Option 2: Purchase a Dell R730 16x2.5', shift the VMs over to this server with SSDs. This allows expansion of another 4 drives as I would boot from PCI slots internally. Option 1: Purchase a Dell Precision R7920 and install Windows 10 moving 4x 12TB WD Pros from my current R730 server and utilizing this workstation as a dedicated on-premises backup vault replacing the Synology. I am trying to work between two plans either physically hosting a Windows 10 workstation or virtually hosting a Windows 10 VM with virtual disks attached and would like the communities and specifically BackBlaze's thoughts on which approach would be seen as an acceptable solution to BackBlaze Personal.Ĭurrently I have a Dell R730 which is used as the VM host and also has Veeam physically installed on the base metal OS.

My Media server is the largest object that is not being pushed offsite (bad I know and working to address this).

I'm hoping that I can get some official word on whether or not a Windows 10 VM hosted within Hyper-V is supported or not.Ĭurrently I have a Synology NAS with 18TB of capacity which is acting as my on-premises backup, backed up are 8 VMs which are approaching 12TB of capacity with Veeam performing the orchestration.Ĭurrently I am running BackBlaze B2 off of the Synology however I am only sending a portion of my on-premises backups to B2 due to cost, right now I have about 4TB of use within the B2 tier.

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