@marcinozga said in Network setup for production KVM:

Containers or VM guests makes no difference here.

Rarely does.

@eddiejennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Is this the Curtis? If so, I'm looking forward to watching him in his natural habitat.

Always good for some entertainment.

I hope some big names, like SuperMicro, take this seriously and get something in our hands soon. This would be perfect for two socket 1U servers or some tiny blade units (those SM deals with four blades in a 2U kind of thing.)

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@biglittle said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Slaying tickets today, whole slew of FCR's

Kind of makes IT sound like an RPG.

as it should be!

And if your HP reaches zero, you get fired.

They might be using the term SSH proxy to mean an SSH VPN. Or they might want an SSH jump box, where they log in via SSH, then SSH again to the SQL Server. It's a little ambiguous. But I agree with @marcinozga just install a simple Fedora, CentOS, or Ubuntu server and you are done Tiny VM should do.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Hey, an RPG IT dashboard that makes doing IT work feel like an RPG with stats and stuff, leveling up, etc. What a cool idea.

Interesting concept.

You could grab the early snapshot and just use that. It is all but released at this point.

@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@reid-cooper said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Life Cycle controller updates on the server at home. Then installing new Hyper Visor.... Then getting Plex back online. Fun night!

What is the new hypervisor?

Yep, KVM. I was on Xen Server, which I had zero problems with. But now, it's time for a change. Going with Fedora 26.

Fedora 27 has been approved for release next week.

Of course.... Oh well. I'm committed already.

The update will probably be easy, it normally is.

It's moving at least. Is the array in heavy use while this is going on?

Can't live on the edge if you aren't taking risks!

@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@reid-cooper said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Life Cycle controller updates on the server at home. Then installing new Hyper Visor.... Then getting Plex back online. Fun night!

What is the new hypervisor?

Yep, KVM. I was on Xen Server, which I had zero problems with. But now, it's time for a change. Going with Fedora 26.

Fedora 27 has been approved for release next week.

That's pretty impressive. I wonder how long before usable gear is available on the street. And what prices are going to be like.

Zebra is pretty popular for label printing.

KVM I hope, that's the theme of the day.

@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Life Cycle controller updates on the server at home. Then installing new Hyper Visor.... Then getting Plex back online. Fun night!

What is the new hypervisor?

At least it is moving a little.

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If for home, I assume that the goal is learning ESXi itself? Otherwise, just use a different hypervisor. KVM seems to be the hypervisor of prominence today.

Well, I use ESXi/vSphere at work. I wanted to try out the free version of ESXi at home for S&G, but I may also experiment with other Hypervisors, depending on what will work with my system. I would like to check out KVM.

I would skip ESXi Free, it has so little value even for education. If you use ESXi at work, you already have the exposure to the real thing. The crippled free version is worthless.

I'm not sure I agree with this. If he has Essentials at work, then doesn't the free version of ESXi do everything but have the backup APIs?

Well, what is the goal? If the goal is to learn, ESXi Free wouldn't make sense since he already knows ESXi and the free version lacks nearly all the features that you need to practice on like vMotion, HA, Backups, etc.

If if you want to learn something new, a different hypervisor is needed. If you want to learn advanced features, a different hypervisor is needed. If you want to use it for production at home and want the best options for that, a different hypervisor is needed.

Also if you want to learn ESXi, VMWare has a thing for that.
https://www.vmware.com/try-vmware/try-hands-on-labs.html

Even better.

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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

It's a day of people saying that they want to use Storage Spaces Direct. A sudden rash of it... a week after MS announced it wasn't production ready and discontinued it.

It's not discontinued. It's just not in the current build because they are workign on it and not ready for current releases of Server2016.

"Not in the current release" and "discontinued" are literally the same thing here. What else would discontinued mean?

To me, discontinued implies "not coming back or returning". This is not the case.

We also don't know that it is coming back. They say that, but they claim a lot of things are coming that never do. Not that this affects the fact that it is currently discontinued, but even the future of it is a big unknown.

Well, so far, the mirrored drives in my desktop are doing ok. I don't have anything important on them tho, steam games is about it.

Mirroring tends to be more reliable than most things.

Is that SS or SSD, though? I thought SSD was 2016 only.

It's S2D officially.

I always forget that.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

It's a day of people saying that they want to use Storage Spaces Direct. A sudden rash of it... a week after MS announced it wasn't production ready and discontinued it.

It's not discontinued. It's just not in the current build because they are workign on it and not ready for current releases of Server2016.

"Not in the current release" and "discontinued" are literally the same thing here. What else would discontinued mean?

To me, discontinued implies "not coming back or returning". This is not the case.

We also don't know that it is coming back. They say that, but they claim a lot of things are coming that never do. Not that this affects the fact that it is currently discontinued, but even the future of it is a big unknown.

Well, so far, the mirrored drives in my desktop are doing ok. I don't have anything important on them tho, steam games is about it.

Mirroring tends to be more reliable than most things.

Is that SS or SSD, though? I thought SSD was 2016 only.

Ah, it's probably just SS then. Windows 10, not a server thing.

SS hasn't gone anywhere, only S2D.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

It's a day of people saying that they want to use Storage Spaces Direct. A sudden rash of it... a week after MS announced it wasn't production ready and discontinued it.

It's not discontinued. It's just not in the current build because they are workign on it and not ready for current releases of Server2016.

"Not in the current release" and "discontinued" are literally the same thing here. What else would discontinued mean?

To me, discontinued implies "not coming back or returning". This is not the case.

We also don't know that it is coming back. They say that, but they claim a lot of things are coming that never do. Not that this affects the fact that it is currently discontinued, but even the future of it is a big unknown.

Well, so far, the mirrored drives in my desktop are doing ok. I don't have anything important on them tho, steam games is about it.

Mirroring tends to be more reliable than most things.

Is that SS or SSD, though? I thought SSD was 2016 only.