Posts made by Kris_K

@FATeknollogee
the same as you're in as per my post.
http://www.coresite.com/data-centers/locations/los-angeles/la2

LA it is. Thanks guys!

Hi guys,
i need to choose between Santa Clara, CA and Los Angeles, CA for our West Coast colo.

http://www.coresite.com/data-centers/locations/los-angeles/la2 (hot aisle containment)
http://www.coresite.com/data-centers/locations/silicon-valley/sv4 (cold aisle containment)

Maybe someone recently had to make a similar decision, it would be interesting to know why they chose one over another.
Pricing is identical.
I'm based in the East Coast, but i'll visit the West Coast data center once in a while, so things like transportation to/from the data center, hotel, etc. should be taken into consideration as well.

Thanks!

@thanksajdotcom
Check https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/205145990-EdgeMAX-Dual-WAN-Load-Balance-Feature
it's not that complicated

Well, it will use all the available IOPS if you don't have any way to limit it (SIOC, etc.). If it's not limited by other resources of course.

Ok, did the math, seems like its reading at ~30MB/s. Again, what kind of storage do you have that's it is "killing"?.. Single hdd can cope with such speeds..

How is it killing the storage? By doing less than 1MB/sec?... Queue seems fine as well.

Checked it out yesterday and went back to Slack. I'll wait until Microsoft launches the full version early next year.

@momurda said in Health insurance plans:

@Kris_K
Thanks for the clarification. I never go to the doctor so I never follow the in and outs of the insurance scam.

They all look like a big scam until something major happens. Then you're happy you don't have to file for bankruptcy.

@momurda said in Health insurance plans:

Your deductible is 5350? Doesn't that mean you pay everything out of pocket, essentially every year? Unless youre going in for major surgery or a couple of MRI/CT scans every year you are paying out of your pocket, plus youre also paying for insurance. Plus you put more money in an HSA?
Youre paying 8k/year for insurance out of pocket, plus what your company is paying the insurance company.
That seems a bit out of control/way too much. why have employer health insurance if youre paying more than your employer every month.

HSAs are for depositing pre-tax money which can later be used to pay for such expenses. So it's not $5350+$3350. His deductible is still $5350, its just a big part of it ($3350) can be paid for using pre-tax money.

I'd rather go increasing the IOPS way (more disks, adding some caching or even switching to full flash if needed, etc.).
Splitting things doesn't make sense unless his host doesn't have enough resources (cpu, ram), can't be upgraded and he needs a second one. But even then, i'd go with a single beefier one.

@travisdh1 said in VDP MS SQL AAG backup best practices:

Sounds correct to me. Just be sure the SQL backups actually happen before the AAG cluster backup,

Well, if i select Full server and select the whole cluster, aren't all the dbs (except for system dbs) backed up along with all node VMs?

Hi all,
have a little trouble figuring out the best way to configure MS SQL 2014 AAG backups using VMware VDP 6.1.
https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-60/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vmware-data-protection-administration-guide-61.pdf (starting at page 166) doesn't really help, cannot find any best practice docs as well.
There (and in some other Avamar docs) i found that simple recovery model dbs (master, model, msdb) should be backed up separately.

So am i right to assume that this would work?...:

Job 1. Select Full server, select whole AAG cluster and Full as a backup type (scheduled every whatever days)
Job 2. Select Full server, select whole AAG cluster and Incremental as a backup type (scheduled every whatever days, obviously more often than full)
Job 3. Select Select Databases, select single SQL server along with its master, model and msdb, and Full as a backup type (scheduled every whatever days).

And then restoring in case of total SQL failure takes two steps? (full servers first (as i back up whole AAG), then simple recovery model dbs).

VMWare support takes days to even take a look at a ticket, wondered if someone has a similar setup.

Thanks!

Kris

I'd go with Samsung

Dell PE730, PERC 730P 2GB, 6 x intel s3610 in raid10, read cache off.

Asked the same question in SW. The results i got using CrystalDiskMark didn't make sense as well.
Write-though, 4K Q32T1 - write at 90000 IOPS, 369MB/s
Write-back, 4K Q32T1 - write at 37000 IOPS, 151MB/s