Posts made by KOOLER

We'll be using OpenBSD 5.9 for some of our proxy management VMs. Techies are trying to do CentOS and I'm arm wrestling with OpenBSD. We'll see who'll be the winner

@FATeknollogee said:

@FATeknollogee said:

@Dashrender said:

@FATeknollogee said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@FATeknollogee said:

@FATeknollogee said:

Not to side track this thread (apologies to @BRRABill ), what is the "hyperconverged" equivalent in the XenServer world?

To all you XS experts, what is the "hyperconverged" equivalent in the XenServer world?

Similar to Starwind in the Windows world

XenServer is natively that in the Xen world. Nothing additional needed.

If you had 2, 3 or more XS bare metal installs with local drives, how do you "hyperconverge" all the local disks?

Are you saying with XS the "hyperconvergence" just auto-magically happens?

Of course not, but it doesn't for any platform. If you're setting up a greenfield situation, then you design it from the ground up with XS with single shared storage.

Let's try this again:

In Windows, you can take multiple boxes, add Starwind or Datacore = hyperconverged using local storage (no SAN needed).

How do you do the same thing with XS?

This can do HC for XenServer:
http://www.atlantiscomputing.com/products/atlantis-usx

It's interesting how much of Xen did they sell.

@Dashrender said:

@ntoxicator said:

@Dashrender said:

64 GB RAM - is that all? My little server has 64, my big one has 120 GB, and you can easily buy servers today that will hold 512 GB + RAM. As for your storage, well, yeah - you have a storage problem. You just need to solve it. You might need more storage than a single typical server chassis can handle (though you can buy HPE and Dell servers that hold something like 18 drives - so you'd need some pretty crazy storage before you'd climb over that and need to go to DAS or NAS or SAN)

@Dashrender : this was also an example. To be all honest, We would actually need over 128GB of ram, and of-course the storage size to suite our needs.

I considered a XenServer HA setup with a HA setup for Network SAN units. Other users on here have bashed me for this idea and suggested a setup similar to Scale Computing (Where storage is local to servers).

Sux if someone bashed you here on ML - we try to be better than that other forum. That said, talking frankly and asking you to think critically is something most push for here at ML, sadly this comes off as bashing. That said, yeah I know bashing does still actually happen here on ML.

Scale is definitely a good solution, but it's not for everyone. it's not cheap to get into, $25K to start. Another option would be StarWinds vSAN software with Hyper-V (starwinds is free for 2 nodes if you are in SpiceWorks) or DRBD with XenServer (software is all free).

Yup. We don't officially support free on Xen (demand is too low) but if you're somebody who's interested just drop me a line and we'll do a custom key for you.

Great job indeed !!

@tonyshowoff said:

Maybe he's trapped in Romania and needs assistance.

You REALLY want to help?

Guys thank you for your HP greetings! I appreciate them! Sorry for delayed response, got flu... Damn, it's 4th birthday in a row I got flu! Need to move to some better place I guess Thanks again !!

@aaronstuder said:

???

Oracle VDBench and Intel I/O Meter (this one will require custom settings to test against "smart" storage doing cache and dedupe).

@scottalanmiller said:

@KOOLER said:

@iroal said:

@scottalanmiller
In my case I had several confusions with Fail over clustering and his licences model in Hyper-V

Failover clustering is no issue as you have licensed VMs already. Live migration IS an issue however because a) you have to move licensed VM to licensed host (free Hyper-V does not work here) and b) you cannot change licensed for 90 days after you did migration. This is SO complicated it's virtually not possible to do anything with even Standard (forget about free Hyper-V alone) without violating MSFT licensing scheme.

Free Hyper-V works just fine, it's that it doesn't replace Windows licensing. It's just unrelated. You could say that a puppy doesn't work here either, but having a puppy doesn't cause a problem either, it's just not related to the issue at hand - that of licensing the Windows VMs on top of the hypervisor, whatever that hypervisor is.

OK, could be I misunderstood the question ...

@iroal said:

@scottalanmiller
In my case I had several confusions with Fail over clustering and his licences model in Hyper-V

Failover clustering is no issue as you have licensed VMs already. Live migration IS an issue however because a) you have to move licensed VM to licensed host (free Hyper-V does not work here) and b) you cannot change licensed for 90 days after you did migration. This is SO complicated it's virtually not possible to do anything with even Standard (forget about free Hyper-V alone) without violating MSFT licensing scheme.

We're working with Seagate now to make their 8TB (and 10 and 14 soon) drives usable for ANYTHING but it turns out even log-structured file system eliminating random and small writes does not help much. Still trying to find a solution, no ETA yet.

@scottalanmiller said:

@KOOLER said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Nope, I have mentioned to @olivier that XO should work to incorporate Hyper-V into XO, it would really be a slam dunk and leverage the work that they have already done.

what product name?

XO = Xen Orchestra

It is a third party interface for XenServer but is extremely powerful and open source. Having it handle Hyper-V in addition to XenServer would be an amazing addition to the platform and it would be the only sensible Hyper-V console on the market if they did that.

SAM you're pure gold !! Thank you !!

@scottalanmiller said:

Nope, I have mentioned to @olivier that XO should work to incorporate Hyper-V into XO, it would really be a slam dunk and leverage the work that they have already done.

what product name?

@FATeknollogee said:

@KOOLER said:

Does anybody know any free Hyper-V managers except SCVMM and 5nine stuff? Open source?

I thought you guys are "partners" with 5nine?

We are partners with 5nine. There are customers who are lean and want something completely free.

Does anybody know any free Hyper-V managers except SCVMM and 5nine stuff? Open source?

@Jason said:

Anyone else contemplating leaving dell? We've seen their quality drop a lot for desktops and laptops in the past 6-12 months.

Who are you using? Reality is there is only 1 other company for us to really consider and that's HP.

We do Dell servers. Dell laptops are crap indeed. recently. But who does not do crap thee days? ;((

With cloud guys like Amazon offering their own WAN gateways (BTW, MSFT did virtual StorSimple recently) I don't see much of the future in WAN gateways and WAN accelerators. Seems to be built-in functionality of a hypervisor, backup, and could. IMHO.

Why PC-BSD and not plain vanilla FreeBSD? Why FreeNAS and not FreeBSD?

P.S. Neat and easy management! Scale is doing a great job !!

@anonymous said:

Right now we are using Veeam to Backup and Replicate, but I am not all that happy with it.

What other options are there? Last time I looked at Unitrends, they wanted 20K.....

What's wrong with Veeam? Details?

@BRRABill said:

I have a new server that has seen me go from an H310 to an H710. It's also seen a change from 7200RPM SATA drives to EDGE SSD.

I'd like to post the numbers that I got from testing, and have some questions answered. I am sure this all makes sense somewhere, I'm just not sure where.

I'll post the numbers, and then my questions.

Hopefully this thread can bring about some configuration settings for anyone looking to configure their RAID cards optimally.

CrystalMark should be renamed to CrystalCrap.

Intel I/O meter, DiskSPD or Oracle VDBench.

@garak0410 said:

I've got a ghost writer...nice...

I am just crazy busy at work but this post reflects a fraction of what's on my plate right now. SO let me take a piece at a time.

We are running production VM's on that aging (but licensed) PowerEdge 2900. Do I need replacing that as my priority or perhaps look at the Starwind solution first? We are going to need more storage since we are adopting DocuWare.

Could be! there will be some mess with licensing as we don't do Xen so for NFS storage you'll need VMware key Either way I've asked engineers to jump in here and help you so ping me if they would not get in and respond to you ASAP