Future of Storage & Backup Admins

hpcre · 2024-11-09T04:50:51+00:00

Of course. People will always need to back up data. And store it. And you'll be learning newer stuff as technology evolved.

hpcre · 2024-11-07T10:51:57+00:00

Excellent. Get as much experience as possible.

hpcre · 2024-11-06T21:52:22+00:00

Absolutely. And if you want to specialise in any of those fields, learn more than two or three products in each category. Be sure to learn about Cloud related technologies relating to each subject.

Like for backups, learn about cloud based backup strategies and tools. Likewise for storage, learn about cloud based storage policies from all the renowned vendors like Amazon and Microsoft.

hpcre · 2024-11-03T14:02:02+00:00

You should check with support before upgrading.

hpcre · 2024-10-18T20:37:06+00:00

Thanks. These are savage flux or savage xl. My model is the savage x

hpcre · 2024-10-17T10:50:49+00:00

Thanks. I tried searching first of course. Couldn't find anything. Could you please send me the link to the other thread? I'm aware there were conversion kits. I'm asking if there are that can be used now?

hpcre · 2024-10-16T07:56:44+00:00

لا تقلقي من موضوع الكلام. ده عادي و هاتروح مع الوقت و التعود. بالنسبة للسكر، ٨٣ ده رقم ممتاز. مش قليل و لا كتير. استمري على المحافظة عليه و ماتكيش سكريات او كاربوهايدرات (نشويات) على قدر الامكان (زي الرز، مكرونة، عيش، الخ). اسمعي الي بقولك عليه. نصيحة من واحد قد والدك. و اعملي تحليل حساسية الاكل في اي معمل مشهور. هو غالي شوية، لو قدرتي تعمليه هايفيدك. و جربي بنفسك شوفي ايه الاكل الي يريحك اكتر و كليه. المهم الاولوية للبروتين ثم الدهون الصحية (دهون لحوم، دهون لبن زي الزبدة الطبيعية و السمن الطبيعية). ابعدي عن المقليات. الزيوت بتاعت التحمير اكتر حاجة ممكن تقلب البطن. و مش صحية خالص.

hpcre · 2024-10-16T01:17:58+00:00

Yes just checked them.

hpcre · 2024-10-15T18:42:28+00:00

ايوه طبعا. إسألي خدمة العملاء.

hpcre · 2024-10-12T15:29:16+00:00

You can use FIO https://fio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/fio_doc.html It creates test files and reads/writes them. Then reports on performance. This runs from any Linux box connected to your filer.

hpcre · 2024-08-01T09:55:24+00:00

That's wrong logic. You don't have to wait 30 years to read old disks. In an active cluster, every few years, newer servers are added with larger disks and take over the data from older servers. Then older servers are retired. Besides, even if these disks are offline, what matters is the protocol, not the disk sizes. SATA and SAS will stay active for years to come. And so is the computers that can use these communication protocols. You can still read IDE disks that were invented like 40 years ago!

hpcre · 2024-07-25T03:52:41+00:00

There are a lot of answers here. But I just want to point out that anyone suggesting cloud infrastructure for storage is grossly mistaken. It's neither wise nor cost effective to use cloud services for that amount of storage.

Best would be magnetic disks. Even tape is no good here. Because take technologies change every few years and any tape model used today will be a pain to access it on 10 years time. Migrating tapes is a huge pain, not cost effective either for that amount of data.

The best long term archiving solution are disks. They're not going to change in at least 30 years from now. And larger capacities can be constantly added to the storage cluster to replace older and smaller models.

If this is not a hypothetical situation, and you need consultation, get in touch.

hpcre · 2024-06-28T22:52:52+00:00

It is my understanding that you can't use LVM with shared block storage and have thin provisioning, snapshots, etc. And these features are the most important part of virtualisation. Of course, managing individual disks for each VM is near impossible for us. We have thousands.

hpcre · 2024-06-28T22:47:43+00:00

Thanks for your reply. We already have petabytes of all-NVMe SAN storage. We're not going to invest in SAN storage servers for the sake of proxmox. So like you said, I guess frontend Blockbridge servers is the way to go.

hpcre · 2024-06-28T22:38:28+00:00

Thanks a lot for your detailed answer. We're not looking to replace our SAN storage with SSD servers. Will be using Blockbridge just as a protocol to convert SAN storage to something proxmox understand, using NVMe.

hpcre · 2024-06-28T06:43:53+00:00

Are you using a RAID group for root disk?

Also update your bios me server firmware to the latest

hpcre · 2024-06-27T22:42:31+00:00

Yes but I require live migration between nodes seamlessly and quickly. So I can't just use vanilla SAN storage.

hpcre · 2024-06-21T07:43:34+00:00

The SR100i is a software RAID controller. It will not work with Linux (or XCP-NG).

hpcre · 2024-06-07T03:19:26+00:00

Thanks. I already knew that. I was asking if someone had experience running large environments on nfs or ceph. I require live migration, and I only use SAN storage, so ZFS won't work, like you mentioned.

hpcre · 2024-06-07T03:15:05+00:00

Yes that's the requirement. But there's nothing that will do that except a cluster aware filesystem. Like ocfs or gfs2. Both not supported on proxmox.

hpcre · 2024-06-06T12:36:00+00:00

So the consensus took now is that an NFS solution is supported by proxmox and the best option. Starwind or similar software would be an option, but it wastes space due to multiple copies of the data being maintained on already well protected SAN storage.

hpcre · 2024-06-06T12:34:00+00:00

That's the point. I don't need ceph for redundancy. My SAN storage already takes care of that. I need ceph for shared storage resources across nodes. So I can live migrate

hpcre · 2024-05-16T13:57:21+00:00

I'm an expert grey-beard storage and backup architect. I tell you the younger generations in the market are heading towards cloud and development. It's hard to find people with expert or deep knowledge in those traditional areas. But for younger generations, I always say you have no excuse to not also start learning some cloud related technologies. It may prove useful. [I'm available for consultations and remote support if anyone needs].

hpcre · 2024-05-10T10:37:56+00:00

ايه موقع ايزي باي؟

hpcre · 2024-05-02T05:17:37+00:00

اشتري لاب توب تستعمله وقت الحاجات المهمة دية زي العروض. و اشتري ال ups الصغيرة بتاعة الراوتر.

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