I am planning to build a Citrix VDI machine with an integrated file server using a single Dell R720. It will have a 1TB OBR10 using 4 Intel S3500 600GB SSDs (with 100GB over-provisioning each). Should I suffer a catastrophic loss of data on the OBR10 I want a straight-forward way to rebuild the ORB10. In other words, I do not want to have to re-install the VDI and file server software. I want to simply rebuild the array and go. This might be a noob-esque desire.
I'd like it to work like this...
Install 4 1TB HDDs in the open slots to store images of the OBR10 array on a rolling basis. For instance, HDD1 gets updated every night, HDD2 every two nights, HDD3 every four nights, and HDD3 every 8 nights. At any given time I would have 100% images of the OBR10 1, 2, 4, and 8 days old. Then I would be able to rebuilt the OBR10 from scratch in the case of a catastrophic OBR10 failure.
Is this a reasonable way to backup the OBR10? Can you recommend software to accomplish this?
Platform Details
- Dell R720
- 96GB RAM
- Grid K2
- 4 - 600GB S3500 SSDs (1TB OBR10)
- 4 - 1TB HDDs available for backup images
- XenServer 6.2 (running out of SD if needed)
- XenDesktop 7.1 VDI
- Server 2012 R2 running in VM as file server
- 2 to 4 VDAs (Win 7 or 8.1)
Thank you for your advice.
-Ray