@brandon There is XOA Trial which is 100% free and turkney (you'll have spared time to install and configure it)

@brandon If it's a big corporate network (so a pro environment) why not using XOA? (just curious)

@DustinB3403 Sometimes the user is not aware of the network (if working in teams, net admin etc.)

@Dashrender it was just an example, is it the issue here? If it's the case, it's accidental

@DustinB3403 Not especially, it could be a lot of various things related to the user network installation, etc.

@DustinB3403 no worries, you can try The problem is not an appliance vs a script anyway

In any case, you'll hit the same issues: you can't guess what's inside the user network. Believe me, you don't want to spend your non-working time making support for free because someone forgot there is a proxy between their Xen Orchestra installation and outside.

edit: I think I have roughly some stats on support, at least half of the time is related to user configuration issues.

edit2 : my 2 cents on the current issue: not enough RAM to build npm packages.

Sure, go ahead.

The setup is still to manual to be open for a "large scale" test.

But tell me more on your setup, I can start to think what's the best mode in your case

Just a new blog post talking about Erasure Code solution for XOSAN: https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xenserver-hyperconverged-with-xosan/

AKA a great solution to mix security, space available and scalability

Just bought 10GB network stuff to dig on perfs.

I still have 27 days to stay in track

Well, sort of This command is now working:

xe sr-create name-label=XOSAN shared=true content-type=user type=xosan

Still a lot of stuff between this and a viable product, I'm in the middle of testing the solution in terms of resilience and overhead. I need also a layer of glue to at least semi-automate the deployment of XOSAN on a pool, otherwise I'll spent to much time doing it manually for each beta tester ^^

Anyway, developing a storage on current storage architecture of XenServer is really a pain. Eager to see SMAPIv3 in action

@matthewaroth35 Nope. XOA can be connect to any number of hosts at the same time. Just run it somewhere, it enough. See https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/architecture.html

@matthewaroth35 The easiest way to start playing with it, is to download the virtual appliance. You just "import" it on your XenServer and you are up and running. Register on https://xen-orchestra.com

Then the doc is here: https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/xoa.html

@matthewaroth35 said in Setup 3 node cluster:

Is XEN Orchestra free?

English is a bit vague for the word "free".

It's Open Source. We sell a turnkey appliance + support + web updater. If you want to play with it from the sources, you can

@scottalanmiller XenServer or Xen?

XOSAN would be a nice setup for 3 node cluster

Beta program in January! (not the final product but a test at scale to validate some choices).

It already doable "manually" but not trivial (but faaaaaaaaar trivial than using Ceph, for a 3 node installation, it doesn't make sense).

Ceph is like OpenStack (and they go well each other): they are good for large installations. Otherwise, it's a pain that isn't worth it.

@DustinB3403 You need to think globally Only 1 Premium is enough to not have to convince 7x Starter. And costing 7 times less in support.

You should see Starter as "introductory offer". We'll add services step by step (like Cloud Backup).

@DustinB3403 said in Xen Orchestra Upgrading:

@olivier said in Xen Orchestra Upgrading:

@Dashrender Having support for less than $70/mo. isn't worth it due to the market size (we can't have a "big scale" effect that VMWare/VEEAM can have).

But @olivier I know of at one person who could push for $70 a month. The price point you have now is just really steep.

From a strictly financial point of view, Starter is almost negligible for us. It would be interesting with far more customers (eg at 2 order of magnitude). And even in this (impossible) case, profit will stay very small comparing to Premium users.

@Dashrender Having support for less than $70/mo. isn't worth it due to the market size (we can't have a "big scale" effect that VMWare/VEEAM can have).