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 <[email protected]
<mailto:[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]
<mailto:[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] <mailto:[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?
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*To: *[email protected] <mailto:[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
