IntelligenceHS_Andy

Hey Edu-IT. Apologies for the delay in getting back to you on this questions. The Tape Archiving feature is used to take full Backup Copies of your Cloud Repository as a much cheaper alternative for long term retention periods than Spinning Disk, which is what your Cloud Repository would be stored on. For example; if you decided to take out a Cloud Repository, you could set the retention of the Cloud Repository (Spinning disk Storage) to 14 days (2 weeks), giving you quick access to your VM backups, buy you could take a Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly backup to Tape of your Disk Repository and keep that "snapshot" in time on tape, in our fireproof tape safes for up to 7 years. Thanks!

I would go for the HPE DL380 Gen9 or HPE DL360 Gen9. I love the HPE Servers because I love the ILO interface and it's always easy to configure. Sometimes I get confused with Dell; I've never been a fan of the iDRAC's or the RAID Controllers, but I guess it's all down to personal preference. As for spec, I'd go with the Intel Xeon E5-2600v3 over the v4 as the v4's are still pretty expensive as well as the RAM and you don't get much more in terms of performance. RAID 1 with 2x SATA SSD's for the O/S and then 6x or 8x SAS Enterprise SSD's for the VM DataStore in RAID-6.

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