@scottalanmiller said in Free Veeam for Linux/Restore:
This is the command for a Dgraph backup...
curl localhost:8080/admin/backup
I found that yesterday, we are thinking about using this whilst also looking for other options. Ideally we would use this for a backup at the application level, but also something like Veeam Linux Free to allow us to quickly restore the VM should we need to, rather than use the backup file from DGraph.
@scottalanmiller said in Free Veeam for Linux/Restore:
@Jimmy9008 said in Free Veeam for Linux/Restore:
@scottalanmiller said in Free Veeam for Linux/Restore:
@Jimmy9008 said in Free Veeam for Linux/Restore:
@scottalanmiller said in Free Veeam for Linux/Restore:
@notverypunny said in Free Veeam for Linux/Restore:
@Jimmy9008 I don't know the specifics for HyperV, I know that the free Veeam product requires that a VMWare host be licensed to expose the backup API, I didn't think that the same principle applied for HyperV but could be mistaken.
It does not as there is no such thing as a Hyper-V license.
Doesn't Veeam Zip its self require a license to be able to use the scheduling feature? Its useless to me without that.
That would not be Veeam Zip if you do that. Veeam Zip is the free non-scheduled tool.
Thats what I thought. Any free tools I can look in to?
Not that I know of. Nor will it make a difference. Its a false path. VM layer backups dont solve open file issues.
I thought that was the issue too, thats why I tested after shutting down the software using: curl localhost:8080/admin/shutdown
Must be something open then. I thought that the command would shut down the DGraph server, release all files... so then the image made by Veeam is good. But after trying it this just didnt work...
@scottalanmiller said in Free Veeam for Linux/Restore:
@DustinB3403 said in Free Veeam for Linux/Restore:
I'm now ignoring this topic as I'm not able to handle this conversation today.
Good luck with whatever custom script devops setup you end up purchasing/building/hooking for.
Better than ignoring his corruption entirely and acting like he doesnt have a challenge to tackle and pushing a totally useless solution that requires him to change everything and just puts him back to square zero for no reason.
With a backup that cant be relied upon.
@coliver said in Free Veeam for Linux/Restore:
@scottalanmiller said in Free Veeam for Linux/Restore:
a full power down of the VM
Which isn't out of the question... not really. Does this database need to be up 100% of the time?
Not 100% of the time. No.
But equally, daily downtime just for purposes of a backup is too frequent, even if only a few minutes. Its something we can plan for and will find a way. May be the case of just using the built in backup tool, and having documented rebuild process should the VM fail.
Hi folks,
Does anybody know of any reputable companies or resellers of Dell kit in Singapore? I guess Dell have a local presence but can anybody give some advise?
Best,
Jim
Hi folks,
I have three Dell PowerConnect N4064 switches stacked. vLAN1/default (192.168.x.x) is set and the entire stack is on the same LAN.
Is it possible to create a vLAN20, and set interface 1 - 40 as able to service vLAN1 and have vLAN20 set to say 10.10.x.x? Any devices plugged in with no vLAN set in their local config get put on vLAN1, and any devices set with vLAN20 get access to 10.10.x.x?
If I have a mix and match of interfaces on both of these from stacked switch 1 - 3, will the stacking enable them to still talk as its one stack?
Best,
Ta!
Hi folks,
We have a MD1220 DAS in Raid 5 (also out of warranty). This is used by our QA Team and they maxed out the space earlier... just in time for a drive to also fail!
The storage is currently unavailable, which should not be the case as only one disk has failed. I can see rebuild is in progress, but the disk groups are 'failed'.
Called Dell, they have said as the array was full, parity wont work and the rebuild will probably fail...
Does that sound accurate to any of you?
Best,
Jim
@scottalanmiller said in Dell MD1220 RAID 5 Rebuild Question:
@Jimmy9008 said in Dell MD1220 RAID 5 Rebuild Question:
@scottalanmiller said in Dell MD1220 RAID 5 Rebuild Question:
@Jimmy9008 said in Dell MD1220 RAID 5 Rebuild Question:
Looking at two or three Dell R940s, couple of TB of RAM in each box and 4 processors in each. Or possibly a Starwind solution, depending on price.
What kind of workload do you run? R940 are awesome for Linux, terrible for Windows.
Windows Server 2012 R2 to 2019, mostly. Around 500 VM. R940, why so bad?
Because of MASSIVE licensing penalties. I mean staggering. It's so big that Microsoft has essentially created the one and two CPU server market and 8-core CPU market all on their own. The Windows licensing is so expensive, and so useless at scale, that basically everyone buys more small servers rather than fewer big ones because it turns out to be cheaper while giving you more power.
Servers larger than 16 cores and two sockets are almost exclusively for the Linux market. There are exceptions, but only for enterprise shops who are trapped with massive vertical workloads that only run on Windows which is basically a huge failure in and of itself, so pretty rare.
In reality, though, this reflects Microsoft's understanding of their own market. Big workloads that need huge vertical scaling would be insane to exist on Windows in the first place. So they are simply punishing foolish behavior and making money on people doing things poorly.
I've been told not to worry about that side of things re licensing, otherwise totally agree. That's the licensing teams problem. I've pretty much need told (not that I understand or need to understand) that we are at a certain partnership level with Microsoft and they allow us to use whatever we want, as long as we stay at that level. So, they have said if you want 20 x Windows Server Data enter licenses or 50, that's fine.
That team could be wrong, but it's not my problem.
@DustinB3403 said in Raid10, must use or another Raid/limits?:
Drives alone for this are going to cost you (assuming amazon prices - not VAT) $6,325.
Just had a look now:
24 * DC HC530 inc VAT = £12,503.53
1 x SC847E16-R1K28LPB inc VAT = £1,655.99
Total: £14,159.52
Just need to configure it in house.
@DustinB3403 said in Raid10, must use or another Raid limits?:
I think the way this conversation actually started was like this:
Boss says: We need to setup some sort of backup solutions
Jimmy says: I can do it for X
Boss says: WOW that's amazing, budget signed.
Jimmy says: Well shit now I'm stuck and I need a vendor to give me stuff for free. .
Not quite. Im given budget. So, you have x to do y.
Hi folks,
I have a Dell switch with VLAN4. Under IP on the UI, this VLAN4 has no IP addressing set. Interface 2 - 10 is set to be access mode, PVID 4.
A second Dell switch also has VLAN4, which is set to be 172.16.x.x network. The interfaces are set access mode 1 - 48 PVID 4. Interface 1 connects to an ASA 172.16.0.1.
If I connect the first switch interface 2 to the second switch, should they act as one VLAN? (Like, if I connected two layer 2 switch).
Best,
Jim
Hi folks,
I've been looking at VXRail, have any of you had experience of them? How would you rate them?
From what I can see it seems DAS storage is shared on the box to local compute nodes. Sort of how the Vrtx ran. Am I right? In this case, it's not really HC and defo not HA, right?
Wouldn't a better option be a starwind vsan appliance or Vmware vsan on top of some r740xd?
Best,
Jim
Hi folks,
I am trying to think through some backup settings and would like to know what you think.
So, I use Veeam B&R 9.5 and have a few scale out backups to Azure. When a chain becomes inactive, that is when the backup chain is moved to Azure.
A backup chain becomes inactive when either an Active Full is taken, or when a Synthetic full is taken.
Sunday to Friday are incremental, and Saturday is a full. But, should I choose Active Full, or Synthetic full?
My colleague wants to use Active Full as 'its safer and our systems can handle it', but is that the right choice? I am not sure Active Full is actually safer than synthetic full, and cant really find anything anywhere to suggest so. Any advice?
Either way, our Veeam server, production storage and network can handle the weekly active full, but does it make sense to put that extra load on the host weekly for no actual benefit? Unless Active Fulls are, in fact, safer?
Im thinking, sure... I can set it. But, I have to get my hosts to do more work once a week. When, the synthetic full will give me the same and leave most of the load directly on the Veeam server... so why do it?
What do you think?
Best,
Jim
Hi folks,
I am having VMQ issues on my 3 x Windows Server 2019 host. I am using a team of Intel X550 NIC (3 x 10 GbE interfaces to 3 x Stacked switch). The Team has been configured using Switch Independent mode.
Now, VMs are on the LAN perfectly and communicate. Rock solid.
Now to the issue. When I use Veeam with Application Aware turned on, the hosts get stuck creating checkpoints for VMs at 9%. The only option is to kill the host, restart and turn the VMs back on. It happens every time. (Strangely, checkpoints run fine native).
Veeam have looked at the logs and have said its an issue they have seen before, and to turn off VMQ initially on NICs and VMs as that often solves the issue. No worries. I do that, and the backups then run fine - perfect!
However, VMs over time then drop off of the network. I can connect to them in Hyper-V, but nothing I do will bring them back on the network. Initially they are on the network, just at some point in time many drop off, whilst others stay on.
The only resolution is to turn VMQ back on and reboot. I cant really keep testing this either as it causes much downtime! Not good. Of course, when VMQ is back on... Application Aware backups then fail and kill the host like I said at the start 
Any idea why some VMs drop off of the network with VMQ disabled on the VM and NIC? Host, fully patched. NIC, latest firmware. I thought you didnt have to use VMQ...
Best,
Jim
In the UK i've waited over one month for 2 x laptops recently. One with UK keyboard, one Arabic. After all that time... both were Arabic! So yes, they are having some issues!
Hi folks,
I have a three node Starwind vSAN made up of 3 x R740XD servers each with 14 SAS SSD drives. The Starwind storage is presented to a Windows Failover Cluster, which also runs on these three nodes.
As Starwind can scale up, I am looking to populate 10 x spare slots in each server with more SSD and create additional Cluster Storage.
The thing is though, this storage will not be used by the Failover Cluster on the existing hosts. I am looking to purchase additional hosts, add them to the iSCSI network, and build a new cluster using the vSAN storage on the existing nodes.
Would we potentially see any performance issues here? The iSCSI network is 10 GbE and I figure the new servers would be seeing the same performance as if they were connected to a physical SAN. But in this case, its just virtual. My worry is that as the existing hosts are already running VMs, Starwind and hold the data, could they be a bottleneck.
I plan to run Live Optics to see the current performance, anything I should look out for?
Best,
Jim
As vSAN could be running on three dedicated hosts, with compute connecting over iSCSI anyway, this wont be much of an issue?
@scottalanmiller said in HyperVisor:
@mroth911 here is my MangoCon talk on why RLS blows any external storage out of the water...
Interesting video. Thanks for that. Where do you get the rough number of nines figures from for various kit?
@scottalanmiller said in Windows 10 Enterprise licensing...:
For Enterprise, there isn't any complexity. Every Enterprise install required Pro to already be installed, and you buy an expensive upgrade to Enterprise on top of it.
So 450 devices, easily $40,000.
So, I would need a volume license pretty much for 450 x Windows 10 Enterprise with SA?
@IRJ said in Microsoft plans on retiring the MCSA,MCSD,MCSE certifications in June 30,2020:
@Jimmy9008 said in Microsoft plans on retiring the MCSA,MCSD,MCSE certifications in June 30,2020:
@Obsolesce said in Microsoft plans on retiring the MCSA,MCSD,MCSE certifications in June 30,2020:
The exams are following a career or job role based path.
Apparently, Microsoft sees a Windows Server administrator type of role as something the market is shifting away from. I see this in the enterprise completely, as anyone touching Windows Server services isn't spending most of their time there. It's all towards or in support of Cloud services. So it makes sense from that perspective. Someone who specializes in AD and associated services will, at least in the enterprise, spend most of their time with it in support of cloud services... making it work with Azure AD, other SaaS integrations, SSO, federation, MDM (LANless based), etc... you get the idea. That can basically be said regarding any traditional Windows Server based services.
However, I do see the point in that many SMBs only have a few Windows Servers and needs someone who specializes in basically what the old Server 2012-2016 server infrastructure MCSA/MCSEs covered because that's all they'll do there. But for how long? Who knows.... but what matters is that you realize what it is you want to do and how long you want to do it.
The market has been, and is, shifting. Embrace it now to stay ahead, move away completely from MS, or play catch up later. Up to you.
The new Azure role based certs have these levels:
Fundamentals
Associate
Expert
SpecialtyAnd what they cover reflect the job roles in the markets Microsoft obviously makes the most money from, future thinking in mind. Could they update the Server Infrastructure MCSA/MCSE path to 2019? Sure. (but what you are thinking of in those BARELY changes... most that stuff is the same as it was since 2008R2!) Even with 2012 R2, in those cert paths were starting to get a little "Cloud-y" back then. ESPECIALLY with 2016. At some point, you need to draw the line and cut them away. And in Microsoft's eyes, that time has come, I see it too, as well as many others.
Maybe Jim-Bob working at Kathy's Suburban Dentistry who keeps their 15-device Windows environment running on the single Windows Server they have in the closet may never see anything for awhile. But at some point, he may need to configure their new Dentistry SaaS app authentication via AzureAD from AADSync or some other means. Maybe not, but just trying to make a simple point. Or better yet, he may not even want to be there long enough and wants to move on to greener pastures.
But really, that's not what MS is creating their Certifications for. There's a much bigger market than that, and it totally makes sense to do what they are doing.
I have always found cloud services to be extremely costly. Seems like a bad news for us IT folk IMHO.
Cloud services have been proven cheaper for companies for a long time.
The more skilled the IT professional is the more efficient they can design a cloud environment. It's actually better for IT professionals that are plugged in because they become more valuable to their company or customers.
Whenever I have looked at this for our environment it just does not work out less. Owning our own server over the several years we have them costs drastically less. I have to hire IT services to manage on site, or cloud, so those costs are negligible. But, a server I own compared to one I hire for 6 years in Azure, is a lot less.