HTS's Lab in Progress

thanksajdotcom

@Hubtech ESXi. You can get 5.5 for free on VMware's website. Great for dev/lab environments.

scottalanmiller

Sounds like you have a good start there. You going to be looking at a cloud environment?

I really intend on just playing around with some virtualization at a little larger scale. most of my clients have server 2008r2 or 2012 with 2 VMs running, i want to play around with wan backups of vms which i can mock up in my office. just going to do some self teaching so i can market to larger clients.

scottalanmiller

@Hubtech said:

I really intend on just playing around with some virtualization at a little larger scale. most of my clients have server 2008r2 or 2012 with 2 VMs running, i want to play around with wan backups of vms which i can mock up in my office. just going to do some self teaching so i can market to larger clients.

Gonna focus on HyperV, Veeam and Unitrends?

no focus yet.

scottalanmiller

One of the things that remains tough about labs is that testing virtualization still requires a lot of hardware. If you want to test XenServer, HyperV, vSphere and KVM in any serious way, that is a minimum of eight servers! If you want to do any cloud, that is a whole bunch more.

thanksajdotcom

@hubtech Get a UEB no matter what you do!

@scottalanmiller said:

One of the things that remains tough about labs is that testing virtualization still requires a lot of hardware. If you want to test XenServer, HyperV, vSphere and KVM in any serious way, that is a minimum of eight servers! If you want to do any cloud, that is a whole bunch more.

well, at the cost of these servers, i could fill up a rack in no time lol

Servers should be delivered tomorrow. ya'll get excited

scottalanmiller

Awesome

i should be home this weekend to play with em

thanksajdotcom

@hubtech Congrats! Bet you're excited!

Dominica

Cool! Should be a fun weekend for you, then.

scottalanmiller

@Hubtech said:

@scottalanmiller said:

One of the things that remains tough about labs is that testing virtualization still requires a lot of hardware. If you want to test XenServer, HyperV, vSphere and KVM in any serious way, that is a minimum of eight servers! If you want to do any cloud, that is a whole bunch more.

well, at the cost of these servers, i could fill up a rack in no time lol

Filling up a rack is easy, it is keeping the power on that really gets you.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

@Hubtech said:

@scottalanmiller said:

One of the things that remains tough about labs is that testing virtualization still requires a lot of hardware. If you want to test XenServer, HyperV, vSphere and KVM in any serious way, that is a minimum of eight servers! If you want to do any cloud, that is a whole bunch more.

well, at the cost of these servers, i could fill up a rack in no time lol

Filling up a rack is easy, it is keeping the power on that really gets you.

And the sound.

well my office is on the other side of the house. Has a door and a closet that I intend on turning into my data center. Gonna pipe a window unit in there and let er rip

scottalanmiller

@Hubtech said:

well my office is on the other side of the house. Has a door and a closet that I intend on turning into my data center. Gonna pipe a window unit in there and let er rip

My old home office in Texas had a big floor standing A/C unit to cool the rack. The piping was all painted up in NTG Orange.

hts is green and gray. Do your clients know you Usé your closets for data centers?

scottalanmiller

@Hubtech said:

hts is green and gray. Do your clients know you Usé your closets for data centers?

We aren't a host, but our prod stuff is 151 Front St. Our backup is Mississauga. Our cloud facilities are Chicago, Dallas and Nova. The racks at the "residential datacenter" are the sixth tier down of equipment.

art_of_shred

@scottalanmiller said:

@Hubtech said:

well my office is on the other side of the house. Has a door and a closet that I intend on turning into my data center. Gonna pipe a window unit in there and let er rip

My old home office in Texas had a big floor standing A/C unit to cool the rack. The piping was all painted up in NTG Orange.

Fun fact: The orange spray paint can that was used to paint that piping was the same can that was utilized in the near-famous incident involving @psx_defector , Maker's Mark, and the orange belly... the night before SpiceWorld 2012.