@Mike-Davis said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

Hyper-V. It's what I have been rolling for production so it only makes sense to have it in my lab so I can test stuff.

Restoronix are big fans of Hyper-V

Hey everyone! Restoronix team here. We just announced our enterprise backup and disaster recovery products this past week at VeeamOn 2017 and are super excited to be here in the MangoLassi community. Our focus is on backup appliances, in the style that you all probably already know and love, but built around Veeam's industry leading software and some additional awesome sauce components added on as well.

We are really looking forward to getting involved here in the community, answering questions, getting feedback and getting to know everyone.

@NerdyDad said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

Good to have ya. A lot of Veeam advocates on here, me included. Would love to see what else y'all can being to the table in addition to Veeam.

Hopefully we will be seeing you later this week at the Mango Meetup in Dallas. We should have two or three of our team there. We aren't speaking or anything, but want to get out and make some introductions to the locals!

We got to be sponsors of VeeamOn 2017, so definitely big fans here. Some of the extra stuff that you can get all built in on Restoronix appliances includes the Starwind VTL (Virtual Tape Library) that was just announced on the main stage at VeeamOn this week. The VTL product allows you to emulate a robotic tape library on Amazon S3 and/or Amazon Glacier so that you can have some cool additional flexibility on top of normal backup archiving with Veeam.

We are also working with Aclouda to get some really neat hardware to cloud (h2c) technology available to open up a new world of cloud storage flexibility for your backups and archives. That's not released yet, though. But is in testing. Our VTL add on options are available to ship on our appliances today.

@Tim_G said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

I think Scott only hires people with beards.

Well duh, obviously.

@Mike-Davis said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

Hyper-V. It's what I have been rolling for production so it only makes sense to have it in my lab so I can test stuff.

Restoronix are big fans of Hyper-V

@Tim_G said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

I think Scott only hires people with beards.

Well duh, obviously.

@NerdyDad said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

Versus fake people?

Always a risk.

@wirestyle22 said in Judge My House Layout:

@scottalanmiller said in Judge My House Layout:

@IRJ said in Judge My House Layout:

Is it even cost effective to have a lab anymore with $2.50 instances from Vultr? I could understand having a fairly beefy server with xen or esxi for spinning up VMs on the fly at your house.

It depends, if you want to test hardware, hypervisors and some stuff like that, then yes. If you only want to test operating systems, not so much.

My train of thought as well. Only reason I have it is to learn and virtualization is one of the many things I don't know enough about yet.

Don't forget to implement a serious backup system in your lab as well, you want to learn how disaster recovery will work in your various environments.

Team is chilling, drinking and eating cake! That's how we roll on a Saturday night in the DFW.

Pimms and Gingers now.

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Drinking:

@scottalanmiller Drink one for me!

Done!

@JaredBusch said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

@restoronix said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

@NerdyDad said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

Good to have ya. A lot of Veeam advocates on here, me included. Would love to see what else y'all can being to the table in addition to Veeam.

Hopefully we will be seeing you later this week at the Mango Meetup in Dallas. We should have two or three of our team there. We aren't speaking or anything, but want to get out and make some introductions to the locals!

Well @scottalanmiller is the CEO. So we know at least one already.

Yup, it was an exciting "going public" announcement this week.

We got to be sponsors of VeeamOn 2017, so definitely big fans here. Some of the extra stuff that you can get all built in on Restoronix appliances includes the Starwind VTL (Virtual Tape Library) that was just announced on the main stage at VeeamOn this week. The VTL product allows you to emulate a robotic tape library on Amazon S3 and/or Amazon Glacier so that you can have some cool additional flexibility on top of normal backup archiving with Veeam.

We are also working with Aclouda to get some really neat hardware to cloud (h2c) technology available to open up a new world of cloud storage flexibility for your backups and archives. That's not released yet, though. But is in testing. Our VTL add on options are available to ship on our appliances today.

@NerdyDad said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

Good to have ya. A lot of Veeam advocates on here, me included. Would love to see what else y'all can being to the table in addition to Veeam.

Hopefully we will be seeing you later this week at the Mango Meetup in Dallas. We should have two or three of our team there. We aren't speaking or anything, but want to get out and make some introductions to the locals!