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@scottalanmiller said in How Do You Teach Everything in IT?:

@SeanExablox What is a good starting TB size for looking at an Exablox solution?
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One comment on this thread before moving. It really depends on the value of the information to the company. I mentioned the ransomware sizing of 1TB, but this is the exception. We have many customers with less than 10TB backup and shared file serving problems that they start with a single OneBlox and don't fully populate. Our s/w features and scale-out mean they spend very little time managing storage, but have enterprise class features.

For those less familiar with Exablox, I just gave an Overview and demo that was recorded.

https://www.exablox.com/what-is-it/techology.php (main page)
https://vimeo.com/168718551 (overview)
https://vimeo.com/168718574 (OneSystem demo)

@scottalanmiller said in How Do You Teach Everything in IT?:

@SeanExablox What is a good starting TB size for looking at an Exablox solution?

ok on forked thread.

One comment on this thread before moving. It really depends on the value of the information to the company. I mentioned the ransomware sizing of 1TB, but this is the exception. We have many customers with less than 10TB backup and shared file serving problems that they start with a single OneBlox and don't fully populate. Our s/w features and scale-out mean they spend very little time managing storage, but have enterprise class features.

@scottalanmiller said in How Do You Teach Everything in IT?:

@wirestyle22 said in How Do You Teach Everything in IT?:

@scottalanmiller said in How Do You Teach Everything in IT?:

@wirestyle22 said in How Do You Teach Everything in IT?:

Never heard of Exablox. Learned something. I've never had anything even remotely that large either though.

You can get them relatively small. Not SMALL, but not huge. Like 36TB is where you could start with one.

Our file server is 488 GB currently Any idea of the cost for the most basic of models? Even a round-about?

Too expensive for 488GB I'm afraid

@SeanExablox could tell you some starter prices.

@wirestyle22 it depends on how important the 488GB is to your organization. Lake Chelan Community Hospital has 1TB of medical records they need to protect from ransomware. They purchased OneBlox and with our immutable CDP they can recover from any ransomware infection.

OneBlox is $11,995 and you purchase drives at retail pricing (up to 8TB drives). We're running a promotion this month where we're giving away 72TB of storage when you purchase OneBlox...

@scottalanmiller said in How Do You Teach Everything in IT?:

@brianlittlejohn said in How Do You Teach Everything in IT?:

@scottalanmiller His response was notifications/alerts and hotspares....

Oh man, even dumber than the initial post. Hot spares for RAID 5? how dumb is this guy!?!?

http://www.smbitjournal.com/2012/07/hot-spare-or-a-hot-mess/

And it makes it worse that he's read about what a bad idea it is and recommends it and uses it regardless and acts like he didn't know that he was putting the business at risk!

I was going to chime and say hot/cold spares are irrelevant with OneBlox's distributed object store. We recover from a drive(s) failure without the need to have drive assets sitting passively by. After that's complete, we can recover from additional failures....all without replacing a hard drive. (Caveat: there needs to be enough capacity in the storage pool, but technically possible.)

@dafyre You should check us out now!
second gen hardware, inline VL dedupe, inline compression, bi-directional and multi-site replication, VMware and Hyper-V ready....

@scottalanmiller

@scottalanmiller said:

@SeanExablox thanks for all of the info!

anytime!

@art_of_shred

@art_of_shred said:

I dealt with something like this once, and I am trying to recall the finer details. It was a Unitrends installation, and the customer was archiving daily to a local Exablox device, which copied to a remote Exablox. I'm thinking that it wasn't replication in that case, but warm storage to cold storage. We even had a couple conference calls with support reps from Exablox and myself (representing Unitrends), to hammer out how both pieces would behave. I just wish I could clearly recall it all.

Yes, this is a very common use case for Exablox. Hunger Task Force is currently doing this with Unitrends. https://www.exablox.com/whats-happening/press-releases/140422-hunger_task_force.php.

Works the same way with Veeam, Backup Exec, NetBackup, others....

@scottalanmiller with OneBlox remote replication, we are only replicating the deduped and compressed objects so it should be more efficient that 1GB/50Mb/s

@Dashrender sshhhh. bi-directional replication is coming shortly from Exablox.

@scottalanmiller Exablox replication does not provide global file locking across multiple locations. Our replication works on a per share basis so you can decide all, some, or a few shares (r/w) in the primary OneBlox Ring are replicated to shares (r/o) secondary OneBlox Ring.

@nadnerB said:

Going by your Experience, I'll look into Exablox when I'm looking for a new backup target
Granted it won't be for a while but they are "on the list" of potential candidates

@nadnerB, happy to hear we're on your shortlist! When you're ready just let us know.
www.exablox.com or [email protected]

@MattSpeller said:

Finally brought this project to an end! It's been a ton of fun and I've learned quite a bit! I've strongly recommended that we revisit Exablox next year for another round of testing. All of the features fit our environment really well, especially the replication and snapshots. I'd like to thank Sean* from Exablox for helping me along this road and I hope to revisit these units soon.

*Sean I would like to single out Bob Gardiner in support for a job very well done. Every time I contacted support it was him handling the case which made it very seamless. He was prompt and efficient with zero run around or hassle. Please continue this support model, it was a pleasure to deal with.

Thanks for the kind words @MattSpeller . At Exablox we have a 'Customer First' mindset from our account execs, to engineering and support. I'm happy to hear that you have had a positive experience. I look forward to working with your company and your use of OneBlox in your infrastructure.

@MattSpeller said:

I've spent more time poking around and I found some cool stuff to share. I'll let the screen shots speak for themselves!

Apparently they have an internal SSD!

you found a OneSystem easter egg

@MattSpeller said:

One minor complaint I have is that searching it seems to take much longer than our NAS. I will have a tough time quantifying that so please take that as opinion only.

yes, smartOne will be slow as this is a database that currently has more than 5.5 million data points from every disk drive used across the Exablox installed base. We are actively working to dramatically improve its responsiveness.

@MattSpeller said:

@SeanExablox said:

@MattSpeller it's not a performance test, but have you tried out the continuous data protection feature?

Yes I have and it works a treat! I'm a big fan of the continuous snapshots

Cool. Glad to hear it!

@MattSpeller it's not a performance test, but have you tried out the continuous data protection feature?

@MattSpeller thanks for the update.

We do support SMB3, but we haven't optimized for IOPS so aren't a good fit for virtual servers (yet).

regarding your other points/questions

• yes, this will be fixed with the 2.3.1 release that will be available later this week or early next week

• in the area of replication and capacity reclamation is where the bug fixes are coming in for the 2.3.1 release