Did you look at VMWare's partner program ?
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Skorup (Cyber Broadcasting) via Af" <af@afmug.com> To: af@afmug.com Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 12:53:04 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Plat hardware? Any simple solutions? I've been going down this road for months trying to convince the boss that we need to do something different. Most of the problem is, the WISP software packages don't fit our overall business. So I'm still shopping, and there's nothing that all of us in the management group agree on, but we're gonna do something.. soon.. because. On the hardware front, I was pricing out VMware licensing for the configuration I want, and there was just no way that was gonna happen. The hardware came out to only about 1/4 of the overall cost.. that tells you how much the VMware licensing would be. But there's plenty of open-source virtualization projects out there like Proxmox, *stack this, *cloud that, none of which do what I want. So I've settled on getting a demo setup of oVirt running on a couple CentOS boxes and see where it takes me. On 10/21/2014 10:02 PM, TJ Trout via Af wrote: > So I'm embarrassed to say that after over 5 years I still don't have a > automated billing system and with the recent data breaches the labor > to keep updating customers cards is finally pushing me to do > something, I've been leaning towards Plat for a long time because of > the cost and popularity and the fact that my mikrotik core router can > easily integrate.... The problem is I'm a server N00B and have no clue > where to start on that, I was thinking that someone might have a > simple but reliable/redundant solution. I was looking at a single > vsphere host running windows for plat and linux for radius & cpanel > for the web module but I need to hire a consultant to get that done > right, then the reliability concerns/backup etc come in and by the > time the consultant was done planning my system we went from 1 box to > 4, 1 main server with all of the above services + 1 dns, a second > "backup" box that would have all of the guests from box #1 backed up > for a almost instant fail over should box #1 die, then a 3rd box for > vCenter and lastly a NAS to backup everything to, at another site on > the network in case of fire/theft,etc. This sounds like a totally > awesome setup but will end up costing me 10k by the time I get some > decent hardware, software licenses, hypervisor consulting and Plat > setup consulting... I wish they had a simple hosted solution... Arg. > > Anyone have some other idea on how I can get up and running without > spending a fortune but still have some type of disaster recovery > should the box melt down? > > I really hate to spend the high monthly $$ on something like Visp, > swift fox, etc > > Any guidance is greatly appreciated > > TJ
