• Introduce yourself!

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    @john-c said in Introduce yourself!: @TS79 said in Introduce yourself!: Hi. I'm a cloud solutions architect, with around 25 years of working experience in servers, storage, networking (your typical infrastructure stuff) and about 20 years of virtualisation. I started up a homelab many years ago, and through (too) many evolutions, I've ended up with Lenovo M710q mini PCs running XCP-ng, with another mini PC providing NFS storage (with backup and replication to cater for problems and failures). Absolutely love XCP-ng and am promoting it wherever I can. I've architected and kicked off a project at my employer to replace VMware with XCP-ng, so I'm keen to use the forum to read other people's real-world experiences with storage and host specs, hurdles to avoid, and any tips & tricks. Looking forward to interacting with the community more and more. When checking out Xen Orchestra make sure to look at both the Host Maintenance Mode and the SR Maintenance Mode. I came up with the idea for the SR Maintenance mode during the Covid-19 lock down in the UK. The Vates staff developed and implemented the idea, I pitched it as a useful tool for large infrastructures. The reason being that pools (especially large ones) can have multiple shared storage implemented as SRs. The maintenance mode for SR permits, some of the SR to be put in maintenance mode when the backing separate bare metal hardware is in maintenance, while keeping others not in this situation active. So your less likely to need to put the host in maintenance mode, thus improving pools which are using HA, increasing the up time further. So the VMs aren't affected, when the VMs have been migrated to another storage SR, thus aiding in reducing down time for the VMs. This is a great feature, but I havent used it - How does it work? Is it something like: You put the SR in maintenance mode VM's are migrated to another shared SR Notification about SR maintenance completed?
  • New subcat: offtopic!

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    So, a bit after I originally posted this, one of the two servers fans slowed back down and I don't know why. I only noticed it weeks later. Then this morning we had a power outage and all the servers were shut down. When I booted them back up when power was restored, the other server was running the fans at normal speed. No idea why it went back, I didn't do anything to fix it. After that reboot though, just a single fan in the server that originally didn't have that problem, is now running fast. That makes me wonder if the fan is failing so I'm looking to find some spares to keep around. Any future reboots are going to make me a bit stressed wondering if the fans will speed up again. I did install the pool patches today and that reboot didn't impact the fans, thankfully. I wish I understood what happened but if it happens again I might use this docker container to take over control of them: https://github.com/tigerblue77/Dell_iDRAC_fan_controller_Docker
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    @Angela I removed your link to a 3rd party website related to the installation of uipath as I don't see how it is related to XCP-ng. Please refrain from including these unrelated links as they will likely get removed again in any future posts.
  • Linode Cloud Services

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    You should be able to reach them by emailing b9fc50de97da4bcd9714854e0c5a8059.protect@withheldforprivacy.com, which is the registrant email give by NameCheap.
  • CD Labels

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    It does for me
  • When you miss 10G in your homelab

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    @wilsonqanda Using HA adds more complexity (to XCP-ng and front-/backend systems). Your use case should really require HA to justify that complexity, especially if you add geo-replication to the mix. Most scenarios can probably be addressed with incremental replication for a low recovery point objectiv (RPO) and a good recovery time objective (RTO), but your mileage my vary.
  • Facebook and all their services are 'dead'

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    Hey, I get the frustration with Facebook services, but don't count them out just yet. They've had their hiccups, but many still find value. On a related note, if you're exploring other platforms, consider Twitch. It's vibrant, and for a quick boost, some users swear by strategies like Twitch followers instant delivery. Just a thought for your online presence journey!
  • A wonderful new year for everybody

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    Happy New Year!
  • Broadcom VMWare purchase

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    @olivierlambert Nice YouTube video by Lawrence Systems: Is XCP-NG a Good Alternative Replacement For VMware?
  • Can I just say thanks?

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    Thanks @pedroalvesbatista
  • A great and happy new year

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    Thank you @gskger Happy new year to you and everyone in this great community!
  • ideas for tutorials

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  • VMWare is dropping SD card support

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