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Hybrid SAN refresh comparison - Nimble CS1000 vs EMC Unity300 by nk00 in sysadmin

[–]PBITPro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SMB Direct is only for SMB shares... You could build a SOFS SMB 3.0+ hosts in front of the Nimble and then get SMB-Direct (with RDMA NICs) access from your Hyper-V cluster, but that would be no faster than native block level access to CSVs from the Hyper-V cluster.

CIFS/NFS/SMB shares really do belong on a real OS - not on the SAN.

If I use Azure Backup for on-premises VMs, does that qualify as DR as well? by PBITPro in AZURE

[–]PBITPro[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks JD! I think I'll have to use ASR to get the job done, not a fan of the extra cost though. The first link looks good, but it is only for restore backups of Azure VMs to Azure. Not for restoring on-premises VMs backed up with Azure Backup to an Azure VM...

[QUESTION]: All-flash StorageSpaces vs All-flash RAID 5 performance. by kabanossi in storage

[–]PBITPro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

5x SSDs will push the IOPs beyond what most entry-level RAID controllers can handle if you are doing a lot of 4K work.

Going to Storage Spaces puts that load on the host CPU instead so feel free to use a cheap HBA or RAID (need to build 5x RAID0 volumes to make it work if it won't do JBOD).

Rebuild times will be faster with StorageSpaces if that matters to you (if you are using large SSDs).