@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@Breffni-Potter @MattSpeller you guys still 10/100? I was reading a post from 2015 where you stated that. We're upgrading very soon. Politics.

Fixed that last year @wirestyle22

12GB of data, that includes hi res images, marketing, videos, a few key software installer packages, docs and manuals.

@NetworkNerd said in Why Choose AetherStore Over a NAS?:

Does anyone have numbers on the performance hit that a computer on which Aetherstore is running (i.e. part of its storage is part of an Aetherstore pool) takes on average?

I don't have a copy of them but I hosed the test VMs I was using and AetherStore never came up as a resource consideration.

What I would dearly love to know is, what is the read/write performance in version 2 now.

I'm seeing a lot of "head node" talk, what do you mean head node? Last I looked there was no such thing as a head node in AetherStore, unless the design has completely changed.

A project to be finished by July is to build our own as a SaaS product for other businesses.

So many of these apps are clunky and don't do what you need them to do.

Not done a proper test of 2.0 yet. The first I knew about it was an email that went out saying "Hi, please test" after launch.

Is anyone here going to talk about the performance of 2.0? Stop going on and on and on about their choice of business model.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/7718/aetherstore-in-the-real-world

13 months on, what news, what has changed. Well the pricing model has but how has the core product changed drastically?

Challenge started. Will see how it goes.

Thanks for the hijack gents.

@Dashrender said

It's only a few steps removed from telepathy - reading other peoples thoughts. So many people - especially kids - but their unbridled thoughts out there on FB, and then get bent when someone does agree with them.

Facebook...bringing people together.

@Dashrender said:

what's the reason for moving away from FB? FYI, I didn't read the link at the top.

Take 3 minutes out and read it then

As for the young people.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/sep/21/does-quitting-social-media-make-you-happier-yes-say-young-people-doing-it

@Dashrender said

80% of them I don't have those types of communications information.

Or gather those details on Messenger?

@travisdh1 said

Emailed, they probably would, but around half of them don't even have an internet connection.

Edit: Some of them without internet connections do post things from the library/school.

I was about to say...Fac...Then the edit came.

@travisdh1 said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@Breffni-Potter said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@travisdh1 said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@Breffni-Potter said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@dafyre said

I have a few friends and family members that I use facebook to actually communicate with, lol.

Why Facebook Why not any other tool.

Because it's the only way they all communicate

So you'd be the family exile if you stopped using the 1 digital tool out of many to communicate?

Yep. I tend to only look at Facebook two days a week, and then mostly to keep up with friends and family that don't communicate other ways.

So if you emailed/texted/called, none of them would reply?

@travisdh1 said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@Breffni-Potter said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@dafyre said

I have a few friends and family members that I use facebook to actually communicate with, lol.

Why Facebook Why not any other tool.

Because it's the only way they all communicate

So you'd be the family exile if you stopped using the 1 digital tool out of many to communicate?

@dafyre said

I have a few friends and family members that I use facebook to actually communicate with, lol.

Why Facebook Why not any other tool.

Can you do it?

https://medium.com/@Breffni/a-break-from-facebook-55e97c1c0b3d#.82vwc4id3

@Dashrender said

And this thing won't be able to either - unless it has every driver for every NIC known to man along with every Storage driver known to man.

Most Dell/HP boxes have worked out the box for me with hypervisors, no additional drivers needed. The only time I actually needed drivers was a recent hideous HPE product which had such a screwed up setup and driver process it nearly went out the window.

@Dashrender said

Today this is solved by using DRAC or iLo - the bench tech plugs it in, provides the IP address of the iLo to you, and you remote in and setup.

But first you need a jump box to get onto before you get into the server. These are invisible steps that take up time.

@Dashrender said

But again - why would you want this? What problem are you solving?
It's not like I'm expecting to ship a server off to timbucktoo and have the bench tech plug in a USB stick and it will just work for me.

You are not expecting to do that but you and I don't represent 100% of cases. I can't answer the question of who was their target market but they got enough traction to be purchased so at least 1 person thought it was a good idea enough to buy the business.

@Dashrender said

In cases where you want the config predone, then you can generally prebuild it on a USB stick and that tech just plugs that in when installing the hardware.

How do you pre-build it? What steps do you need to learn? Is there technical knowledge you need to acquire to do this?

The time spent doing the pre-build is the time this product has saved for you + the knowledge of how to do a prebuild of your hypervisor of choice with full remote management around the world.

@Dashrender said

sure, fine - But what does it bring to the table that the current ones don't? A built in web interface for management? OK that's fine for the lowend test setup, but for a larger rollout - that would be a waste.

How many tools let you download an ISO to a USB, ask a tech to plug it into the server, boot to the USB, let the install run and it automatically builds/deploys for you and is instantly connected to the controller no matter the location? This is out of the box, ready to go. Can any of the 3 main hypervisors do this without extensive prep/pre-scripting?

@Dashrender said

I suppose I see this, but is it really needed?

Horse and cart was perfectly suitable as a mode of transport until someone came up with something new. You only know if a good idea will fly by testing it sometimes.

@scottalanmiller said in WitBits - An exercise in frustration.:

So what private cloud API does it use? What does it add to normal virtualization.

No idea about the first question.

As for the second, the pitch is, plug in a USB, hit install, boom, server is ready to be managed and used. Locations all over the world are not a problem. I thought it might be a fun idea for those lone lab servers, all the management done in a web UI which you can access anywhere, an install and go mind-set.

https://witsbits.com

The pitch:

"CLEARVM IS THE FASTEST PATH TO PRIVATE CLOUD MANAGEMENT.
Your bare-metal servers will be ready to host virtual machines within 10 minutes. You will not need to update your virtualization software.
You don't have to install centralized management."

Half baked product of the endth degree. Somehow got bought by ClearOS but this is an awful end product. Imagine you wanted a XenServer/Hyper-V/VMWare Host wrapped up in an easy to use package, well this is what the claim is but the reality:

• Bandwidth throttling is huge. Took an hour to download the install ISO. Similar throttling for all the other images.
• The Web interface keeps locking up
• No options at all to use local storage for ISOs, so you have to upload the ISOs to a link, put it into the web app and watch it download the ISO extremely slowly....
• The website promises a 10 minute install which is true but the ISO download is terrible. Process began at 7:20pm which took 40 minutes for a 750MB file, It is now 9:10pm and the server 2016 eval VM still has not downloaded. Ahh, it is now done. 2 hours later.
• Over all this feels rushed, half finished, pushed for a company sale without real thinking of how to handle the huge short-comings I've seen after a short while.

( I do not have privileges to upload images onto here anymore, so no screenshots. )

Overall...rather terrible.