First Look at the Scale
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The NTG Lab's Scale Computing HC3 hyperconverged cluster is finally online (well part of it, anyhow.) Enough that we are starting to use it and grabbing the first screen shots. Here is the first login screens. More will come once the first ISOs get uploaded. Since OpenSuse is so hard to get on a traditional cloud, we are getting that installed first. Download is underway.
And yes, that is an Ubuntu 14.04.3 Jump Box that the shots are taken from.
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@scottalanmiller said:
And yes, that is an Ubuntu 14.04.3 Jump Box that the shots are taken from.
Ubuntu!! The universe is coming to an end.
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Here is an ISO uploading to the media store. OpenSuse Leap is the first one in the lineup. FreeBSD downloading now while Leap uploads.
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How is the ISOs loaded - Is it being loaded from a repository or are you uploading each ISO separately.
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Making a Leap VM...
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@gjacobse said:
How is the ISOs loaded - Is it being loaded from a repository or are you uploading each ISO separately.
A repository is kept on the cluster itself under "Media". So you upload your ISO catelogue to there and then you have them at the ready. So completely inclusive within the cluster, no need to maintain an external repository.
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Here is the VM ready to work with...
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Simple web console...
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None. It's a direct web connection to the cluster itself.
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I'm pushing for Spice support to be added. That's one that I am excited about and hope that we get to see.
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First Ubuntu 15.10 VM installed.
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DragonflyBSD up and running on the Scale. One of the good tests... a rather obscure OS. I hope to find some awesome uses for it.
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Good stuff! It looks easier than VMware to navigate and I like that the web client works in Firefox so it should work in Chrome.
What is your backup plan going to be for your VM's? I figure it may be a different post but just wondering what your thoughts are since Veeam and Unitrends (agentless) is currently not possible.
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@lhatsynot They have backup options in the gui, tho I don't know that they have a scheduler yet. Yeah, backup without an automatic run.... I really, really like what Scale is doing, but at least of last year that was the only major bit missing.
You can backup to any NFS target from within the management interface to get backup copies off the cluster.
That's in addition to the normal snapshot functions we'd all expect of course.
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@lhatsynot said:
What is your backup plan going to be for your VM's? I figure it may be a different post but just wondering what your thoughts are since Veeam and Unitrends (agentless) is currently not possible.
You can use tools like StorageCraft of course. But image based backups are just included.
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@travisdh1 said:
@lhatsynot They have backup options in the gui, tho I don't know that they have a scheduler yet. Yeah, backup without an automatic run.... I really, really like what Scale is doing, but at least of last year that was the only major bit missing.
You can backup to any NFS target from within the management interface to get backup copies off the cluster.
It can be done automatic. It's not that it is not automated, it is that the scheduler is not exposed and you have to put in a ticket for Scale to set up the schedule for you. So the miss is not in functionality but in interface.
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@scottalanmiller said:
It can be done automatic. It's not that it is not automated, it is that the scheduler is not exposed and you have to put in a ticket for Scale to set up the schedule for you. So the miss is not in functionality but in interface.
Completely forgot, the tech did mention that. Yeah, they sent one of the 'engineers' and not a sales guy to the NE Ohio Spicecorps meeting. One of the best vendor sponsored meetings ever.
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@travisdh1 would that be Brian?
