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    • StarWind Success Story: Make Your ROBO Sustainable
      Starwind • starwind vsphere hci san • • Oksana  

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    • StarWind Success Story: Affordable HA for Small Hospitals
      Starwind • starwind vsphere san highavailability • • Oksana  

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    • StarWind Success Story: LightChange Finds Its Dream HA Provider
      Starwind • high availability san replication • • Oksana  

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    • StarWind Success Story: GHG Corp Updates Its Infrastructure
      Starwind • starwind san hci redundancy • • Oksana  

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    • StarWind Success Story: Auchan Hungary Goes True 2-Node
      Starwind • starwind vsan nas san hardware cluster sds highly available • • Oksana  

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    • StarWind Success Story: Savronik Elektronik A.Ş. gets a fail-safe IT environment
      Starwind • starwind san hardware shared storage redundancy • • Oksana  

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    • StarWind Success Story: Electronics Box builds a stretched cluster with StarWind
      Starwind • microsoft hyper-v windows server san failover cluster fault-tolerant stretched clusters • • Oksana  

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    • TechHQ sees StarWind VSAN as a godsend for both startups and corporations
      Starwind • san starwind vsan highly available fault-tolerance • • Oksana  

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    • Designing for tech startup: Network, AD, Backup etc
      IT Discussion • dell nas san cisco server 2012 server 2016 planning design server 2019 • • gjacobse  

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      @gjacobse said in Designing for tech startup: Network, AD, Backup etc: @DustinB3403 said in Designing for tech startup: Network, AD, Backup etc: I suppose you could use Storage Spaces Direct (all windows across the entire thing) but I wouldn't consider SSD at all mature nor production ready, especially at this scale. Thanks, had not heard of this. DataOn solutions fully support this and vice versa. They are experienced with this kind of scale and much larger.
    • StarWind Success Story: Hamden Hall raises performance with StarWind
      Starwind • hyperconverged san hardware fault tolerance hca • • Oksana  

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    • Domain Planning: Network shares or ,..
      IT Discussion • windows server nas san server 2012 das ntfs server 2008 server 2019 • • gjacobse  

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      @Dashrender said in Domain Planning: Network shares or ,..: @dafyre said in Domain Planning: Network shares or ,..: @notverypunny said in Domain Planning: Network shares or ,..: Does NC allow exposure of their "file shares" as smb? If you have users that can't / don't want to use a browser-based access they can always mount it in windows explorer via webdav. Alfresco allows (allowed?) access via both, but the last time I played with it the performance was meh, which I attributed to it being built on java... You can mount NextCloud into a drive letter or folder using WebDav. The question does become the aforementioned performance issue (if there is one). I wonder how file locks are handled when using WebDav? There are a few topics elsewhere here where file locking and cloud hosting were discussed. You do have to give up what we have all come to appreciate in file locking. Here is a response in one of those other topics I spoke about: @scottalanmiller said in file sharing in the 21st century: @Donahue said in file sharing in the 21st century: I am aware of that. It's online locking that I am after. Though, I will concede that any locking scheme has to plan for both online and offline. I like sync because of local performance and offline availability, but it really feels like it is best for non shared files. When you add multiple users into the mix, almost everything goes out the window, especially when and if they go offline. Everything is best for non-shared files SMB shines at "always online, always nearly local" files because it handles offline so poorly. It's a balance. To handle offline or very distant (e.g. high latency) networks well, you have to sacrifice locking.
    • Network Storage - CompTIA Network+ N10-007 Prof. Messer
      Training • storage youtube networking comptia prof messer certification video training it career it training network+ nas san • • steve  

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    • StarWind Success Story: Logos Data Services keeps HA over 10 years with StarWind
      Starwind • esxi san hardware hypercovergence • • Oksana  

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    • StarWind Success Story: Andromeda Technology gets HA creating a failover cluster
      Starwind • hyper-v esxi high availability san failover cluster • • Oksana  

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    • Examples of proper utilization of SAN
      IT Discussion • storage san storage planning business case • • EddieJennings  

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      I don't know how Starwind vSAN can be run but if it's on a hypervisor it's severely limited by I/O congestion through the kernel. NVMe drives is causing problems that was of no concern whatsoever with spinners. Both KVM and Xen has made a lot of work to limit their I/O latency and use polling techniques now but it's still a problem. That's why you really need SR-IOV on NVMe drives so any VM can bypass the hypervisor and just have it's own kernel to slow things down. Anton: There are no problems with polling these days You normally spawn a SPDK-enabled VM (Linux is unbeatable here as most of the new gen I/O development happens there) and pass thru RDMA-capable network hardware (virtual function with SR-IOV or whole card with PCIe pass-thru, this is really irrelevant...) and NMVe drives and... magic starts happening This is how our NVMe-oF target works on ESXi & Hyper-V (KVM & Xen have no benefits here architecturally, this is where you're either wrong or I failed to get your arguments). It's possible to port SPDK into Windows user-mode but lack of NVMe and NIC polling drivers takes away all the fun: to move the same amount of data we normally use ~4x more CPU horsepower on "Pure Windows" Vs. "Linux-SPDK-VM-on-Windows" models. Microsoft is trying to bring SPDK to Windows kernel (so does VMware from what I know), but it needs a lot of work from NIC and NVMe engineers and... nobody wants to contribute. Really. Just my $0.02
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      Dell MD1220 RAID 5 Rebuild Question
      IT Discussion • storage raid dell san das raid 5 raid rebuild dell md1220 raid resilver raid recovery • • Jimmy9008  

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      @scottalanmiller said in Dell MD1220 RAID 5 Rebuild Question: @Jimmy9008 said in Dell MD1220 RAID 5 Rebuild Question: @scottalanmiller said in Dell MD1220 RAID 5 Rebuild Question: @travisdh1 said in Dell MD1220 RAID 5 Rebuild Question: That makes a little more sense. They've negotiated a deal with Microsoft from the sounds of it. No, way, way more likely they just figured out how hard it is to get caught. I totally doubt anything like that is going on here. I have been told our annual budget for licensing which we pay is in the region of £600,000. Either way, not my problem Wow. But, sounds like only that high because they don't know what they are using, lol. The only way to get licensing truly down is to know what you use. Someone is both ignoring what is used, but also encouraging unlimited use. Both things set MS up to just keep making it more and more expensive. It's a trick, sounds easy, but makes one lazy licensing person encourage not keeping licensing lean - basically giving Microsoft the power to charge anything that they want down the road. Yeah, not your problem, but definitely a symptom of management issues and a lack of clear thinking. If they are truly paying their bills, my guess is a licensing "specialist" who has created their own job and knows if MS isn't used heavily, their job would go away, so is doing stuff to encourage you to lock in MS so that that specialist can't be eliminated. Basically creating their own job. Yeah, I don't disagree with anything you said. It's just not my issue. I still get to buy shiny new toys
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      Latency with VDI in VMware View 7 environment
      IT Discussion • vmware san network vdi iops • • JBlaze  

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      @jblaze said in Latency with VDI in VMware View 7 environment: I'm new to VDIs so not entirely sure if I'm asking the right questions. The server is hosted externally by our MSP and they're trying to determine what the cause is. That it is external alone is almost certainly the problem. VDI can work remotely, but is often relatively painful. Also, be aware, while there is some extreme edge cases where you can do hosted VDI, this has traditionally not been allowed and unless your MSP has figured out some extremely new and rare licensing with Microsoft, those VDIs aren't legal.
    • MSP or VAR or just avoid
      IT Discussion • san msp var pyramid of doom • • hobbit666  

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      @carnival-boy said in MSP or VAR or just avoid: For an MSP to be truly agnostic it would either have to massive (to be able to employ both Oracle and SQL Server experts), or it is full of generalists who can support both but lack expertise in either. That's part of the goal, or typical goals, of moving to the MSP model. They bring more scale and with scale comes agnosticism (the move towards it, but obtaining it as you pointed out.) You might not have expertise or experience with every OS out there, but even a moderately small MSP like NTG regularly supports and works with many databases. Not Oracle, which isn't a big deal as it has essentially no place in any intentional deployment, but MS SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, REDIS, MongoDB, SQLite, etc. all regularly supported. MSPs are way more likely to have the desire and ability to grow support skill sets, although this can happen internally as well. But internal skill growth is costly and risky to maintain. For an MSP, skill growth increases potential customer support options. So MSPs have more incentive to consider things they've not done specifically before than internal IT departments do. Nothing is perfect, but MSPs make agnosticism easier and more likely.
    • Storage and Data Locality
      IT Discussion • san drbd gluster storage infrastructure data locality • • dafyre  

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      @aaronstuder said in Storage and Data Locality: @stacksofplates Wow, rsnapshot looks good. It's a very good.
    • 4 IT Pitfalls to Avoid in 2018
      Scale Legion • virtualization scale scale hc3 hyperconvergence hyperconverged san hypervisor scale blog • • scale  

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    • The Jurassic Park Effect and Why It Specifically Matters with Storage SAMIT Video
      IT Discussion • storage youtube scott alan miller samit nas san freenas jurassic park effect openfiler nas4free unraid nas os • • scottalanmiller  

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      How to access SAN?
      IT Discussion • storage san hpe hp hpe msa p2000 hpe msa dothill • • bishnitro  

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      Have you installed CMC? It should find it by scanning the subnet.
    • HPE SANs Not Designed for Reliability in the Australian Tax Office
      News • storage san el reg hpe australia 3par • • scottalanmiller  

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      @Breffni-Potter said in HPE SANs Not Designed for Reliability in the Australian Tax Office: Listening to any vendor consulting will lead to a p*** poor system but for the vendors profit. Yeah, they brought in the wrong people here. Fundamental business flaws. Listening to the sales people instead of hiring someone whose job it is to know what is needed.
    • OpenSSL CSR with Subject Alternative Name
      IT Discussion • san ssl tls how-to certificates openssl pki csr subject alternative name • • EddieJennings  

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      @JaredBusch said in OpenSSL CSR with Subject Alternative Name: @EddieJennings said in OpenSSL CSR with Subject Alternative Name: @JaredBusch Correct. The "ye olde way" is how I've typically made a CSR and private key. The link I included talks about making a configuration file, which allows you to include SAN in your CSR. Ah, did not read the link. Yes, using a config file is the only method to get any SAN on a cert with OpenSSL. And after re-reading my post, I realized how terrible it was :(. I was hoping to find a one liner kind of thing, but alas. That particular article made it clear how to do it.
    • Meet StarWind Virtual Storage Appliance on Linux
      Starwind • linux storage starwind san virtual machine vsa starwind vsa storage appliance • • Oksana  

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      As long as you don't delete all my datas because my online account has issues!
    • FreeNAS Gets Hit by the Jurassic Park Effect
      SAM-SD • storage nas san freebsd freenas jurassic park effect sam-sd blog freenas coral • • scottalanmiller  

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      @scottalanmiller said in FreeNAS Gets Hit by the Jurassic Park Effect: HCL Yes, agreed!
    • New StarWind Virtual SAN Free - All restrictions removed!
      IT Discussion • storage starwind vsan san starwind vsan • • DustinB3403  

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      @jt1001001 said in New StarWind Virtual SAN Free - All restrictions removed!: In case you didn't see, the webinar is now up on their site: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-virtual-san-free-all-restrictions-removed THanks
    • The SAM-SD Model 01
      SAM-SD • storage scott alan miller nas san article sam-sd sam-sd blog proliant dl185 g5 unified storage • • scottalanmiller  

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    • HPE Acquires Nimble
      News • storage san hpe nimble • • mlnews  

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      @Reid-Cooper said in HPE Acquires Nimble: This will really lower competition in the SAN space. Only a few viable vendors left. Nimble was one of the few major players. I disagree. What about Tintri, Kaminario, or Tegile? There are still plenty of vendors out there in Nimble's competitive tier. I mean they don't compare to HDS or IBM but again, Nimble is a completely different use case. Honestly I think it would have made more sense for HPE to acquire Tintri for their portfolio at a reasonable price. Nimble is awesome for its own use case, but the acquisition seemed to be just one of appeasement to shareholders. Unless they are shifting gears and trying to get more competitive in small-medium markets as an all around vendor (aside from adding Nimble, thinking of them purchasing Aruba a couple years ago as well).
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      XenServer 6.2 servers down. I have no Xen skill. Most likely networking? Help!
      IT Discussion • xenserver san iscsi xenserver 6.2 • • CitrixNewbJD  

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      @Danp said in XenServer 6.2 servers down. I have no Xen skill. Most likely networking? Help!: @Dashrender said in XenServer 6.2 servers down. I have no Xen skill. Most likely networking? Help!: The only cost here would be the drive. Clonezilla is free, the use of the PC is free (of course that user is not ideal, so I guess there is cost there ) The owner is currently out of the country... use his desktop! If AD works. Lol