@obsolesce said in How to take advantage of virtualization. Major products get updated: @scottalanmiller said in How to take advantage of virtualization. Major products get updated: @dustinb3403 said in How to take advantage of virtualization. Major products get updated: @scottalanmiller said in How to take advantage of virtualization. Major products get updated: @obsolesce said in How to take advantage of virtualization. Major products get updated: @dustinb3403 said in How to take advantage of virtualization. Major products get updated: Yes the skills required to use KVM on a production level is different, but it is no different than managing any other Hypervisor. Yup, it's easier to use in every way I can think of. You don't easily get agentless backups for the VMs, but that doesn't have to be a deal breaker. Other than that, KVM is easier and better. It does actually get agentless backup, it's just not a very good one. I have agentless backups on my KVM systems. Better than VMware Free, not anything close to Hyper-V. Are you describing the export functionality? Exporting is a backup, yes. When someone refers to agentless backups in the context of host/vm, we mean something in comparison of how backup software does it on a Hyper-V host using Veeam or WSB for example. I realize that, but that's a misleading way to say it because you rarely use that same definition when moving to the backup of cloud servers, for example, and not all agents work that way. So it's very bad to use that as a guideline for one type of backup and not all universally. Very few products do it like Veeam does, agent or agentless, so holding things to that standard rules out a lot of stuff from any given category. And often "how they do it" is a factor of how the resulting backup is viewed, not of how the backup is taken. And agentless on Unitrends is like how KVM does it, not like how Veeam does it. So is Unitrends no longer agentless?

Interesting read. I hope I never need to use it. Though, I would rather have it and not need it...

@obsolesce said in Linux-based StarWind VSAN: hardware-agnostic, minimalistic, and FREE SDS: @travisdh1 said in Linux-based StarWind VSAN: hardware-agnostic, minimalistic, and FREE SDS: @obsolesce said in Linux-based StarWind VSAN: hardware-agnostic, minimalistic, and FREE SDS: Is this tied together with VMWare? I thought this was going to be usable on Fedora, for example. If the Starwind software is running on Linux, the hypervisor shouldn't matter. You'll be able to mount the share Starwind it's exporting on XenServer or KVM just as well, but well all the experts just in case. @KOOLER @Oksana I'm asking because Linux and SW vSAN are worded everywhere as if it's 100% tied to VMWare, with no other use case. I can't imagine that being the case, but am asking to make sure... perhaps it's worded like that because it's written by a VMWare Architect trying to boast and sell VMWare. Just wondering, because I was under the impression you can use it how you want, not just with VMWare. I agree with you, seems like bad marketing. I’ll be interestes in using it with KVM, for example. I thing it will just export iSCSI.

Here's some more. https://twitter.com/jhuntervmware/status/999353855111507968?s=21

@jaredbusch said in Ubuntu Set Default Resolution Through GRUB for VM: @scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu Set Default Resolution Through GRUB for VM: @aaronstuder said in Ubuntu Set Default Resolution Through GRUB for VM: @scottalanmiller Ubuntu is a surprising choice for you Runs ScreenConnect. So does Fedora. Always fail when I do it, there is some trick to it. Happen to know what's needed so that it doesn't just put hashes on the screen for forever?

@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.

@hobbit666 said in VMware vSphere 6.7 Released: @scottalanmiller then you're missing some of the page. I see Dell and HPE custom images then under that there is a link to a keygen Ah ha, either I didn't go down that far or just didn't see it. I looked all over for that somewhere. Yes, those look like key gens, then.

If you don't have an environment big enough to produce metrics exceeding millions of points per second, what are the benefits of using Wavefront over another solution such as Splunk, Zabbix, PRTG, etc.?

Glad that you figured it out.