Where to store Veeam back-ups?

[ujjain]

I have currently set-up a simple raid-1 back-up server that runs FreeNAS. I created a Datastore on it called Backups and created an additional 1TB D:-drive for the Veeam Windows Server. An alternative would be to add a drive via iSCSI in the Windows 2003  Server virtual machine, so storing back-up would not go via VMWare.

Is this a good way of storing back-ups for Veeam? Should I do it differently?

Also: how affraid should I be of Windows overwriting signature for the VMFS?

[cyber7]

FreeNAS is defenately the way to go.  AND it is... FREE!

The only thing I do at work is switch off the services not needed.  I do run 2 FreeNAS servers at home.  RAID5/4*2TB/MAC and it is quite stable.  It never seem to fail.

Kind regards

Aubrey Kloppers

ps - At my office I ran into space-problems with not enough allocated space for snapshots for VEEAM backup.  (Check my postings...)  This could be rectified by moving the DATASTOREs (adding more disks)...

[Ace007]

You may go for open filer, as its having so many good features and i am using in without any problem.

Find the below link to know about more of its features and step by step configuration.

http://www.vladan.fr/how-to-configure-openfiler-iscsi-storage-for-use-with-vmware-esx/

http://www.openfiler.com/products/feature-summary

You can also try to look on trainsignal videos from David Davis where he explains so much about the feautres and configuration.

[AndreTheGiant]

You can also use a cheap hardware NAS.

Andre

[J1mbo]

Or any PC running Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/other-Linux and configure an NFS share.  Even an old Pentium-4 will sustain about 30MB/s like this, and anything dual-core will easily saturate GbE provided the disks can keep up.