@Dashrender said in Tool for documentation:

@original_anvil said in Tool for documentation:

@Dashrender well... it would be handy. I know that your option will work as well, but I'm sure you will agree that it is better to use one tool for one task instead of two or more.

Oh absolutely! Anything you can do to make the end user's job easier it definitely a good thing. I just wouldn't have that item on my requirement list, instead it would be on the, should/really want to have list.

Gotcha! Well, not having that functionality is not a stopper, but highly desirable feature

@Dashrender well... it would be handy. I know that your option will work as well, but I'm sure you will agree that it is better to use one tool for one task instead of two or more.

@coliver said in Tool for documentation:

@original_anvil said in Tool for documentation:

@coliver thanks for that!
Actually, that was my very first idea, but I couldn't find anything that would indicate that it can merge few docs/articles into one. Do you think it can do that?

Let me check our instance. I don't think it can now that you point that out.

Thanks!

@coliver thanks for that!
Actually, that was my very first idea, but I couldn't find anything that would indicate that it can merge few docs/articles into one. Do you think it can do that?

Hi there champs!

Not sure if it will be better to post this question here or in water cooler section, so bare with me

So, the question is what tool would you guys recommend for creating and maintaining of the technical documentation?
Basically, the requirements for the tool are :

• Export the source content into the PDF
• Export the source content into HTML
• It should be able to merge few articles or documents into one output file
• It should be able to work with repositories
• It should keep versions of the document

Those are "must have" features.

Obviously, it would be great if the tool would be not overcomplicated and handy.

Ideally, it should be some kind of KB engine that could do all of the mentioned above, plus separating the articles for public view and internal usage.

Thanks in advance!

Hey there!
Friend of mine gave a good feedback about this one
https://codecombat.com/
Hope it gonna help!

@scottalanmiller Thanks for bringing me in!
@ardeyn So, yeah, as Scott said, StarWind Virtual SAN (aka StarWind VSAN), allows using SSDs as one of the tiers of the cache, Level 2 to more exact. So, combination of RAM as the L1 caching and Flash cache gives really good performance boost. The exact numbers actually depends on the workload set, so I just don`t want to misslead you here. BTW, the data within the cache synchronizes across all the nodes, so we are free to claim that we do Fault Tolerance in the cache level. Anyway, here is a bit more information about Server Side caching:
https://www.starwindsoftware.com/caching-page

Let me know if there is anything else that I might be useful for you.

@Reid-Cooper said:

You could call them "foolish" or "screwed"

You are too polite actually

@scottalanmiller said:

It is standard, IMHO, to use "Out of Support" or "Unsupported" to describe the user. It is assumed that everyone can get community support always, so that's just assumed, to me at least.

If you call them Out of Support then it is clear that they had support but no longer do. If you call them Unsupported, it is unclear and they would be lumped together with anyone who doesn't have support for whatever reason.

OK, we've got a new best option

Hey, guys! I've got really ridiculous question. Well, maybe it's not ridiculous, but I feel myself stupid because of not knowing the answer to it
Anyway, here it goes:
Let's imagine that one guy purchased your product. The product itself has got the direct support option that should be renewed annually. The guy decides to do not renew the support contract. How do you officially call him?
I have 3 options right now, but all of them a bit concerns me:

• Post Production. That one concerns me most, cause it was given me as the suggestion, but in my head that is something that related to the movies
• Free User. That one concerns me since this usually free users are something that mostly related to the pre-sale, rather then post-sale processes.
• Non-Supported User. That one fits best among three, but everybody do can get support through the online community, that product have

I might be wrong in understanding of the terms, so please bare with me

Thank you for now!

@LAH3385 BTW, as I mentioned in the other post to you, we are welcomed to jump with you on the remote session to look deeper into the issue and try to solve it. I'm going to PM you right now.

@LAH3385 said:

@LAH3385

These are some tests I conduct.
visor1
visor2 (the host where VM resides at the moment)
VM
File size 1.8GB (contain 450 files of 4MB each)

visor1 to visor2

visor2 to visor1

visor1 to VM

visor2 to VM

Connection from my PC to visor1/2 or VM is around 6MB/s to 11MB/s (average around 7MB/s)

Actually measuring the performance with the file copy is not the best way
http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2014/08/18/using-file-copy-to-measure-storage-performance-why-it-s-not-a-good-idea-and-what-you-should-do-instead.aspx

I'd recommend you to run the IOmeter benchmark against StarWind RAM disk through the networks. It should show the real numbers

Starwind console should have graphs available for all kinds of resources utilisation. Btw, you don't need crossover cable on 1Gbit and faster ethernet cards.

I couldn't find where the graph would be located at. But this is the setting on Synchronization priority

It's on the Performance tab. But you can check the Windows performance monitor as well.
As about the priority - I'd recommend you to keep it in the middle. It relates to the synchronization after failures (FastSync or FullSync)

@DustinB3403 said:

This could be related to the disk performance and not the network performance.

Just because the document is being written to a network share doesn't mean that is the issue.

+1

@scottalanmiller said:

We use Sharepoint. On Sharepoint we use the wiki, database list and OneNote functionalities to do this.

We have used in the past and I highly recommend MediaWiki (or similar) as well.

Same story here, except mediawiki

You'll be fine!:) Welcome back champ! I'm glad you made it!

Lullaby version
Youtube Video

He actually died like a true rock star - just after album release. Which is awesome BTW
Youtube Video

@Dashrender said:

@original_anvil said:

@Dashrender said:

@original_anvil said:

@garak0410 said:

We are running production VM's on that aging (but licensed) PowerEdge 2900. Do I need replacing that as my priority or perhaps look at the Starwind solution first?

Actually two options here:
StarWind Virtual SAN, which is software only
https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-virtual-san
StarWind HyperConverged Platform, which is the bundle of the Dell hardware, storage and hypervisor. https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-hyperconverged-appliance

Actually in my opinion giving a try to the second option is way much better idea since you are still considering geеting the Xbyte as an option, and xByte is actually out partners So as the result you`ll get the fully functional system, not just the part of it.

Does it come pre built? I thought that was generally frowned upon around here?

Yes, it is. First we are discussing desired hardware and software configuration, then we are doing the most part of configuration on our end, shipping it to the customers datacenter, and then finishing up the configuration. I`m assuming that we are talking about the HycperConverged Appliance

Just out of curiosity, who is doing the build? StarWinds or XByte?

Considering this an appliance definitely changes things.

Thanks for responding too.

Cooperation Everything is mostly handled by StarWind, but xByte does the great job as well though.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

Again - this could be a great appliance, on tune with Scale. I'm guessing those machines come all pre built, just drop and start using them. So I'm not trying to trash anyone, I'm simply asking.

Correct, they are a fully supported appliance. Same as a Unitrends, for example.

+1!
Thanks!