What platform for HA? isn't VMware like 15k for HA? On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:39 PM, George Skorup (Cyber Broadcasting) via Af <af@afmug.com> wrote:
> You can certainly run things on a single machine. I would at least have > some level of RAID. Then do backups regularly, or automated. > > But I need the VMs to be up, so multiple machines and HA, and decently > fault tolerant storage. So instead of running and maintaining an expensive > SAN, it would be much easier/cheaper to use distributed storage on the > machine's local drives. > > > On 10/22/2014 9:59 PM, TJ Trout via Af wrote: > > Or maybe I run everything on a VPS? > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 7:58 PM, TJ Trout <t...@voltbb.com> wrote: > >> Fail tolerance in terms or being able to recover from a disaster and not >> loose everything >> >> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 7:57 PM, TJ Trout via Af <af@afmug.com> wrote: >> >>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> > >
