Mac Mini as OSX Server + GlobalSan iSCSI
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@ntoxicator said:
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.
If they performed a Windows 10 upgrade then neither their opinion, experience or Windows 10 setup feedback are really useful
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@ntoxicator said:
Windows 10 - hell no. I tell my customers to stay Windows 7 or 8.1 (classic shell) and hold out.
Why wouldn't you recommend Windows 10? It is just an incremental update to Windows 8.1.
We went 100% Windows 10 something like six months ago and while not perfect, it has been pretty good.
Before the official release? or you went right after the official release?
Before the official release.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@ntoxicator said:
Windows 10 - hell no. I tell my customers to stay Windows 7 or 8.1 (classic shell) and hold out.
Why wouldn't you recommend Windows 10? It is just an incremental update to Windows 8.1.
We went 100% Windows 10 something like six months ago and while not perfect, it has been pretty good.
Before the official release? or you went right after the official release?
We started going before the release. We've been over a year on some devices and 100% of Windows on Windows 10 by several months ago.
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cool - I moved my personal laptop to Windows 10 in the early betas. I've never had an issue. Win10 mobile, that's another story altogether!
Nov 2014 - Bought Lumia 550 for the sole reason of playing with Win 10 mobile beta, The beta was OK
Dec 2014 - beta update was still good, slightly better
Jan 2015 - beta still fine
Feb 2015 - still fine
March 2015 - beta unusable! left the beta never to return. -
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
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@ntoxicator said:
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.
Install Server Core and do everything from Powershell. Then you won't have to worry about the theme.
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@ntoxicator said:
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.
In theory you should never see the theme of a server.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@ntoxicator said:
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.
In theory you should never see the theme of a server.
RSAT from Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 - problem solved
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@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.
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@ntoxicator said:
@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.
It takes a bit to get used to sure. But it is a vast improvement over the dos shell/command prompt. Bash and *nix commands still make the most sense to me as well but Powershell is what Windows offers.
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@ntoxicator said:
@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.
I'm the same way. BASH is text based, PowerShell is object based and requires all kinds of special knowledge and just looking at the output doesn't tell you what you need. It's super powerful but not user friendly at all unless you work with it constantly.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@ntoxicator said:
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.
In theory you should never see the theme of a server.
RSAT from Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 - problem solved
Plus the server manager, too.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@ntoxicator said:
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.
In theory you should never see the theme of a server.
RSAT from Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 - problem solved
Plus the server manager, too.
Is server manager something different from RSAT?
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@ntoxicator said:
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.
In theory you should never see the theme of a server.
RSAT from Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 - problem solved
Plus the server manager, too.
Is server manager something different from RSAT?
Yes.
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so..
Promise Pegasus R4 disk array
VS
DROBO D5 unit?
Both thunderbolt devices
What about user management on mac and the network... I dont really see any Linux server options avail? Unless can integrate OSX machines into a Linux server Active Directory server (zentyal or similar)
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@ntoxicator said:
What about user management on mac and the network... I dont really see any Linux server options avail? Unless can integrate OSX machines into a Linux server Active Directory server (zentyal or similar)
Mac can join either AD or normal LDAP. Linux can do AD but you would not normally unless you have Windows machines. So you'd normally just use LDAP. Linux can work in any mode here.
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@ntoxicator said:
so..
Promise Pegasus R4 disk array
VS
DROBO D5 unit?
Both thunderbolt devices
Don't even look at Promise, this is not business gear at all. That R4 unit is a perfect example. R6 is your only option on a four bay unit? That's insane.
The Drobo D5 is an entry level device but it is business class. And it is five bays, where R6 makes sense. And it does SSD tiering. Huge deal.
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Gotcha.. Yah I seen that the Promise was not nearly Business level.
the drobo though i question of how business level it is. But SSD caching option is a huge plus! This be much simpler storage solution
only hiccup would be pulling down their current dropbox data to this drive. This would take installing DB software locally and then point the storage to a Volume on the drobo.
I need to read documentation. If the Drobo can do different volumes on the RAID array. Then Im sold. Otherwise, I have to lean to the Synology NAS unit as it is more universal.
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@ntoxicator said:
the drobo though i question of how business level it is. But SSD caching option is a huge plus! This be much simpler storage solution
Entry Business Level, I would classify it. I've worked with them for years and certainly they are niche products but they have good products for their niche and we've had excellent support experiences. You have to know the product and what you are getting and need their specific offering, but for what they are they are generally quite good. Certainly entry level, no question there.
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@ntoxicator said:
I need to read documentation. If the Drobo can do different volumes on the RAID array. Then Im sold. Otherwise, I have to lean to the Synology NAS unit as it is more universal.
I don't have a 5D to test here, but our B800i certainly can make all of the volumes / LUNs that you want and does thin provisioning on them.
