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 >> >> >> >> >
