Controversial posts made by StorageNinja

@scottalanmiller said in Veeam Backup and Replication for ESXi:

@storageninja said in Veeam Backup and Replication for ESXi:

@scottalanmiller said in Veeam Backup and Replication for ESXi:

@storageninja said in Veeam Backup and Replication for ESXi:

@tim_g Welcome to Linux. All kinds of shit breaks on new kernels...

If you want a *Nix based desktop that just "@#$@% works" and has a bare metal backup may I suggest MacOS and Time Machine? You can from the BIOS re-install bare metal even from Apple's servers (PXE over WAN).

What's bizarre to me is that you would waste time on forum support for something you complain enough to spend 30 minutes troubleshooting in forums or complaining here about. A license is $50-$30 per desktop per year. You apparently WANT a backup of the desktop and see value in it, but don't want to spend money....

I want a functioning car. I don't want to pay for gas. Sadly this doesn't work.

What crap software are you dealing with? Don’t know any software with this kind of problems. What crap does VMware run that they can’t update?

Not understanding this question....

20 years on Linux and I’ve never seen this issue once. Use enterprise software and you should be good. How would any useful software carry kernel dependencies?

Block level storage hooks can often end up there (although there are exceptions like the micro-redirection in VAIO).... IN this case, it's Veeam making the software (curious where VMware came into this).

The other issue is API's changing that are called. People sometimes change them, sometimes they break etc.

@tim_g said in Veeam Backup and Replication for ESXi:

@storageninja said in Veeam Backup and Replication for ESXi:

If the alternative is spending 4 hours rebuilding your desktop image it's still worth it.

On semi-related fact is that I have my stuff set up so a rebuild takes little longer than the install... 20 minutes tops if it's a surprise. Not sure how it can get to 4 hours with some standard organizational skills.

As a storage admin you end up with some...... crap software that you end up needing on your laptop (Think stuff that runs as local web servers, and database instances). Throw in other weird stuff (Applications virtualized with versions of Java) and a decent backup of things is quite nice. Thankfully more current work/home builds don't need any of that nonsense anymore (I spend most of my day in a browser, or in Franz for messaging) so as long as I can install office and a VDI client for a few things I'm pretty good with a naked laptop.

The other thing is recovering things like SSH keys cached etc could get annoying.

Passwords managers, and remote access tools that backup/externally store credentials are nice (although I'd argue that's a form of backup).

@scottalanmiller said in Veeam Backup and Replication for ESXi:

@storageninja said in Veeam Backup and Replication for ESXi:

@tim_g Welcome to Linux. All kinds of shit breaks on new kernels...

If you want a *Nix based desktop that just "@#$@% works" and has a bare metal backup may I suggest MacOS and Time Machine? You can from the BIOS re-install bare metal even from Apple's servers (PXE over WAN).

What's bizarre to me is that you would waste time on forum support for something you complain enough to spend 30 minutes troubleshooting in forums or complaining here about. A license is $50-$30 per desktop per year. You apparently WANT a backup of the desktop and see value in it, but don't want to spend money....

I want a functioning car. I don't want to pay for gas. Sadly this doesn't work.

What crap software are you dealing with? Don’t know any software with this kind of problems. What crap does VMware run that they can’t update?

Not understanding this question....

@tim_g said in Veeam Backup and Replication for ESXi:

What I do in my spare time is my own business. If I want to use free software on something and don't want to pay for support for free software, I wont.

I pay for all kinds of software and things at home because I don't want to waste my time on things. Backups of my personal data is worth $50 a year. My 2 cents, is for most people it's worth it. If the alternative is spending 4 hours rebuilding your desktop image it's still worth it.

@tim_g said in Veeam Backup and Replication for ESXi:

@storageninja said in Veeam Backup and Replication for ESXi:

I suggest MacOS and Time Machine

Now, there's a vendor I do despise.

Let me guess.... You like the System III/V side of the UNIX family instead?

@tim_g said in Veeam Backup and Replication for ESXi:

I don't hate Veeam. I just hate how they support some of their products.

They will support it, you are just not willing to pay....

@tim_g Welcome to Linux. All kinds of shit breaks on new kernels...

If you want a *Nix based desktop that just "@#$@% works" and has a bare metal backup may I suggest MacOS and Time Machine? You can from the BIOS re-install bare metal even from Apple's servers (PXE over WAN).

What's bizarre to me is that you would waste time on forum support for something you complain enough to spend 30 minutes troubleshooting in forums or complaining here about. A license is $50-$30 per desktop per year. You apparently WANT a backup of the desktop and see value in it, but don't want to spend money....

I want a functioning car. I don't want to pay for gas. Sadly this doesn't work.

Autotask isn’t a ticketing system it’s a PSA.

Custom forwarders have advantages (super fast source filtering, compression and TLS support, custom meta tags, lower CPU) was my Experiance with LI.

Note, outside of maybe sumologic everyone with custom agents allows you to use legacy syslog.

@John-Nicholson One nice thing you get from using Softlayer for vSphere is you get a good mix of PaaS, mixed in with a HA/DRS available hosting for traditional app's that don't HA themselves.

There are a ton of applications out there with 10 users, that rebuilding the code for PaaS to do HA isn't worth it.