Yes, Staying away from LENOVO per advise given here.
However, I have been using Lenovo here for the SFF' desktops. Have ~100 of them.
Yes, Staying away from LENOVO per advise given here.
However, I have been using Lenovo here for the SFF' desktops. Have ~100 of them.
Also with local storage.
Would still need PCIe 10GbE cards in each server host. And they inter-connect as "backplane" And this is how the data syncs, assuming DRBD
Ofcourse localized SAS 10k disks will be hella-lot faster than TCP/IP 10Gbe to a directly connected NAS/SAN
Will be 100% looking at Scale. wanted to jump in their webinar yesterday; but was stuck on a conference calls
Also wondering why so many new CISCO UCS servers are for sale on eBay?
I think I would be more confortable with a refurbished DELL from xByte than buying new from Dell and running a true risk. Unsure of the percentages out there.
Looking at HP, to spec one out; will not be that much cost savings when compairing to CISCO/Oracle.
LENOVO & the Lenovo IBM Server X were thecheapest so far
Right now looking at costs of new to present to Finance & CEO.
Otherwise, More than likely I'm sure they'll say no way and I'll just spec a server from xByte
I'm sure I could spec the servers enough with local storage to support the needs. However, then I be diving into HA-lizard terratory and would completely get away from our current NAS centralized storage.
Then its the though, Ok... then why not go with a packaged solution such as HC Scale.
P.S
CDW Rep of mine came back with a quote from CISCO for 1U Servers. Similarlly priced to those of what Oracle came at me with; but the oracles were spec'd nicer..
So oracle came down on price more...
What you guys think of the Older SunFire X4170's ?? I see some of them for sale with the needed specs I'm looking for "e-bay"
Also on E-Bay..
I'm seeing ALOT of CISCO UCS200 and similar servers. Relatively new. This does not appear to be a good sign? Anyone chime in?
I'll be cautious route and upgrade to 6.1 first. and All is well, I'll proceed to 6.2. Essentially incremental updates
@coliver said:
Core and do everything from Pow
Id rather use linux shell than PowerShell. I cannot wrap my head around the syntax. I'm lazy I suppose.
People rave oohhh ahhhh Powershell!! and rolling my eyes. Every time I used PowerShell and the syntax i wanted to drive my fist through the monitor.
So what you're saying is.... I should definately upgrade a node to 6.5!? lol.
next weekend I'm just going to schedule downtime and upgrade this one node to XenServer 6.1 (From 6.0)
Just read more information on site and realized that the LACP bond is not 100% true and working as was not fully supported until 6.1
I had previous nodes running 6.1 and those appeared to have less 'issues' and also seemed faster.
Great info... I've been using Citrix XenServer since around 2012. The Free version. Had the Enterprise version with HA and other features in the small datacenter I helped manage. it was $$$$$$$$$$$$$ along with using Citrix XenApp $$$$$$$
Probably why I had the bad taste in my mouth.. better feeling now they passed it to Linux foundation.
@scottalanmiller said:
XenMotion
Article I found
https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2012/08/24/storage_xenmotion/
Thank you. I will look into it?? As Within XenCenter, I click the XenServer node and the disk attached and when I click "move" it throws me an error.
however, when the VM is shut down - i can move the disk without problem..
Its just concerning that its a Windows Server domain, with shares. How would it still be able to write the data to the new Storage Repository and put it back together and be fine? meh
Lol getting side tracked here. So much to talk about though! Amazing all the opinions. I just have my own agenda or reservations towards Windows 10. thats all.
I need to look into it from a management perspective though within a Domain network.. That will be fun. As I'm not a big fan of Windows 2012 server either - due to the theme. But over time you get use to it... I'm just 'old school' type of guy I suppose. Granted, I'm not though.
But yes, maybe I over think the solutions, maybe logic gets best of me? I dont know
Just stuck in loop as to a solution for Mac OSX Server and managing those Mac computers & users
Its not about the "privacy" issues or concerns. Its about the OS being trash so far. In my experience. I get calls on a weekly basis of customers/residential upgrading to windows 10 and contacting me that now XX is not working or it broke and did not upgrade properly.
Or cases where it upgrades, but the user profile did not get moved over and their data was in another user profile folder and had to be manually moved over.
Furthermore, I do not think its as smooth as windows 8.1 with classic shell
Windows 10 remeinds me of KDE4 - and straight rip of linux theme. Even the new "Settings" area.
XenMotion is paid product / support. Again right now we're using XenServer Free edition.
Great it can move the storage disk over while its running. However, users are constantly writing data to it as its an SMB Share from Windows Domain controller
Folders are on this drive "data disk" and windows domain controller handles the folder shares & file permissions.
Yeah.. Its the unfortunate truth and I see it. They killed their nice server product line and all that to shambles. only one can hope with IBM behind them now for customer service & support center + app development. They would consider re-inventing the server need and enterprise market.
Laughable that Apple says IBM employee's switch to Apple machines or the work place has considerable amount of mac computers.
Which problem area's did you have with Server app? Was this recent or older version of OSX Server?
What would be your take on the shares? Simple point of SMB shares and the security risks associated for future use for threats?
It just comes down to managing the mac computers.
in SMB - a windows server setup can be costly and complex. I do not enjoy setting them up all the time and the GPO policies per client needs. pain the F* ass. No distro is perfect, they all suck in my opinion.
Would things be easier if they were still Windows machines? Sure.
Windows 10 - hell no. I tell my customers to stay Windows 7 or 8.1 (classic shell) and hold out.
Could I do a Linux domain controller setup (Zentyal or similar) Yep! This would probably be nearly a silver bullet.
But again -- they're on mac computers. iMac's and Mac mini's throughout their office locations. Have been this way for almost a year now.
So needing to manage these machines + users throughout. Also the re-image the machines if something goes honky or a user blows out install. etc.
mac mini + Server.app - I could setup NetInstall & NetRestore....
or... keep a USB drive with Carbon Clone Copy disk image.
For windows machines and installs - I normally keep a CloneZilla disk image of specific machines.
Gotcha
I migrated some older Windows XP desktops at a few of their offices to OpenSuse 13.2 . Locked down.. and made sure everything worked for their MLS needs, and dropbox on a few. No complaints
Do you have any comments about UCS - Univention Corporate Server?
What about OpenSUSE Server?