@pete-s

VMware Workstation and Player can do it, so you dont have to bother with getting extra separated hardware.

@dbeato said in Proud/Smug Post = KVM and Gluster and accomplishment:

I gotta tell you that the quality the video leaves a lot to be desired as I can see you are using VMware Workstation to do the Lab testing.

huh? the video is in full HD resolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhlowDhZeRs

Define "Quality" ?

This is to all the folks that still love to use Hyper-V

Youtube Video

Look how easy and swift life can be.

@gjacobse said in Choice I do not have; Support it I must:

Getting into more of the hardware, I have some fun things that I will have to support,.. and before it's suggested that I look at this or that - sorry .. no go. already posed that.

• DLink Switch
• Fortigate Firewall
• MPLS

At least it's not a SonicWall - ugh.. don't have a choice. It's Vendor approved, and the class of of Service I now work with, I just don't have a choice.

Where and what am I working with - Ugh.. before I can say I have to make sure it's acceptable.

Fortigate gets alot of bad vibe here, I dont know why its cheap and does the job. I dont have alot of exposure but again its cheap you can download firmware easily, you can update it easily , plenty of options, I think the new updates it got made it more and more better.

I have FGT-90D

@scottalanmiller said in Linux As File Server- Break Out From Other Thread:

@emad-r said in Linux As File Server- Break Out From Other Thread:

The only down side to it, that the files will take size on their machine as well as the NC server, thats it. If you can afford this, then this is the way to go.

That's purely optional. Not a given. NextCloud can be used with files purely on the server just like with SMB.

Huh, how so ? you mean only via web client. If your installing the agent at somepoint it will need to sync the files to your account synced folder.

@nashbrydges said in Linux As File Server- Break Out From Other Thread:

@emad-r said in Linux As File Server- Break Out From Other Thread:

I just dont get why File Server old way of thinking is needed for any company, let them have local copy + sync copy on the server as NC does, way modern and + you can easily host it on premises + open port and you allow them to work from home and access their files.

There are instances where a local file server is the best approach. I think even die hard fans of completely lanless designs cough cough @scottalanmiller cough cough would agree. I have clients who are in rural areas where internet connection speeds are simply too slow to be effective with any cloud storage technologies. Even their backups are taken offsite every night by their team because internet speeds can't support a cloud solution.

I also have clients who are in the graphics and video business. The file sizes they deal with make it mandatory that they use onsite file servers. For a double whammy, this particular graphics company is rural with poor internet speed.

Other cases where business owners are not "comfortable" using cloud only are still running local file servers. But slowly, we're winning them over, especially when some have had to recover backups that are cloud stored and were able to get back online quickly. Some do see the value while others can't handle it. At the end of the day, it is their business and as long as they aren't asking me to support them in a way that I think is detrimental, then they get their local file servers.

Who said anything about Cloud, I know i know nextcloud has cloud in it, i get that alot.
But why not a local NextCloud server ?

The only down side to it, that the files will take size on their machine as well as the NC server, thats it. If you can afford this, then this is the way to go.

Want them to work in shared group folder, make shared folder and let NC handle the rest, if 2 people will work on the file at the same time, it will create conflict file with the 2 versions.

Having agent, and software logic and versioning and throttling and user sharing for beats the the standard approach of simple file remount mount.

If small company ask me for file server, I will just create my own USB druve using quality samsung SD cards and put it in router and share that usb storage, it will serve them right and much cheaper.

I am not talking about something I dont know about, doing the stuff your own way and creating Linux instances for anything gives you much greater flexibility and power than just buying a device, trust yourself you can do much better than "them" especially in the low-mid price point.

@nashbrydges

I genuinely dont why and what is file server anymore in this day and age, as it sounds very simple basic and archaic task to the point that it gone pointless, like FTP and SFTP.

Regarding Linux as file server, you should seriously consider Linux Centos/Fedora and check how easy it is to setup and harness the power of linux LVM/FS/VDO/RAID below:
https://mangolassi.it/topic/17760/unlock-vdo-in-cockpit

It as very simple when dealing with elegant GUI client like cockpit, and you just need to install centos minimal + cockpit storaged packages, and your ready to fly. You can do RAID 10 on 4 drives, and then create LVM on top of it, and easily resize that volume any second or grow it without the need of unmounting it. VDO adds the compression and duplication support.

Why do you want to deal with Windows idiot way of mounting network drives and it is limitations.

Screw that, and even if you want to do this, why not use WinSCP with its 16 years of experience with another secure protocol and modern one like WebDav or SCP.

I just dont get why File Server old way of thinking is needed for any company, let them have local copy + sync copy on the server as NC does, way modern and + you can easily host it on premises + open port and you allow them to work from home and access their files.

@fateknollogee said in NFS Server...what to build??:

So you want to build an NFS Server to "share" files with other clients.

What o/s would you base this build on...?
Install o/s on bare metal or virtualize?

HW is simple:

• 2x SSD for o/s
• 4 - xx SSD for NFS shares

With the high reliability of SSD nowadays, especially certain models why dont you make 1 SSD for OS and make it NVMe drive, and that will leave you SATA ports free, and keep the other as cold spare.

And make the OS well defined and as a state, so even if an issue happens you can run command to rebuild it easily, cause all the data will be on the Shares, and yes the new OS will detect all the RAID volumes automatically.

That said good NVme SSD will last 5-10 years

@jaredbusch

I remember php my admin had alot of GUI options for optimizing DB and flushing it.

Can you recreate the DB somewhere locally, like VM, then connect to it via mysql workbench ? this way you can safely try solutions:

https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/57250/optimize-a-mysql-database-using-mysql-workbench

@ambarishrh said in Centralized password manager:

Re: Centralized password manager

Revisiting this again, as I would like to setup something with our team. What's the latest choice of PM on ML now?

First few results that caught my attention:

https://www.passbolt.com/

https://www.syspass.org/index-en.html

Looking at a self-hosted possibly free version to use with a team of 4 members.

Nextcloud + passman

@emad-r

RAID --> VDO --> LVM ?

@emad-r

The VDO module requires 370 MB plus an additional 268 MB per each 1 TB of physical storage managed.
The Universal Deduplication Service (UDS) index requires a minimum of 250 MB of DRAM.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/storage_administration_guide/vdo-qs-requirements#vdo-ig-index-reqts

@emad-r

Now where does VDO lies

| / | /var | /usr | /home  |
 --------------------------
|       LVM Volume         |
 --------------------------
|       RAID Device        |
 --------------------------
| Disk 1 | Disk 2 | Disk 3 |

Also if your having mount issues on boot for boot devices add this is nano /etc/fstab

Replace defaults with:

defaults,discard,x-systemd.requires=vdo.service 0 0

@black3dynamite said in Unlock VDO in cockpit !:

@emad-r said in Unlock VDO in cockpit !:

@emad-r

Also dont use EXT4 with VDO

ext4lazyinit will thrash the logical disks stupidly

Use XFS instead?

VDO uses LVM for some parts I thought you can shrink volume but even with EXT4 that option is not avialable, so no need for EXT4 and yes you can use XFS it is faster and makes the drives ready from the start without any thrashing.

@emad-r

Also dont use EXT4 with VDO

ext4lazyinit will thrash the logical disks stupidly

@emad-r

Bad VDO remove it :

vdo remove --force --name=vdoasync

Check stats:

vdostats --verbose /dev/mapper/vdoasync |grep -B6 'saving percent'

Use Centos 7.5 only or higher

yum install vdo kmod-kvdo
yum install cockpit cockpit-storaged
systemctl start cockpit
systemctl enable cockpit.socket

https://IP:9090/storage

Picture Story Time

@pete-s

What do you think drives the project ? AKA why dont they get hammered down by KVM . or What XCP-ng can do KVM cant, or they are just used to XCP

Am I asking or answering ?

@black3dynamite said in Where the F is the illusive Virtio-gpu Windows Driver installer file:

Everything you need is on this site.
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/creating-windows-virtual-machines-using-virtio-drivers/index.html

Nope.

There are no real downloads anywhere for VIRTIO-GPU for windows, even thought it was mentioned alot with many success and faster performance.

Those are the current official drivers:

NetKVM/ - Virtio network driver

viostor/ - Virtio block driver

vioscsi/ - Virtio Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) driver

viorng/ - Virtio RNG driver

vioser/ - Virtio serial driver

Balloon/ - Virtio memory balloon driver

qxl/ - QXL graphics driver for Windows 7 and earlier. (build virtio-win-0.1.103-1 and later)

qxldod/ - QXL graphics driver for Windows 8 and later. (build virtio-win-0.1.103-2 and later)

pvpanic/ - QEMU pvpanic device driver (build virtio-win-0.1.103-2 and later)

guest-agent/ - QEMU Guest Agent 32bit and 64bit MSI installers

qemupciserial/ - QEMU PCI serial device driver

*.vfd VFD floppy images for using during install of Windows XP 

I dont want QXL, which is stable and works but I heard Virtio is better, but I cant find the guest windows driver for it.

@pete-s

Also what is the defacto standard in bench-marking single CPU rating ?

How do you test ?