@scottalanmiller What is the best backup strategy?
Snapshot of VMs and workstations + backups of both, and comply with the 3-2-1 rule?
Or is there a better alternative?

@travisdh1 said in OVH Cloud, anyone use their VPS?:

@scottalanmiller said in OVH Cloud, anyone use their VPS?:

We use Vultr and are very happy. We've moved away from TacticalRMM to FoxRMM, our in house product (aka SodiumSuite.)

Vultr is one I've used in the past, but the pricing is on-par with Linode.

One major difference now that Linode has been bought by Akamai is the storage IOPS. I've run a couple tests, and they are using some sort of SAN instead of VSAN now. IOPS always max out at what you'd expect from a 200Gb network connection.

I might have to try out OVH Cloud. The price for 4vcorse and 8GB RAM starts at ~$5.00/month instead of the $25.00/month I'm currently paying at Linode.

Vultr is using NVMe locally for nodes as it should be. Blazing fast.

@Oksana said in VMware DRS: Smarter Resource Management for vSphere:

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Managing VMware clusters by hand can quickly become overwhelming as workloads grow and shift. That’s where Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) steps in – keeping clusters stable, apps fast, and admins stress-free.
In our latest guide by Dmytro Malynka for StarWind, we break down everything you need to know about VMware DRS: how it works, its requirements, key features, and why it’s a must-have for medium and large clusters. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/wg

DRS sounds like a great thing on the surface before actually implementing it. In large clusters, VMs with heavy workloads get moved between hosts often with the associated disruptions when memory gets locked. Takes what is already a poor situation and makes it worse!

I formerly worked at an employer that had a very large VMWare cluster implemented with vSphere, vCloud and DRS enabled. They were up to 50 hosts when I left, and constantly ran into issues because of DRS.

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@scottalanmiller Thanks for the pushback, Scott, all fair points!

The article ended up blending a few different concepts: remote/published app delivery, application virtualization, full virtual desktops (VDI), and even the underlying server virtualization and containerization layers.

What we actually described mostly fits remote app delivery (X11, Windows RDS/RemoteApp, Citrix/AVD): the app runs on a server and only the UI is sent to the client.

That’s different from application virtualization (MSIX app attach, ThinApp), where the app runs on the endpoint inside an isolated package with little or no traditional install. We’ll add a separate diagram to make that clear.

We’ll rework the article to separate these models properly, add examples, and fix the terminology.

Really appreciate the correction!

Security within a VM (AV, MDM, OS/App updates, MFA, ZT, etc.), that accesses company data, doesn't matter if the host is secured.

No joke, I've seen countless times people wanting exceptions due to being a VM.