@scottalanmiller said:

This is good timing as we are about to spin up our first Southeast Asia workstation. Will be interesting to see it on the network.

Having Pertino rolled out at a client, I will be interested to see if they are even making use of it.

@Dashrender said:

Japan at #10 might make it a peaceful place, but considering the Fukushima disaster I sure in the world wouldn't want to live there. Though, I'm not really sure any place is safe to live anymore considering the amount of radiation still pouring into the ocean.

Have facts to support that? Or just west coast media (media is not news)?

@BC said:

Norton-AntiVirus 2015
(because one more year always makes it better than the last)

it DOES!!@!!!@!@!!111!!

@Katie said:

Boot camp isn't the ONLY option - folks wishing to avoid Windows 8 can use something like Parallels. (which I've never minded)

I use Parallels myself, but I really HATE the fact that they have never supported the Japanese keyboard. it make typing in Windows a pain in the ass. I mean it is only keymapping, why can they not spend a little time and do it right? They have done it for numerous other languages.

Email sent, no cringing away from me!

@kontazler Thanks for bumping this thread. I have one Hyper-V deployment out in the wild with minimal documentation read I think I will take advantage of this myself.

@RobQ I have multiple clients running small SQL databases on standard SATA 7.5k drives. I have one client running a 50GB MS Dynamics 2010 application on those drives.

I like Hyper-V but, to me, it has quirks that VMWare has been long past.

I do not like VMWare's lockout of backup tools, I feel they could provide ONLY that piece and keep the rest of the fancy tools locked up. It is basically the cost of your Windwos server to buy Essentials anyway.

I have both in production and in your shoes I would go with VMWare simply because you already have the infrastructure in place (partially).

How much of the 4TB is needed to be high IOPS? I would split your workload on 2 servers, with server A having higher speed smaller disks and Server B having larger drives. That is unless you can afford larger drives that get to your IOPS needs for both servers.

I loved the concept of the eInk technology so much that I imported a Sony Librie from Japan in 2004 and installed a hack on it to convert things to English. I subsequently broke the screen while on a trip to Japan of all places, but could not find a replacement screen then. When I came home, it was only a couple month later when Sony released the first Reader in the US. I've spent so many hours reading on these devices, I loved them.

The issue with getting content back then was similar to what happened in the music industry. I basically said screw the publishers and read poor quality OCR'd versions of my entertainment reading.

I have fallen out of using my Sony Reader lately because of a lack of content and me no longer using illegally aquired documents. I will have to follow @scottalanmiller's thread about cheap books and get back in the habit.

I have a yard and I want this. This is an almost 2 year old article too.. How did I never hear about this!!

@ArvindParthiban said:

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I installed it in a VM last Thursday, haven't had a chance to test it out much yet.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Hubtech said:

hey, not all porn popups are viruses!

Or even most.

This is a huge myth. Porn makes money, a lot of it. They are not going to infect your PC, that would hurt their balance sheet. IT is and always has been simply "the bad guys" taking advantage of whoever would seem most vulnerable. For a while it was people want "free" porn that were easy targets and that is how the myth started, but that moved on a long time ago.

@NetworkNerd said:

Thanks to all who responded here. We're going to roll with PSX's idea.

I will also tell you I posted this somewhere else and did not receive as many responses as I did here.

What other device you going to use? If you buy the right thing you can shitcan the entire ASA

@scottalanmiller said:

No idea where @ajstringham is hiding.

Over in another thread, @psx_defector stated he knew what @ajstringham was doing, but was gong to let him tell it himself.

I've never used those, but I use and love the UniFI AP devices and the EdgeRouter from Ubiquiti

I would say Japan, and not just because my wife is Japanese. I have loved that country for years prior to meeting my wife. Something on Honshu (main island), maybe near Kobe. Would be close to Osaka and there is always the bullet train to Tokyo.

@scottalanmiller said:

Pretty much no one joined in on this thread, very odd.

I do not use a Linux desktop at this time, so did not have anything to contribute really.

@BC said:

The free veeam will connect over SMB protocols so it won't even utilize NFS will it? still even going over CIFS/SMB I am getting some prett good speeds ~90mbit (at the highest)

NFS will connect at the hypervisor level as a datastore though. So the windows VM that I have Veeam in will just see it as a drive that way. I can test it both ways I guess.

@scottalanmiller said:

How much data do you need to store and how fast do you need to store it?

Let me step back and ask the better question.

I have 2 ESXi 5.5 hosts with less than 1 TB of data on each sitting on local storage (SATA drives in RAID10). I want to back them up to a device on site.
Each server has 2x 1Gb NIC currently both assigned to the same VM network. There is no other communication method currently configured.

I was thinking to use NFS, but I can just map in windows if that is not really too slow. So I open this up to any method, not just NFS. I will eventually be working in a solution that does off-site also, but for now I just want solid VM level backups.

I have used plenty of Buffalo products in the past, but I read a bunch of mixed reviews on using them with NFS. Can anyone name a specific model that they have used well in an ESX setting?