Home Renovations, Virtualization, and New Hats, lol... :)

Just a really long vlog about what's been going on for the last few weeks. Wow, I've been busy.

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[hamofgrey]

@TWILTalks what company do you work for? Sounds really interesting!

[TWILTalks]

@hamofgrey the state of Kentucky.

[MrLightning247]

you sould try proxmox as that is enterprised approved if i can remember correctly you can take alook at proxmox.com and see if that fits your needs

[TWILTalks]

@MrLightning247 perhaps enterprise approved for some places, but not here. The standards they make us follow are a bit ridiculous...

[emucosmos]

I don't really understand licenses, but is virtualbox good enough for your needs?

[TWILTalks]

@emucosmos sadly, no. I think the key thing here is going to be that we're only allowed to use certain products in the state government, meaning, at this point, either VMWare (which is extremely expensive) or Microsoft's Hyper-V, which we have licenses for provided through our enterprise agreement.

It's not fair, and it's not what I'd like, but I'm stuck.

[pcmuzicpro]

i have a feeling who that one dislike is

[lifebarier]

Change toilet. Achievement unlocked - "Manhood". Americans... xD Sorry. just had to lol here.

[vltek]

@thisweekinlinux Understand, those datacenter licenses are special.

[thisweekinlinux]

@vltek Thanks, Chris! Mark over at the tower runs a few nodes and has offered support as well. I think I'm going to end up on ESXi though, since my boss can't really prove that we're actually licensed to use MS Win 2k8 datacenter...

[vltek]

If you need any help with Hyper-V let me know, We are running 556 Hyper V Hosts (3 per district), 3 Clusters with HA (7 nodes on 14, 10 nodes + 3 nodes over at COT). And VMM :)

[suhaibothman]

Greeting from Jordan (my country)

[theC75]

Good luck with the house :)

[myONLYone13]

I would agree with your friend about using VMware, but if you have licensing for Hyper-V already I would say just use that. VMware does have the free version but you won't get the fail over features without either paying out the ass for the upgrade or using a third party tool.

Hyper-V isn't all bad though. We are using it in house (along with Hyper-V) and it has come a long way since it first was introduced. It is way more manageable then a lot of solutions out there.

[hydrox24]

@TWILTalks Let me guess: STATE OF KENTUCKY STANDARDS... Use Windows

[TroyFoxxin]

Cant Go wrong with a fedora hat. :P

[thisweekinlinux]

@BinaryLinux small-medium (dual quad core xeons, either E5410 or E5310, not sure..., 12+ Gb RAM, 400Gb HDD space + 12Tb SAN) -- probably two of them, for failover/redundancy.

How important? Immediately, not at all. In the long run, it will hopefully host everything we do (SQL, IIS, print svr, McAfee ePO, Windows Update Server, Microsoft KMS (licensing) server, etc.)