XP: Options in virtualization setup
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I tend to lean towards Option2, unless the cost of downtime warrants HA. Now a-days, you can get HA for little cost if you already have the physical servers, or getting refurbished ones from Dell.
Even for a small SMB, you could potentially have HA for less than 10k. That includes two servers, StarWind vSAN, and the 1Gbs networking components. This can be done with Hyper-V Server and Linux, or using existing Windows Server licensing for infrastructure VMs. If you add the cost of two Server 2016 Standard licenses, that's another $3k. Otherwise, you can save that going Linux.
So, is an extra $5-10k worth the cost of avoiding the small chance of a physical server failure? Probably not, I stil see 2950's going strong! If you can afford 4 hours of downtime to go pick up a broken server part you don't have a spare of, then I'd go with option 2, plus good backups with Veeam.
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@matteo-nunziati said
question time with yourself? you are scaring me....
Yeah if we're going to cross post a link to the source would be useful. It's a bit too much like leeching content otherwise.
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@Breffni-Potter said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@matteo-nunziati said
question time with yourself? you are scaring me....
Yeah if we're going to cross post a link to the source would be useful. It's a bit too much like leeching content otherwise.
I let him know that there was more info here because he posted when there was no one online there.
Since I was the sole responder there (still am) and not here.
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@Breffni-Potter said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@matteo-nunziati said
question time with yourself? you are scaring me....
Yeah if we're going to cross post a link to the source would be useful. It's a bit too much like leeching content otherwise.
Yep, I ready this and thought... Scott is going insane. Split personality maybe cant remember posting the question...!
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@scottalanmiller said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@Breffni-Potter said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@matteo-nunziati said
question time with yourself? you are scaring me....
Yeah if we're going to cross post a link to the source would be useful. It's a bit too much like leeching content otherwise.
I let him know that there was more info here because he posted when there was no one online there.
That's not the same thing.
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@Breffni-Potter said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@scottalanmiller said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@Breffni-Potter said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@matteo-nunziati said
question time with yourself? you are scaring me....
Yeah if we're going to cross post a link to the source would be useful. It's a bit too much like leeching content otherwise.
I let him know that there was more info here because he posted when there was no one online there.
That's not the same thing.
Well, I cross posted the majority from here TO there. So the leeching is more in that direction then.
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@scottalanmiller said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@Breffni-Potter said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@scottalanmiller said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@Breffni-Potter said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@matteo-nunziati said
question time with yourself? you are scaring me....
Yeah if we're going to cross post a link to the source would be useful. It's a bit too much like leeching content otherwise.
I let him know that there was more info here because he posted when there was no one online there.
That's not the same thing.
Well, I cross posted the majority from here TO there. So the leeching is more in that direction then.
So you hurt the SEO of 2 websites in one go? Good work.
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@Breffni-Potter said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@scottalanmiller said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@Breffni-Potter said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@scottalanmiller said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@Breffni-Potter said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@matteo-nunziati said
question time with yourself? you are scaring me....
Yeah if we're going to cross post a link to the source would be useful. It's a bit too much like leeching content otherwise.
I let him know that there was more info here because he posted when there was no one online there.
That's not the same thing.
Well, I cross posted the majority from here TO there. So the leeching is more in that direction then.
So you hurt the SEO of 2 websites in one go? Good work.
Cheer up, its Friday!
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@Jimmy9008 said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@Breffni-Potter said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@scottalanmiller said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@Breffni-Potter said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@scottalanmiller said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@Breffni-Potter said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@matteo-nunziati said
question time with yourself? you are scaring me....
Yeah if we're going to cross post a link to the source would be useful. It's a bit too much like leeching content otherwise.
I let him know that there was more info here because he posted when there was no one online there.
That's not the same thing.
Well, I cross posted the majority from here TO there. So the leeching is more in that direction then.
So you hurt the SEO of 2 websites in one go? Good work.
Cheer up, its Friday!
I just don't think we're being fair to the source by not back linking to them.
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@Breffni-Potter said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@Jimmy9008 said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@Breffni-Potter said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@scottalanmiller said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@Breffni-Potter said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@scottalanmiller said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@Breffni-Potter said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
@matteo-nunziati said
question time with yourself? you are scaring me....
Yeah if we're going to cross post a link to the source would be useful. It's a bit too much like leeching content otherwise.
I let him know that there was more info here because he posted when there was no one online there.
That's not the same thing.
Well, I cross posted the majority from here TO there. So the leeching is more in that direction then.
So you hurt the SEO of 2 websites in one go? Good work.
Cheer up, its Friday!
I just don't think we're being fair to the source by not back linking to them.
Well, if when cross posting from here to there we could do that, then that's a viable discussion to have. As we can't, it's not.
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OP is going with Hyper-V, unlikely because I mentioned it I think that was already decided, and is evaluating the cost of downtime to determine the value of the deterrent.
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Oh should have I posted my reply on SW instead?
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@Tim_G said in XP: Options in virtualization setup:
Oh should have I posted my reply on SW instead?
He sees it here, too.
