Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)

Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com> wrote on 01/12/2012 02:02:32 PM: > Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote on 01/10/2012 02:54:12 PM: > > > If your hardware can handle a small amount of overhead > > and you can manage it from a windows client, you might consider > > VMware ESXi (the free version). Then you can run a full GUI console > > of any OS remotely > > That doesn't add a thing for this solution. It's not the "remotely" > part that I need, it's the GUI part they need. And ESXi doesn't > help a *BIT* in configuring an NFS share... (Nor does ESXi give me > any advantage in managing storage, which is all that this solution > really is. In fact, there's a reason you really want to run a VM > solution on *top* of a really good quality SAN... :) )
A further point on this, seeing as "Use virtualization!" was a bit of a common reply:

Virtualization puts *really* heavy demands on the storage layer. ESXi by itself (free or otherwise) provides *very* little of what you want in that area. It' has *basic* tools, but it really expects these things to be taken care of by the storage layer *below* it. (Remember who owns VMware? A little company called EMC, who might be able to sell you some big iron to help solve those issues...)

And if you do try to use ESXi to do these things, you're pretty much locked into VMFS, unless you're on a very short list of high-end storage hardware (i.e. NetApp Filer). In a disaster situation, do you *really* want all of your backup data locked up in proprietary VMFS-formatted devices? I don't.

So, no: I do not want virtualization between my filesystem and my hardware in this case. On a file server: yes, yes, yes. On a backup server: no.

Tim Massey


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