Or maybe I run everything on a VPS? On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 7:58 PM, TJ Trout <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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" <[email protected]> >>> <[email protected]> >>> *To: *[email protected] >>> *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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >
