So I really need a way to test HALizard, and become comfortable with the setup of it for my Xenserver setup (in the future) as it appears we are likely going to be going forward with my proposal (which is awesome) but still has me nervous.

I'm thinking I'm going to tear down my current home lab and test with that. Which kind of sucks, but at least it gives me some experience with it.

If anyone has any pointers, like how to install DRBD on XenServer 6.5 that would be a cool way to help me get started on this.

Here's the list of requirements for HALizard

Requirements

• XCP version 1.6 or XenServer version 6.1/6.2/6.5
• DRBD Version 8.3 or 8.4
• iSCSI target – TGT
• Pool HA – Open Source HA-Lizard 1.6.41.4 or newer

I have a feeling I'll likely be the person who has to get everything configured (even though I'm pushing for support) so any guidance would be a godsend.

Thanks ML.it community.

It's specs are a joke too, for $6000!

@scottalanmiller you mean we don't just give up free expert advice on these communities?

So from this topic, it is apparent that NFS is a really critical way of setting up your Storage Repos.

With Xen, and Xen Orchestra alike.

But how would you go about build an "unIPODed" NFS file system to run your VM's and XO backup target?

%$&^

@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

there must be a joke I'm missing.

I'm seriously asking if he stood up a Linux box or did it on Windows?

A radius is the distance from the centre of a circle to the outside, a diameter is the distance from one side to the other, going through the centre, ergo a diameter is basically double the radius...

FTFY

So my primary xen server has defective ram in it, yesterday the Dom0 of this host was hung, and the plan was to reboot it this morning.

Well didn't get the chance, the host crashed last night.

Good thing I have a tiny box to migrate my VM's over too.

Rather than trying to rebuilt the 3 critical VM's from scratch, import my backup from Sunday.

Yah I win!!

Third parties confirm AMD’s outstanding Ryzen 3000 numbers

AMD debuted its new Ryzen 3000 desktop CPU line a few weeks ago at E3, and it looked fantastic. For the first time in 20 years, it looked like AMD could go head to head with Intel's desktop CPU line-up across the board. The question: would independent, third-party testing back up AMD's assertions?

That is a sharp looking shirt.

@halizard Awesome, thank you and your group a crap ton for me.

Gives me stuff to work on!

The fastest open source CPU ever, Facebook shares AI algorithms fighting harmful content, and more news

I haven't used a fence like that but is it really that much in savings that you wouldn't have a proper fence installed to keep everyone out of the pool that should be near it.

Insurance in NY for example almost demands home owners with a pool to have a fence.

If you don't and someone who "breaks" into your property and drowns, get to sue you.

So I've got my SR reattached, just need to figure out how to import the VM's from the SR.

BackBlaze opens new Data Center

Announcing Our First European Data Center
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@MattSpeller that kitten!!

OMG.....

That is not a favorite, I try to avoid rebooting my systems if they don't absolutely need it.

NVIDIA Starts Publishing GPU Hardware Documentation To Help Open-Source Drivers

So I just finished rebuilding my NFS/SMB server and am now testing everything with XO to confirm it's functional.

Hopefully those I/O issues were VM based.

@olivier how well does XO work with APC Powerchute?

Because, that is my next goal. Get my VM's and Hosts to gracefully shutdown during a power-outage.

XPC-NG and LinBIT are making an alliance to bring DRBD functionality to XCP-NG