We are waiting for Veeam to come back to us for any best practises, according to the TrueNAS website it is Veeam certified so looking to get more information from Veeam on this and see what the ultimate config will be.

Not sure if using NFS iS preferred as Veeams > Freenas CIFS/ SMB implementation may be limited to SMB1 or 2 not sure.

If it works well we may look at augmenting it as a second or third tier backup repository to complement our StoreOnce repositories, since both MinIO and ZFS can replicate at different levels (bucket, dataset or pool levels) it may be an interesting fit for internal use cases and client side bucket replication between datacenter’s.

very keen to see what we can achieve 🙂

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G

Hello Gerardo,
That is right, just for my lab, and real backups of my Homelab and my Office 365 accounts, but I will not call this production, even if doing 50VMs Backups, and a few Office 365 accounts.

thanks for the encouragement 🙂

we will be playing with an all SSD ZFS box starting with 10 x 8 TB drives and eventually extend out to 24, trying to see where performance starts to degrade.

it will be interesting to see how it performs directly compared to using MinIO erasure coding which is meant to scale better than ZFS, less functional but scales much better.

So you’re not using this in production? was it just a Dev deployment ?

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G

Thinking on FreeNAS just for the Object Storage part, or CIFS/NFS as well?

We are looking to experiment with an all SSD ZFS config starting with 10 x 8 TB drives expandable to 24 on a single box.

It will be interesting to see where ZFS performance starts to degrade.

Hello Gerardo,
I have the opinion that it works as fast as you size it, FreeNAS has some recommendations when deploying it, if you are not doing anything fancy like dedupe or compress on the ZFS volumes, then the requirements are lower, but still when enabling minio that consumes more RAM. So, just take a look at the CPU and RAM requirements, and also disk, of course.

I am biased as I am running all on VSAN with NVMe and SSD, so you can imagine the performance of this system 🙂 It is just an abstraction of the resources you give to it. My recommendation? Give it a go, it is free 🙂

Nice article, we are currently looking at testing this in our lab and by pure chance came across your article.

Now that it’s been a few months of using Freenas + ZFS and Minio how are you finding the ZFS performance?

Trolling through the FreeNAS and Veeam forums there have been mixed results with ZFS performance as a target but this is directly via CIFS or NFS share and S3 hasn’t been covered at all.

would be interested to discuss the project results in more detail.

“”Cheers
Gerardo