Soldato
The hardware:
Nimble CS215 w/10GbE iSCSI
3 x vSphere 6 host servers
Software:
File server - 2012R2 with deduplication enabled
Arcserve UDP and Arcserve backup r16.5
Currently my iSCSI volumes on the Nimble are presented to a vm via in guest iSCSI initiator. Backups run daily to Arcserve UDP for the VMs, and they run every friday (finishing on early sunday morning) to tape for the data from the file server.
When the backups run on the weekend to tape and the deduplication tasks (garbage collection etc.) run on the weekend my dedupe savings go all over the place on the nimble.
It has been suggested that in guest iSCSI might not be the way to go here (Old fashioned way of doing it apparently) I know my alternatives are RDMs or VMDK but I'm not sure of the pros and cons of each in relation to the way i connect currently. Any suggestions on making my dedupe setup more reliable?
Nimble CS215 w/10GbE iSCSI
3 x vSphere 6 host servers
Software:
File server - 2012R2 with deduplication enabled
Arcserve UDP and Arcserve backup r16.5
Currently my iSCSI volumes on the Nimble are presented to a vm via in guest iSCSI initiator. Backups run daily to Arcserve UDP for the VMs, and they run every friday (finishing on early sunday morning) to tape for the data from the file server.
When the backups run on the weekend to tape and the deduplication tasks (garbage collection etc.) run on the weekend my dedupe savings go all over the place on the nimble.
It has been suggested that in guest iSCSI might not be the way to go here (Old fashioned way of doing it apparently) I know my alternatives are RDMs or VMDK but I'm not sure of the pros and cons of each in relation to the way i connect currently. Any suggestions on making my dedupe setup more reliable?