XenServer: 3rd party support: who/where/how/$$ ??
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@scottalanmiller said in Server and Storage Redundancy:
Now, you did not mention your hypervisor choice. I'll throw some ideas out there.
- XenServer: XS is 100% free including all of the tools that you need for it. It is super easy to use and amazingly powerful. Full replicated local storage is included in it, as is high availability features. It has very high performance and is very mature. It has, by far, the best centralized management options (for free no less) than any of its competitors. Easiest to use, most powerful and robust option in my experience.
- Hyper-V: HV is 100% free but does not include as many ancillary tools or features. For replicated local storage you will use StarWind, which is free but third party. You will get full HA with RLS for zero cost here as well. More complex, less performant, less mature. But definitely your second choice. Bigger learning curve in my experience.
- VMware: Not free, will be a few thousand dollars to get fewer features than either XenServer or Hyper-V. Very mature. You will use StarWind here again, but StarWind does not have the same level of integration here as on Hyper-V so while it is the best choice, it is not as ideal as it is on Hyper-V. So very high cost, loss of features, loss of storage performance.
None of these come with support in the base price, all allow you to pay for support after installing. XenServer has excellent support from Citrix and numerous third parties. VMware has excellent support from, well, VMware, of course. Hyper-V is mired with Microsoft's notoriously bad support.
I'm more of a Hyper-V guy (like 99.99%)
I've taken a quickie look at XS, even went as far as doing a test install.
I really like the look & feel of XS, but I'm not yet comfortable enough to deploy in production.It has been mentioned here that folks like NTG can provide support.
Is it possible to start a list of who's who regarding 3rd party support of XS?
I'm sure there are plenty of folks like me that would like to know.[link text]([link url](link url)) -
I'd happily offer my support for it but I can't make any promises on the quality of the support as I have a day job.
IE I don't work for an MSP where my job is to support others.
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The BIG name XenServer is, of course, Citrix. They are heavily involved in the development of XS.
For Xen, sans XenServer, you have support options similarly from Red Hat, Oracle, Suse and Cananical (the Ubuntu people.)
For XS third party (non-Citrix) you have a large MSP market. Obviously @ntg is who I know. We don't really look for additional support as it's something that we do and if we need additional support we would work with Citrix.
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Maybe a tagging feature for profiles on here would be helpful?
i.e each user can tag themselves with what they can do so we know who is doing what.
i.e who are the AetherStore people? Who are the XenServer people? Who are Webroot people?
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@Breffni-Potter said in XenServer: 3rd party support: who/where/how/$$ ??:
Maybe a tagging feature for profiles on here would be helpful?
i.e each user can tag themselves with what they can do so we know who is doing what.
i.e who are the AetherStore people? Who are the XenServer people? Who are Webroot people?
I think this is a nice idea. I think it would be good to know both paid support as well as other ML members who use it. We could possibly help each other out from time to time.
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@Breffni-Potter said in XenServer: 3rd party support: who/where/how/$$ ??:
Maybe a tagging feature for profiles on here would be helpful?
i.e each user can tag themselves with what they can do so we know who is doing what.
i.e who are the AetherStore people? Who are the XenServer people? Who are Webroot people?
Yeah, that would be nice
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Can be done with the About me under your profile.
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@dafyre said in XenServer: 3rd party support: who/where/how/$$ ??:
Can be done with the About me under your profile.
Though do they have to then check each profile? I'm thinking more of a "Click here" for this expertise and all the members with that expertise are listed quickly.
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@Breffni-Potter said in XenServer: 3rd party support: who/where/how/$$ ??:
@dafyre said in XenServer: 3rd party support: who/where/how/$$ ??:
Can be done with the About me under your profile.
Though do they have to then check each profile? I'm thinking more of a "Click here" for this expertise and all the members with that expertise are listed quickly.
It's something, but definitely not efficient.
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I'm sure NSC Global would support it
