SANOID for the win!
Enterprise Virtualization, Small Business Budget

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Jim SalterTechnomancer,
Mercenary Sysadmin,
Small Business Owner
Today's slides can be found at:

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Back in 2002, this guy

says to me...

Tim Anderson

Director of IT,
The Partners Group

The IT Hero is dead.

Client Acquisition Process
how IT typically works in Small Business

What's the Fortune 500 do?
-- Small Business Owners, every day

You can't afford it.
-- Small Business IT People, every day

http://www.janchristensen.org/updates/2010-june/paintings/

Enterprise Features
Which ones?

Predictability
No nasty surprises, please.

Minimal downtime
A little is OK, though. Especially if it's scheduled.

Rapid recovery
An emergency on your part does not constitute an
unscheduled employee holiday on my part!

Enterprise Features
How they do it:

Enterprise Features
How they do it:

Enterprise Features
How SANOID does it:

Enterprise Features
The Nitty-Gritty

Rolling hourly snapshots

[pool/dataset]
use_template = production

[template_production]template = yeshourly = 36daily = 30monthly = 3yearly = 1autosnap = yesautoprune = yes

Rolling hourly snapshots

policy-drivenmanagement

Enterprise Features
The Nitty-Gritty

Automated MonitoringKnow it's broken before the users do -
Know what's broken when you call them

Enterprise Features
The Nitty-Gritty

Asynchronous Incremental ReplicationRapid, granular, reliable disaster recovery

Enterprise Features
The Nitty-Gritty

Strong hardware decouplingUpgrades on demand, no spare parts closets

welcome to the machine
Kernel Virtual Machine

High Performance Bare Metal
Hypervisor and utilities

the storage is the thing
OpenZFS Filesystem

I seriously don't understand
how you're living without this.

shiny.
Let's be bad guys!

root@remote:~# iperf -c onsite
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-11.9 sec 1.62 MBytes 1.15 Mbits/sec

root@remote:~# zfs list backup/images/fileserver
NAME USED AVAIL REFER
backup/images/fileserver 2.54T 2.96T 2.14T

root@remote:~# syncoid root@onsite:images/fileserver backup/fileserver
Sending incremental syncoid_remote_2015-03-08:22:00:06 ... syncoid_remote_2015-03-09:13:24:09 (~ 912.0 MB):
908MB 0:13:36 [1.11MB/s] [============>] 99%
root@remote:~#

er, I mean replication is the thing
Syncoid Replication

Easy. Affordable. Offsite. DR.

putting it all in place
SANOID Topology

putting it all in place
SANOID Topology

et vos custodiet ipsos custodes
Nagios and OpenVPN

Questions?
Comments?

Angry denunciations?