Comments on: Veeam: How-to Deploy, and Configure MinIO with Erasure Coding Enabled, Immutability, and Let’s Encrypt

By: jorgeuk

jorgeuk — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 20:12:13 +0000

In reply to alfonsrv.

Hello Alfonso,
Would you mind to elaborate a bit more how can I help mate?

Thanks!

By: alfonsrv

alfonsrv — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 21:22:22 +0000

We switched everything to Hardened Linux Repositories, also to leverage the benefit of Fast Block Cloning via XFS – it feels like it’s a bit more powerful even space-saving wise than using ReFS.

We have been in close contact with both MinIO and Veeam, but MinIO was mainly interested in licensing to provide support and Veeam confirmed the 4KB behaviour and didn’t point at the registry, mainly stating supporting 3rd party solution was out of the scope of support.

By: jorgeuk

jorgeuk — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 09:17:26 +0000

In reply to alfonsrv.

You can edit how Veeam stores the data in object storage, even if there is a regedit that goes up to 8MB/block. Also, there are a few recommendations for hardware – https://www.veeam.com/sys229

Not only is MinIO very usable and a choice I saw in production without issues, but there are also others like Cloudian or now Object First that are HDD-based Object Storage, and they work all very nice too.

If you encountered issues, have you reported them to MinIO or Veeam Support?

Thanks for taking the time to comment!

By: alfonsrv

alfonsrv — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 12:20:04 +0000

It’s worth noting MinIO is not usable as a capacity repo, since HDD-only hardware doesn’t work well with Veeam – mainly because Veeam stored 4KB of metadata for every 1GB of storage, causing an explosion of random IO after just a few days.

By: jorgeuk

jorgeuk — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:56:45 +0000

In reply to Pedro. Yep, exactly that, will create a new blog just covering the step by step. Best regards

By: Pedro

Pedro — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 21:04:47 +0000

Hi Jorge,

Cool, I was searching for this and came across with this github scripts https://github.com/minio/minio-service, I’ll be looking to play with this later.

regards

By: jorgeuk

jorgeuk — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 19:44:47 +0000

In reply to Pedro. Hello Pedro, Yes, it can, will create another article for it.

By: Pedro

Pedro — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:15:42 +0000

Hi Jorge,

Very nice article, can Minio run automatically without using the manual command line method ?

thanks

By: jorgeuk

jorgeuk — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 09:57:03 +0000

In reply to Dimitris Aslanidis.

Hello Dimitris,
You can create the minio without any SSL, and then it will be presented on http 🙂

For self-signed, I guess first you will need to create a valid self-signed, etc.

https://docs.min.io/docs/how-to-secure-access-to-minio-server-with-tls.html#generate-use-self-signed-keys-certificates

By: Dimitris Aslanidis

Dimitris Aslanidis — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 18:22:28 +0000

Super, thanks. Would it be possible to show the same without a domain to create a certificate for? I have tried for hours to create a self signed certificate but to no avail.
Thank you.