@FATeknollogee said in XenServer: MD RAID or not?:

Maybe use @francesco provino blog post as a starting point
http://www.francescoprovino.com/2016/09/06/xenserver-7-software-raid-with-mail-alert/

I think that needs a little fleshed out for the newbies.

But yes, that might be a good starting point.

@FATeknollogee said in XenServer: Backup & Replication:

I assumed we "are" talking about 7.0?

Yes, it works on XS7.

@DustinB3403 was running into the same issues I was on 6.5.

There is dicsussion that some other process is changing it back, but we have not started to troubleshoot that. (I no longer have any XS6.5 boxes here.)

@coliver said in Red Hat Virtualization Announced, Rebranding RHEV:

@scottalanmiller said in Red Hat Virtualization Announced, Rebranding RHEV:

@coliver said in Red Hat Virtualization Announced, Rebranding RHEV:

Wasn't Redhat supporting KVM? Or is this the commercial version of KVM?

This is RH's packaged KVM product. KVM is just the hypervisor, not the virtualization platform (think ESXi instead of vSphere, Xen instead of XenServer, etc.)

Ah, ok that makes sense. So this is an appliance or OS version of KVM. Thanks for the clarification.

Ya kind of like how they took Gluster and made Red Hat Storage. So if you want the glusterfs-server package, it's not in the repos.....annoying.

So I was able to make another array, and was also able to make an SR on that array. It's still strange that I'm not able to use thin provisioning by default on install, but for now, it's working.

But real XS does have the SMB based ISO mount, it's just not made available for the production storage.

Thanks

@BRRABill said in Xenserver feedback: Paging @BRRABILL:

We're still posting here about stuff we investigated months ago.

Breaking new ground has to happen somewhere.

@stacksofplates for HC3 Move it is actually in partnership with Vision Solutions. The full name is HC3® Move Powered by Double-Take®...Double-Take Move being the product we are OEM-ing for that.

We have played around with virt-v2v and virt-p2v, but haven't integrated them in the product yet.

@scottalanmiller said in XenServer Host to Host Migration Questions:

nciple, but I find it getting harder to do conside

Well since this will be my first venture into using a video server, not sure how much system to give something like that.

@KOOLER said in The SMB Two Server Dilema, What to Do:

@whizzard said in The SMB Two Server Dilema, What to Do:

In scenarios such as these what would be the recommended backup approach: DAS, NAS, Backup Appliance, lower end server, removable disk storage, tapes (intentionally left out cloud)?

Should be separate (physically!) entity non-related to your production cluster. Cheap NAS is OK.

For the average scenario (and I really just mean average) it's Synology or ReadyNAS that I recommend. Easy, supported, cost effective, desktop or rackmount options, well known, good brands, nice features.

And patch management and software updates are taken care of for you.

Brilliant Read, I've used Esxi and Hyper-V, good products, but I do have a inner love for Xencenter..

I've used their product before. It's pretty cool. If you have multiple servers (and are using the paid version), it will handle load balancing between the servers and all for you, automatically... Last time I tested it was with VMware.

Edit: Only the paid version does the automatic load balancing, IIRC.

@black3dynamite said in Vagrant and KVM:

@stacksofplates said in Vagrant and KVM:

Vagrant is much better than kickstarting

Why is it better?

It's much faster and you can use tools like Ansible to provision the Vagrant boxes. It's just really flexible and fast.

Open an issue and ideally send a PR with the fix: that would be your first (easy) contribution to the project 🙂

Interesting. No one else has done that yet, so that's a big step.

@BRRABill said in Thin provisioning in XS7:

@scottalanmiller said in Thin provisioning in XS7:

And if you look, that EXT3 type is on LVM. Hence the weird confusion 🙂

Yeah that, as I said, is what got me.

So, if you pick EXT is enables thin provisioning by default?
Yes. Because thin provisioning is not actually the option. It's actually just raw LVM vs file based. Files are thin provisioned. LVM raw is not. File based is being called ext3 here.

The Linux system gets the use 99% of the time and needs priority as to performance and what not. The Windows install is just for gaming and is not even my main gaming machine. Just a secondary one. And I've lived with zero Windows access for most of a year, not a big deal.