@scottalanmiller said in StarWind HCA is one of the 10 coolest HCI systems of 2019 (so far):

@FATeknollogee said in StarWind HCA is one of the 10 coolest HCI systems of 2019 (so far):

Curious question...what happened to Starwind vSAN for Linux (KVM), is that not a thing anymore?

It is for sure, they talked about it at MangoCon

The Hyper-V and KVM hypervisors are no longer supported in StarWind Virtual Storage Appliance.
To view the guide on installing StarWind VSA with VMware vSphere, please open the following link

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/resource-library/starwind-virtual-storage-appliance-installation-guide-with-kvm

@scottalanmiller said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:

@FATeknollogee said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:

@scottalanmiller said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:

@FATeknollogee said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:

@taurex said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:

DataCore's Hyper-Converged VSAN. Apparently quite reasonably-priced but I haven't heard much else about it.

Took a quick look, I don't like that it's a 100% Windows even in its VMware flavor!

Not sure what you mean.

Datacore vSAN in VMware ESXi is 2x Windows Server 201x vm's (not 2 Linux vm's)

I see, it's not an appliance but you deploy Windows then install it?

They actually have a PS script that automates the deployment of both Windows Server vms.
https://www.datacore.com/try-it-now/trial/

@scottalanmiller said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:

@FATeknollogee said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:

@taurex said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:

DataCore's Hyper-Converged VSAN. Apparently quite reasonably-priced but I haven't heard much else about it.

Took a quick look, I don't like that it's a 100% Windows even in its VMware flavor!

Not sure what you mean.

Datacore vSAN in VMware ESXi is 2x Windows Server 201x vm's (not 2 Linux vm's)

@taurex said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:

DataCore's Hyper-Converged VSAN. Apparently quite reasonably-priced but I haven't heard much else about it.

Took a quick look, I don't like that it's a 100% Windows even in its VMware flavor!

https://mangolassi.it/topic/20187/hci-scale-starwind-etc-vm-layout

Who else am I missing?
I've only listed what I consider reasonably priced option's...no 6 figure, half million $ appliances!

Software:

1. oVirt/Red Hat
2. Starwind vSAN
3. VMware vSAN
4. Datacore vSAN - @taurex
5. XCP-ng with XO - @DustinB3403

Appliance:

1. Starwind vSAN
2. Scale HC3
3. Simplivity - @Reid-Cooper
4. vxRail - @Reid-Cooper
5. Datacore HCI Flex - @taurex

@scottalanmiller said in HCI (Scale, Starwind etc): vm layout:

If you were to start having AD, databases, etc. on multiple clusters, you have to start asking what the point of the original cluster was

True dat

For those of you with 2-3 node Scale, Starwind type HCI: are all your VMs run in the cluster or do you run a service like AD or backup vm on a separate host?

@scottalanmiller said in StarWind HCA is one of the 10 coolest HCI systems of 2019 (so far):

@FATeknollogee said in StarWind HCA is one of the 10 coolest HCI systems of 2019 (so far):

@scottalanmiller said in StarWind HCA is one of the 10 coolest HCI systems of 2019 (so far):

@FATeknollogee said in StarWind HCA is one of the 10 coolest HCI systems of 2019 (so far):

Curious question...what happened to Starwind vSAN for Linux (KVM), is that not a thing anymore?

It is for sure, they talked about it at MangoCon

OK..wonder how Starwind HCA/vSAN compares to VMware vSAN!

Only requires two nodes, is available for free, has some really breakthrough tech, is cross platform, Network RAID vs RAIN, etc.

Forgetting the number of nodes (for a minute), are you saying it performs better than VMware's vSAN?

@scottalanmiller said in StarWind HCA is one of the 10 coolest HCI systems of 2019 (so far):

@FATeknollogee said in StarWind HCA is one of the 10 coolest HCI systems of 2019 (so far):

Curious question...what happened to Starwind vSAN for Linux (KVM), is that not a thing anymore?

It is for sure, they talked about it at MangoCon

OK..wonder how Starwind HCA/vSAN compares to VMware vSAN!

Curious question...what happened to Starwind vSAN for Linux (KVM), is that not a thing anymore?

What nice tools are available for cross platform patch management?
Must be able to generate monthly reports. (needed for compliance)

@fuznutz04 said in Setting up FreePBX to send a X-Tenant SIP header for Skyetel Tenant tracking:

@JaredBusch nice! What tool are you using in that screenshot to look at call flow?

sngrep https://github.com/irontec/sngrep

Not trying to threadjack.
Just an fyi, in FusionPBX, this is included by default.

@PhlipElder said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

The goal is to run the system with two virtual machines:

• VM0: Domain joined and work apps
• VM1: Not domain joined with all personal apps

This user is a power user with the need to keep things separate. The OS will be Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit.

For a personal rig, we'd flip the workstation board and Xeon to a desktop mATX board and a Core i5 and the NVMe drives to 760p or 600p series. Cost would be substantially reduced.

Just curious...why can't the o/s be F30 with both VM's running in Virt-Manager?

I've got a few Win machines where the agent has stopped "reporting" back (greyed out in the console).

Anyone else have this happen & how are you fixing?

@scottalanmiller said in Malwarebytes question: renew subscription??:

Seems like a waste in most situations.

Kinda what I was thinking but I wanted to hear what other's thought.

The previous IT guy at a client site had purchased 22 seats of Malwarebytes.
These are all Win 10 pc's.
At a price of $1,600 for a 1 year subscription, this doesn't seem to be money well spent?

What's everyone else using?

ER4 in co-lo disconnects multiple times everyday.

Question 1: if I lose internet on the WAN, that would not reset the uptime.
Question 2: Is there someplace in the logs to check if this unit is rebooting.

@scottalanmiller said in P2V Windows 2000 on KVM:

So this is ridiculous, but we just found out that it is actually 2003 R2, not 2000. So I assume that this will be way better.

2003 R2 def works, I've had to do it twice.
I installed the Spice guest tools before doing the conversion.

@JaredBusch said in Using dnf-automatic to keep Fedora up to date:

@FATeknollogee said in Using dnf-automatic to keep Fedora up to date:

There really need to be a setting for this in the Workstation GUI.

By default Fedora Workstation + Cinnamon uses dnfdragora which is a totally separate process.

Yes, I realize that.
This setting exists in Cockpit, no reason why it can't be in WS!