Two is one. One is none.

Design the recovery system before you buy the storage.

Tell us how much data you protect and how long you keep it. We will estimate the local recovery layer, the headroom it needs, and the cost of adding an independent offsite copy. The configurator gives you a planning number. A practitioner validates every design before anything is quoted or built.

1How much production data do you protect?

Enter the total data on the servers and VMs Veeam protects—not the size of your current backup files. This produces a planning estimate; change rate, compression, backup schedule, and retention policy affect final sizing.

How much backup history do you keep?

Already know your target repository size? Enter usable TB directly

2Your local recovery layer

We recommend the least-cost resilient build that covers the planning target. Choose more headroom when growth, retention, snapshots, or recovery-time requirements demand it.

3Remove the remaining single points of failure

Local recovery is fast. It is still local. Add monitoring so failures cannot hide, and add offsite replication so one building, network, or credential boundary cannot take every retained recovery point with it.

Managed monitoring & active defenseDial-home hardware alerts are already included. This adds managed Veeam job monitoring, OS patching, and Veeam ONE reporting — plus a commercial EDR agent on the repository itself, backed by a 24/7 SOC. A failed job becomes our alert, and tampering with the box becomes an incident we detect and respond to, not a surprise you find later. Twin Offsite Vault — single regionA separately controlled zfs send replica with retained storage-level recovery points. It lands on separate infrastructure with separate credentials—the copy designed to survive losing the local site. Twin Offsite Vault — geo-redundantThe separately controlled replica is retained across two geographic regions. A local site loss and a regional event still leave a recovery path. Veeam Data Cloud VaultVeeam's managed, immutable cloud object storage as an additional copy tier — we program it into your backup jobs so an offsite copy lands there automatically alongside the repository.quoted with design Repository-Level RecoveryRetained ZFS snapshots create independent recovery points for the repository itself — mount a known-good snapshot and recover selected data in minutes, or restore the repository to a retained point in time.quoted with design Hardware warranty & on-site supportBase advance-replacement coverage is included. Extend the term and response tier on the nationwide Dell PowerEdge service network — help desk, technical assistance, and field engineer included at every level: included Include financing optionsHave our leasing partner prepare monthly payment options alongside the outright price in your quote. No obligation — arranged during the design review.no obligation

Every build begins with proof—not a promise.

Operationally immutable or it's free · acceptance verified by a documented restore test. The final quote defines the acceptance test and exclusions. You're not buying a server—you're buying proof that the agreed recovery path works.

Dell PowerEdge chassis — exact generation, condition, warranty, support eligibility, and field-service terms stated in the quote

IT-mode storage controller — ZFS talks to bare drives, no RAID card in the way

Mirrored M.2 boot (BOSS) — OS failure never touches the data pool

Hardened Linux, encryption at rest, and ZFS-backed integrity verification

Veeam Fast Clone enabled — Veeam sees a standard hardened XFS repository; synthetic fulls build in minutes without duplicating data

Dual 10GbE SFP+ networking and redundant power supplies

iDRAC9 Enterprise with dial-home hardware monitoring — standard, not an upsell

Individually sized, built, hardened, documented, and burned-in — completed with a documented acceptance restore test

Backup Exposure Assessment ($1,500 value) and Veeam migration with history intact ($2,000 value)

Ransomware & Recovery Playbook, and growth headroom designed in — not sold back to you later

Last step

Put a practitioner behind the design.

Your configuration goes to someone who builds and operates recovery infrastructure. We validate change rate, compression, backup schedule, retention, growth, recovery-time requirements, and the current drive market. Then we send a straight quote. No obligation. No phone maze.