That will be amazing. Looking forward to that for sure.

@scottalanmiller said in Disk expansion - CentOS:

Can't wait to move to it in production.

I know. I didn't even bother installing it yet for testing. I'll wait for RC 2 for that. 🙂

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/28/optane_in_pcs_is_as_good_as_it_will_get_for_years_says_analyst/

As long as you don't delete all my datas because my online account has issues!

So much development on many fronts, great job guys.

And another +1 To backup storage. That's actually what ~70-80% of our customers do with their SANs when swtiching to StarWind HCA or even VSAN.
Another interesting approach which I see less often is to use 2 existing SAN boxes as a storage capacity addition to the new HCI, with some of that storage actually mirrored between the SANs through the HCI storage virtualization layer. This is where customers can actually keep both backup and testing workloads without breaking the SANs into islands of resources.

@scottalanmiller said in FreeNAS Gets Hit by the Jurassic Park Effect:

HCL

Yes, agreed!

That's what I get for posting before I'm totally awake. This is what I get when I run the command on my group:

BackupTarget> show member Name Status Version Disks Capacity FreeSpace Connections ---------- ------- ---------- ----- ---------- ---------- ----------- 16TB online V7.0.7 (R3 16 11.34TB 6.72TB 2 97085) syr-8TB online V7.1.2 (R4 16 5.66TB 3.69TB 3 02088) 4TB online V7.0.7 (R3 16 2.83TB 1.84TB 2 97085) BackupTarget>

I think the command is showing the free space on the volumes after creation, not before since I think I have mine fully provisioned.

Just type:
show
and it will scroll through all the things under the show command and you should be able to figure out the size of your member. This is just the first of like 4 pages:

BackupTarget> show ______________________________ Group Information ______________________________ Name: BackupTarget Group-Ipaddress: 192.168.100.21 DateAndTime: Thu Apr 20 03:32:04 2017 TimeZone: America/New_York TotalVolumes: 3 VolumesOnline: 3 VolumesInUse: 3 TotalSnapshots: 0 SnapshotsOnline: 0 SnapshotsInUse: 0 TotalMembers: 3 MembersOnline: 3 MembersInUse: 3 TotalCapacity: 19.83TB VolumeReserve: 7.58TB VolumeReportedSpace: 7.58TB SnapReservedSpace: 3GB SnapReservedSpaceInUse: 0MB ReplicationReservedSpace: 0MB FailbackReservedSpace: 0MB DelegatedSpace: 0MB DelegatedSpaceInUse: 0MB FreeSpace: 12.24TB TotalDisks: 48 OnlineDisks: 45 SpareDisks: 3 OfflineDisks: 0 FailedDisks: 0 Collections: 0 Snapcols: 0 CustomSnapcols: 0 ThinProvFreeSpace: 122.49TB TotalSpaceBorrowing: 0MB Connections: 7 _______________________________________________________________________________

@msff-amman-Itofficer said in FreeNAS 10 Has Been Recalled:

@scottalanmiller

True, adding the whole virtualization aspect and container support might caused this. I genuine when testing it out didnt like the new theme or steering me away from being storage server into something else.

I agree, I think that FreeNAS feels like it is drifting now. Is it storage, is it a hypervisor? Any BHyve for normal users, really? The new interface looked cool, but failed to even run when I tested it. They are a tiny company with few resource trying to do way too much. The old FreeNAS product was bad enough, I know loads of places loses data or access to data either because FreeNAS itself was glitchy or because it failed the "front loaded engineering" design principle and left customers in a tight position leading to failure.

I saw something about this the other day... It is interesting to say the least.

@jt1001001 said in New StarWind Virtual SAN Free - All restrictions removed!:

In case you didn't see, the webinar is now up on their site:
https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-virtual-san-free-all-restrictions-removed

THanks

OK, so a gateway (with acceleration, RDMA and integration to vCenter & SCVMM) for Ceph & GlusterFS is on the way.

StarWind Virtual SAN

@StrongBad said in The Agony and Ecstasy of RAID:

Is this a #tbt ?

Sure feels that way.

@JaredBusch said in Where Are You Running Nextcloud:

@BRRABill said in Where Are You Running Nextcloud:

BTW, offtopic, but I installed WordPress in a Vultr CentOS instance today.

Holy cow ... SO FAST!!!

Never going back to hosted.....

Wait, did you use their CentOS image? That thing sucks. SELinux is disabled by default.

Or did you install the CentOS 7 ISO from their ISO library?

Come on. I an newbie level +1 ... ISO, baby!

@Romo said in Scale HC3 SCRIBE Storage Video:

Really interesting video and there is an api so fully automated deployments with salt or ansible could be possible.

The API for the HC3 is not released yet. So not fully automatable as a cloud platform... yet.

@WLS-ITGuy No issues. Wasn't required to fsck after a reboot.

@Reid-Cooper said in HPE Acquires Nimble:

This will really lower competition in the SAN space. Only a few viable vendors left. Nimble was one of the few major players.

I disagree. What about Tintri, Kaminario, or Tegile? There are still plenty of vendors out there in Nimble's competitive tier. I mean they don't compare to HDS or IBM but again, Nimble is a completely different use case.

Honestly I think it would have made more sense for HPE to acquire Tintri for their portfolio at a reasonable price. Nimble is awesome for its own use case, but the acquisition seemed to be just one of appeasement to shareholders.

Unless they are shifting gears and trying to get more competitive in small-medium markets as an all around vendor (aside from adding Nimble, thinking of them purchasing Aruba a couple years ago as well).