What Are You Doing Right Now

hobbit666

Got a XCP-ng server running (on a ProDesk 400). XenOrch is connected to it.

Now to think of things to install and test on it

hobbit666

Just had my WebEx with Scale. Really like the solution just need to convince Management also confirm suitability

EddieJennings

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just had my WebEx with Scale. Really like the solution just need to convince Management also confirm suitability

Does Scale use its own hypervisor, or is it just providing hardware onto which you bring your own hypervisor?

coliver

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just had my WebEx with Scale. Really like the solution just need to convince Management also confirm suitability

Does Scale use its own hypervisor, or is it just providing hardware onto which you bring your own hypervisor?

It uses KVM from my understanding.

JaredBusch

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just had my WebEx with Scale. Really like the solution just need to convince Management also confirm suitability

Does Scale use its own hypervisor, or is it just providing hardware onto which you bring your own hypervisor?

It uses KVM from my understanding.

It is all wrapped in their own OS.

JaredBusch

@scottalanmiller Look at the releases. Just yup.

7.5 was November 2015

Nothing since then but minor bug fixes and an occasional small feature.

Of those incremental releases:
7.5.00104 was released in February of 2018
7.5.00101 was released in March of 2017
with nothing in between.

Kelly

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just had my WebEx with Scale. Really like the solution just need to convince Management also confirm suitability

Does Scale use its own hypervisor, or is it just providing hardware onto which you bring your own hypervisor?

It uses KVM from my understanding.

It is all wrapped in their own OS.

Yeah, you do not have any access directly to the OS or the hypervisor. It is a blackbox solution in that sense. Not necessarily a bad thing, but it does limit what you can do.

@hobbit666 The biggest thing about understanding its underlying hypervisor is how you will have to handle migrating. If you have critical workloads that you need moved over it is worth it to pay for their migration service. At my previous job we fought with it to move VMs over from XS. In the end we just rebuilt the servers.

hobbit666

@kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 The biggest thing about understanding its underlying hypervisor is how you will have to handle migrating. If you have critical workloads that you need moved over it is worth it to pay for their migration service. At my previous job we fought with it to move VMs over from XS. In the end we just rebuilt the servers.

They touched on this and gave a few options, yeah normal workloads might be better to just rebuild.
Critical stuff Export and Import Or use some software to live mirage to the HC3 cluster

EddieJennings

Doing some research to see if it would make sense to have the SQL server for SCCM on a separate VM than the SCCM application.

black3dynamite

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Doing some research to see if it would make sense to have the SQL server for SCCM on a separate VM than the SCCM application.

You would have to use one of your Windows license if you planning having a separate VM.

EddieJennings

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Doing some research to see if it would make sense to have the SQL server for SCCM on a separate VM than the SCCM application.

You would have to use one of your Windows license if you planning having a separate VM.

I'm in an environment where we have data center licenses, so extra VMs aren't a problem

gjacobse

Been going since I got onsite at a client here in NC - wow.. neat to be here and getting some long over due hands on. Got a desktop setup for myself - could set this phone up as an NTG phone also.. Hmm Might just have to do that... LOL

Oh wait,.. have to wait for @scottalanmiller as I can't access the NTG PBX currently. Can't wait for Nap o'clock-thirty to take a nap... Been here since 7am