VMs have to run on hosts... kind of :) Storage servers doing ISCSI exports, and obviously appliances.
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Sterling Jacobson <[email protected]> wrote: > I honestly don't care about the government reading my crap. > If they want that kind of boredom, more power to them. > > My biggest concern is a failure in the cloud, or cloud hosted VM's. > > I recently made the mistake of letting Windows Update install a Suse network > driver over my KVM based VM image. > > That killed one of my VM's and it took me a while to figure out how to > recover from that. > > But most VM host companies do image and delta backups that make it point and > click restore. > > I can span the images across the country and bring up anywhere they have > locations. > > And I can download VM images directly from the site and they pull up in my > Win 10 HyperV host with a simple conversion. > > Quite remarkable. > > I wonder that anyone uses bare metal anything now days. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul McCall > Sent: Monday, January 18, 2016 3:32 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Exchange Server replacement > > I know, I know.... Let me dream a little :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Josh Reynolds > Sent: Monday, January 18, 2016 5:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Exchange Server replacement > > There's nothing stopping them from recording it off the wire and decrypting > it there (if encrypted). > > It's already being done, honestly. > > I understand you think it's the principle of the thing, but we live in a day > and age where everything we do is tracked and recorded, and there's really no > true way to get away from it. Someone interested enough could probably real > them in almost real-time. > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Paul McCall <[email protected]> wrote: >> I just don’t want our core business email in the cloud. We do our >> WISP emails in the cloud but not the core. >> >> >> >> Maybe I am naïve, but would like to think there are certain things >> that maybe the government might not have access to. Nothing to hide, >> but it’s the principle of ot >> >> >> >> Paul >> >> >> >> From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson >> Sent: Monday, January 18, 2016 5:14 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Exchange Server replacement >> >> >> >> For your office? So no client email for ISP etc? >> >> >> >> I got sick of managing Exchange, so I just use cloud 365. Works fine >> for small or large nubmers, doubt it will bail anytime soon. >> >> Don’t need to worry about hardware/software/domain AD etc. etc. >> >> It’s not too hard to manage online. >> >> >> >> When I was hosting email I used Zimbra, but now days I don’t bother >> with client email. >> >> >> >> From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul McCall >> Sent: Monday, January 18, 2016 3:02 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [AFMUG] OT: Exchange Server replacement >> >> >> >> Our Microsoft Small Business server 2011 is getting “long in the >> tooth” and my Unix guys are expressing the desire to explore other options. >> >> >> >> I have grown accustom to MS servers, even though they can be a resource hog. >> I use Touchdown client with my Android phone and “if just works” >> >> >> >> I don’t want to do a cloud based replacement per se. Not comfortable >> with my entire business email system, etc. being out in the world. >> >> >> >> Soooo…. What have you guys moved to for an Exchange type alternative? >> >> >> >> Paul >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Paul McCall, Pres. >> >> PDMNet / Florida Broadband >> >> 658 Old Dixie Highway >> >> Vero Beach, FL 32962 >> >> 772-564-6800 office >> >> 772-473-0352 cell >> >> www.pdmnet.com >> >> [email protected] >> >>
