For our backup environment, we use DPM on Hyper-V on a SOFS for dedup <https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn891438(v=sc.12).aspx> . Time to replace the SOFS nodes and backend FC SAN as it's really old.
We're looking at a few options and I was curious if anyone had any experience with anything like this? 1. DataOn CiB which has two nodes running Windows Server 2012 R2 and storage spaces as the SMB target for the DPM VMs. a. I personally like this option as it's only 4U and we would only half populate it with 34 drives to accomplish our usable space requirements. We could also expand up to 70 drives in the future to fully populate if we need more space and can even add one of their JBOD systems for additional space. 2. SuperMicro CiB is also a two node system like DataOn. a. I don't care for this one as much, since it only has 24 drive capacity in 4U, compared to DataOn 70 drive capacity, and would require an additional 4U JBOD to reach the same amount of usable space as the DataOn. 3. JBOD from any vendor, like SuperMicro and two rackmount boxes connected via SAS to the JBOD box. a. DataOn has an option like this where we'd have to supply our own server nodes, which is no problem. SuperMicro also has a 90 bay drive bay JBOD that we could use. So far between option 1 and 2 is only around a $2k to $5k with SuperMicro solution being built on ThinkMate.com and DataOn quote after speaking with their sales people. So besides DataOn and SuperMicro, are there any other inexpensive options to achieve around 160TB usable space as an SMB target? Thanks! Eric Morrison
