@matteo-nunziati said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

@scottalanmiller said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

@matteo-nunziati said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

@scotth said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

@matteo-nunziati So, CentOS 7 , EXT4, LVM with compression turned on.
After all, I'm using consumer / smb desktop hardware. From what I've read, ZFS would require more resources than I have available if I wanted dedupe. My storage box will only have 8 GB RAM.

Generally go XFS but even ext4 is good. ZFS requires something like 1gb per raw tb of storage but mostrly for raid/compression. It raises up to 5gb per tb if you want dedup.
So 8gb=8tb of raw (pre raid) storage.
ZFS is nice byt you usually can go w/out its features in smb

The memory is for dedupe. It needs very little for compression and RAID. Those use CPU, but not RAM (much).

@scottalanmiller said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

@matteo-nunziati said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

@scotth said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

@matteo-nunziati So, CentOS 7 , EXT4, LVM with compression turned on.
After all, I'm using consumer / smb desktop hardware. From what I've read, ZFS would require more resources than I have available if I wanted dedupe. My storage box will only have 8 GB RAM.

Generally go XFS but even ext4 is good. ZFS requires something like 1gb per raw tb of storage but mostrly for raid/compression. It raises up to 5gb per tb if you want dedup.
So 8gb=8tb of raw (pre raid) storage.
ZFS is nice byt you usually can go w/out its features in smb

The memory is for dedupe. It needs very little for compression and RAID. Those use CPU, but not RAM (much).

No you are right 1gb is for dedup

I do this a lot 😉

@penguinwrangler said in Enterprise backup: Citrix XenServer, RHEV, oVirt, KVM:

@matteo-nunziati Yes, I treat them independently. Which I would love to have the Veeam Appliance which can control them but money is too tight for that.

Let us know when the money isn't so tight 😉

@RestoronixSean

FWIW, xo-server updated to 5.11.1 without issue.

Got back to this yesterday. Running on CentOS7 as a base (best of the default options the hosting provider has/had.) Easy management through the remote virt-manager and ssh.

@Tim_G turned me onto Kimchi as a secondary management interface as well. I've successfully installed wok and kimchi, but haven't opened the port yet, will get that done tonight after grabbing an ssl cert.

Also got the first vm uploaded last night, tomorrow looks to be a big day in my home lab.

Read this. especially if you're using the community version.

@hobbit666 said

I still love XenServer and XenOrchestra as my one of choice for now. But then i'm only running small Linux/Windows servers on it anyway like Zabbix, Radius, Unifi. Nothing full production like the DC or Dynamics/SQL

Same here, but cautiously watching...

@olivier said in KVM vs XenServer:

@scottalanmiller said in KVM vs XenServer:

@kuyaz said in KVM vs XenServer:

Can memory be shared also between VM?

That depends on the hypervisor. VMware ESXi can do this. It's an extremely limited feature and of little value. It's neat and good for things like VDI, typically, but not very useful for servers and there is a reason most platforms don't work towards adding it.

I concur. For most workloads, it's more a pain than a solution.

yes I just realize that my question is stupid for the RAM part 😄

Here is the more in-depth explanation of the issue.

Odds are you can create a new VM, and simply attach the disks to the VM (in the correct order) and be back up and running.

5.8.1 was release earlier today. My test build is failing, but haven't had time to dig in and find out why.

@jimk said in What's Even Cooler Than Cloud Computing? Space Computing:

This is big news. Some will find it very good and cool, while others will be seriously freaked out by it. I'm curious to see what the actual payload will be for $2M per launch.

Combine this with SpaceX new ISP in space, our entire Internet might be floating above us soon!

@DustinB3403 said in Should it take 10 hours to export 32GBs of VMs in XenServer?:

@scottalanmiller New job has had me busy.

Likely story.

I just write an article about that here: http://www.francescoprovino.com/2017/04/16/full-disk-encryption-unlocking-from-virtual-serial-tty-paranoia-xenserver-and-libvirt/ .

Take a look at Windows Disk Management. Maybe the Disk needs to be assigned a drive letter.

@anthonyh Awesome! Great job!

The link is more recent, because he mention XS 7.

I got acancel AARP (done, should have check by 4/13 and no mailings by 6 weeks from 3/16)I got about 50% of the way into this, and had to move on to other projects. But I really need to get back to it.

@Pete-S said in Xen Orchestra - Community Edition - Installing with Yarn:

@travisdh1 said in Xen Orchestra - Community Edition - Installing with Yarn:

@DustinB3403 said in Xen Orchestra - Community Edition - Installing with Yarn:

@travisdh1 what issue are you referring too? As far as I recall everything that is needed is included in the appropriate script install/upgrade

It's git, not the scripts. Since you need to have your git user information entered for it to work, would be good to have it added to the instructions.

I don't understand. Do you have to have a github account and be logged in to be able to download anything from github?

I can reach this without being logged in:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jarli01/xenorchestra_installer/master/xo_install.sh

No you don't have to actually have an account, it's a git requirement to put something in there though and we don't autofill that information in case someone wants to supply their account details.

First step - determine what it is that you want to be learning.

@black3dynamite said in XenServer Shrink Disk Size:

Never tried it but since you are using thick instead of thin provision. Maybe you can shrink the disk using lvresize.

Don't know if it'll be worth the effort to try. Might just create a new drive (at the smaller scale) and copy the data over.