Remember that benchmark series I did back in August and September? We'll we're finally planning on deploying on that hardware. We spent a good chunk of this afternoon trying to figure out how to carve the MSA into pieces. Turns out, it won't be as easy as we thought.
Or more specifically, it'll be very easy. We just won't have enough space to do meaningful backup-to-disk. Its primary role as the disaster recovery copy of the EVA will take up 85% of the available disk-space on the MSA. That leaves 15% of the space to work in VM OS volumes and the B2D stuff. Not much left for the backup-to-disk part of this project, which was billed as a significant part back in June. Oops. We'll be on tape for a while yet.
Happily, we can add storage cabinets to this device no problem. Except funding of course, but that almost goes without saying. We'll have to kick the tree and see if any money falls out of it, otherwise we're waiting until our fiscal year begins (July) to do any B2D stuff.
Or more specifically, it'll be very easy. We just won't have enough space to do meaningful backup-to-disk. Its primary role as the disaster recovery copy of the EVA will take up 85% of the available disk-space on the MSA. That leaves 15% of the space to work in VM OS volumes and the B2D stuff. Not much left for the backup-to-disk part of this project, which was billed as a significant part back in June. Oops. We'll be on tape for a while yet.
Happily, we can add storage cabinets to this device no problem. Except funding of course, but that almost goes without saying. We'll have to kick the tree and see if any money falls out of it, otherwise we're waiting until our fiscal year begins (July) to do any B2D stuff.