First Look at the Scale
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First Ubuntu 15.10 VM installed.
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DragonflyBSD up and running on the Scale. One of the good tests... a rather obscure OS. I hope to find some awesome uses for it.
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Good stuff! It looks easier than VMware to navigate and I like that the web client works in Firefox so it should work in Chrome.
What is your backup plan going to be for your VM's? I figure it may be a different post but just wondering what your thoughts are since Veeam and Unitrends (agentless) is currently not possible.
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@lhatsynot They have backup options in the gui, tho I don't know that they have a scheduler yet. Yeah, backup without an automatic run.... I really, really like what Scale is doing, but at least of last year that was the only major bit missing.
You can backup to any NFS target from within the management interface to get backup copies off the cluster.
That's in addition to the normal snapshot functions we'd all expect of course.
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@lhatsynot said:
What is your backup plan going to be for your VM's? I figure it may be a different post but just wondering what your thoughts are since Veeam and Unitrends (agentless) is currently not possible.
You can use tools like StorageCraft of course. But image based backups are just included.
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@travisdh1 said:
@lhatsynot They have backup options in the gui, tho I don't know that they have a scheduler yet. Yeah, backup without an automatic run.... I really, really like what Scale is doing, but at least of last year that was the only major bit missing.
You can backup to any NFS target from within the management interface to get backup copies off the cluster.
It can be done automatic. It's not that it is not automated, it is that the scheduler is not exposed and you have to put in a ticket for Scale to set up the schedule for you. So the miss is not in functionality but in interface.
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@scottalanmiller said:
It can be done automatic. It's not that it is not automated, it is that the scheduler is not exposed and you have to put in a ticket for Scale to set up the schedule for you. So the miss is not in functionality but in interface.
Completely forgot, the tech did mention that. Yeah, they sent one of the 'engineers' and not a sales guy to the NE Ohio Spicecorps meeting. One of the best vendor sponsored meetings ever.
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@travisdh1 would that be Brian?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@travisdh1 would that be Brian?
I think so. It's missing from my stack of business cards, so I'm not sure. Probably gave it away to someone that had an actual project.
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@travisdh1 Northeast Ohio would've probably been Shane Weinbrecht.
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how is the windows server performance on Scale HC using KVM? Considering it uses VirtIO drivers by default for both disk and network.
Is there a driver install package that runs on the guest OS? I asked these questions during the webinar and was honestly never given a straight answer beyond - it integrates and works...
For a linux guest OS, I know, typically the VirtIO disk and VirtIO network adaptor would provide best performance (in most cases). However, on windows its different. But I suppose, that with the disks being local to the nodes; the performance is essentially nearly same as a non guest OS?
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@ntoxicator said:
Is there a driver install package that runs on the guest OS? I asked these questions during the webinar and was honestly never given a straight answer beyond - it integrates and works...
Yes, there is. If you have an HC3 and watch, a driver ISO gets created and added to your media pool silently in the background and mounts to your Windows VM to install them there.
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Adding @scale as they have a handy alias.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@ntoxicator said:
Is there a driver install package that runs on the guest OS? I asked these questions during the webinar and was honestly never given a straight answer beyond - it integrates and works...
Yes, there is. If you have an HC3 and watch, a driver ISO gets created and added to your media pool silently in the background and mounts to your Windows VM to install them there.
And what do you do with the watch?
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@ntoxicator the VirtIO drivers are mounted as a virtual CD & you simply pick the versions appropriate for the VM during the OS install (windows). For Linux, BSD, et.al. the drivers are already in those kernels and have been since 2007 or so.
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We are very excited to see this up and running. Looking forward to seeing how it gets used!
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@scale said:
We are very excited to see this up and running. Looking forward to seeing how it gets used!
For Minecraft servers of the highest order...
What else could it possibly be used for....
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@DustinB3403 Yeah, I confess I have a minecraft server running as a VM on one of my clusters
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Can we petition NTG to run a modded Minecraft server on their Scale Cluster? For "testing" purposes?
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@coliver said:
Can we petition NTG to run a modded Minecraft server on their Scale Cluster? For "testing" purposes?
I bet we could stress test it for them!
