You may notice slowdowns as those NAS units use the Atom processor to handle the parity RAID system.

@NetworkNerd the p2v for this is nice... just remember to check off a box if you're looking to use hyper-v on 2012... The downside though is that you might get a bloated VM because you can't move some of the blocks from the end of the vm to the front. Had that happen to me on one drive that was a 160gb vm using only 40gb. used the tool and was left with a 120gb vm... turned out that there were 'unmovable files' at the end of the vm image...

When any load creates threads it has to limit how many it makes. It could be that whatever is doing the work only needs three threads in which to do it, or it is capped at three or it could be that it is three different things that are unrelated to one another.

Sounds like your DHCP pool is exhausted and when the clients refresh they are getting a new IP (though that's not how I understood DHCP leasing to work - as long as your assigned address was still valid, and you're renewing you should get the same one issued back to you - I suppose the DHCP server could be making issued addresses as now invalid).

What are you using to provide DHCP now?

DHCP clients normally try to verify their DHCP assigned address at the half way mark - 30 mins is half of the original 3600 lease time, so it makes sense that it's related, what doesn't make sense is why your machine is changing IPs?

@coliver said:

Hasn't Linux always been able to do something like VSS?
Always? No. Before VSS? Yes. VSS is heavily based on Linux LVM. You have long (but not always) been able to take snapshots of the filesystem.

@g.jacobse said:

@scottalanmiller
Myself - on rare occasions yes. It would be more for HR and our PR departments use.

Then keep it, you can always limit access to it.

I'm pretty sure that Landscape is Linux only. And it isn't free.

That looks like an interesting tool, I need to check into that.

Nothing right now but we're going to trial Team Foundation Server in the next couple of weeks. It's about the only repo that's integrated with PowerShell ISE's.

Tried that as well, but couldnt get the git command working on the command mode. This product seems to be very good for our requirements as we are planning to have QR code on all machines

Congrats on diving into Linux. I bet that you will find that BASH scripting is dramatically easier to get into than PowerShell too. 🙂

That's a bit scary!

Mine seemed fine today. Might have been the wireless.

Commodity, replaceable nodes. That's the common new approach. Nearly everyone is doing that today. It is tough for the small businesses, though, where they are lucky to have a single node. Works great when you are replacing old, legacy UNIX machines or something but when you are replacing a single, cheap node you generally can't find the budget to go to two, cheaper nodes.

@thanksaj Yikes

Call it a day (week) and get some sleep

@Dashrender said:

While you might not have a drive fail, there are so many other factors that could, this definitely seems like the wrong approach.

No kidding. This is so completely the wrong approach. Five nines? That's nothing in storage. Lots of providers provide that today out of the box. It's just the drive replacement piece that needs to be automated and honestly, that's trivial.

@scottalanmiller said:

vCloud is a product that you buy, it's not a service. VMware has a cloud service, but that isn't it. This is for on premises clouds. Amazon and Rackspace are hosted products only. Rackspace's on premises name would be OpenStack.

I would definitely not choose them. [VMware] Small time. Amazon is the top player for a reason. Rackspace is by far the best for the SMB market. And I mean by far.

The reason to use VMware's public cloud is so that you can transparently move workloads from a local VMware cloud to the public one. Not really a great idea anyway, this means you've not understood cloud and screwed up already.

Thanks, that clears that up.

Hello all who actually gives a....well you know. With the help of all of you, I actually figured out what was the other issue. My Data 1 file was corrupted. I since then fixed it and now I"m happy. Once again thank you for all the love you shared with me on this venture. I'm sure I'll be picking all of you brains again. Thank you so much!