Hi All,
We are currently using Openfiler in our production setup for NFS & ISCSI Targets. As Openfiler is not that active we thought about testing OMV.
I installed latest version from OMV downloads on a Dell R720xd server which will be our production if we like it. Just need suggestions on using it on such a huge hardware configuration as
Dell R720xd, 256GB RAM, 12x3.7TB SATA drives + Attached Dell Powervault MD1200 with 12x3.7TB SATA drives. (Total 74TBs with RAID-6)
RAID 6 on both sets with inbuilt RAID Cards, 1Gig Network for NFS shares, 2Gig bonded Network for ISCSI Shares, 1Gig Public Network (Will be switching to 10Gig networks later)
My concerns are
- We will not be using this for critical production apps storage, but still it will be used for our internal important apps. Is it reliable enough to use at work other than home use?
- Being on this hardware its not even consuming 10% of its resources, Can I run it on a VM in a KVM-Host and attach all drives to it directly and use 70% resources for something else.
- How reliable are the updates and plugins?
- Is there any way to backup all the configuration settings, to make a replica in case it goes down. (as in openfiler)
Thank you.