Posts made by larsen161

@360col upgrade storage directly in the user account rather than from the admin console to save yourself a considerable amount. A 1TB upgrade within the user account is $9.99/mo compared to $89.00/mo.

Unless you need to route different issues to different teams, don't have the user select anything. Make it as easy for them as possible to submit an issue. You can use these categories on the back end if you want to so you can have some reporting info.

The new PixelBook ?

Viscosity is a nice OpenVPN client

@scottalanmiller wow, supermicro has some impressive chassis. but ohh boy, their website design though....

perhaps something like the 24-bay, 4u SC846BE1C-R1K28B

do they offer pre-sales support or its via a reseller typically?

@coliver expect to run out of storage in march. @scottalanmiller the raid 6 or 60 does seem like the most cost conscious option.

@dustinb3403

Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
/dev/disk2s2    38Ti   30Ti  8.1Ti    79%     3450784 4291516495    0%   /Volumes/Grandsister_Benny
/dev/disk1s2    38Ti   26Ti   12Ti    69%     1177292 4293789987    0%   /Volumes/Grandmaster_Benny

@dustinb3403 "2 equal sets of RAID5 in a 8 x 6TB"

@minion-queen something you will need to consider soon perhaps. gdpr right to erasure

I posted over on SW but wanted to get the mango input too
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2054391-file-server-upgrade-options

I'm looking for some views and opinions on how to upgrade, change, or replace our existing file server setup to accommodate the imminent capacity limitation that will be reached soon. Use case is storing and editing of video files of around 2-4GB in size currently growing as more 4/6k content is used.

Initial thoughts are go with something like a Dell R730xd or HP DL180 but I'm worried that capacity constraints on these won't allow me to go much past current storage capacity at RAID10. Then use the current DS316JS as DAS on this new unit.

Current Setup
Mac Pro (mid 2012) running macOS 10.12.5, 24GB, 2x 2.4GHz Xeon (no comments needed, we're moving forward)
A DS316JS with 2 equal sets of RAID5 in a 8 x 6TB config (same as above)
Connected via a Areca ARC-1883x RAID Card
Networked with a 6 port 1 Gbps NIC
Backed up to Backblaze ($5/mo)

Goals
Run a 'proper' storage server OS
Migrate to more reliable RAID configuration
Upgrade storage capacity (expect to run out in March 2018)
Backup data

Support 6k video editing across a team of 12
Adding 10Gbps to server
Adding 10Gbps switch
Adding 10Gbps to clients

Constraints
Cost - we need to keep costs as low as possible

• leverage existing DS316JS and drives as much as possible
• keeping backup with Backblaze would be a key cost savings

Has anyone been able to get a mac mini (running server) to act as a host for xenserver iso's?

The smb share has failed entirely
I managed to get xenserver to see and add the nfs share but the VMs are failing to attach to it

my nfs share is configured in /etc/exports as
/share/iso -maproot=root:wheel -network 10.70.0.0 -mask 255.255.252.0

I also tried
/share/iso -mapall=501 -network 10.70.0.0 -mask 255.255.252.0

@s.hackleman said in Need a Good Bottle of Scotch:

@thanksajdotcom That is good, but you you find that Smokey, you may want to avoid anything that says Islay on it.

Just about to order a bottle of the Caol Ila 18 ( @Grey ) for what is turning into our weekly whisky evening at the office.

@thwr the boxes on the left are The Glencairn Glass from Stölzle. Not sure what you mean by imported to the US though, they are all in the UK from the UK.

Currently using a solution from Carval
http://www.carval.co.uk/inner.php/time-and-attendance-12/

@thanksajdotcom nice suggestion. I went and picked up one along with a few others this week.

2fa is on their 2017 roadmap. I'd much rather see SAML support though.

Would be nice to monitor who has set up a password login. I have never used Backupify u/p though and always rely on Google authentication which you can enforce 2fa on.

If you're using Google Photos, instead of using your gmail.com account you use G Suite Business and get all the domain features plus the 1TB of storage for the same price. When you need more storage add via personal storage in Drive instead of via the domain which is 10xthe cost.

There's also comprehensive data storage for Russian customers, allowing you to control via OU which staff data goes to servers located in Russia.

It's possible with Google. I know Genentech/Roche has all their G Suite data running and stored in Switzerland for example due to their strict regulatory requirements.

Or look at putting in smaller local storage server just for frequently used data and connect to AWS Storage Gateway using a Cached Volume architecture.

Gives you fast local access to data and scalability to grow to any size and then put policies on data in S3 to move to glacier or purge.