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I'm the president of a general contractor in the South. I've also been our IT person for 30+ years.
Last fall, when the winds of change at VMware began blowing, I started looking into alternatives for esxi. I happened upon videos about XCP-NG from Tom at Lawrence Systems and I decided to install it on a test system.
Its a great product and I've enjoyed getting to know it!
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Welcome!
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I understand, it's true. We will say that it is always more friendly in this native language and easier to discuss complex subjects.
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@Glitch if you checked, I created the French category few minutes after my answer
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@Glitch said in Introduce yourself!:
Hi John,
It works, I'm looking at it
Exactly, well done
If your wondering how it was recognised, you see I have watched Ghost In The Shell too! It introduced me to Japanese Anime and I was introduced to it by Media Studies students at the college I went to! While I was studying during a free period at the college on my IT course which was being studied at the time.
You see I was in the library (Bibliothèque) at the time and the media studies classroom was right next door.
I wouldn't be too surprised if there was two way inspiration between Ghost In The Shell and the Cyberpunk novel used for the base of Cyberpunk 2077 video game!
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Greetings! I am seasoned security engineer and that brings with it the need for a lab, automation, and prototyping. Intel NUCs, VMware workstation, and ESXi in my home lab was my MO.
For the past few years I have been putting my home Lab projects on github, and they now include XCP-ng testing. My lab is now split XCP-ng and proxymox. (good-bye Broadcom)
In the Cyber space I'm blue team, shifting more purple. The authentication with XCP-ng bugs me, but I'm happy with the automation potential.
Folding@Home and Unifi are my other fun projects.
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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.
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@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.
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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?
