Posts made by ardeyn

The new licensing looks like a nod from Microsoft towards Intel. This really makes the whole hyperthreading vs more cores concept tip the scales towards Intel.

@Jason Then you should be good, apart from upgrading, as you mentioned. However, this definitely looks like a one off.

@Jason The thing is (I might be wrong though)
Pretty much any rep of any company works with a disclaimer, that sounds along the lines of "Any opinions expressed in this communication are not necessarily those of the company". This way you are still violating the EULA. This may not be immediately noticeable while you work with the aforementioned reps, however if you were to reach out to support and they will see what kind of license you are using, there may be trouble.
That being said, I am not sure it's the case, it just sounds like a possible course of action.

@dafyre I'm absolutely on board with that!

In before the EMC reps in question get told off for violating their own EULA and they inform you, you can't use it in production anymore, however you can get a 5% discount from the full paid license and a jar of cookies:)

As Scott said, using a dedicated SAN for this kind of environment is currently the leading cause of cancer in the United States. You could use some type of VSAN to provide shared storage between the servers. VSAN/HP VSA/StarWind will do the trick if you decide to repurpose existing hardware. If you decide to get new hardware, then Scale or StarWind's HCA are your friends.

This might be a bit of a necropost, but has anyone actually managed to do a side-by-side comparison of TS going with
1.VMWare+VSAN
2.Hyper-V+StarWind
3.Something like S2D?

It would be interesting to look at prices vs features of each option.

I would recommend looking at StarWind SA for example.
That solution fits your requirements perfectly, it will also provide you with HA storage that will ensure the business continuity.
As for support, they offer a single point of contact no matter what issue you face, plus the system will be shipped to your site fully preconfigured and pretested.

As for the SAN-less solutions out there you can look at StarWind Hyper-Converged Appliance in case you are looking for something that is very easy to implement and will easily work with any hypervisor.
Another option that you may want to explore is VMware vSAN, that one will be good if you would like to stick to VMware and you are fine with having one node as a witness.
S2D is also an option that is worth your attention, that option should fit well if you would want to stick with Hyper-V as hypervisor and you have multiple VMs licensed with Microsoft Windows.

@JaredBusch Hyper-V replica is nice for that scenario, however I don't see why StarWind isn't a good fit here. I mean if OP can dedicate any 2 servers for storage, they can run the free version of StarWInd, which effectively gives them better redundancy than Hyper-V replica, without any additional investments. The big question here, is how many servers will they be going with, once OP talks this through with management.

Wouldn't it make more sense to run the accoutning applications (would need more details here) as a VM? Would give you a lot of room to maneuvre, while giving you a chance to get some redundancy, as well as let your accounting work from any workstation.

Usually, this can be easily explained. If a topic is a request for help, then the early posts are trying to pinpoint what's wrong. Then, the longer it takes to narrow down the issue, the more specific the questions get and the more complex the proposed solutions.

When end users lie about what they did or didn't do.
End user: I seem to be having connection issues
Me: Have you touched the network settings?
End user: No

Do they realize I will check the settings, once i remote in?

Anyone playing any blizzard games? Diablo 3 or Hearthstone?

@GlennBarley Um, getting customers that are clueless about what they need. Which does not mean, they aren't completely sure, that they have an in-depth understanding of their own IT needs.

@original_anvil That seems pretty interesting. Does look like a good alternative to all flash, if on a tight budget.

@anonymous That part is easy to explain. It's a move to secure a bigger market share for Intel vs AMD as far as CPUs go. But honestly, considering the trend was faster cores for desktops and more slower cores for servers, which made sense, considering the kind of workload a server handles, people will have to look for ways to get the same performance with less cores in their servers, from the look of things.

How does it work? The information provided by Microsoft is unclear and contacting them about it brings controversial answers from different people. How does their per core licensing go?

@craig.theriac Ok, hats off. That is cute. And some great marketing!

@scottalanmiller That sounds like some quality content incoming. You could do it as a feedback video from her on Scale's webinar. Let's see if it really works for 5 year olds.