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    • Oksana

      StarWind Success Story: One SDS to Revamp All AAA-9 Systems
      Starwind • fault tolerance ha hardware high availability hypervisor shared storage starwind • • Oksana

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    • P

      Windows Server licensing for HA?
      IT Discussion • ha licensing windows server • • Pete.S

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      Obsolesce

      @Pete-S said in Windows Server licensing for HA?:

      If you have two servers and run HA, does that mean that you have to license Windows Server standard for the maximum number of VMs running when you have a failure?

      So for example,
      Server A: 16 cores, runs 6 VMs normally
      Server B: 16 cores, runs 6 VMs normally

      So each server has to be licensed for all 12 VMs running on 16 cores - so 6 x Windows Server Standard licenses for each server, total of 12 licenses?

      But if you didn't run HA, you would only license each server for 6 VMs, with 3 x Windows Server Standard, a total of 6 licenses?

      Is this correct?

      Yup.

      If you're running a HA setup of Server Standard, all physical servers must be licensed for all Windows Server VMs that can run on them. This means each physical server in your HA cluster must be licensed for 12 Windows Server VMs.

      So yes, you are correct in that to license 12 Windows Server VMs on both of your physical servers, you'll need 6x Windows Server Standard licenses for each server, 12 "licenses" total as you said.

    • Emad R

      how do you deal with SPOF with HAproxy
      IT Discussion • ha haproxy spoif • • Emad R

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      stacksofplates

      @matteo-nunziati said in how do you deal with SPOF with HAproxy:

      @stacksofplates said in how do you deal with SPOF with HAproxy:

      Keepalived is most likely what you're looking for. You assign a VIP to your interface and it keeps a heartbeat between the systems. The VIP (floating IP) will move between systems if there is an issue.

      Once that's set up, use Serf to update your HAProxy configs or Consul for automatic service discovery which HAProxy can read.

      If you're using a cloud provider, I'd just use one of their provided load balancers.

      +1 for serf but I can not find any doc about serf as a distributed config (as consul).
      I know about serf as a discovery/alive tool only...

      When systems send their messages to the cluster they can run a script depending on the message. Their example repository has simple Bash scripts to update an HAProxy config.

      https://github.com/hashicorp/serf/blob/master/demo/web-load-balancer/README.md

      It's very very simple, but sometimes that's easier than setting up a full Consul cluster.

    • Oksana

      Forget about disasters sabotaging your IT environment with stretched clustering
      Starwind • disaster recovery failover cluster failover-clustering ha high availability high performance hyperconverged starwind starwind virtual san starwind vsan stretched clusters • • Oksana

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    • Oksana

      Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Core: Failover Cluster Role, Step-by-Step
      Starwind • failover cluster failover-clustering ha high availability iscsi starwind starwind vsan virtual san vsan windows server 2016 ws2016 • • Oksana

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    • Oksana

      Getting a grasp of what Always On is and how it works
      Starwind • disasterrecovery ha hadr highavailability microsoft sql sqlserver • • Oksana

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    • NashBrydges

      Nginx Active-Passive HA
      IT Discussion • ha high availability nginx • • NashBrydges

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      JaredBusch

      @nashbrydges said in Nginx Active-Passive HA:

      @jaredbusch said in Nginx Active-Passive HA:

      @NashBrydges side question. If you setup the .well-known to work correctly, why do you then need the HA? because nginx will never be down except for the momentary reload after the certs are updated.

      That certainly addresses the biggest concern about a long downtime during the renewall process for a high number of certs and probably addresses most concerns with this client. He's already running Veeam replication to a second box so his RTO and RPO are relatively short and within his business tolerance.

      Having said that, it's a great learning opportunity for me to set this up in my lab, if for no other reason than to try it and see how it works.

      Certainly no reason not to do it for a lab. and for a proxy with as much as it sounds like you have in production, it will still be a likely good solution.

    • Oksana

      Get a true Hybrid Cloud solution for your existing Hyper-V infrastructure
      Starwind • 5nine 5nine manager azure cluster ha ha cluster highly available cluster hyper-v replication starwind starwind hybrid cloud starwind tap room starwind vsan virtual san vsan workload • • Oksana

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    • Oksana

      Node Majority Strategy – a remedy to the split brain pain
      Starwind • ha heartbeat high avail node majority quorum split brain starwind starwind blog starwind virtual san synchronization witness node • • Oksana

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      DustinB3403

      Good read and it explains very clearly what split-brain is, and how to prevent it in simple enough terms.

      I've had to explain many times myself what split-brain is and ways to prevent it. I just get starred at. . .

    • Oksana

      Choose wisely: SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances vs. Basic Availability Groups
      Starwind • bags basic availability groups database disaster recovery dr failover cluster instances fci ha high availability mission-critical database sql server sql server 2016 starwind • • Oksana

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      dbeato

      @oksana Still backups are needed :)

    • Emad R

      KVM Poor Man Replication HA
      IT Discussion • cheap ha kvm poor really replication • • Emad R

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      Emad R

      @mlnews

      Thread resurrected !!!

      I see, interesting . Regarding Ovirt + GLusterFs my update on this is that did learn glustering and it was easy to perform. I didnt apply it in production or VMs. I did use Ovirt a month ago and it was very slow web ui experience.

      I should write a thread about my and Gluster.

    • Oksana

      Increasing IT infrastructure redundancy with vCenter HA
      Starwind • ha high availability rto starwind vcenter vcenter high availability vmware vsphere 6.5 webin • • Oksana

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    • Oksana

      Benchmarking StarWind Highly Available shared storage and local storage performance
      Starwind • ha high availability local storage shared storage starwind starwind virtual san storage storage benchmarking storage performance virtual san vsan • • Oksana

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