@aaronstuder said in XenServer 7: best practice: noob question:

@FATeknollogee You said you wanted best practice, then when I tell you what the best practice is you don't want to do it.....

Alright, you got me...
What size USB stick?

Let me edit my orig post.

1. Installing XS: I'd like to use 2x 80GB SSD mirrored (aka RAID1). **Do not want to use USB flash drive

• Is it ok to use "fake RAID" on the motherboard (Intel or LSI)?
• What is the best practice?

2. For Virtual Machine storage:

• Should the drives (assume multiple) be attached to a controller via RAID controller or HBA?
• What is best practice?

@DustinB3403 said in XenServer Community Edition versus Enterprise:

FYI I hate now that this XS7 release has dropped that everyone is saying "Enterprise and Community Editions". Who honestly isn't going to be using the "community edition"?

Where do you download the XS "Community" ISO from or are they all the same?

Men you FOSS folks, y'all make things as clear as mud!

If I'm understanding you guys correctly, most of these "features" are available via the XS Community ISO..?
• Automated Windows VM Driver Updates
• Automatic updating of the Management Agent
• Support for SMB storage
• Direct Inspect APIs
• Dynamic Workload Balancing
• GPU Virtualization (vGPU) with NVIDIA GRID and Intel GVT-g
• VMware vSphere to XenServer Conversion utilities
• Intel Secure Measured Boot (TXT)
• Export Pool Resource Data
• In-memory read caching

@DustinB3403 said in XenServer 7 has launched!:

@FATeknollogee said in XenServer 7 has launched!:

@DustinB3403

But you need the Enterprise edition to get the "added" features

You're missing what I'm saying. There is no difference between XenServer "Basic" and the Enterprise edition. Citrix is no longer developing their own version.

The linux foundation is developing the entire XS system. Which means everything in the Enterprise edition is available in the community edition.

Ok, I hear you.

1. How is Citrix able to "add" features to the Enterprise edition?
2. Are the download bits for the Community edition different from the Citrix edition?

@DustinB3403

But you need the Enterprise edition to get the "added" features

@DustinB3403

Look at Chapter 3 on page 5 of this pdf
https://docs.citrix.com/content/dam/docs/en-us/xenserver/xenserver-7-0/downloads/xenserver-7-0-installation-guide.pdf

@Breffni-Potter

XenServer with the "enhanced" features like "Auto-updating Windows drivers, the Direct Inspect API & SMB support etc" is not free

@scottalanmiller said in XenServer 7 has launched!:

Auto-updating Windows drivers, the Direct Inspect API and gobs of GPU updates are the big winers, I think.

These features are not free.., you need the Enterprise edition.
Thought you folks said XS was free?

@scottalanmiller How much rack space is being consumed, 1/2 cab, full cab?

@Minion-Queen said in ColocationAmerica:

This is a 16 year old company so not new on the block by any means....

They have 22 data centers in 8 Major citys. They have a major amount of people on their team both administrative, marketing and technical (believe me I have talked to MANY of them at this point). This is not a questionable company guys.

Why the move from the East Coast & why was So. Cal. chosen for the lab?

@ChrisL

1. What Tier level is ColocationAmerica datacenters (in So. Cal)?
2. Can you talk about pricing for 1/2 rack & a full rack?

@RojoLoco said in ColocationAmerica:

So the question remains.... for a regular, small-time, nondescript, everyday customer, why should one consider Colo America vs. the competition?

^^ The question remains unanswered

Paging @ChrisL

In So. Cal., why should one consider/choose http://www.colocationamerica.com/data-center vs Quadranet/Corp Colo/Psychz?

@Minion-Queen said in NTG Lab is moving!:

Colocation America actually reached out to us at NTG and is actually getting a full year for free from them. Cause they are AWESOME!
Scott can answer questions about the gear.

@scottalanmiller What's the gear, how much space, etc?

Maybe @ChrisL can chime in?

@Minion-Queen A few questions:

1. Why did you choose this co-lo facility (since there are a bunch of them in downtown LA)
2. How much gear & how much space are you renting
3. Rent per month

@DustinB3403 said in StarWind vs Storage Spaces Direct:

@Dashrender said in StarWind vs Storage Spaces Direct:

I can't use SSD in this case - it's to ingrained for Solid State Drives.

I was thinking the same thing when I type'd it. Like damn you Microsoft!

S2D is the official tagline, not SSD