@KOOLER said in The SMB Two Server Dilema, What to Do:

@whizzard said in The SMB Two Server Dilema, What to Do:

In scenarios such as these what would be the recommended backup approach: DAS, NAS, Backup Appliance, lower end server, removable disk storage, tapes (intentionally left out cloud)?

Should be separate (physically!) entity non-related to your production cluster. Cheap NAS is OK.

For the average scenario (and I really just mean average) it's Synology or ReadyNAS that I recommend. Easy, supported, cost effective, desktop or rackmount options, well known, good brands, nice features.

Brilliant Read, I've used Esxi and Hyper-V, good products, but I do have a inner love for Xencenter..

@halizard Awesome, I'll have to give it a whirl.

I know a guy who built his own blade unit. Wooden blade enclosure and some simply power supplies and his own fans, then made it allow straight motherboards to slide in so that it make having a handful of systems running in a cluster super cheap. Pointless for production, but for a lab was very interesting.

@NHCSAdmin said:

Yeah the alerting and updates is really amazing on here! Looking forward to really exploring and learning from here! @scottalanmiller thanks for the recommendation to join here!

You bet, and thanks for signing up. Always great to have new people joining us.

@halizard Awesome, thank you and your group a crap ton for me.

Gives me stuff to work on!

I've never monitored them.

The work is being done by Dom0, not the VM.

And with the resources being statically assigned I can't imagine that there is much of a hit to the performance of the VM's them self.