@chrisnbrooks said in What is the Upside to VMware to the SMB?:

Thank you for voicing so eloquently what some of us have been trying to wrap our heads around. I personally come from a frugal era of IT and will always scout free solutions before coughing up the cash or subscribing to a (shudder) recurring licensing fee. We used to buy our modem banks by sniping eBay auctions, and that was at a tri-state telecom. I realize you need to spend money to make money, but unnecessary expenditures should still be avoid if possible, imo.

You're welcome 🙂

@craig.theriac Ok, hats off. That is cute. And some great marketing!

So I tested the backup functionality within XOS and the appliance backs it's self up without issue.

Wow!

No additional tools required. Great design @olivier !

Original post has been updated to reflect the latest 0.9 release of the Minecraft Server.

And adding Topbeat too, to send performance information to the ELK system as well.

I've worked with multiple companies that had the opposite issue, all of their equipment control software ran on Solaris on Sparc only. So they had to maintain proprietary hardware and Solaris for everything.

@anonymous said:

@olivier can you please give us a quick guide on how to update to to the lastest version if your running from source?

http://mangolassi.it/topic/7584/xen-orchestra-upgrading/2

Looks like the topic ran away from me...been swamped with other things this past week...glad to see it made for good conversation.

@anonymous said:

Does anyone make a cheap raid card?

Inexpensive raid card no. Inexpensive HBA card, yes.

@halizard Awesome, thank you and your group a crap ton for me.

Gives me stuff to work on!

@coliver We can implement a "remote" of Amazon type, that shouldn't be a problem!

I've never overcommitted memory. No idea 🙂

How goes your project?

Going to do so now, thanks.

@LAH3385 might be good to start a thread and try to determine what your needs are before going down the path of technology. By the time you were asking this question, you were already in pretty deep assuming certain products, product categories and platform HA. We should start with a business needs analysis, use that to set goals and then use the goals to select technology approaches.

@Jason said:

Not surprising. Hyper-V isn't really meant to be used in that way aside from admin tasks once in a while. It's really meant to be used to run servers/services. Not a desktop you access through it's own console.

That's why I am not completely shocked. But since Hyper-V has replaced VirtualPC and is being promoted for this specific use case I am a little surprised that getting it competitive with VirtualBox has not been a priority.

Just updated the cluster to 7.1

Once the Installation GUI comes up, I'm going to customize my installation. Desktops are nice to look at from time to time.

It's completely unneeded, but whatever. I want it.

So customize your installation and select "Server with GUI" else select "File and Print Server" for basic file share functionality in a CLI.

Select Done.

Select your partitioning, the basics are fine. Click into and then click done.

Lastly click "Begin Installation"

Set your Root password and follow the onscreen guides. Create additional users if you need them. (Which you should. No one should use the root account for everything)

@aaronstuder said in Building Out XenServer 6.5 with USB Boot and Software RAID 10:

Confirmed Working 😄

Awesome, thanks.