Nasuni Test Drive
The Nasuni Filer has officially moved into production for Storage Switzerland. It now holds all our home directory data, which for us is mission critical, this is the content we produce so it is in essence our product. One of the key things that we wanted to make sure of is that we were able to recover data if there is an accidental deletion or more likely, saving over the same file.
To that end we used the Nasuni Snapshot capability pictured here to recover a file. We were able to quickly find the file we had over-written and restored a previous version of it. The restoration was almost instant. Very impressive. The other feature I really liked is that the software made a backup copy of the file we were replacing.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Lab Report
George Crump, Senior Analyst
The below video of the process that shows the entire restore in real time.
A Production Filer
The Filer is now fully in production and we use it throughout the day, as well as continue to send backup jobs to our other Nasuni Filer volume. Our consumption of capacity continues to grow as the use does, but we are seeing excellent optimization rates from the Nasuni software as well, seeing 67% reduction on files that are not very redundant.
Nasuni is a client of Storage Switzerland
We are using the Filer in a mixed environment. While the bulk of our production work is done on Mac’s we often need to double check how the content looks in Windows. Thus far we have seen no issues moving between platforms even though Mac is not an officially supported platform.
Storage Switzerland’s Take
I continue to be impressed with not only the ease of use of the product but also the performance and stability. While we have yet to do a formal performance benchmark we have seen no noticeable performance difference between this and other NAS devices in the lab. We will do some performance testing later but for now it has been a non-issue for us. The stability as we mention in the video has been rock solid. We have had no downtime on the VMware host for over a month now.
- Recovering With Cloud Snapshots
