Looking to Buy a SAN
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The last time that I solved this problem, I built 2 Starwind SANs on site with a third off site. Medical data is important!
It was all torn down for a single EMC system that failed inside of a year and much data was lost. I laughed since I was long gone from the company that made the poor decisions.
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@Dashrender said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
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@stacksofplates said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@bnrstnr said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@Obsolesce said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@stacksofplates said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@scottalanmiller said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@Dashrender said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
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@ScottyBoy said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@flaxking said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
I've recognized an IPOD and witnessed it play out.
In the end the business decided it made more financial sense to put 200 VMs in Azure.
This is for a TV station cloud simply isn't an option to run this stuff unfortunately.
My point is that putting a bunch of VMs in Azure is a pretty expensive solution, but dealing with an IPOD ends up costing the business enough that the cost is acceptable.
The other solution is to not design an IPOD.
Exactly. Buy a correctly sized Scale box - no IPOD... sure, huge upfront cost, but who knows over the long term compared to Azure. etc etc etc.. We don't have any of the other needed information to know if going to Azure was the right move or not... but it's done, so we move on.
Literally everything is cheap compared to Azure. LOL. Even with all their specialty serverless whatever, never seen it cost close to what running your own would do. The cost is just so absurd per workload.
Their serverless offering is on par with the rest. It's a million requests per month and 400,000 seconds of compute for free. After that it's only $0.20 per million executions and $0.000016 per second. That's not really expensive at all.
Exactly. I'm using in a lot of places in production with ~10k users and twice as many devices that is using the serveless functions in many areas... basically for free. And, that's just the start (one example) of it... Having a VM with enough power to process that as frequently as it's getting done now along with all the other benefits around it, there's truly no comparison. Scaling it down to how a typical SMB would use it, well that's a no-brainer, as it'd be totally free and 100% beneficial. I don't think one's ignorance of a technology justifies it's disqualification of use in the real world.
This should probably be it's own topic, but here we are... I'm totally ignorant to Azure and serverless concepts in general. What types of real world services/processes are SMBs using (or could/should be using) serverless Azure for?
There's a few different scenarios. Anything reactionary essentially. Send a message/email based on an event, do some kind of work based on messages in a message queue, transform or modify data, etc. You can even use it to build and define APIs. I have an API running in Vercel (not Azure but another serverless offering) and I don't have to run the service in a VM full time.
Invoicing and Accounts Payable is a big use of it
I don't understand how those are serverless? There is software running - right? where is that software running? This is something I completely don't understand - and I'm guessing @bnrstnr likely doesn't either - but he'll correct me if I'm wrong and he does.
It's not the best terminology. But it's the standard now. It's like "API only" processing, getting as light as you reasonably can.
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Keep in mind that serverless itself doesn't imply cloud or hosted or third party. You can run serverless on your own server. It requires containers to run in, just like any other workload. If you feel that serverless is a critical part of your design, but don't want a dependency on third parties, you can always run your own.
I presume that this allows you to control latency issues common with serverless by enforcing what stays hot, although I've not tested that theory.
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@scottalanmiller said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@Dashrender said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@thecreaitvone91 said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@stacksofplates said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@bnrstnr said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@Obsolesce said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@stacksofplates said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@scottalanmiller said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@Dashrender said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@coliver said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@flaxking said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@ScottyBoy said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@flaxking said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
I've recognized an IPOD and witnessed it play out.
In the end the business decided it made more financial sense to put 200 VMs in Azure.
This is for a TV station cloud simply isn't an option to run this stuff unfortunately.
My point is that putting a bunch of VMs in Azure is a pretty expensive solution, but dealing with an IPOD ends up costing the business enough that the cost is acceptable.
The other solution is to not design an IPOD.
Exactly. Buy a correctly sized Scale box - no IPOD... sure, huge upfront cost, but who knows over the long term compared to Azure. etc etc etc.. We don't have any of the other needed information to know if going to Azure was the right move or not... but it's done, so we move on.
Literally everything is cheap compared to Azure. LOL. Even with all their specialty serverless whatever, never seen it cost close to what running your own would do. The cost is just so absurd per workload.
Their serverless offering is on par with the rest. It's a million requests per month and 400,000 seconds of compute for free. After that it's only $0.20 per million executions and $0.000016 per second. That's not really expensive at all.
Exactly. I'm using in a lot of places in production with ~10k users and twice as many devices that is using the serveless functions in many areas... basically for free. And, that's just the start (one example) of it... Having a VM with enough power to process that as frequently as it's getting done now along with all the other benefits around it, there's truly no comparison. Scaling it down to how a typical SMB would use it, well that's a no-brainer, as it'd be totally free and 100% beneficial. I don't think one's ignorance of a technology justifies it's disqualification of use in the real world.
This should probably be it's own topic, but here we are... I'm totally ignorant to Azure and serverless concepts in general. What types of real world services/processes are SMBs using (or could/should be using) serverless Azure for?
There's a few different scenarios. Anything reactionary essentially. Send a message/email based on an event, do some kind of work based on messages in a message queue, transform or modify data, etc. You can even use it to build and define APIs. I have an API running in Vercel (not Azure but another serverless offering) and I don't have to run the service in a VM full time.
Invoicing and Accounts Payable is a big use of it
I don't understand how those are serverless? There is software running - right? where is that software running? This is something I completely don't understand - and I'm guessing @bnrstnr likely doesn't either - but he'll correct me if I'm wrong and he does.
It's not the best terminology. But it's the standard now. It's like "API only" processing, getting as light as you reasonably can.
API processing is just one of many.
If you want to bother to learn more about serverless tech and use cases, give this PDF a read:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/serverlessI think if you read it without bias, you'll better understand and grasp it.
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@scottalanmiller said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
Keep in mind that serverless itself doesn't imply cloud or hosted or third party. You can run serverless on your own server. It requires containers to run in, just like any other workload. If you feel that serverless is a critical part of your design, but don't want a dependency on third parties, you can always run your own.
I presume that this allows you to control latency issues common with serverless by enforcing what stays hot, although I've not tested that theory.
I assume you're talking about OpenFaaS. You can control cold starts but the complexity of setting that up along with maintaining it is light years above deploying to a provider.
As with anything, people not leveraging public cloud offerings (specifically serverless in this case and not just the big 3) is because of FUD. There are very few real cases where it can't be leveraged. As you said in another thread, don't avoid the best because it fails to be perfect.
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@stacksofplates said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@scottalanmiller said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
Keep in mind that serverless itself doesn't imply cloud or hosted or third party. You can run serverless on your own server. It requires containers to run in, just like any other workload. If you feel that serverless is a critical part of your design, but don't want a dependency on third parties, you can always run your own.
I presume that this allows you to control latency issues common with serverless by enforcing what stays hot, although I've not tested that theory.
I assume you're talking about OpenFaaS. You can control cold starts but the complexity of setting that up along with maintaining it is light years above deploying to a provider.
As with anything, people not leveraging public cloud offerings (specifically serverless in this case and not just the big 3) is because of FUD. There are very few real cases where it can't be leveraged. As you said in another thread, don't avoid the best because it fails to be perfect.
Doesn't have the same cost benefits running on your own hardware either.
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@thecreaitvone91 said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@stacksofplates said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@scottalanmiller said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
Keep in mind that serverless itself doesn't imply cloud or hosted or third party. You can run serverless on your own server. It requires containers to run in, just like any other workload. If you feel that serverless is a critical part of your design, but don't want a dependency on third parties, you can always run your own.
I presume that this allows you to control latency issues common with serverless by enforcing what stays hot, although I've not tested that theory.
I assume you're talking about OpenFaaS. You can control cold starts but the complexity of setting that up along with maintaining it is light years above deploying to a provider.
As with anything, people not leveraging public cloud offerings (specifically serverless in this case and not just the big 3) is because of FUD. There are very few real cases where it can't be leveraged. As you said in another thread, don't avoid the best because it fails to be perfect.
Doesn't have the same cost benefits running on your own hardware either.
Def not, especially if you are within the free tier every month. The cost in electricity alone is higher let alone maintenance, patching (server and k8s and OpenFaaS), troubleshooting, etc.
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The reason cloud is so expensive for most is because they simply try to move existing workloads to it without redevelopment of the workloads to a server less design.
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@stacksofplates said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@thecreaitvone91 said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@stacksofplates said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@scottalanmiller said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
Keep in mind that serverless itself doesn't imply cloud or hosted or third party. You can run serverless on your own server. It requires containers to run in, just like any other workload. If you feel that serverless is a critical part of your design, but don't want a dependency on third parties, you can always run your own.
I presume that this allows you to control latency issues common with serverless by enforcing what stays hot, although I've not tested that theory.
I assume you're talking about OpenFaaS. You can control cold starts but the complexity of setting that up along with maintaining it is light years above deploying to a provider.
As with anything, people not leveraging public cloud offerings (specifically serverless in this case and not just the big 3) is because of FUD. There are very few real cases where it can't be leveraged. As you said in another thread, don't avoid the best because it fails to be perfect.
Doesn't have the same cost benefits running on your own hardware either.
Def not, especially if you are within the free tier every month. The cost in electricity alone is higher let alone maintenance, patching (server and k8s and OpenFaaS), troubleshooting, etc.
That assumes that you can do everything that you need in serverless. I know literally zero companies that can do that. You have to include the cost of moving to bespoke software built purely around this with a team of devs that understand it. The cost, in the real world, is staggering.
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@thecreaitvone91 said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@stacksofplates said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@scottalanmiller said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
Keep in mind that serverless itself doesn't imply cloud or hosted or third party. You can run serverless on your own server. It requires containers to run in, just like any other workload. If you feel that serverless is a critical part of your design, but don't want a dependency on third parties, you can always run your own.
I presume that this allows you to control latency issues common with serverless by enforcing what stays hot, although I've not tested that theory.
I assume you're talking about OpenFaaS. You can control cold starts but the complexity of setting that up along with maintaining it is light years above deploying to a provider.
As with anything, people not leveraging public cloud offerings (specifically serverless in this case and not just the big 3) is because of FUD. There are very few real cases where it can't be leveraged. As you said in another thread, don't avoid the best because it fails to be perfect.
Doesn't have the same cost benefits running on your own hardware either.
If it doesn't, then it's cloud vs. premises that is being compared, and serverless is a distraction.
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@stacksofplates said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
I assume you're talking about OpenFaaS. You can control cold starts but the complexity of setting that up along with maintaining it is light years above deploying to a provider.
Except a problem with the providers is cold starts. So if that's needed, it's needed either way.
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@stacksofplates said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
As with anything, people not leveraging public cloud offerings (specifically serverless in this case and not just the big 3) is because of FUD. There are very few real cases where it can't be leveraged. As you said in another thread, don't avoid the best because it fails to be perfect.
That's actually the opposite. I see loads and loads of people going TO cloud because of FUD. Then getting there and finding out that they can't afford it - either because it costs more (generally a LOT more) or because they can't afford what it costs holistically to make that piece of it cost less.
It sounds good, but we're talking real world here. Outside of a few unique enterprises with crazy deep pockets, or isolated workloads, even big companies can't move to 100% bespoke workloads with all of their investment being driven not by total cost, but by a desire to just say that they are 100% in on cloud.
It doesn't even begin to cover issues like companies that can't have that latency or can't be online. There is zero excuse for pushing cloud as the single answer, it isn't. Period. No ifs, ands, or buts. And calling "basic business decision making" around cost "FUD" is not fair, it's anything but FUD. It's cold, hard math.
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@scottalanmiller said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@thecreaitvone91 said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@stacksofplates said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@scottalanmiller said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
Keep in mind that serverless itself doesn't imply cloud or hosted or third party. You can run serverless on your own server. It requires containers to run in, just like any other workload. If you feel that serverless is a critical part of your design, but don't want a dependency on third parties, you can always run your own.
I presume that this allows you to control latency issues common with serverless by enforcing what stays hot, although I've not tested that theory.
I assume you're talking about OpenFaaS. You can control cold starts but the complexity of setting that up along with maintaining it is light years above deploying to a provider.
As with anything, people not leveraging public cloud offerings (specifically serverless in this case and not just the big 3) is because of FUD. There are very few real cases where it can't be leveraged. As you said in another thread, don't avoid the best because it fails to be perfect.
Doesn't have the same cost benefits running on your own hardware either.
If it doesn't, then it's cloud vs. premises that is being compared, and serverless is a distraction.
What? Serverless isn't billed or tracked at all unless your function is running. It's not a distraction, it's very much dependent on that architecture for his point.
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@scottalanmiller said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@stacksofplates said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@thecreaitvone91 said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@stacksofplates said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@scottalanmiller said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
Keep in mind that serverless itself doesn't imply cloud or hosted or third party. You can run serverless on your own server. It requires containers to run in, just like any other workload. If you feel that serverless is a critical part of your design, but don't want a dependency on third parties, you can always run your own.
I presume that this allows you to control latency issues common with serverless by enforcing what stays hot, although I've not tested that theory.
I assume you're talking about OpenFaaS. You can control cold starts but the complexity of setting that up along with maintaining it is light years above deploying to a provider.
As with anything, people not leveraging public cloud offerings (specifically serverless in this case and not just the big 3) is because of FUD. There are very few real cases where it can't be leveraged. As you said in another thread, don't avoid the best because it fails to be perfect.
Doesn't have the same cost benefits running on your own hardware either.
Def not, especially if you are within the free tier every month. The cost in electricity alone is higher let alone maintenance, patching (server and k8s and OpenFaaS), troubleshooting, etc.
That assumes that you can do everything that you need in serverless. I know literally zero companies that can do that. You have to include the cost of moving to bespoke software built purely around this with a team of devs that understand it. The cost, in the real world, is staggering.
No it doesn't. Maybe for electricity, but again if you are within the free tier per month, the cost is infinitely smaller because there is no cost to run it on a provider. Local hosted will always cost more because you have to maintain it, again if you stay within the free tier.
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@scottalanmiller said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@stacksofplates said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
I assume you're talking about OpenFaaS. You can control cold starts but the complexity of setting that up along with maintaining it is light years above deploying to a provider.
Except a problem with the providers is cold starts. So if that's needed, it's needed either way.
Depends on the language and who you use. If you use Cloudflare workers, it's an average of under 200 ms. Again, completely depends on language and provider.
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@scottalanmiller said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
@stacksofplates said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
As with anything, people not leveraging public cloud offerings (specifically serverless in this case and not just the big 3) is because of FUD. There are very few real cases where it can't be leveraged. As you said in another thread, don't avoid the best because it fails to be perfect.
That's actually the opposite. I see loads and loads of people going TO cloud because of FUD. Then getting there and finding out that they can't afford it - either because it costs more (generally a LOT more) or because they can't afford what it costs holistically to make that piece of it cost less.
It sounds good, but we're talking real world here. Outside of a few unique enterprises with crazy deep pockets, or isolated workloads, even big companies can't move to 100% bespoke workloads with all of their investment being driven not by total cost, but by a desire to just say that they are 100% in on cloud.
It doesn't even begin to cover issues like companies that can't have that latency or can't be online. There is zero excuse for pushing cloud as the single answer, it isn't. Period. No ifs, ands, or buts. And calling "basic business decision making" around cost "FUD" is not fair, it's anything but FUD. It's cold, hard math.
You keep saying this, but you're referencing companies that just lift and shift. We have said over and over again obviously that's more expensive. Applications need to be redesigned to leverage public cloud efficiently.
It doesn't even begin to cover issues like companies that can't have that latency or can't be online.
What does this mean? Latency from what? services in the same AZ and VPC are averaging the same as a LAN. You can even run HPC workloads with Infiniband speeds.
Outside of a few unique enterprises with crazy deep pockets, or isolated workloads,
That's demonstrably false. I mean it's amazing you can say those words and people on this site will read it and believe it when you can just clearly look anywhere and see tons of companies relying either solely or very heavily on cloud providers.
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@scottalanmiller said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
There is zero excuse for pushing cloud as the single answer, it isn't.
and no one here has done that. We were talking about serverless and different providers and you morphed it into how companies can't use cloud because they use it the wrong way which makes it expensive.
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@stacksofplates said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
What does this mean? Latency from what? services in the same AZ and VPC are averaging the same as a LAN. You can even run HPC workloads with Infiniband speeds.
He's referring to SMBs that are running on Dial-up or otherwise shit internet connections that can't operate with anything that isn't on-prem. So because of that, he's saying cloud isn't an option in the real world.
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Seriously, this would be great to listen to over a scotch and cigar. One of y'all can bring slides. Voices would get raised. Bottles would get broken. In the distance, crows flee.In the meantime, the @op has left the building without really taking anyone's advice.
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@Grey said in Looking to Buy a SAN:
Seriously, this would be great to listen to over a scotch and cigar. One of y'all can bring slides. Voices would get raised. Bottles would get broken. In the distance, crows flee.In the meantime, the @op has left the building without really taking anyone's advice.
I'm still here. We just decided not to listen to illogical advice.
