@scottalanmiller my guess is, when Amazon started running KVM (as was expected when they hired Anthony Liguori), that was the last straw for you, because your main argument against KVM has always been "but Amazon..." 
But nevermind me, I'm just having fun here. Been riding the KVM train since before it was generally heard of after all
@scottalanmiller Actually, what you say is both correct and incorrect. A hypervisor is simply the driver for the VT/SVM CPU extensions, nothing else. In that sense, it does work with the hardware directly, obviously. But it does not work in a vacuum - a driver is only part of a set of drivers of which a kernel consists. The kernel also contains other software like schedulers, and with a bit of utilities added, you get a barebones OS. It might be extremely stripped down, but it is still an OS.
Having said that, when people say "hypervisor" they mean a means of getting a VM to run, that usually means the drivers, a kernel to utilize the drivers, a set of utilities to manage the VM and emulate virtual hardware. So really, there is no "baremetal", unless you have a box that doesn't even boot up
@scottalanmiller I've had the misfortune of doing SMB work for quite a few years, and it's always been "just fix this now" and "we've no budget for that, we're an accounting firm and not an IT shop". So when I see SMB mentioned, I go into power saving mode
@DustinB3403 said in What would your recommendation be for a Type 1 Hypervisor - including backup and restoration options:
What does this have to do with doing things in a correct fashion if you're starting new? FFS
Are you always starting from scratch?
No you don't. FFS Hyper-V is 100% free. Just login and download it. https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/evalcenter/evaluate-hyper-v-server-2016
FFS, at least take care to post a working link.
Server Standard Licensing has at least for as long as I can remember given you the right to install twice on the same hardware with-which the license is activated. Datacenter isn't Standard.
Your information is just wrong.
Then that is something I'll be giving my MS contact shit for.
@scottalanmiller said in Advice On a New Setup:
In theory they are intended for special cases like video recording.
Yup, pretty much the same thing - intended for always-on, without too much heavy IO. Frankly, I doubt there's anything significantly different under the hood there.
@DustinB3403 said in What would your recommendation be for a Type 1 Hypervisor - including backup and restoration options:
So the issue with "Windows on the hardware" is that is it creates licensing restrictions that make moving your VM's around difficult among other issues.
So Windows should never be on the hardware. Just install Hyper-V and create your VM's with your licensing.
The question here is about SMBs, where you don't always have a say in what they've got, you simply have to deal with the existing stuff, under a very tight budget. If you have the option to plan and do things right, then of course there's plenty of best practice out there to follow.
And for Hyper-V to be an option, you do need Windows on the hardware. There is no such thing as "baremetal hypervisor" - every hypervisor needs an OS to be able to work, even if it's a small stripped down OS like the Xen kernel.
The benefit of "added licensing" is universal, regardless of what hypervisor you use. With Server Standard X you always get the right to create 2 Virtual Machines. Always.
Last time I checked with an MS licensing specialist, that was the case for the DC edition, and even then MS weren't too happy to activate your machines unless you also got a site license, a VLK or a select-6 pack. For SMBs, even if you do technically have the option to activate windows servers on non-MS virtual hardware, the procedure of doing that will hurt.
My information is a bit dated though, they might have improved things since 2010-2012-ish.
If you have the option to actually do things right and you are able to activate your windows vms without problems, KVM is a great choice, especially since if you have to scale, you can deploy oVirt
If you already have Windows on the hardware, it's been paid for, Hyper-V makes sense, especially since it grants you additional virtualized licenses. I used Altaro free for backups, it did the job just fine.
Of course if you are not stuck on Windows, there's KVM available, which will give you more features and flexibility.
Glad to see you stopped being such a die hard Xen fan I remember you fighting tooth and nail against KVM on spice forums.
@scottalanmiller there's also the purple series, they are pretty much on par with the reds
@flaxking yup, all that is easily possible
@flaxking You mean actual graphs and reports on stats gathered over time? Grafana is all about that
@scottalanmiller Timmy is great, especially for the price. Compared to starbucks its divine
Since it's morning right now, I'm drinking coffee. Variating between Tim Horton's dark roast (I'm in Canada, eh!) and Israeli Turkish black coffee (Turkish grind arabica I buy in Israel when I visit there for work).
When I do feel like a stiff drink, I usually go for Tullamore Dew oIrish whiskey or Pere Magloir calvados
OMG, NFS had the ability to mount with and without async and with hard and soft mounts since at least 15 years now. Well done on catching up MS, and pretending to provide a new and shiny killer feature
Everything depends on your specific use-case, MongoDB has it's upsides and Scylla is, well, absolutely awesome :smiling_face_with_halo:
If you describe what you are trying to achieve, you might get some more constructive input. As for Scylla specifically, please feel free to join the Slack channel and ML if you have questions
I usually install Fedy which covers most of the 3rd party stuff, fonts, etc. Then I also install openvpn and openconnect xfreerdp and terminator.
@scottalanmiller said in Why Do Recruiters Never Get Involved in Forums Like This:
Most recruiters sending me things don't even state where the job is. It's a weird thing I've found, like they think that there is only one market in the whole world and that I'll just know where they must mean.
My first question is always "what country is this for"?
Strange, I typically see them specifying the city or whether or not the job is remote from the very start. There was a bit of initial confusion when I moved countries several times, but it straightens out quite quickly
@scottalanmiller said in Why Do Recruiters Never Get Involved in Forums Like This:
Maybe if you reach out and try to search for jobs. But working the other way, only being reached by people trying to get me to work with them, it's completely useless (not that I ever was on LI for that purpose.)
It's been over 5 years since I last went actually sending CVs out So it's pretty much recruiters pinging me all the time
@scottalanmiller said in Why Do Recruiters Never Get Involved in Forums Like This:
Yeah, that's one that I'm specifically thinking of. That specifically they seem to universally ignore.
Seems to work for me quite well