@Jason said in Someone doesn't like local storage for large amounts of data:

@stacksofplates said in Someone doesn't like local storage for large amounts of data:

@FATeknollogee said in Someone doesn't like local storage for large amounts of data:

@scottalanmiller Isn't that part of why we all virtualize so we don't have deal with raw?

You can still snapshot raw. Raw can be an image file or a volume or a full disk. Raw doesn't mean not virtualized.

@stacksofplates said in Someone doesn't like local storage for large amounts of data:

@FATeknollogee said in Someone doesn't like local storage for large amounts of data:

@scottalanmiller Isn't that part of why we all virtualize so we don't have deal with raw?

You can still snapshot raw. Raw can be an image file or a volume or a full disk. Raw doesn't mean not virtualized.

RAWs biggest limitation is you can't storage vmotion it. You can vmotion the pointer but if you are retiring a SAN or something you will be doing it manually.

Ya I'm using KVM so I can either move the raw file or the volume to wherever I need it. It's really simple with qemu and lvm.

The expected release for those that signed up for early access is mid October ish.

@Romo said in Installing a Starwind SAN on Windows Server 2012 R2:

@FATeknollogee said in Installing a Starwind SAN on Windows Server 2012 R2:

Paging @KOOLER Will the performance of the appliances be as good or better than the native windows install?

It must be at least as good, why release an inferior product.

Nissan has GT-R cracking 0-100 in sub 3 seconds but it doesn't mean Nissan Altima doing same 0-100 in low 10s suck 😉 Every product has own target niche.

But real XS does have the SMB based ISO mount, it's just not made available for the production storage.

@Ambarishrh said in Testing help welcome: NextCloud NC 10 RC1 is out.:

Admin page shows a message with a clickable link for security tips but is not linked.

Now I am punished for not more frequently reading up on Mangolassi - this is a tiny, easy to fix issue but it sadly made it into 10 final because we didn't notice and I didn't copy from here!

I created an issue, we're fixing this now but it'll be in 10.0.1 😞

Sadly, other sections have similar issues.

https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/1048

Thanks and - yeah, submitting things to github ensures we notice 😉

@DustinB3403 said in Turning Hyperconvergence up to 11:

That is awesome!

Thank you. This post was actually a bit late. I was posting another article and went to link to this one and realized that I had not posted it yet! So a little behind, but still great info.

@dafyre said in Rebuild Time on a 96 Drive RAID 7 Array (RAIDZ3):

@scottalanmiller said in Rebuild Time on a 96 Drive RAID 7 Array (RAIDZ3):

@travisdh1 said in Rebuild Time on a 96 Drive RAID 7 Array (RAIDZ3):

Seems like the perfect case to use RAIN, even if it's within a single system enclosure. @StarWind_Software LSFS, I'm looking at you. @KOOLER I am right in thinking this is the sort of thing LSFS could handle, right?

RAIN in a single enclosure rarely does anything that RAID 10 does not. It's effectively all the same at that point (more or less.) If RAID 10 doesn't work, RAIN isn't going to work either (normally.) The issue here is "single enclosure."

Wouldn't a properly configured single RAIN node make it easier to grow when it's time to add more storage?

I've seen this with Exablox and it was a nice feature!

Yes, if you are preparing for scale out. But if you are just doing it within the context of a single node, it doesn't change anything.

The article mentions using CentOS, I believe. I'm not able to find the CentOS 7 packages -- they mentioned using the epel-releases, but my system doesn't seem to see it. Any ideas where to look? I'd really rather not have to resort to building it by hand.

Ubuntu has a PPA for it.

Great job @scottalanmiller and welcome aboard!

Hope you enjoyed the experience!

Now if you want to play with it, I recommend you to use our CLI (http://docs.openio.io/cli-reference) or you can deploy our S3/Swift implementation (https://github.com/open-io/oio-sds/wiki/Install-Guide---OpenIO-Swift-S3-gateway).

Feel free to send me some feedbacks, I'm here to help!

Guillaume.
Product Manager & Co-Founder @ OpenIO

I was reading up on this, Seagate expects the price per GB to be even cheaper compared to current SSD's as well.

So it's a big jump for SSD's.

Now comes the question of how reliable are these when build in an Array.... oh the math...

@GuillaumeDelaporte said in OpenIO:

@dafyre said in OpenIO:

@GuillaumeDelaporte So essentially any application that wants to be built using OpenIO (or any other Object storage) has to be prepared to build based around the REST API?

Yes, but applications and solutions which you can use are more and more compatible with this new style of storage (because it solves some problems you can face with other technologies).

And, of course, if you are building your own.

MangoLassi stores certain things in this manner, for example.

@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.

Never reviewed or used it, for myself.. .. But, I do remember some posts/reviews about it on, a while back, Spiceworks ..

So how did your research of them go, @scottalanmiller ? I'm watching a webinar about their solution today just to do some R&D.