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Wasim Ahmed
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Wasim Ahmed

Wasim Ahmed, born in Bangladesh and now a citizen of Canada, is a veteran of the IT world. He first came into close contact with computers in 1992 and never looked back. Wasim has a deep understanding of networks, virtualization, big data storage, and network security. By profession, Wasim is the CEO of a global IT support and cloud service provider based in Calgary, Alberta. He serves many companies and organizations through his company on a daily basis. Wasim's strength comes from his experience, which comes from learning and serving continually. Wasim strives to find the most effective solution at the most competitive price. He has built over 20 enterprise production virtual infrastructures using Proxmox and the Ceph storage system. Wasim and his team are notorious for not simply accepting a technology based on its description alone, but putting it through rigorous testing to check its validity. Any new technology that his company provides goes through months of continuous testing before it is accepted. Proxmox made the cut superbly.
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Configuring backup storage

A sound backup strategy has a dedicated shared storage for the backup images instead of local storage or storage that is used for the disk images themselves. This way, we can centralize the backup location and restore them even in the event of a Proxmox node failure. If the backup is stored locally on the same node, during hardware failures, that node may become completely inaccessible, causing a VM restoration delay.

One of the most popular options for a backup storage node is NFS. In an enterprise or mission-critical environment, a cluster with built-in redundancy dedicated to backups is a recommended practice. In smaller environments, good redundancy can still be achieved using storage options, such as Gluster or DRBD. With the addition of ZFS and Gluster in Proxmox VE, it is now a viable option to turn a Proxmox node into a backup using ZFS and still manage the node through the Proxmox GUI. Unfortunately, we cannot store backup files on the Ceph RBD storage...

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Wasim Ahmed, born in Bangladesh and now a citizen of Canada, is a veteran of the IT world. He first came into close contact with computers in 1992 and never looked back. Wasim has a deep understanding of networks, virtualization, big data storage, and network security. By profession, Wasim is the CEO of a global IT support and cloud service provider based in Calgary, Alberta. He serves many companies and organizations through his company on a daily basis. Wasim's strength comes from his experience, which comes from learning and serving continually. Wasim strives to find the most effective solution at the most competitive price. He has built over 20 enterprise production virtual infrastructures using Proxmox and the Ceph storage system. Wasim and his team are notorious for not simply accepting a technology based on its description alone, but putting it through rigorous testing to check its validity. Any new technology that his company provides goes through months of continuous testing before it is accepted. Proxmox made the cut superbly.
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