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There is a lot of interest and some very big deployments of OpenStack out there. I would agree that we are just at the cusp of seeing whether it will go for the long haul, but there is a lot of money being changed hands right now in regards to OpenStack. OpenStack 'engineers' or people who...

Thanks for your answers that is great! 4. Remote replication of additional pods in 2 other locations: 1 in Asia and 1 somewhere in the midwest -> Replication is good, but replication is not backup. I am going to assume you are going to do snapshots too on the data, what type of retention...

A couple of questions for you: 1) Why Openstack instead of some of the other cloud platforms out there? 2) Are you going to be just using the storage stack or are you looking into using the compute and networking components? 3) 500TB usable after everything is said and done. I am going to...

http://www.networkhardware.com/ is where we buy our used/refurbed Cisco equipment. They have been excellent.

Take a look at Jetstor. http://www.acnc.com/ They are really easy to work with and have been around a long time. If you need a contact there I can give you a contact that will treat you well.

Why not look into Storage Spaces with Windows 8? Easy to manage, expand, and to have redundancy.

Here is my problem. I have a number of external SAS tape drives that I have for testing in our lab. I do not have enough SAS cards though, and all the cards I am seeing that have an 8088 external SAS port are all like $300-$400. I am looking for something on the cheaper side, this is only...

Here are the ones I would suggest looking at: Acronis (http://www.acronis.com/) ShadowProtect (http://www.shadowprotect.com/) NovaBACKUP (http://www.novastor.com/en/software/sql-exchange-network-backup) Disclaimer I work for this company. This would offer you a central management web interface...

Grab a couple Sonos devices and pipe music throughout the office?

I meant no disrespect at all! I work in the backup industry and these are the types of questions that we basically have to ask in order to determine what type of backup solution to provide. I don't know what kind of bad press you have seen about tape, but tape is very reliable. Cloud backup...

So I have a couple questions for you that I want you to think about. How much is your data worth to you that you want to backup? How much would it cost to recreate the data? Do you depend on the historical data in your day to day working? Now you say you keep up with your farm equipment, but...

Why not Amazon EC2 or Azure?

As an employee of a backup software company I can tell you most definitely tape is not dead. :) The LTO-6 drives I have are plenty fast and with a 2.5TB native capacity the tapes end up being cheaper than spinning disk right now for archival purposes. Not to mention they dont need power once...

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You said Data Archival. Go to tape and don't look back. LTO6 is 2.5TB native capacity.

Yes you can run the backup software on a VM. Truthfully I have not had any direct experience with passing through an HBA with a tape drive attached to it to backup to it, but as long as the VM guest can see and writer to it the software should be able to do it.

I am specifically looking for Windows 8 and Server 2012. We do a lot of testing in house and having good templates for my QA guys to use and deploy when doing testing saves so much time.

I had a good guide that I can't seem to find now on creating VM templates so that once deployed from the template it would be have a new computer name, new sid, vmtools installed, all the vm tweaks setup, etc. I know there was some sysprep stuff and other things in it. Anyone have any good...

Here is what I built this summer for our VM lab and has been running smooth as silk. 2 boxes with 128GB of ram in each. 2x ASUS RS700-E7/RS4 1U Server Barebone Dual LGA 2011 Intel C602-A PCH DDR3 1600/1333/1066/800 Used this memory: 32 x ($64.99) Kingston 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC...

Disclaimer: I work for NovaStor. When talking tape backup solutions there isn't a whole lot out there right now for single server easy to use/configure/manage. Your choices really are Backup Exec, Barracuda, and NovaStor in the SMB space when backing up to tape. Now if you want to move...

Are you stuck with Backup Exec or would you be willing to look at alternatives?

For 'PA' system I would check out Sonos.

have you tried teracopy? Edit: nevermind. But you should try it.

Yea I am not able to get AD authentication to work either. I havnt even messed with the SSL certs or anything. v5.0 AD auth worked perfectly. I have tried upgrading the current 5.0 to 5.1 vcenter and installing everything and even resorted to the vmca. It connects to the AD (had to do it via...

Before deciding what the right solution for your problem is. Can you define your problem? What do you want the software to accomplish? What are the main requirements for the project? What don't you like about your current implementation? Any near term future things that you will want to support?

For Hyper-V 2008 yes, but it doesnt look like it for Hyper-V 2012. At least in my quick testing on my machines.

So am I reading this right the only way to manage a 2012 Hyper-v machine is through Win8/Server 2012?

Are you running a licensed or free version of ESXi?

Thuleman has a great point. What exactly are you looking to backup and how are you ultimately wanting to do it?

Anyone order from thenerds.net and get a cancellation yet? I used their Amazon payment option, have a posted CC transaction(as in they actually took the money and not just an auth), have a shipping 'confirmation' that has 0 tracking information on it. I am not holding out much hope at all, but...

I have a contact there that can give you good pricing and such if you want. I think the unit we got was like just a little over $5k or something like that for a 16 bay iscsi, then we put our own drives in it.

I am of the exact same opinion, and I agree JetStor makes some good equipment at very reasonable prices.

Just fill in the form and it will email you a license key and download link for the software. http://www.novastor.com/en/download/express

Look at the following: NovaStor NovaBACKUP xSP or Remote Workforce (Disclaimer I work for NovaStor) Ahsay Asigra

You could build something like this: https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect/hardware

I work for a company that produces Online Backup service software, and I will be straight with you. The people that we have call and have problems with our software are the people that went really cheap on hardware, and didn't realize what they were getting into. A couple of questions I have...

What type of devices are you using for the thin clients?

Thanks that worked!

So I guess my original question stands. Is there a way to use a single SSD for boot partition, ZIL, and l2arc?

Well it would be nice to be able to have both, and then figure out by actually testing to see what differences I really see. :)