In Home SAN system possibly, migrating all of my physical DVD / Blurays and Music to it, and wiring up the house.

OK SAM,

I guess it was just a rant at more of "how come there are more non-business consumer raid cards available....

I feel like I've been spanked on the ass as if I was a kid..

Ha

So here are the descriptions for the 3 kinds of RAID, Software, Fake, and Hardware... RAID Defined I specifically meant companies who opt Motherboard RAID's so therefore Fake RAID by design.

Not third party software which controls RAID outside of BIOS.

It all results in the same end if something happens to the systems running the RAID.

So for what a RAID Controller is, why the crap are they so expensive, $200 to $600 for a RAID Controller is just insane. I'm not looking for a RAID controller for any particular case, just looking for good deals for when I do build something (home SAN maybe).

Anyways does anyone have any idea why this pricing model makes any sense. I know businesses who even refuse to buy a RAID Controller and opt for Software (fake) RAID's. I know. . . but damn it all RAID Controller Manufacturers bring the prices down...

Windows 8.1 to a "normal" install. I left the update for her to decide when to install, but downloaded it.

A garbage plate, without watching the video and living in rochester is simply, your choice (in most establishments) of 2 burgers / hot dogs / sausage patties / with your choice of two sides being home fries, French fries, baked beans, or macaroni salad.

It's greasy as all hell, but absolutely a great and tasty lunch. Don't expect to be motivated to do much afterwards. They're not a 2 pound steak, but will fill everyone up, definitely great after a night out with the guys.

Just great food in general, but probably takes 1 day off per plate you eat over your lifespan.

I got the 8.1 installer to work, which it did immediately pull the product key and activate. Albeit the Windows 10 Installer wouldn't pull the MSDN key.

In ubuntu I was able to pull the product key using "sudo cat ls /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDN" which output the product key (as a part of a string but still readable)

OK so this has been bugging me for some time, and its how Xen manages orphaned vDisks.

Specifically why does it create and leave these 0 GB disks on the system with no association to a VM?

This is the patching scripts we use in our Environment (work and personal) https://github.com/dalgibbard/citrix_xenserver_patcher

Love this platform, just so many amazing items.

I never though of using Ubuntu as Dom0 all of the documentation I read when getting everything setup recommended letting the installer create Dom0 for you.

Isn't that best practice, rather than installing your own Dom0?

Wouldn't that Ubuntu distro take away from your baremetal resources though in comparison to just letting the Xen installer do its thing?

oh and Scott at my home lab I setup Xen to a 16GB flash without any issues at all, it was very, very easy to do.

Like with any other linux distro it's built in with version 6.5

If we setup our Hypervisor with a baseline Ubuntu Server Distro, and then apt-get Xen, the Ubuntu server would then be overhead.

The installer it's self creates the required VM to run the hypervisor.

And we didn't want to install Ubuntu Server or some other distro and install Xen into that because of the previously mentioned setup.

That would be extra overhead.

"Spinning rust"

Gonna have to remember that one

We got it from : http://xenserver.org/overview-xenserver-open-source-virtualization/download.html and installed directly to a dedicated drive that we threw into out VM Host

We specifically didn't want to use a Thumb drive to run the Distro.

But thinking about it afterwards it would probably be easier to make a clone of a Thumb Drive ISO for backup purposes.

XenServer has a Live CD that you can install directly to a dedicated drive. Which builds Dom0, Dom0 the resides on that disk as an 8GB partition.

Oh just as a heads up I did a direct install of Xen, no overhead for another OS, directly into a dedicated (cheapo) hard drive. If I really wanted I could have used an 8GB Thumb drive to run the OS on.

Keep all of your local storage for storage.

NAUBackup is a great script for Xen. GitHub Link

Anyways just wget into /patcher and it can be run right from there with just some small adjustments to the file paths.

When I started using it I even made some recommendations to the comments to clear up what was being said. If you have questions don't hesitate to ask.

Scott I will try that tonight.