Could this be done with reliability and fault tolerance using vsphere with only 1 machine? and a NAS for backups? Worst case if a failure occurs I can scrouge up some old desktop or something and install vsphere? Do i really need a main and backup server, vcenter server, etc?
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 5:57 PM, George Skorup (Cyber Broadcasting) via Af < af@afmug.com> wrote: > I wanted VSA, which was reasonable for a small cluster. Then they > replaced it with vSAN and the licensing cost went to 5x more per node. > There's no way I'm giving VMware any money at all after this, I will find > another way. > > > On 10/22/2014 7:03 AM, Mike Hammett via Af wrote: > > Did you look at VMWare's partner program? > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > > ------------------------------ > *From: *"George Skorup (Cyber Broadcasting) via Af" <af@afmug.com> > <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 > > > >
