SS_Mike

We've deployed (in order by my favorite) ShareFile, SecuriSync, Dropbox, and OneDrive (for Business). We have a lot of clients with traditional network drives and AD that want us to move their server(s) to the cloud and therefore they think going back to a workgroup is a great idea. Obviously this doesn't apply to my medical clients.

What's your stack for these customers? I'm thinking of just putting something together that includes ShareFile and Azure AD.

We are looking at LogicNow MAXBackup as a replacement hybrid offsite BDR solution. We would host the data entirely ourselves as our clients require it not be sent off to servers with unknowns. The demo has gone well but I haven't had a chance to get into all of the restore capabilities so I've only really seen POCs from them. Has anyone used it? The pricing is fair but I'm looking for backup reliability, scheduling, restoring, persistent VM recovery - whatever info you can provide.

Thanks,

Mike

Edit: not looking for competitor recommendations, others are in the running but I have all the info I need on those. This one seems to be a little less well known as they were only recently bought

I will warn you that I am not overly familiar with ZFS but I have some guys that work for me that will be setting this up that know all the details, I only know the concepts so I apologize in advance if I use incorrect terms. I just want to bounce this off some people with experience with this size ZFS deployment before I put this project plan together.

I'm getting ready to roll out a new server and 48TB (12x4TB) DAS for offsite backups for clients (about 50 active connections at night but delta and staggered) and minor internal storage (~3TB). The server will have dual 6-core Xeons, 64GB of ECC RAM, 2x300GB 10k mirror for the OS, an SSD for L2ARC, and an SSD for ZIL, plus the DAS. I expec

I'm from a mostly Dell server background but there are ThinkServers in the running for a project based on cost and I have no idea how their hardware monitoring works. Do they have something like OMSA that creates event logs for hardware events? I just need something I can parse for monitoring.

After reading the opinions of other sysadmins I have decided that some of them are right that r/sysadmin needs to separate. SMB sysadmins are welcome here. My name is Mike. I've been in the SMB/MSP field for over 15 years. I've trained techs that now work in high level positions for OpenDNS, Citrix, etc. but I've gone back to the SMB market by choice. If you're new to the field - You are welcome here! Mentors and experienced sysadmins are certainly appreciated. If you need advice on career paths, technical recommendations, or just support from senior people you can do so here with people in your sector.