@Dashrender said in Running Xen Server from a USB Drive.:

@BRRABill said in Running Xen Server from a USB Drive.:

If I was doing it over again from scratch, I'd probably not use USB.

That being said, I have not had any issues thus far.

Are you redirecting logs?

Yes.

@JaredBusch said in Scott Alan Miller: Storage 101:

@scottalanmiller said in Scott Alan Miller: Storage 101:

@s.hackleman said in Scott Alan Miller: Storage 101:

I didn't get to make it up, but I have been watching the sessions and burning up my data plan. Thanks for posting these. I also wanted to take a minute to call out the guy sitting front and center to just surf the internet the entire time SAM is talking.

I didn't even notice that, I'm going to look for it now.

In the red? That is @DustinB3403

Ha no it is not!

@BRRABill said in 4 PB on USB3 Drives Single Storage Array:

Speaking of storage ...did the new licensing model for AetherStore come out yet?

Hey everyone! We haven’t officially released pricing for AetherStore 2.0 yet but as many of you know from MangoCon, AetherStore 2.0 will be Freemium. Exact pricing to be publicly announced soon. Hint: it’s going to be VERY affordable (think less expensive than Glacier).

We’ve already talked to several of you about installing the 2.0 Early Release, which we’ll start circulating soon. If you haven’t already talked to us and would like access to the Early Release PM me!

We are thinking of making a choco package for early release and pinging the package name around before it’s publicly available. How many of you use choco?

It goes to 11, so it must be better than the ones that only go to 10.
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@Shuey said in Invalid Drive Movement from HP SmartArray P411 RAID Controller with StorageWorks MSA60:

Thanks again to everyone who replied and gave feedback on this. It's great to know that there's a solid community of knowledgeable people who are willing to share their expertise - I really appreciate it!!

Sadly we didn't find your solution. But happily you found it on your own!

@JaredBusch said in EMC ScaleIO Available for Free for Non-Production Use:

@KOOLER said in EMC ScaleIO Available for Free:

@scottalanmiller said in EMC ScaleIO Available for Free:

@jason says that the EULA allows for production usage, just without support.

Not really...

https://www.emc.com/content/terms/eula-scaleio.htm

E. “Internal Business Purposes” means an internal (non-commercial) Use for the purpose(s) of testing and demonstrating the features of the Software, and not for Customer product development, product testing, or other Customer research and development or commercial purposes.

Nothing in that says not for production use. But it does say not for commercial purposes and customer development, etc. To me that reads, if I use it internally to run my business, i can.

If the law states you can't kill people it doesn't mean you can kill them with a fork just because fork isn't mentioned.

Production use = Commercial purpose

If you don't agree - go ahead, put SIO into production and be ready to re-write your house to your lawyer. I don't see what I can do to help here 😉

@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