@scottalanmiller said:

How many people would be interested in taking a day two day trip down to the New York State Finger Lakes Wine District after MangoCon 2016 in Rochester, NY?

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I'm definitely in!

@scottalanmiller said:

@KOOLER said:

@scottalanmiller said:

That's a great idea, I need a person doing that for sure.

If you have a napkin sketches you can send as JPGs I have two designers here and some Visio guys who can definitely help

I don't but I can see what I can whip up! Thanks!

You're welcomed! Any time you want to have something just let me know

@LAH3385 said:

So the question is in the title.. Can I use Starwind with Hyper-v 2012 R2 core? The core edition is command line base and doesn't has any GUI so I don't know how to manage Starwind nor install it. What's your thought on this?

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You don't install GUI on Core / free Hyper-V / Nano you do only server app (it will also install set of drivers but that's still no GUI thing). GUI will run on a separate mgmt box.

@scottalanmiller said:

Adding @KOOLER and @StarWind_Software

For lab use it's possible to chunk out one physical LAN with vLANs and make a pseudo-supported config. Something you absolutely don't want to do in production! Later this year we'll release dynamic quorum thing so it would be possible to use single LAN between hosts.

@scottalanmiller said:

Anyone else seeing issues? We have some VMs down, Azure console isn't coming up.... doesn't seem like it could isolated to us or be account related if the Azure site itself isn't coming up.

It's interesting how Microsoft was pitching to own partners "now with Azure you can pack you things and go find better life somewhere else - we're taking away your SMB business from you"

@scottalanmiller said:

Need to let people know that email alerts are down for a while. We have grown so quickly that not only are we overrunning our daily email sending limits (we are on MailGun from Rackspace) but we are overrunning our monthly limits as well! We are now down for the month. We are working on getting the account upgraded and getting emails turned back on. But for the moment, you are not going to get any alerts.

Congrats! This is kind of an issue I'd LOVE to have

@scottalanmiller said:

You can check here. I did and your Gravatar is not set up yet:

https://en.gravatar.com/site/check

I put my e-mail and it says it's working ( can send a screenshot or whatever needeD: )

@scottalanmiller said:

@KOOLER did you check that your avatar was rated G?

Yup. G is public for everything I guess?

@scottalanmiller said:

That's a great idea, I need a person doing that for sure.

If you have a napkin sketches you can send as JPGs I have two designers here and some Visio guys who can definitely help

@scottalanmiller said:

Weird, on here they just vanished. We reported it but we did say that the priority was not high as we were happy that Gravatar would be forced for bandwidth and performance reasons. We don't want to be serving images. But we had been doing so and were going to continue doing so until it was no longer available.

I have the same issue. System does not accept my Gravatar and I cannot use uploaded picture either

@scottalanmiller said:

Ferraris and Tractor Trailers

Typically I don't give away advices if not asked but... @scottalanmiller you absolutely need somebody creating some pictures for your blog posts! They will be so much nicer and easier to understand! Just my $0.02

@anonymous said:

What options do I have? Just a simply 2 host setup. No SAN.

Like @SAM mentioned StarWind two-node setup is free. You can use Hyper-V as a basic OS inside VM to make it 200% free.

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-virtual-san-free

For hyper converged offering please kick me PM as we're working on a special offering for MangoLassi people.

@scottalanmiller said:

@KOOLER said:

@scottalanmiller I have default one (which kind of sucks). If you can fix one for me I'd appreciate it

If I check your email address here: https://en.gravatar.com/site/check

You have none set.

You right! Updated...

P.S. I was not happy to give away e-mail and did not realize it's going to be a) hash and b) it's required action actually

@Carnival-Boy said:

How does that work?

It works... Not very well LOL

@hobbit666 said:

They done a few updates and now use Gravatar (https://en.gravatar.com/) to serve your avatar to the forum.

I did it and still get nothing

http://en.gravatar.com/antonkolomyeytsev

@scottalanmiller I have default one (which kind of sucks). If you can fix one for me I'd appreciate it

So... Was not there for a few weeks (VeeamON & MVP Summit), now back and... Where's my icon?!?! Where's my avatar? Where're all the cowboys gone?

Anton

@thanksajdotcom said:

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The fact is that while sometimes you pay a premium to keep all of your <insert item here> the same brand or the same system or whatever, that initial extra cost can also sometimes mean a huge time and cost savings for the company down the road.

What are your thoughts?

I think there's a FREE stuff as long as somebody else is a sponsor. It's a big question however can you build a healthy business on that or not

@scottalanmiller said:

Check out refurbished parts. Often much cheaper while remaining fully supported and functional. Nearly all of our physical gear is refurbed.

+100500

xByte is a great source of refurb Dell hardware!

@scottalanmiller said:

It should also be mentioned vis a vis the VMware vs. HyperV situation that in both cases with two nodes and going for HA, the only reasonable storage option today is Starwind (paging @kooler @StarWind_Software ) and Starwind is better on HyperV. So while not a strict VMware vs HyperV benefit, in practical real world functionality, HyperV has a storage advantage in the case where you have two nodes AND go for HA.

Yes we can absolutely do that! Just in case OP can see:

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-virtual-san

We'll also extend our NFR program for free hyper converged version to cover Mangolassi guys soon. Just let me return from MVP Summit and kick web guys with a long long stick :)))