@r3dpand4 said in Compuverde: vNAS or Hyperconverged:
@fateknollogee I mean that's depending on your deployment, it's included with 2016 Datacenter....
So is Storage Replica and whole bunch of things you aren't going to use if you aren't within hyperconverged setup. VMware with a separate SKU for VSAN got a better idea. ImHO.
@fateknollogee said in Is Tintri Heading for Pure and Nutanix Territory Financially?:
Hopefully, before they shut the doors maybe they'll "open source" their KVM + HTML5 GUI !
+1
Prism is nice 
@sreekumarpg said in Microsoft SQL Backup Solution:
Hello All,
I would like to get the suggestion on SQL backup Solution. Currently our environment is have two node SQL cluster with around 16 TB of Data. We are using Rapid Recovery as the Backup solution. We have upgraded our Windows Cluster to 2012 with Clustered Share Volume and the SQL Cluster to 2014.
Now we are facing issue with Rapid Recovery as its not able to understand the clustered share volume and we are not able to take the backup of our SQL storage on Block level. As per Rapid Recovery, they are not sure when they will release a version which support CSV.
We are in a situation to look into another SQL backup Solutions. Currently I am testing the Unitrends backup Virtual appliance and Its is good in backup, but I am having some issues on the retention polices as they provide only minimal policy which is on the SQL instance level.
Kindly suggest me a good backup solution for the SQL database which is having application native backup agent or CSV support , rather than block level backup. Also with the backup policy and retention policy of
Backup : - Daily Incremental and Monthly Full backup
Retention : - 2 Week incremental and Last month Full backup.Backup : Every 6 Month
Retention : Last 6th MonthBackup : Every Year
Retention : Last 2 year.If this can be achieved in Unitrends please share the details.
Thanks in Advance.
Veeam
@grey said in XByte sale on R510s:
Did anyone else get the email from them about their sale on R510s? The email was sent Aug 10 and I acted then. No one has contacted me back. Is that normal when a sale goes on? They just ignore people once they sell out (presuming that's what happened)? I was hoping to upgrade out of my 2950 for my home lab.
Too many people allies and they are busy accepting POs?
Kidding... xByte are good guys. Give them a call.
@fateknollogee said in Compuverde: vNAS or Hyperconverged:
Anyone using or testing this? http://compuverde.com/products/
SDS is a dining concept at best. With all major hypervisors having some built-in preferred virtual SAN tech spending money and time on anything third-party is... Waste of time at best. You have to have a reason. What's your reason?
@mlnews said in Reiser4 Update for Linux:
Believe it or not, Reiser4 isn't quite dead. Some small amount of work on Reiser4 continues. Fingers crossed that the project comes to life again.
Who cares? We have BtfFS and we have some ZFS still.
P.S. Is this guy out of prison already?
@mlnews said in Stanford Removes Java in Favor of JavaScript in Intro to Computer Science Course:
In a bit of a surprise move in the educational space, computer science bulwark Stanford University has chosen to remove Java and replace it with JavaScript in their Intro to Computer Science class. Java has been the language of this somewhat famous class since 2002, a run of fifteen years. They say that Java is showing its age, although to be fair JavaScript is nearly as old. Java itself is 22 years old this year. Since being purchased by Oracle, interest in Java has slowly fallen from its lofty peak during stewardship under Sun.
Anybody who's starting with anything except assembly language is WRONG!!! If somebody doesn't know how CPU works he can't make a decent software engineer: he'll use bloatware, write things in interpreted languages and bring file systems to kernel from user-land.
@tim_g said in Storage Spaces and ReFS:
@travisdh1 said in Storage Spaces and ReFS:
@brianlittlejohn said in Storage Spaces and ReFS:
@travisdh1 said in Storage Spaces and ReFS:
Not something I'd normally be up to, as most of you who know me probably already realize!
Anyhow, brought some blanked drives home from the old work place. Tossed em into my gaming desktop, because it's the only case I have that'd fit them all. And now I'm off to new adventures in Windows and it's storage subsystem. We'll see how things go in the long term here.
Yes, I actually have Storage Spaces and ReFS in use now, please don't feint on me now.
Travis using windows? Is the world ending?
Just because I refused to ask my previous employer to pay for Windows Server licensing doesn't mean it can't be useful. IE Playing games, not nearly enough games available for alternative OS yet
With wine and playonlinux you can get plenty of Windows games running great. Wine has actually come a long way now.
This is true. If you can have an access to source code you can build things with WineLIB and do hybrid applications (Wine-running core calls Linux native libs) and performance and stability is "good enough". It's not what it was five years ago
@travisdh1 said in Storage Spaces and ReFS:
Not something I'd normally be up to, as most of you who know me probably already realize!
Anyhow, brought some blanked drives home from the old work place. Tossed em into my gaming desktop, because it's the only case I have that'd fit them all. And now I'm off to new adventures in Windows and it's storage subsystem. We'll see how things go in the long term here.
Yes, I actually have Storage Spaces and ReFS in use now, please don't feint on me now.
Good. What's next?
@travisdh1 said in Creating a free SMB 3.0 file server on Hyper-V 2016. Part 1: Installation and configuration:
@bnrstnr said in Creating a free SMB 3.0 file server on Hyper-V 2016. Part 1: Installation and configuration:
@dashrender it's faster to install core because the entire objective of the guide was an SMB server, not a hyper-v server.
Licensing isn't the issue either as they state this is for testing purposes, and that it is, in fact, against TOS. So use the 180 day free trial for testing purposes and spin up a VM of server core for your SMB server.
The whole hyper-v thing makes zero sense whatsoever.
Very true. Starwind isn't a company known for this sort of pointless exercise.
What do you mean by that?
I absolutely disagree on anything like "We should not talk about that". In IT industry it's called "security thru the obscurity". Banning meth or nitroglycerine cooking books won't stop people from producing them. Real exercise is evangelization and telling something "Yes, you can do that but it's a bad idea and here's why" rather then telling nothing and just waiting for somebody to try. IMHO of course.
P.S. #$%# I'm thinking about just taking the whole thing down :((((((((((
@tim_g said in Understanding SSD Endurance (DWPD & TBW) and Recommendations for S2D:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2017/08/11/understanding-dwpd-tbw/
The problem is it isn't really a % what reported. And it's a VERY bold estimation to thinking "I got 5% in 2 years so I have 19 more years" is WRONG. It doest work the way guys @ MSFT are telling. 5 can jump to 90% very fast - it's a function of a workload fragmentation.
@matteo-nunziati said in Creating a free SMB 3.0 file server on Hyper-V 2016. Part 1: Installation and configuration:
@oksana you should mention here that this is in violation of MS eula
Should we copy the whole article there?
@scottalanmiller said in Looking for virtualization advice:
@garyp said in Looking for virtualization advice:
We have started looking at HCI solutions, including Scale. StarWind and HPE SimpliVity as we do not the expertise in managing a hypervisor nor the time to manage it.
That's the appropriate short list. Of those, @Scale is the one that is going to offload the most from your plate. Starwind provides HC but you are still managing the hypervisor on your own, separately. It's architecturally all together, but the management console is not.
It's changing...
https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-manager
VMware-based appliances will probably stay with a vCenter + plug-in, but Hyper-V (and KVM soon, very soon) are getting own HTML5 GUI.
@scottalanmiller said in Looking for virtualization advice:
I don't get how they run their sales with all the pricing published on-line
P.S. People should love this approach! Not sure about back-end VCs.
@jaredbusch said in Looking for virtualization advice:
Side note, how do you calculate cores for Server 2016 on a Scale system. Is it per node?
because I specifically spec'd that Xbyte system with 2x 8core procs because of Windows licensing
It's per-core from Microsoft. Scale can't do anything to change MSFT licensing policy.
@garyp said in Looking for virtualization advice:
We are looking to virtualize the servers in the data center in our office. Since most of our applications run in two co-lo data centers, managed by a service provider, the data center in our office could almost be considered a remote office.
Currently we have mostly physical Windows servers (yes, I know it is 2017) in this data center consisting of:
Two file servers for a total of 7 TB
Security system server
HVAC system server
Warehouse conveyor control server
We need to add about 6 Linux servers for SIP and a telecom specific application.Ideally, we can move VMs to another host if one fails, but it doesn’t have to be instantaneous.
Current storage need is ~8 TB with room to grow to ~15 TB in the next 3-4 years. DAS, NAS, etc., whatever might work best for this situation.
Dell suggested a 3-2-1 architecture for over $100,000, which does not seem at all practical.
Another vendor suggested Dell’s VTRX with 3 M630 blades plus the storage.
> We have started looking at HCI solutions, including Scale. StarWind and HPE SimpliVity as we do not the expertise in managing a hypervisor nor the time to manage it. Too many other projects and distractions.We will need some sort of DR solution. We will want an on-site backup and a copy going off-site to Azure, AWS or similar.
Suggestions?
I can't say much about Scale, but both StarWind and SimpliVity (now proud part of HPE) have extensive pro active support facilities as part of their HCI offerings. It means it's going to be StarWind (and HPE of course) staff who'll "babysit" your IT infrastructure, watch critical telemetry and performance metrics and react BEFORE issue is going to happen. + dedicated support engineer doing all "grunt" work for you.
https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-pro-active-support
https://www.simplivity.com/blog/2016/02/our-support-is-always-on/
Making long story short: you don't need to be a virtualization (storage?) expert anymore
Good luck!
@bj said in Hardware sources:
I had a sales guy reach out to me about Synology. Have you had any exposure to them?
SOHO units.
@scottalanmiller said in Hardware sources:
@bj said in Hardware sources:
Thus far, I've got the impression that people might prefer dell, but they haven't exactly come out and said it.
I prefer Dell because I can get it refurb with full warranty through xByte. I've been hinting to them that we'd like them to offer SuperMicro as well, though.
xByte is an excellent option if company doesn't need new!
@bj said in Hardware sources:
Hey... my company has been relying on http://www.thinkmate.com/ for their server needs. This isn't a company I know much about when it comes to server hardware. Do any of you know much about them? Are they any good? What is your hardware brand of choice? I've used dell in the past, and have loved them, but I'm not sure if it is worth trying to make the change.
#servers #thinkmate #dell #hp
Dell Direct?
