@jt1001001 said in New StarWind Virtual SAN Free - All restrictions removed!:

In case you didn't see, the webinar is now up on their site:
https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-virtual-san-free-all-restrictions-removed

THanks

OK, so a gateway (with acceleration, RDMA and integration to vCenter & SCVMM) for Ceph & GlusterFS is on the way.

StarWind Virtual SAN

@StrongBad said in The Agony and Ecstasy of RAID:

Is this a #tbt ?

Sure feels that way.

@JaredBusch said in Where Are You Running Nextcloud:

@BRRABill said in Where Are You Running Nextcloud:

BTW, offtopic, but I installed WordPress in a Vultr CentOS instance today.

Holy cow ... SO FAST!!!

Never going back to hosted.....

Wait, did you use their CentOS image? That thing sucks. SELinux is disabled by default.

Or did you install the CentOS 7 ISO from their ISO library?

Come on. I an newbie level +1 ... ISO, baby!

@Romo said in Scale HC3 SCRIBE Storage Video:

Really interesting video and there is an api so fully automated deployments with salt or ansible could be possible.

The API for the HC3 is not released yet. So not fully automatable as a cloud platform... yet.

@WLS-ITGuy No issues. Wasn't required to fsck after a reboot.

@Reid-Cooper said in HPE Acquires Nimble:

This will really lower competition in the SAN space. Only a few viable vendors left. Nimble was one of the few major players.

I disagree. What about Tintri, Kaminario, or Tegile? There are still plenty of vendors out there in Nimble's competitive tier. I mean they don't compare to HDS or IBM but again, Nimble is a completely different use case.

Honestly I think it would have made more sense for HPE to acquire Tintri for their portfolio at a reasonable price. Nimble is awesome for its own use case, but the acquisition seemed to be just one of appeasement to shareholders.

Unless they are shifting gears and trying to get more competitive in small-medium markets as an all around vendor (aside from adding Nimble, thinking of them purchasing Aruba a couple years ago as well).

@scottalanmiller said in Should We Ever Talk About JBODs:

Argh

ROFL.

@zowee said in Nextcloud AMA!!:

Going away from the open core was the right step. Still, Nextcloud (.com) is owned by the Nextcloud GmbH, will there ever be non-profit organization or a foundation that holds all the trademarks and domains.

Good question and the answer is 'yes'. Frankly we wanted to do this much earlier but it is a fair amount of work and we are still very busy building up the project. The plan is to create a foundation that would own the trademark and, under certain circumstances (like a take-over of the business) have the right to take it away from the company. The board of the foundation would consist of a majority of non-company-affiliated people, and the community should vote on who's on there.

Open questions are what else the foundation should do. Accept and handle donations? Do the conference? Even some development? Or nothing other than the trademark protection? These things have their pro's and cons so we have to have a wider discussion still. Perhaps at the upcoming Nextcloud conference, I'm not sure yet. We will have a solution in 2017, though, I am quite certain of that.

FreeBSD does have getent.

@JaredBusch Hmmm, the post was mostly meant to also try and help ppl coming from, say, ownCloud 5 - they will get in trouble with the apps, finding the old tarballs etcetera.

If you're on 8 or 9, there is not much news because it isn't, or rather- shouldn't be too hard. Would really like to know what problems you had as we have to fix those 😉

Note that Nextcloud 11.0.2 comes early next week, Monday probably.

@gjacobse said in Using a VHD over (other) file for storage:

@MattSpeller said in Using a VHD over (other) file for storage:

TL;DR I'm not sure I'd do it (or why you are) but it would work just fine.

TL;DR? You reply twice, but didn't read it?

Honestly I just rambled quickly and forgot wtf you asked about XD

Nice writeup @shannon

@jospoortvliet said in NextCloud AMA Feb. 22nd!:

@scottalanmiller well Eastern time, so that should be in 40 minutes, yes? 16:00/4pm Berlin time, I have in my calendar 😉

fscking timezones, I know...

1600 here, too.

@danp said in Why We Recommend Against OpenFiler:

@scottalanmiller said in Why We Recommend Against OpenFiler:

I saw it mentioned in another ancient threat.

freudian slip? 😉

LOL, indeed.

Cool. They seem to have really come through.