@dashrender said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:

@reid-cooper said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:

@dave247 said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:

@reid-cooper said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:

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.

Is a snap going to be better than a direct grab in this case? File grab, compress, send... might be the simplest thing.

@black3dynamite said in NBA GO on Fedora 26 and Ubuntu 17.10:

@dustinb3403 said in NBA GO on Fedora 26 and Ubuntu 17.10:

So this only shows the stats of the players and games, right?

Is that really enjoyable? I'm not a big sports fan so meh

Information like this is very popular for those into fantasy sports.

Fantasy sports... all the boring of real sports with the benefits of it being real.

KVM has no need for hardware RAID, so save yourself the $500 and go straight to that.

@dave247 said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:

@reid-cooper said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:

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.

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.

@jaredbusch said in Bonus: when SAM was against KVM:

@reid-cooper said in Bonus: when SAM was against KVM:

@dbeato said in Bonus: when SAM was against KVM:

Things change very often, probably at the time it was not something a lot experienced and worked with.

Five years is certainly a long time in the lives of KVM or Xen.

Or Hyper-V

Maybe even longer there.

@dave247 said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:

It doesn't seem that my motherboard will work with ESXi ...

Your motherboard should work fine. ESXi just needs hardware RAID, so as the motherboard lacks that, you need to bring it. It's not a matter of not working, just a matter of the mobo not having all of the necessary hardware on board. No different than if a GPU was required and you had to add that on.

@dave247 said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:

@reid-cooper said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:

@dave247 said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:

@reid-cooper said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:

Is there a reason that you want hardware RAID for home use?

Because I want whatever I install for an OS or Hypervisor to only see the volume presented by the RAID controller rather than multiple drives. I don't really want to use the fakeRAID on my motherboard like I currently am.

And software RAID is not available with your chosen hypervisor?

It doesn't seem that my motherboard will work with ESXi but I haven't finished looking into it. Regardless, I'd rather use a hardware RAID card this time.

ESXi requires hardware RAID, it is as simple as that. Hyper-V is acceptable to use software RAID in a lab or home use. KVM or Xen have enterprise software RAID, so you have no need for a RAID card at all for them, business or home use.

FakeRAID is never the right answer and is part of the software RAID family, not hardware RAID family, so as ESXi must have hardware RAID, FakeRAID can't work there.

@dave247 said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:

@reid-cooper said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:

Is there a reason that you want hardware RAID for home use?

Because I want whatever I install for an OS or Hypervisor to only see the volume presented by the RAID controller rather than multiple drives. I don't really want to use the fakeRAID on my motherboard like I currently am.

And software RAID is not available with your chosen hypervisor?

@jmoore said in YouTube TV:

i got Netflix, Amazon, and Crunchyroll. Ill never be done

Hulu is okay, too. But not on par.

Is there a reason that you want hardware RAID for home use?

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Macro packages? Glad I'm not the only one who thought that situation was screwy.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2084654-cloud-based-office-no-company-servers-now-need-a-share-drive-for-a-new-app

I'm not even sure what that means. And how the hell does a macro package have requirements like that?

@dbeato said in Getting Your SO Into Video Gaming:

Very rarely we play video games but we play wii and many mystery type of apps on Android and Iphone. Math games and so forth.

Together? Or just at the same time?

Nearly everyone has Prime these days, and lots of people in big cities can get devices delivered in a few hours. Big selling point should you need a replacement.

@scottalanmiller said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:

@storageninja said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:

@scottalanmiller said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:

Hey look, as soon as we say AD is easy, someone posts on SW that they screwed up their little AD install, again. We get these like once a week, maybe every two weeks. For SMBs, even what should be a trivially easy single server AD install is regularly a major problem. Just picking a domain name is beyond the common skill level. People don't get tripped up by advanced AD techniques, they are regularly stumped by just the most basic install process.

If you can't figure out that you should use a domain you own, you shouldn't be setting up a cloud SSO deployment either...

Agreed. Wouldn't suggest that either.

KISS. If you don't need complexity, don't introduce it.

@dbeato said in Bonus: when SAM was against KVM:

Things change very often, probably at the time it was not something a lot experienced and worked with.

Five years is certainly a long time in the lives of KVM or Xen.

@scottalanmiller said in Getting Your SO Into Video Gaming:

We also like puzzle games, like Highrise Heroes.

That's a more interesting approach.

@bigbear said in Turn your Twilio account into a full PBX:

@reid-cooper said in Turn your Twilio account into a full PBX:

interesting. Where does your app run? One per customer, or shared?

It's within your Twilio account as twiml bins and an app engine instance on google in its current iteration.

that's pretty neat.

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

Network drive loaded onto a Cisco router. Um... https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2084210-need-help-with-network-storage-encryption

So he encrypted a drive and is surprised that it is encrypted?