On a client's network, in the blocked website categories, I'm blocking the typical items like Abortion, Porn, Cult, Nudity, Guns, Weapons & Gambling etc.

Firewall is a Meraki MX100.

Example: sites like espn.com get blocked because it get's categorized as gambling. No biggie since one can add said site to the URL whitelist.

Yesterday, I get a text from the Office Manager, saying "open the flood gates to the 'net. I guess it's ok for gambling, nudity & guns & whatever else"
Not sure if this an attempt at humor, as the text didn't include any smileys.

Thoughts?

@scottalanmiller 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?

DRBD, Gluster or CEPH are all part of the base solution. XS simply lacks GUI interfaces to them.

Thx for the update.

DRBD, Gluster or CEPH are all CLI only?

@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

@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?

@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?

@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

@FATeknollogee said:

Where is that "single pane of glass" to manage XenServer & Hyper-V

I hit send before I was done, I meant to "tag" @olivier & add a

Where is that "single pane of glass" to manage XenServer & Hyper-V

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

@scottalanmiller said:

You can do the simplest thing and just buy blocks of hours to use. Then you can use them for whatever you want.

What size are the blocks packaged?

@scottalanmiller said:

Of course! We've been supporting Xen since before XenServer was even out

Well ya got to spread the word

How is pricing structured?

@scottalanmiller said:

Well we support it, for example. LOL.

Does that mean I can build a "white box" XenServer & "contract" support from NTG?

@scottalanmiller said:

XenServer has Citrix support famously but also can have support from other players.

This I did not know. Like who?

@scottalanmiller

Looks like Vultr is now offering Windows

https://www.vultr.com/pricing/

"Windows 2012 R2 x64. Windows licensing carries an additional $16 per instance surcharge"

Thanks for the info.
I had assumed they were all offering the same thing

For those of you on Vultr/DO etc., what is/was the attraction since you can do the same thing with the "big boys" - (AWS, Azure etc)

@JaredBusch

Thx for the heads up.

How is @kelleybrooks related to OC?

@scottalanmiller

Thx for the update.

How is @jospoortvliet related to OC?

@scottalanmiller

What's the latest??