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@Tim_G it is a standard file server vs a nas appliance thing

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

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

ok, TBH if you get self-supported cmd-line only stuff, why can't you do this with glusterfs+targetcli on centos with xfs?!
IMHO this is just a windows shop vs linux shop stuff! Not I'm saying this is a bad thing! no it is great, just wondering about comparisons... and this seems a lot of centos+gluster+LVM(+libvirt if you hyperconverge)

Starwind is coming on Linux, too. Some releases already out. Also, Gluster isn't really built for that, Starwind is a lot more performant.

also I've discovered starwind can do async, which is important if your dr stuff is not on par with your production stuff perf-wise.

@scottalanmiller things like bootstrap are not only about size

@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu switching back to GNOME:

@matteo-nunziati said in Ubuntu switching back to GNOME:

to me that was great, a nice way to make a smartphone something more than a facebook client.
from a high level perspective only the final layer of the graphic stack should be dynamically adjusted after evevents.

• hey a bigger monitor has been attached
• notify with evevent
• let the xserver (or anything similar) adjust devices
• let qt/gtk redraw the interface bigger

to me convergence is probably more of a marketing / technology issue rathar then a GUI issue. there should be the tools for GUIS, I don't know if there are the apps the computational power and or the sotrage solutions for this.

it's not about size, it's about presenting a different interface to the end user.

yes. but the gui is just the last layer of the graphical stack. hell you can even code in html nowdays. even my small apps can change aspect with monitor change... and I'm just dumb at this. I've done totally dynamic apps in qt in the past, with properly different presentation layers in them. it was not for hotplug but for same codebase on different devices. still what a single dev can do in a small office is just a neglectable part of what a software house can do.

to me that was great, a nice way to make a smartphone something more than a facebook client.
from a high level perspective only the final layer of the graphic stack should be dynamically adjusted after evevents.

• hey a bigger monitor has been attached
• notify with evevent
• let the xserver (or anything similar) adjust devices
• let qt/gtk redraw the interface bigger

to me convergence is probably more of a marketing / technology issue rathar then a GUI issue. there should be the tools for GUIS, I don't know if there are the apps the computational power and or the sotrage solutions for this.

I'm not a forensic expert in digital forensics, anyway all starts with a proper chain of custody and an unaltered probing env, which usually means you have to perform low level dumps of stuff you intend to manage, in order to avoid to leave your traces over the previous traces (in classic HDD you want to ddrescue everything... if you can go offline).

so NO, you cannot use any account feature to demonstrate anything, unless you want your activity to be discarded (at best)

BTW from this page:

Please note: if you are planning to use Windows Server Core or Microsoft Hyper-V Server as a base OS you will not be able to install StarWind Management Console locally.

as the free edition will let the console die, you can build your SDS/hyperconverged stuff entirely for free even on windows nodays (*)! yuppy !
while free != open, this is still a good option!

(*) starwind runs also as a VSA so you can use whatever hypervisor you want...

@DustinB3403 said in New StarWind Virtual SAN Free - All restrictions removed!:

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

ok, TBH if you get self-supported cmd-line only stuff, why can't you do this with glusterfs+targetcli on centos with xfs?!
IMHO this is just a windows shop vs linux shop stuff! Not I'm saying this is a bad thing! no it is great, just wondering about comparisons... and this seems a lot of centos+gluster+LVM(+libvirt if you hyperconverge)

The difference is you don't have to "build" it yourself. It comes as a working solution, and for a home lab it (or even production) its perfectly suited.

I personally would want a supported solution for production in any case, but that's just me.

well support goes via redhat instead of centos... already built is a really added value if you are short of time! but NTFS vs XFS is the price imho.

ok, TBH if you get self-supported cmd-line only stuff, why can't you do this with glusterfs+targetcli on centos with xfs?!
IMHO this is just a windows shop vs linux shop stuff! Not I'm saying this is a bad thing! no it is great, just wondering about comparisons... and this seems a lot of centos+gluster+LVM(+libvirt if you hyperconverge)

from this whitepaper:

The only component which will not be always available in StarWind Virtual SAN Free is StarWind
Management Console. Compared to StarWind Virtual SAN Commercial version, Free version
provides access to StarWind Management Console for a period of 30 days after installation. After
this period, StarWind Free will be manageable using command line only.
StarWind Virtual SAN Free is shipped with a set of ready-to-use PowerShell scripts that would
help users to quickly deploy the Virtual SAN infrastructure and configure most of its features.
Moreover, any StarWind Free user is allowed to modify existing scripts, create new ones, and
share them with others. Finally, the free version doesn’t have any synthetic performance
limitations, so the resulting performance of this solution stands in line with Enterprise-class
storage arrays.

nice! still lack the HW for this, but definitively nice!

I really liked Unity instead... but tbh I was not really sure about the wayland/mir stuff. For sure this is the n-th project shut down by Canonical... are they still healthy?!

and after a lot of episodes, I've fixed the thing.

please let me state this again: I HAVE.

I.

Not the HPE support, not the reseller tech support.

I HAVE.

I = An almost idiot ex-embedded sw developer illogically cast into the sysadmin role of a non-sense company!

TL; DR:
there was a mismatch between OS version, bios version, controllers firmware version, controller drivers version. Selecting the right combination has (apprarently) fixed the issue!

how storage controllers affect reboot signals is still a mistery... but actually all was related to the smart paging I mentioned before. Moving it from the default location caused all the issues.
I have discovered the "bug" recreating a new vm with copy-pasted hdd but with hypervisor defaults... 2 twins VM one running one not... only difference: location of the smart paging file. XD

@black3dynamite said in how do you reboot your linux VMs in hyper-v?:

@matteo-nunziati

https://redmondmag.com/articles/2015/04/02/smart-paging-in-hyperv.aspx

so basically this is hypervisor provided swap, before vm inner swap!

for direct experience (5 year development of small/medium apps in python) I can say that the qt approach is far superior.
I've used briefly gtk2, wxwidgets and I've settled with qt.

The signal/slot stuff per se is a winner!

OK,

new poll!

how many of you do change the default VM paging location?

BTW, what the hell is VM paging and how can be this of any use for linux VM?

OK, just for the sake of statistics,

how many of you run hyper-v server 2016, I mean the Core version, without GUI.
how many run on HPE HW?

thank you!

@scottalanmiller said in how do you reboot your linux VMs in hyper-v?:

@matteo-nunziati said in how do you reboot your linux VMs in hyper-v?:

(yeah I know, we can have remote management, but company is not ready for this, they want sys admin cell phone and they what to touch sys admin like a sky-alighting divinity)

You can do that with a remote company too. But calling someone's cell phone isn't professional and introduces a single point of failure.

not my decision. I was going to settle with dell stuff with another reseller, offering help desk with SLA + 24/7 dell onsite. but they (company) wanted the sysadmin to be physical and periodically "visible"

BOTTOMLINE: NEVER NEVER NEVER BUY HPE STUFF EVERMORE!!!

ALSO CHECK FOR LOCAL XEN SHOP: THERE MUST BE ONE!

(yeah I know, we can have remote management, but company is not ready for this, they want sys admin cell phone and they what to touch sys admin like a sky-alighting divinity)