Hey All
I just wanted to run people by what I am using for my Long Term Retention Repo in my home lab.
I am using the HPE StoreOnce Virtual Appliance to store my long term retention copies from Zerto on – simply this is a an OVF appliance that i’ve deployed into my environment and have attached some local disks to for capacity – ive got around 1TB of usable space to consume.
the reason why I chose this appliance instead of a Generic NFS/SMB or S3 compatible is that Zerto has tight integration with HPE Catalyst API, this actually runs inside of each and every VRA Zerto deploys. So what does this mean, well…
- We can add Catalyst Stores natively from the Zerto UI
- Zerto will change the data structure of its LTR Copies to make sure its is perfectly suited to HPE Catalyst Store
- Source Side Deduplication via the Catalyst API
- Automatically optimize multiple streams without overloading StoreOnce
- Automatically manage the repository lifecycle and perform garbage collection
I also think the COmpression ratios i am getting are pretty awesome too! So not am I only saving bandwidth across the network by deduping the data before it’s sent but when it lands im getting decent compression ratios aswell to make sure my LTR copies take up as little space as possible.
I have also created a CIFS share for LTR indexing so all my data is on a single appliance and super easy to use as well to.
Thanks for reading
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Cheers
Chris
VChrisRogers 