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https://twitter.com/PixelBob13/status/521058244908023808
Have you seen something in between?
Yeah, compiling.
That's so blazing fast today... Not like 15 to 20 years ago when you hit F5, CTRL-ALT-DEL->SPACE and went off to get the next coffee.
You need to run more stuff in the background to slow it down! Coffee time is sacred
Just checked my current workstation: Xeon 1240, 32GB RAM, SSD, bla bla.
Not the biggest, I know, but it's a developer / admin workstation, not a CAD system
I thought I was doing ok with a 2 year old laptop, i5, 16gb and ssd haha
Granted it sounds like we do different things all day so fair enough!
Fujitsu W510 currently. Like to have real hardware, especially for embedded development.
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Unitrends not liking XenServer 7
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@hobbit666 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Unitrends not liking XenServer 7
What is it doing? Maybe time for a thread?
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Unitrends not liking XenServer 7
What is it doing? Maybe time for a thread?
Says not supported simpels
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What kind of licensing does Microsoft and others offer for people who need to dick around with hypervisors, namely hyper-v and vsphere? Is there a "good" way to do it that is cost effective for a home lab?
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What kind of licensing does Microsoft and others offer for people who need to dick around with hypervisors, namely hyper-v and vsphere? Is there a "good" way to do it that is cost effective for a home lab?
Hyper-V is free, so the licensing would be with the Server OS.
Which you can download free trials from their website which last for 180 days.
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What kind of licensing does Microsoft and others offer for people who need to dick around with hypervisors, namely hyper-v and vsphere? Is there a "good" way to do it that is cost effective for a home lab?
Hyper-V is free, so the licensing would be with the Server OS.
Which you can download free trials from their website which last for 180 days.
Oh cool. I'm just going to pay for the OS. From what I'm seeing here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/windows-server-2012-r2-pricing your options are pretty limited if you want to have a lot of different VM's running.
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What kind of licensing does Microsoft and others offer for people who need to dick around with hypervisors, namely hyper-v and vsphere? Is there a "good" way to do it that is cost effective for a home lab?
Hyper-V is free, so the licensing would be with the Server OS.
Which you can download free trials from their website which last for 180 days.
Oh cool. I'm just going to pay for the OS.
Why buy a Server OS for a home lab? You can continually download the trials or just reinstall a new trial over and over.
No harm no foul.
Unless you're made of money or have a money tree.
Do you have a money tree?
http://www.salvatoremanzi.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/dollar-money-tree.jpg
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What kind of licensing does Microsoft and others offer for people who need to dick around with hypervisors, namely hyper-v and vsphere? Is there a "good" way to do it that is cost effective for a home lab?
Hyper-V is free, so the licensing would be with the Server OS.
Which you can download free trials from their website which last for 180 days.
Oh cool. I'm just going to pay for the OS. From what I'm seeing here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/windows-server-2012-r2-pricing your options are pretty limited if you want to have a lot of different VM's running.
You don't need to pay a single cent for a fully functioning Hyper-V, just download Microsoft Hyper-V Server (NOT Windows Server with Hyper-V). There are no restrictions or limits in functionality. It's just not allowed to install any roles but Hyper-V and Failover Cluster. Fair enough from my point of view.
For the guests, well, when it's Windows you need to pay for it, no matter the hypervisor. If you only plan for Linux/BSD VMs for example, you won't need any server licenses or CALs at all.
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@thwr said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
You don't need to pay a single cent for a fully functioning Hyper-V, just download Microsoft Hyper-V Server (NOT Windows Server with Hyper-V). There are no restrictions or limits in functionality. It's just not allowed to install any roles but Hyper-V and Failover Cluster. Fair enough from my point of view.
i.e. - https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/evalcenter/evaluate-hyper-v-server-2012-r2
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What kind of licensing does Microsoft and others offer for people who need to dick around with hypervisors, namely hyper-v and vsphere? Is there a "good" way to do it that is cost effective for a home lab?
Hyper-V is free, so the licensing would be with the Server OS.
Which you can download free trials from their website which last for 180 days.
Oh cool. I'm just going to pay for the OS. From what I'm seeing here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/windows-server-2012-r2-pricing your options are pretty limited if you want to have a lot of different VM's running.
Use their free trials instead.
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Or do I just use XenServer 6.5 until things "catch" up like unitrends?
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Or do I just use XenServer 6.5 until things "catch" up like unitrends?
What issue does Unitrends have? Did you open a thread on that?
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Or do I just use XenServer 6.5 until things "catch" up like unitrends?
What issue does Unitrends have? Did you open a thread on that?
No simply has not supported when I try and add the host. So guessed it's too new for them........ Hence thinking go back to 6.5 for now.
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Or do I just use XenServer 6.5 until things "catch" up like unitrends?
What issue does Unitrends have? Did you open a thread on that?
No simply has not supported when I try and add the host. So guessed it's too new for them........ Hence thinking go back to 6.5 for now.
You have their version that support XenServer?
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You have their version that support XenServer?
yeah downloaded yesterday http://www.unitrends.com/products/software/unitrends-enterprise-backup, yeah it shows XenServer as an option but when I try and add the XenServer it just says not supported.
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You have their version that support XenServer?
yeah downloaded yesterday http://www.unitrends.com/products/software/unitrends-enterprise-backup, yeah it shows XenServer as an option but when I try and add the XenServer it just says not supported.
I don't see that there for that product. Can you screenshot where it says that it can back up XS via the backup API? I know that it can be deployed on top of XS and that it can backup XS via an agent. But XS direct backups (via snaps) was always in a different product and I did not think that it had been rolled in yet.
