And if we wanted a true 6TB of usable space in RAID10, we'd need 12 drives.

I know it's a consumer grade unit, but the unit has 1 internal bay for "Backup" making it 7 (even though that would be stupid as all gitup).

Which is still not worth it to dig any further for a 6TB SSD NAS.

But just so it's out there: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817994147

and 6 of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147362

I didn't go any further, it wasn't worth the time.

Ha

I just priced a unit for about the same cost for just the chassis and the drives.

Lets all go out and build a 6TB SSD NAS just for price comparison.

That's my point, we have 3 servers as file servers. And maybe 100 employees, the entire idea is just baffling.

SAM, again this is the same MSP making this recommendation as in past conversations. . .

We have a few locations some over seas, but they all come back to the main office via our VPN for network shares etc.

We have a few separate network shares hosted on different servers at the moment.

My boss is being sold on a SAN for our network of 4TB of data, expected to grow to 6TB within 4 years. Not that a SAN isn't needed but it seems like a really big chuck of any money we have for our virtualization project.

When we could buy two 32TB NAS devices (or build them) for $1500 and have the replicate between each other...

Caramelized almonds I think.

Definitely will be in a food coma in about 20 minutes.

Going, just eating lunch, your self?

For me, it's home made jalapeno poppers with Philadelphia onion and chive creme cheese wrapped in bacon, Italian sausage and corn with a side of potato chips (salt and vinegar)

Seems ridiculous to run a web server from something so under powered.

A few hundred connections and its down for the count.

Awesome I'll be working on this tonight then.

Thanks for the guidance.

Because I don't want to go and drop more money on another server for my home lab, I'm curious if it's possible to still configure XenServer HA-Lizard HA between non-matching hardware.

I'm only running 1 VM, that is within the constraints of both systems.

Is this just not possible, is it, or will I wish I had just bought another identical server?

That kind of sucks for what is going on at Barcelona though, that would be one of the places I'd visit for vacation. Seemed like a rather great place.

Yet how does anyone manage someone (or government) saying what they can do with their own property. I'd tell em to piss off.

It's not Barcelona that is doing it Scott, it's this person that is in charge who is acting stupidly for her own self interest.

I can promise you she is in some multi-billionaires' pocket.

@scottalanmiller said:

Sitting out on the balcony getting caught up here waiting for some onsite work to begin.... turns out we had a tech drive eleven hours just to restart a switch that had crashed before no employee at the site, including the on call local IT guy from another firm, was willing to just power cycle some devices before putting someone in the car to drive two states away to just power cycle things!!

Mileage + 11 Hours Billable Hours + System Troubleshooting and Recovery Services ($500 Minimum)