@scottalanmiller said in KVM Backing and Support:

@fateknollogee said in KVM Backing and Support:

@dustinb3403 said in KVM Backing and Support:

My biggest questions with KVM still revolve around backup solutions for it.

Don't expect a solution from Veeam until KVM (RHEL/CentOS/Fedora etc) has CBT in the o/s.

But it does.

Where?

@dustinb3403 said in KVM Backing and Support:

My biggest questions with KVM still revolve around backup solutions for it.

Don't expect a solution from Veeam until KVM (RHEL/CentOS/Fedora etc) has CBT in the o/s.

@storageninja said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:

This only works if they are on your servers, running in your datacenter. You can't use SPLA for customer owned gear.

Last I checked, you can use SPLA on customer gear. Rule was changed about 1-2 years ago, IIRC.

@scottalanmiller said in Does Veeam Believe Only Agentless Backups Are Acceptable:

You are putting words in both my mouth and Veeam's mouth.

How am I putting words in your mouth...this is what you said in a previous reply..."Agentless is awesome, when you have the right situation for it, which I almost never see."

@scottalanmiller Maybe you should tell Veeam they're doing it all wrong since their biggest & best selling products are agentless & btw Veeam's next big release is also agentless.

@scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V replication, Starwind, or something else?:

@doyler3000 said in Hyper-V replication, Starwind, or something else?:

Is there something else I should be looking at that provides option 1 or 2 at lesser cost/complexity?

Without more details as to what is driving decisions, I'd use KVM, Starwind, and Veeam agent based.

Why, even Starwind (Anton) prefers agentless & Veeam's main products are all agentless.

@scottalanmiller This looks like a much better experience http://www.sepsoftware.com/us/products/discover-sep-sesam/

@scottalanmiller said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@fateknollogee said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@scottalanmiller said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

SEP lists the features that we want, but their website is the worst software site I've ever seen. What a mess.

Almost like they have no real interest in selling their offerings!

It feels that way. Going to that website definitely would drive people away.

I'm going to call them tomorrow. A lot easier than trying to navigate that damn site.

Plan to start loading up some vm's (in the next few days)
Will also like to test some backup & restore products.

@scottalanmiller said in Fedora 28 Server - Linux 101 - How do you partition your drives:

@fateknollogee said in Fedora 28 Server - Linux 101 - How do you partition your drives:

You could do something similar to this & use /data for storing vm's

Could do that, but it loses usable space, and is unnecessarily complex. Unless he's doing something complex with the /data partition, like using a different file system or needs to snap it separately from the OS, this is just a waste.

Also, don't use swap partitions. That's not horrible, but it's unnecessarly complex and rigid and not considered best practice today.

Swap is part of the auto-partition setup.
I did not create the swap...yes I know it says "manual" at the top