Hi,
I have a small company that has about 30 ESX VMs running. If we want to expand our current storage, which would be better - building a FreeNAS box, or purchasing a commercial unit such as QNAP?
Do the benefits of having VMWare supported and certified hardware outweigh the benefits of using ZFS? I spoke to several VM techs who said that FreeNAS was only supported for making backups, not be supported for production use. Not that we can afford a VMWare support contract right now anyways.
From looking, it does not look like QNAP has many features to transfer filesystem snapshots offsite like ZFS has, which would be a nice feature to have. Would it be best to use Veeam or GhettoVCB to transfer backups?
Our budget is $3000 not including drives.
Storage space about 20 TB.
In case of chassis failure, an hour of downtime or less would be good in order to switch to backup chassis.
I called QNAP, and the rep. recommended the TS870U-RP.