@DenisKelley said:

@KOOLER said:

@DenisKelley said:

** I'll be at VeeamOn next week** and one of the things I need to wrap my head around is how Veeam processes synthetic fulls when pushing to the "cloud." I run my setup with Reverse Increments and drop to tape, but now that my Internet bandwidth is speeding up, I'm thinking of switching to Forward Increments and using the synthetic fulls.

Check you PM. I'll be there. You're welcomed to shake hands and share some drinks

Dang, sorry Kooler. I didn't have alerts go to email and completely missed this. I was wondering if you were going to make and am sorry we didn't get a chance to meet.

Well I had bad flu so don't remember alf of what I did in Vegas Now on MVP Summit so... Hope we\ll make it other year

@Bill-Kindle said:

I see this all the time. People will setup Shadow Copies as a replacement for their normal backups, and then are shocked when they run out of space on their under-provisioned servers. And on top of that, they create multiple copies per day!

I need to add "Shadow Copies are not a replacement for backups!" saying to the "Snapshots are not backups!" line I use all the time.

Aside from all of that, what is this forum running? Looks pretty slick.

Bill is active on SpiceWorks. Renamed himself to Little Green Man so you don't see "Bill Kindle" tagged posts anymore.

@DenisKelley said:

** I'll be at VeeamOn next week** and one of the things I need to wrap my head around is how Veeam processes synthetic fulls when pushing to the "cloud." I run my setup with Reverse Increments and drop to tape, but now that my Internet bandwidth is speeding up, I'm thinking of switching to Forward Increments and using the synthetic fulls.

Check you PM. I'll be there. You're welcomed to shake hands and share some drinks

@StrongBad said:

I have to start using this all of the time, now.

Check guns regulation laws in Texas. They are far less strict than in California! FYI.

P.S. Means "make sure you keep your IOTV with 6th level plates installed always ON".

@StrongBad said:

This is awesome. Apparently Texas is a term for Crazy in Scandinavia.

Russians use "Turk" as a term for "stupid".

P.S. I love Turkey!

P.P.S. Actually "non-Russian" automatically means "stupid". Something like "[whatever word very slang for nationality used here] non-Russian" = "stupid".

@Dashrender said:

As far as I know
RTO = Recover Time Objective - The amount of time it will take to get a failed system back online

RPO = Recover Point Objective - How much data do I loose from this moment backward.

Und?

@scottalanmiller said:

@KOOLER said:

Don't go for Drobo! They apply mods to Linux so you'll have hard times recovering data back from their devices. Been there done that (c) ...

Modify Linux? They don't even run Linux!

?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drobo

Kernel :Linux Drobo-FS 2.6.22.18

@StrongBad said:

What kind of DAS devices are you looking at? Drobo makes some really nice ones that are smaller. The Drobo 5D is quite popular and can hold five 3.5" drives, can have an SSD cache if you want, does RAID 6 and connects over eSATA and USB3. It's kind of the Cadillac of desktop DAS units, which sounds like maybe all that you need here?

Don't go for Drobo! They apply mods to Linux so you'll have hard times recovering data back from their devices. Been there done that (c) ...

Cheap Synology and Netgear (don't go for their 4+ disk units as they have bad ROI commodity servers are preferred).

@johnhooks said:

https://virtualizationreview.com/blogs/mental-ward/2015/10/apple-drops-vmwares-esxi-for-kvm.aspx?m=1

Old news and actually something to be expected for a long time. Hyper-V was out of game obviously so it was Xen Vs KVM dogfight for 2,5 years...

@scottalanmiller said:

.... we compiled a guide to things that are never said by Western English speakers that immediately tip people off that English is not your first language? There are many of these "tells" that make it very obvious where someone is from based on their written language. In most cases they do not cause communications problems, but they do "give away" more than I think most people want given away by their written communications.

I don't want to do this if people do not feel it would be valuable, I don't want the spirit of it to be taken the wrong way. But I just spoke with someone in Spanish and instantly knew that Spanish was not their first language and knew where they were from just from the phrases they were uses and how they wrote.

I feel that knowing some simple basics to avoid could be extremely helpful in allowing those from outside the big English native countries (UK, Canada, USA, Belize, Australia, New Zealand, etc.) to be less obvious. I am guessing that bad speech patterns are taught in some regions of the world and that people learning English there have no idea that they are being taught very identifiable and non-standard English. Generally it is not wrong but does not conform to western speech.

Thoughts?

Guys who had started learning English in former Soviet Union (35+ years old) were usually taught by people who had never in their lives actually talk to anybody talking native English speaking people. You can guess results

@scottalanmiller said:

If you write a check for more Kangaroo$ than there is in your account, your check will bounce!

If you pay with Kangaroo$ your check bounces either way LOL

@DustinB3403 said:

Of these two options, which would be better:

1. Purchase a 2 bay external LaCie

2. Build a OBR10 Desktop file server using consumer desktop parts.

The only limitation is the pricing has to be near identical.

For a two-disk enclosures (and two disk only!) you go for Netgear and Synology. They have smart software inside you don't need to spend time on tuning, tons of integration and MOST IMPORTANT their enclosures don't eat much of power. Anything you build yourself with a desktop is going to suck way more watts from your power socket

@Dashrender said:

Patients often bring in DVD's that contain XRays that were taken at other clinics. These disks typically include a viewer built into the disk so no local software is required to see the DICOM images.

Last spring Microsoft released a patch that broke most of those viewers. The manufactures of those viewers very quickly put out a (in most cases) not free update that customers could purchase to solve this issue.

My office purchased this update at my prompting immediately (it wasn't bad - I think it was $300 or so and brought us 4 years newer to the current version).

My dilemma - do I solve the problem internally by deploying DICOM viewing software everywhere that I have to now maintain - or push back and make the continuous calls to these hospitals and clinics telling them that they need to update? (Frankly I want the pissed off staff to call them so the pressure is even hotter on the other hospitals and clinics)

Pass thru DVD drive into VM running working unpatched version of OS and live happily.

@scottalanmiller said:

Okay everyone, an important Change.org petition here. Get out there and sign this petition to Rename the Australian Currency to Dollarydoos.

Support the cause! Every voice matters.

Kangaroo$ ?

@StrongBad said:

@KOOLER said:

Scale needs 3 nodes, they don't have anything to install on existing servers like OP has and Scale has no Hyper-V support.

Scale would be a change of direction. No need for John to manage his hypervisor or storage. Everything in a single package, ready to go.

I cannot say better!

@scottalanmiller said:

@JohnFromSTL said:

Due to our size and budget constraints we purchase refurbished equipment, which are typically 2-3 years old. Whichever solution I end up with needs to last 3-4 additional years.

Refurb is good. @xByteSean is around to help out with that. As is @ryan-from-xbyte

xBytes allows people to get Dell quality @ SuperMicro price

@dafyre said:

I'd definitely recommend reaching out to the Scale Computing guys (are there any on here?) here or either on SW. For information about pricing. It would be new kit and would last you several years. I think they can do 2 node setups as well.

(www.scalecomputing.com)

Scale needs 3 nodes, they don't have anything to install on existing servers like OP has and Scale has no Hyper-V support.

@Dashrender said:

Great question - in light of the free StarWind virtual SAN, I've been wondering this myself.

A basic walk through of install would be great.

StarWind does not use Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) in a normal operations mode so it's another story...

@coliver said:

** You could look at http://www.cloudberrylab.com/ I think they do local mounting.**

In grad school I wrote a daemon that monitored a folder, in a Linux file system, and upload new files to a S3 instance. It would run when a file was written to that folder. It worked maybe 80% of the time.

We used this one before but found unreliable. Something goes wrong with Internet connection and it's very difficult to recover. WebDAV, SMB3 or application-specific integration (like one Veeam had done to their cloud connectivity also using ref'd software before) is a way to go. At least you can control data on your side @ all stages

@alvama said:

Scott, thank you for your topic. I am planning new installation and comparing between RAID 10 and RAID 5 on ssd drives. What do you think about stripe size and TBW for two types of raid? Do you know what size of blocks will be written on disks if service (sql for example) writes 8Kb on volume. For raid10 I think it will be two 8K blocks on mirror disks. But for RAID 5 it will be two blocks with size=stripe size and may be 32 or 64K. And in raid5 configuration TBW limit will be reached faster.

I'm not Scott but in your context RAID5 seems to be preferred. Because 1) Flash and not spinning disk used so typical parity RAID issues associated with high-capacity spinners are gone (see URL below) 2) Database logs are sequential writes of a big sizes so should "touch" maximum amount of spinners possible and because of sequential nature read-modify-write is not going to happen and 3) RAID5 gives you write performance of (N-1) and RAID10 does (N/2) (where N = amount of spinners).

https://slog.starwindsoftware.com/raid-5-was-great-until-high-capacity-hdds-came-into-play-but-ssds-restored-its-former-glory/

Good luck