@dustinb3403 said in Small colo infrastructure for SaaS:

@pete-s said in Small colo infrastructure for SaaS:

This is how @dustinb3403 suggested replicating VMs between hosts:

While this is accurate, it also misses on the fact that he would still have his NLS server sitting, collecting backups on whatever schedule.

Other than that it is accurate. In Scott's proposal you are making the shift from migrating the entire workload (which is essentially instant) to migrating the database only.

In his case, the load balancer is the weak link in the chain. Granted these don't fail often but it isn't something you have control over either unless you provide your own for the COLO.

2 haproxy VMs (one per host) and keepalived for failover

@scottalanmiller This is not recommended, nor supported by MS as well
Thanks for all the ideas and thoughts everyone!

It's recommended to have AD for RDS, but it's not a requirement - https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/sln268318/how-to-deploy-windows-2012-remote-desktop-services-in-a-workgroup?lang=en

@scottalanmiller The reason for having a jump server not connected to AD is to reduce the attack surface if the jump server gets compromised.

Hey guys,
i'm a little confused with MS licensing for a jump box. As we need more than 2 concurrent RDP sessions, we need RDS role installed and CALs assigned. For obvious reasons the server is not joined to a domain, so according to MS i can only use device (not user) CALs.
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askperf/2015/05/08/multiple-per-device-rds-cals-are-issued-the-same-device-issue/ - a certificate is transferred from the server to a connected client.
But some of the clients use Macs instead of pcs, not sure how this is going to work out.
Is anyone else using a similar setup?
Thanks!

We use Expensify and everyone is pretty happy with it.

why are you attacking it?...

Check the app store for new updates. There's an update available to fix this one.

Same OVH that went down today, because they lost power and none of their generators (if they had any) powered on?...

@wrx7m
No reason. It will work just fine.