Posts made by brandon220

I've got it up and running again in my lab. Have 1 Fedora server VM running as a test. So far, so good.

Hyper-V has been working flawlessly on many hosts for me, for at least the last 7 years. 2012 R2, 2016, and 2019. I just think its time to discuss alternatives.

None of that really affects things one way or another. That Hyper-V is all but abandoned and isn't as good as KVM, matters.

That is another reason for a change. I don't want to deal with Hyper-V in Azure after 2019 goes EOL/EOS.

@scottalanmiller Because it is government and they are the vendor we are approved to use because they had the best pricing and are under contract. We have another vendor we got pricing from as well and are under contract with. They finally agreed to drop the VMWare from the quotes.

Greetings everyone.
A coworker and I have been working for a while getting quotes for hardware to run VMs. The vendor is pushing harder than ever to purchase the full VMWare suite and is clearly not taking NO for an answer. We finally got our point across.

For those of you using Proxmox now - what are your general impressions? We have KVM hosting our current VMs on hardware that is due to be replaced. Were planning on running vanilla KVM again, but are curious as to how PVE is holding up. We would benefit from the backup appliance as well. For backups now, we just rsync the sparse files. to a NAS.
I have years of experience with Hyper-V and Veeam, but it is not worth a Windows server license to run Veeam, and all the VMs will be Linux. There is no domain. Hyper-V just does not make sense.

@dafyre During my rsync it dropped to 101kB/s. Very strange. No other network traffic.

@scottalanmiller I did the same test over the network. With the same file. 27G mkv file. From the raid disk it would start out at 400 MB/s and then go to 120kB/s

From the same server and the same file over the network, it sustained 465 MB/s from an internal SSD instead of the raid array.

The network is SFP+ from box to box. No other traffic. Copying the file internally in the server from raid to SSD was approximately 250 MB/s. What would cause the network to copy the same file but slow to a crawl? It gets more confusing the longer I look at it.

I have a NAS that is running an Intel Core i3 with 8 cores, 16G RAM, and a 16Tb R10 (mdadm) with 4 x 8Tb Seagate Barracuda disks. OS is Fedora Server 34 minimal. Only used as an NFS store.

I noticed some VERY slow speeds when reading from the server over 10Gb network. I copied an mkv file to the server as a test. Doing an rsync from the raid array to a separate F34 server with only and an SSD disk, the rsync was transferring at 3MB/s. Estimated transfer time was approx 5 hours.

I moved the same file from the raid disk to an internal SSD and the rsync completed in 57 seconds to a 27G file. Transfer rate was 465MB/s. I realize the SSD is faster, but what caused the R10 disk to suddenly have very poor performance?

I ran SMART tests on the disks and they all passed. MDSTAT shows the array in good health.

Any ideas on what could have changed? I am running out of options. All the testing is looking good except for transfer speed.

@jaredbusch These are not dry pair. They are separate POTS lines. I verified that as well. They are originating in an Ericsson AXE switch. All 3 endpoints are within 1.5 miles of the ATT Central Office. They are all on the same BTN. I personally saw the monthly statement and the letter informing of the price increase.

It is 100% their fault and they realize it. It is one of those instances where the bill just kept going up each year and they kept paying it. They have had this service for decades.

I may ask them if they want me to have someone else manage it for them. It is one of the most important parts of their business.There are only 3 or 4 users, but there will be more than 3 phones including the front and rear doors. No video, just intercom.

@dashrender It is crazy to say the least. To top it off - the off-prem lines are only used on evenings and weekends. They are not used M-F 8-5.
It appears ATT is trying to price everyone out of POTS and other legacy services and push them to hosted services. ATT was going to move them to their managed VOIP service which now is apparently RingCentral for $33/mo per device. Originally they were quoted something lower but it changed. Strange any way you look at it.

It could probably be made to work by forwarding from the old pbx, but that still requires them to keep POTS service at 3 locations. I think the features of SIP and a new system would give many advantages.

@dashrender They currently have an old "digital" Panasonic PBX but no ability to use SIP or have extensions at another location without cobbling something together. Yes, rural as well. The 2 off-prem POTS lines have their main number on them so they all ring at the same time.

The letter stated the cost would go from $1200 to $1500 for each extension. I can't believe they have been paying that ridiculous cost for as long as they have. We are talking many years.

@dashrender I am still leaning towards FreePBX as it is what I know. I have had @JaredBusch bail me out on a system before, so I won't say I'm an "expert" by any means. I have never tried to use voip.ms in that capacity yet. I'll have to do some research to see it it would work properly.

Hello all. I have a small project that will require PBX functions. I normally use FreePBX and am most familiar with it. I also normally use voip.ms for the sip service.

This new instance would have approximately 2 phone numbers, 8 extensions (includes 2 door phones), and at least 3 physical locations. The phones will be Polycom as that is what they already have.

I know that voip.ms has some pbx functions now, but I am not sure how well it would work for my use case. The main location has 2 separate ISP that terminate into an Edgerouter 4 in failover mode. 10/10 fiber is primary and 50/5 cable as secondary. Other locations just have 100/5 cable. Does it make sense to attempt using voip.ms as a pbx? Would I be better off installing FreePBX as it is most familiar? Do I switch to a different PBX? Is VitalPBX an viable option in this case?

The reason for the change - The business has service from ATT and are being charged $2400/month just for 2 "off-premise extensions" which are POTS. Absolutely ridiculous. I have personally seen the biling statement. They received a letter stating the costs will be increasing on those lines next month.

@krzykat Thanks.

@gjacobse Those look nice and rugged. Thanks.

Greetings. A friend of mine has 2 doors that have old intercom speakers that are connected to their PBX. When a guest presses the button, it dials an extension and they can talk. This is on a Panasonic PBX. They are migrating to hosted PBX and were looking at Algo SIP intercom units. I have never installed these and can't give any advice to him.

Does anyone have any feedback on Algo or a recommendation on SIP intercom units. They are in the process of installing a new CAT6 to each door in preparation.

Thanks

@stuartjordan Yes, understood. Maybe I should have asked the question differently. Do you have any regrets using Proxmox over what you used previously to it? XCP-NG is a great product as well but I am not familiar enough with it.

I have some VMs on a vanilla KVM install and they work great. I have considered migrating to Proxmox for the backup features. The gui would be nice I suppose. I would most likely use the Proxmox Backup Server as well. This would allow me to rsync the backups to an offsite location too.

For those of you who now use Proxmox - is it worth it to make the change? I know it would take minimal effort. I have another few hosts (Hyper-V 2019) that I would probably migrate as well to PVE. Would make sense to ease management.

Thoughts?

@travisdh1 Yes, this will be on one host with internal storage. The data will reside in another VM on the same host. They wanted a 10g network if the data was to reside on a NAS or other repository. I will most likely have the backups on one of the existing hosts at another location.

@irj I was told the application can be installed on bare metal or they can provide an OVA. I just can't decide if it is worth the added expense of VMWare or just to use KVM.