I could easily build our own again using Supermicro hardware. its trusty. only downside is warranty and such
But I suppose, if running in HA 2-3 servers within XenServer.. would be a non issue if one had a hardware issue.
I could easily build our own again using Supermicro hardware. its trusty. only downside is warranty and such
But I suppose, if running in HA 2-3 servers within XenServer.. would be a non issue if one had a hardware issue.
Server quotes came back
LENOVO Server X are decently priced per 1U
ThinKServers are cheapest
Still waiting on pricing from CISCO
Oracle dropped price down... nearly 8k for an 1U server. But they have only minimal 600GB SAS drives?? wtf
Like to have NEW server prices and present them to CEO/Finance and then also look at used servers. I really like what xBYTE has for inventory
I have no experience with XenMotion?
I guess I just need to be babysat some more.. lol
I appreciate everyone's input here. ALOT of opinions and knowledge shared together.
What about read/write capability though?
Nothing is perfect for systems. Unless straight Linux server. But then have limitations or script your own and use open source projects
can I setup linux server for Samba shares? Absolutely. Will it work? Sure...
Will there be limitations.. absolutely.
Looking to simplify their network and not have a phone call each day.
Also I know the limitation on the share being formatted as HFS+
Compatible with Apple eco-system. but not linux or windows. due to filesystem. the plan was have the Dropbox app be on the Mac mini and re-publish the files globally. and then only certain computers would need dropbox installed if person needs access to the company files for read/write
all suggestions welcome for cloud solutions though!
ease of use and drives auto map to login.
These are not brighest computer users. Trying to KISS
Plan was to have a volume/disk attached to Mac Mini running the Server app. in el capitan its nice! alot of changes and merged to a single app... more rounded & polished per say.
But all shares would be SMB (as apple moving away from AFP) and also WebDav share option
Formatted as HFS+ ofcourse
Like mac OSX server app to keep everything simple. As with the built in OpenDirectory and such.
Gotcha. Yeah, Personally I've always used Synology Diskstations or their Rackstation products.
Looking for other TB DAS units.. Promise has some nice units. But not seeing any that are empty without disks.
Look at this baby.. Just found QNAP has new product. But as any TB equiped device, you get hit with price
You mean having the DAS?
Simply put, customer always complains and all their agents/users about dropbox. They're paying over 2 grand per year for Dropbox business.
Workstations disk space gets torn into and used up because dropbox data is pulled down onto each machine running the software.
Unless there is another distributed file solution that can make work for their Mac / Apple eco-system.
I know internally the NAS or even DAS would have read/write capabilities which would exceed regular 1Gbe network transfer rates.
as a RAID-10 array with 4 disks of 7200 RPM drives would easily be in the 350-450MB/s range.
So if a user was pulling or saving or copying a file from their workstation, over to the network share. That file copy would only be at wire speed or network switching speeds.
Or am I missing a something
Ive always stayed away from Drobo. i'll check into them again as well
Synology NAS's have SSD cache option.
really think be that much of a bottleneck using 1Gibe direct to the SAN for iSCSI LUN directly attached to mac? The write speeds I see would indeed be capped to 1Gbe speeds as the RAID-10 array disk read/writes would absolutely be faster than 1Gbe.. so i see the point.
but the data coming over the network would never be greater than 1Gbe... ?
I probably could pull down the backup from carbonite as its backing up the entire data partition. However, then comes the restore time.
The Synology LUN backup is just LUN. cannot export to NFS. So would have to use Carbonite to restore.
I suppose all the options have their issues. no clean cut solution
Otherwise.. Have to install Dropbox locally on the Mac Mini server, let it save to the DAS volume.
As they want to 'start fresh' and only bring over files & data they need from the current Dropbox business account.
All sites are connected with IPSEC VPN. So the new users I would have login to the netowork using new OpenDirectory credentials and they automatically have network drives mapped to them and have access to needed company files.... no more dropbox!
Gotcha
I was considering just a NICE 5 bay Thunderbolt DAS unit for them as well. Right now, its all Proof of concept before I suggest as a solution. As they want to get away with dropbox for all their locations
Always complaining to me the slowness of mac's even though they're spec'd accordingly. Soon as you kill dropbox.. runs fine. had to implement alot of QoS on their network to throttle DB traffic.
The thing is.... Synology & QNAP both have an "app" that you can install on the NAS unit to Syncronize with Dropbox or Google Drive. I was planning to install the app. and let it rip and pull down ALL the dropbox data to a separate Volume.
with a DAS. I do not think I can create separate block level volumes
The windows DC is backed up to Carbonite.
I am backing up the LUN's on the Synology Rackstation a remote disk.
Thank you again Scott!
Now... what you think would be more reliable or simpler solution?
Use XenServer to migrate(move) the disk to the new Storage Repository (NFS)? This will take several hours.. And I'm worried that if something fails the entire disk migration will be lost.. or will XenServer do block by block and if any fail, it will keep on the original SR?
Or should I just attach a new disk to the Windows Server VM (From the NFS Storage Repository) and manually copy all the files over using Microsofts data copy utility.. so the share folders & file permissions are carried over
As I'll need the keep the same drive letter