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Is he a Windows, Mac or Linux user?

Looks good so far.

1920 x 1080 is max resolution. I would have preferred 1920 x 1200, but for $70, can you complain?

Also, it does not support Dual monitors.

Have him start with an iPhone or equivalent. (I use my iPhone 6S+ & 7+)
There is no need to shoot in 720P, 1080P is the mininum I would consider.
I actually prefer to shoot in 4K, but that's a whole 'nother topic.

This is a great app for shooting videos: http://www.filmicpro.com/
These guys have all kinds of lenses/accessories/gadgets, he can start small & grow: https://beastgrip.com/
Use this to "downres" the video from 4k/1080 to YouTube/iPad/AppleTV etc: https://handbrake.fr/
This app works great for Macs: https://www.telestream.net/screenflow/overview.htm

@wirestyle22

It's pretty snappy. The graphics (quality of text) could be a little better, again, for $70...

@scottalanmiller said:

In the SMB, it's actually pretty practical for VDI to mean ten Windows 10 VMs running on a single server. They are all independent, do their own thing, and ten users each get one of them assigned to them. Easy peasy. It's Windows 10 so RDP is included in the technology stack and VDI SA licensing is specifically the right to access those VMs in that way.

Nothing more needed. This is actually how most SMBs picture VDI working until people start implying more things to sell to them.

What enterprises do is they layer things like RDS, XenDesktop, View or whatever on top of the VDI to provide things like "auto-provisioning" of the VMs, shared gold source image to reduce storage needs, web based access gateways and similar. Things that spin VMs up and down as load is needed. Things that are amazing - but have essentially no value in the SMB world. At least not most of the time.

All of that is just overhead that you don't need to worry about.

In this scenario of "ten Windows 10 VMs running on a single server":

1. The hypervisor is irrelevant. You could use XenServer/HyperV/KVM etc
2. The 10x VMs need to be licensed via SA or 10x Win 10 Pro lic + 10x Win VDA lic
3. You can then connect remotely to the VMs using plain, 'ol, free RDP
4. No reason to get into RDS & all other BS except you want to pay MS extra $$

Am I understanding this correctly

@scottalanmiller said:

@FATeknollogee said:

Is the VDA a yearly occurence (as in pay per year) or it's a one time deal?

Annual. that's what makes it so brutal.

Wow, I thought it was a one-time deal.

SA spread over a 2 or 3 year period is def a "better" deal?

@scottalanmiller said:

@FATeknollogee said:

SA spread over a 2 or 3 year period is def a "better" deal?

On average, yes, But they are not dramatically different like they used to be.

What a racket MS has going!!

@Jason said:

Cloud processing and Colo are used for different purposes.

I don't see where @scottalanmiller is saying the colo is dead. I think he's saying smaller providers can't compete with the big guys in providing cloud/hosted services (SaaS).

@Jason The reason why you can't see it, is because he never said it. I just used his quote to start a discuss

@wrx7m said:

@FATeknollogee Will you host your own network connector or have ZT host it?

The ZT price seems very reasonable, so I would go the ZT hosted route.

@Breffni-Potter said:

@FATeknollogee said:

I'd like to eliminate the VPN & in an ideal world have the overseas connection "on" at specific times

Right, off the top of my head I don't know if this is possible through Zero Tier.

Can you control this via the terminal server itself? Group policy for different user accounts allowed to log on or off depending on time of day?

Do I smell a ZeroTier feature request for @adam-ierymenko ?

Anyone have experience with Alike from http://www.quadricsoftware.com/

From the @QuadricSoftware twitter feed:
....Did you know Alike DR is the only solution that supports true replication for #XenServer? Try our 30-day free trial! ow.ly/XXCNb

Maybe they haven't heard of @olivier

@gjacobse said:

With so few users - why do you need such hardware.

It could be 50 or 100, that's why it's a design on a napkin!

@Dashrender said:

huh - have you asked that vendor if they are developing to be able to use Azure AD as well as legacy AD?

Not lately, thx for reminding me. Let me check!

@scottalanmiller said:

Don't be surprised if the full MS Office suite doesn't get announced for Linux desktops soon, too.

Then I'll take up @scottalanmiller advice & start running Mint on the desktop

@Dashrender said:

@FATeknollogee said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@FATeknollogee said:

@FATeknollogee said:

Not to side track this thread (apologies to @BRRABill ), what is the "hyperconverged" equivalent in the XenServer world?

To all you XS experts, what is the "hyperconverged" equivalent in the XenServer world?

Similar to Starwind in the Windows world

XenServer is natively that in the Xen world. Nothing additional needed.

If you had 2, 3 or more XS bare metal installs with local drives, how do you "hyperconverge" all the local disks?

Are you saying with XS the "hyperconvergence" just auto-magically happens?

Of course not, but it doesn't for any platform. If you're setting up a greenfield situation, then you design it from the ground up with XS with single shared storage.

Single shared storage? Better not let Mr @scottalanmiller hear you say that

@scottalanmiller said:

@FATeknollogee said:

@travisdh1 Who/what is in charge of "controlling" all those users & their access?

ownCloud.

I assumed the users will access more than oC even though the drawing doesn't show that?

@Mike-Davis Right click works fine.

@KOOLER said:

@FATeknollogee said:

@FATeknollogee said:

@Dashrender said:

@FATeknollogee said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@FATeknollogee said:

@FATeknollogee said:

Not to side track this thread (apologies to @BRRABill ), what is the "hyperconverged" equivalent in the XenServer world?

To all you XS experts, what is the "hyperconverged" equivalent in the XenServer world?

Similar to Starwind in the Windows world

XenServer is natively that in the Xen world. Nothing additional needed.

If you had 2, 3 or more XS bare metal installs with local drives, how do you "hyperconverge" all the local disks?

Are you saying with XS the "hyperconvergence" just auto-magically happens?

Of course not, but it doesn't for any platform. If you're setting up a greenfield situation, then you design it from the ground up with XS with single shared storage.

Let's try this again:

In Windows, you can take multiple boxes, add Starwind or Datacore = hyperconverged using local storage (no SAN needed).

How do you do the same thing with XS?

This can do HC for XenServer:
http://www.atlantiscomputing.com/products/atlantis-usx

It's interesting how much of Xen did they sell.

You mean how much of their sales is XenServer vs VMware? (since they support both)

Help. looking for a Dropbox alternative, must be hosted & have "fast" uploads.

On my 150/150 FIOS connection, it takes 1+ hour to upload a 4GB MP4 file.