Neither, but some areas of note just from looking at that site briefly:

"To begin with you need atleast three servers, but the more the better.
To be able to use as much raw disk as possible it's better to build many nodes rather then less nodes with lot's of storage disk in them."

"All data is stored in multiple copies and possibly geographically separated locations within the cluster."

"Start as small as four nodes"

There are some strangely semi-conflicting statements within the site itself, and seeing the word "possibly" when describing where your data stripes are distributed within the cluster doesn't really fill me with too much confidence. You could always try it in the lab, but I haven't seen or heard of anyone using it in production at this moment in time. Also I'm not sure what your node count is looking like but if you're in the 2-4 range I'd recommend just sticking with what's industry proven.

Thanks @scottalanmiller , @QuixoticJeremy , and @dafyre ! Happy to be here! I work for a group who's slowly but surely moving into the official MSP space as an Enterprise Support Tech. I'm looking to move into the Engineering space in the near future as I'm currently working towards my MCSE. Looking forward to speaking with and hopefully meeting some of you soon!

I've found that a lot. SMBs tend to actually be way less flexible compared to enterprises. Enterprises tend to be much more focused on their employee's, their quality of life, and running the business well. SMBs tend to be focused on the emotional needs of the owners to the exclusion of all else, including value of life and profits.

Well said, almost like you've been doing this a while.

@scottalanmiller And we're still no closer to having a production ready MS SDS product....

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I was looking at grabbing a Synology DS216j, anyone have any experience with them or have a different NAS you'd recommend? Primary use will just be for home device and lab backups.

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17 years in IT? https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2083921-help-errror-e1810-hdd-1-hdd2-hdd3-fault-on-poweredge-2900-production-server?page=1#entry-7357313

She even says in the post - "I have no idea what I'm doing". Not something to post publicly if you claim to have 17 years in IT.

This goes to another recent thread about the home lab vs 'work experience' just because you "worked" in IT for 17 years doesn't mean you know shit about it.

Great catch. One day in a home lab might easly have provided more useful knowledge and experience than seventeen years working in a company doing this stuff.

Also goes to show that just having a cert doesn't mean anything, it's what you learned along the way. CISSP, and an MCSE? Come on....

Should be noted that any server running 1709 cannot be added to S2D pools as it stands currently since it's not considered production ready....

not if you read SW, you'd think no SMB knows to patch and those that do can never get downtime for them.

That's because they don't want to work nights or weekends.

If only there was a way to schedule updates to run outside of business hours.....

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1786/

@scottalanmiller Agreed, especially since you're to a greater degree surrounded by people who have absolutely no idea what it is that you do. Even management structures in SMB IT are rarely staffed by technical individuals or technically competent I should probably say. At least in my experience, the fewer people around me who think what I do is comparable to black magic the better.

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The implementation of an Azure Stack would be something to get our heads around for the time being.

Hopefully it is better than the actual Azure system!

It is Azure, same thing, but you have a physical node on-prem. You pay for the hardware, and you get Azure a little cheaper, but it's fully managed by them.

It's really only for remote places with bad bandwidth imho.

Think like, needing cloud from an 18-wheeler in a remote location.

This sounds like a crappy version of the AWS Snowball

@dafyre Breath of The Wild sorry

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to get a discussion going regarding one thing that's always puzzled me about Windows Server Administration, and that's Kerberos mismatches breaking Secure Channels between DC's. I understand in theory why this happens, when it definitely will happen, but I've also seen seemingly random occurrences of this.
I'm currently working on a POSH script to proactively check the Secure Channel status and Replication health between all DCs to minimize the client side impact these breaks can cause. At the moment I'm just needing a reliable way to break the secure channel between DCs in the lab for further testing of the script.
Our group is not an MSP officially yet so when I'm called it's time to clean up the aftermath, sadly at this moment I'm not day to day monitoring these clients, if I was obviously this would be more straight forward. That being said I'm still looking to improve the end user experience where possible.
What's your preferred method in dealing with these issues?

@networknerd Oh no problem! I don't want a load of people to be inconvenienced for my sake. I'm looking forward to attending one when the schedule lines up. Thursday would probably be ideal for me if I had to pick a weekday.

@scottalanmiller It's ridiculous, and then in the midst of all that you end up with an inevitable pissing contest of people arguing semantics that no one even has clarification on yet because the OP hasn't actually identified the circumstances surrounding the issue.

@olivier Have you tested how it behaves if you shut down both hosts and then fire them back up? Do you have either of them weighted or master/slave? Suppose you have to replace an entire node, do you just mount the XOSAN and it begins replicating? Sorry if I'm jumping way ahead, but this is very interesting.

Not sure if it's regional, but Target has a buy 2 get 1 free deal on games currently(unfortunately excluding the Switch). We snagged FFXV, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Injustice 2.

+100 for Ubiquiti, also take a look at Mikrotik

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Just confirmed that she has backups. Sadly, they are Backup Exec.

See you in 94 hours when that restore completes with degraded data.