Tuesday, August 23, 2022

The Object First toy has 2 models

Object First, the builder of an object storage toy for Veeam, announced at VeeamON last May, shared some details a few days before VMworld I should VMware Explore now. We understand that 2 models exist in 2 sizes: 96TB (8 x 12TB) and 128TB (8 x 16TB) SAS 3,5" HDD usable protected in RAID 6 mode plus one parity drive. 2 x 10Gbits ports expose the chassis to the network accepting write to 1.6TB NVMe SSD coupled with dual Intel Xeon Scalable associated with 12 DIMM slots operating a Linux distribution. No surprise, vey common BOM. For long-term retention or let's say for long retention, backup images can be exported or migrated to public clouds such AWS, Azure, Backblaze and Wasabi. We dont know if images can be restored directly from public clouds when they migrated or if users must copy back the images to the appliance and then trigger the restore operation. Object First insists that they wrote the object software, I don't know why as MinIO would be a perfect fit here once again. Up fo 4 nodes can be clustered together. I don't understand why the team limits the usage of the product to Veeam only, perhaps because this is very entry level system... the joke continues.

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