.
