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@jaredbusch said in Fitness and Weightloss:

@francesco-provino I'm fighting age. I'm 44 now, I cannot lose weight as easily as I once did. and I do not wish to spend THAT much time trying. I know I could if I chose to sacrifice everything to that goal.

I eat healthier now in the last ten years, than I ever have in my life.

I don't think you have to put it into the "try" perspective… every human being can loose an indefinite amount of weight eating less calories than needed, don't forget you're sort of an engine. From my point of view, it's just something you "do" ;).

@jaredbusch said in Fitness and Weightloss:

@francesco-provino said in Fitness and Weightloss:

Yesterday morning, I've gone under 70Kg for the first time in 12 years .

and I just want to get back to the 90-95 kg range.... /cry

I'm 1.80 and I was ~80Kg… ok, not a big jump. I just do simple thing, nothing fancy:

• bought some tools (very cheap bench, a pull-up bar, a couple of dumbells and bench press bar that share weight with the dumbells), and start to practise a light and very standard BB routine plus some callisthenic; you can find it on many youtube channel, some are very good and sometimes too much technical;
• big breakfast and small dinners. Very little sugar, low-fat meat, less carbs. Never count calories, just use this as guidelines;
• running every other days.

I know it sounds unimpressive, but the hard part is just stick to this routine, no matter how.

Yesterday morning, I've gone under 70Kg for the first time in 12 years .

@fateknollogee said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@francesco-provino said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

Why everybody seems to need a GUI for KVM? Virsh can do absolutely anything, in a much more concise, fast and elegant way. It's also very bandwidth friendly.

Because some of us "just" want it. Why it this so hard for some of you to understand?

Maybe for virtualized Windows guest that needs console acces? Does cockpit provides that feature?

Yes it does.

@fateknollogee said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@francesco-provino said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

Why everybody seems to need a GUI for KVM? Virsh can do absolutely anything, in a much more concise, fast and elegant way. It's also very bandwidth friendly.

Because some of us "just" want it. Why it this so hard for some of you to understand?

Maybe for virtualized Windows guest that needs console acces? Does cockpit provides that feature?

Yes it does.

I was not aware of the console redirection. Perhaps, it seems more like a link generator for the usual spice/vnc client. I can understand it for windows troubleshooting… no use at all for linux guests.

Why everybody seems to need a GUI for KVM? Virsh can do absolutely anything, in a much more concise, fast and elegant way. It's also very bandwidth friendly.

Maybe for virtualized Windows guest that needs console acces? Does cockpit provides that feature?

@scottalanmiller said in What your favorite Desktop Environment?:

@francesco-provino said in What your favorite Desktop Environment?:

@scottalanmiller really? Never happen to me. I'm on iPad pro 10.5 && iPhone 6s.

iPhone 7+, happens almost every day.

With a specifical app? Really, it never ever happened to me in years. Maybe the lower res of the 6s?

@scottalanmiller really? Never happen to me. I'm on iPad pro 10.5 && iPhone 6s.

iOS. It really makes more sense thatn anything else, with smart keyboard and shortcuts. I've never seen it crash or slowdown, ever. It is very minimalistic.

Regarding Linux, I really like both i3 and (I know it's strange) KDE 5 with tiling plugins.

Have you tried virt-install and its switches?

One of the company I work with going to move SAP B1 HANA in production till the end of the year. It use a SuSe vm with 64Gb of ram, but I think it can scale to a lot more.

Just an overlook: https://aws.amazon.com/it/blogs/aws/glacier-vault-lock/ .

It should be cheaper than tapes or HDD for that range of data.

A Glacier vault policy is all you need to be absolutely safe that nothing can alter your data after the upload.

Glacier is also more durable, usually less costly and… as a service. I'm a big fan of it for archival purpose.

I'm aware of salt and I use it, but "sodium"…?

I've also "upgrade" to an iPad pro 10.5… it's almost weightless. I can do 95% of what I need without relying on other machines.

I also have a spare MBP13 and an HP z240 for any eventuality, like DD-ing a thumb drive or unusual stuff. The biggest part of my work is being connected to a remote ssh or rdp session, and the iPad has great clients for both protocols. The other thing I need for work like mail and browsing/web interfaces usually work, but of course I can log into some windows machine for peculiar interfaces that needs flash &co.

@scottalanmiller said in Linux OS advice for building a SAM-SD:

@magicmarker said in Linux OS advice for building a SAM-SD:

I've still been researching this topic. After digging deeper, I was curious as to why nobody recommended Proxmox...

We get asked this all the time.

1. It's just a GUI on top of KVM and Open-VZ (and now LXC). It's weird and complex and while a GUI is nice, we have GUIs already that work great and don't require completely third party packages.
2. The ProxMox company are scammers and rotten people. You don't want to deal with them. This isn't a nice project.
3. @StorageNinja can tell you, they actually run a full on spam marketing organization. They are deleted constantly with fake accounts on SW. We've been dealing with them spamming constantly for about five years.
4. It's attempting to solve a problem we don't have.

Your points are all true. The major selling point is that oVirt is too much a hassle to configure and manage, and the last time I tried it I wasn't able to use it in any productive way. Something like XO for KVM could be a deal breaker for the GUI aficionados. As of today I can do anything without a GUI on plain KVM (virsh console is my friend), so I don't really care/need it, but a lot of people want it of course.

@travisdh1 said in Linux OS advice for building a SAM-SD:

@magicmarker said in Linux OS advice for building a SAM-SD:

I've still been researching this topic. After digging deeper, I was curious as to why nobody recommended Proxmox as the nice GUI wrapper to the Linux KVM hypervisor. For the Linux newbies, and the Windows admins out there getting into Linux, this seems to be a great way to use the KVM hypervisor. Why can't Proxmox be an option for the SAM-SD Hypervisor that runs the Linux VM file server.

#1 It's only a wrapper. You're giving up a lot of control for the convenience.
#2 The Proxmox devs and company obviously don't know a thing about being a sysadmin on UNIX type operating systems. Seriously, removing the mdadm module is the silliest thing I've ever heard anyone doing. Thankfully they can't remove md, as it's a piece of the kernel. Do you really want to trust your environment to a company like that?

They remove WHAT?? Are you joking? I wasn't aware of that. My last experience with Proxomox was 5-6 years ago.

@jaredbusch said in Looking for virtualization advice:

@francesco-provino said in Looking for virtualization advice:

• KVM should be your hypervisor of choice. It has NO limits whatsover on anything. XS is a great choice but with much less features.
  VMware essential just if you use solutions that are certified only with that platform.

KVM or Hyper-V are the only things to use IMO.

• Go with a just ONE Dell R740 with two 16-cores cpu, 576Gb of ram and 9x2Tb SAS ssd in raid 5. Prosupport 4h is fundamental in this configuration. You can have a machine like that for 20k$ or less (Dell just quote a pair of that for me)

This is just stupid expensive. Almost as bad as @scottalanmiller's recommendation for a Scale cluster. In fact I would by a $30k Scale cluster over something like this.

The only information we have form the OP is 2 file servers with a bunch of data. File Servers. This does not mean SSD, nor 576GB of RAM. The OP only needs 8 7.2K NL SAS drives in a RAID 10 to achieve 16TB of space. With a H7XX controller with 1GB or 2GB of cache, he will almost never see a performance constraint caused by the RAID array. Also, they OP is obviously a Windows shop based on the "add some Linux Servers" phrase. That means anything more than dual 8 core procs will immediately also call for an increase in Windows Server licensing. You suggestion means doubling their Windows server licensing.

• Buy a second, basic server and fill it with large spindles (raid10). Install Linux on it and made it a perfect backup target.

This is way to generic. A large part of this will depend on the hypervisor and also on retention needs.

• Use an agent-based backup software and upload anythig to s3.

Likely the backup software can connect to this.

I don't thing you need any sort of HA technology. You'll thank me later for the removed complexity.

But for your proposed cost he is better off with a Scale cluster. The only reason I do not recommend it is because the hardware costs should not be anywhere close to a $30k Scale cluster.

You are right, I took this configuration example because the vendor just quote it. Using the same single-server pattern, you can easily build a config that fit his needs (now I read them well) with 5-6k. The generic storage server as a backup target is just an advice against pre-made NAS.

@garyp said in Looking for virtualization advice:

We are looking to virtualize the servers in the data center in our office. Since most of our applications run in two co-lo data centers, managed by a service provider, the data center in our office could almost be considered a remote office.
Currently we have mostly physical Windows servers (yes, I know it is 2017) in this data center consisting of:
Two file servers for a total of 7 TB
Security system server
HVAC system server
Warehouse conveyor control server
We need to add about 6 Linux servers for SIP and a telecom specific application.

Ideally, we can move VMs to another host if one fails, but it doesn’t have to be instantaneous.
Current storage need is ~8 TB with room to grow to ~15 TB in the next 3-4 years. DAS, NAS, etc., whatever might work best for this situation.
Dell suggested a 3-2-1 architecture for over $100,000, which does not seem at all practical.
Another vendor suggested Dell’s VTRX with 3 M630 blades plus the storage.
We have started looking at HCI solutions, including Scale. StarWind and HPE SimpliVity as we do not the expertise in managing a hypervisor nor the time to manage it. Too many other projects and distractions.

We will need some sort of DR solution. We will want an on-site backup and a copy going off-site to Azure, AWS or similar.
Suggestions?

I've seen several business with similar requirement.

My suggestion for your scenario:

• KVM should be your hypervisor of choice. It has NO limits whatsover on anything. XS is a great choice but with much less features.
  VMware essential just if you use solutions that are certified only with that platform.
• Go with a just ONE Dell R740 with two 16-cores cpu, 576Gb of ram and 9x2Tb SAS ssd in raid 5. Prosupport 4h is fundamental in this configuration. You can have a machine like that for 20k$ or less (Dell just quote a pair of that for me)
• Buy a second, basic server and fill it with large spindles (raid10). Install Linux on it and made it a perfect backup target.
• Use an agent-based backup software and upload anythig to s3.

I don't thing you need any sort of HA technology. You'll thank me later for the removed complexity.

Is there a way to enable DPI in the controller without USG?