Our Unitrends appliance finally arrived today!

scott5400 · 2012-06-11T11:41:55.000Z

Well after much testing with the vRecovery appliance and talks with Unitrends support and sales staff we finally decided on a 813 appliance. I’m installing it today and going to get backups running. I’m pretty excited to have some real backups going instead of a mish-mash of random solutions. I’ll let everyone know how it goes!

Denis-Kelley · 2012-06-11T11:44:35.000Z

Good luck and post your results!

roy · 2012-06-11T11:44:58.000Z

Mine is coming in tomorrow!

brad · 2012-06-11T11:47:17.000Z

that a sweet unit…

r0b · 2012-06-11T11:58:40.000Z

Nice, let us know how it goes & if you need any help!!

russellwest7221 · 2012-06-11T12:08:33.000Z

We’ve had ours for about a month now and it is great. We had a few bumps setting it up but the unitrends setup and tech support team service is awesome. They were very responsive and got right back to us when we had issues. Unitrends works better than any system I ever had. You’re going to love it.

michael1259 · 2012-06-11T12:26:30.000Z

I was that excited for our SANS from nimblestorage

katie-unitrends · 2012-06-11T12:36:56.000Z

Welcome to Unitrends! Please let the community know how your implementation goes, and remember to use all of our Support options including the Support Team, the Knowledge Base, & the Forums. You can access all of these from our Customer Care Center .

scott5400 · 2012-06-11T12:45:51.000Z

Sorry this might be a bit boring to read, but I’m just going to log everything I’m doing and/or seeing.

One of the hard drive caddies was unlatched and partly open inside the box when I opened it.

Booted it up, looks like we had an error invalid Raid superblock on SDC5, it still launches fine anyway. Logged in, it didn’t display the setup wizard, but it still had the default IP.

Launched the setup wizard manually to set up the appliance. No problems here, and updated just fine.

This unit has two adapters, but for some reason eth0 is running 100 full duplex while eth1 is running 1gb full duplex. I don’t have it racked yet so we’ll see if that stays the same when I direct connect it to the switch.

Adding in clients, have to add in hosts manually because we don’t have reverse DNS.

scott5400 · 2012-06-11T13:17:27.000Z

Turns out it was the port I had eth0 on. 1000 full duplex now. Awesome, I wish all problems were that simple.

larrybowers3495 · 2012-06-11T13:32:55.000Z

Our 712 has been in a little over a month. Really a nice unit. Remarkable how little space the backups are taking after six weeks.

scott5400 · 2012-06-11T13:41:26.000Z

Yeah it looks like our initial backups are going to be pretty huge, but after that I’d like to see where we are at once we stabilize. I should be able to afford backups throughout the day instead of our current policy of nightly / weekend masters. What we’re doing now just has too much overhead. On that note… I just kind of reminded myself I need to start taking down the old backups as we get the new ones in place.

r0b · 2012-06-11T15:57:06.000Z

Scott_Tech wrote:

Yeah it looks like our initial backups are going to be pretty huge, but after that I’d like to see where we are at once we stabilize. I should be able to afford backups throughout the day instead of our current policy of nightly / weekend masters. What we’re doing now just has too much overhead. On that note… I just kind of reminded myself I need to start taking down the old backups as we get the new ones in place.

Don’t take anything down until you have tested your new backups & know for sure you can restore from them.

scott5400 · 2012-06-11T16:13:29.000Z

Well, that was supposed to be included with the “get the new ones in place” ;p

marc92 · 2012-06-12T13:57:27.000Z

I just had a 45 minute discussion with the 3 folks involved in all capex purchases explaining our backup situation and my recommendation to go with a Unitrends 712.

Now I get to sit back and await the decision. I REALLY do not want to keep going with BE 2012 and the ridiculous tape swapping I’m doing every morning. I did at least paint a very bleak picture of what could happen if something dies before we get a replacement backup solution installed.

Hopefully in a couple of weeks I can start one of these threads myself.

scott5400 · 2012-06-12T14:03:00.000Z

Yeah, I spent so much time doing tape backups in the Navy. They have so many problems. I’m really liking disk to disk.

marc92 · 2012-06-12T14:04:35.000Z

Nice hoodie, there Scott. Gig’EM

scott5400 · 2012-06-12T14:11:11.000Z

Marc92 wrote:

Nice hoodie, there Scott. Gig’EM

Whoop!

scott5400 · 2012-06-12T14:21:21.000Z

Looks like eth1 dropped offline at some point, probably after I shut it down to rack it. I was wondering why my speeds dropped. The support guy missed it, but I found it right after I talked to him because I knew what to look at because he checked it on eth0. Weird.

johnwhite · 2012-06-18T02:15:21.000Z

You stopped updating! What happened?