Vlog: Random thoughts on Clustering our Tyan Transport MODEL w/ XCP-Ng

[@JohnSmith-yz7uh]

I really like that XCP-NG and Proxmox allow live migration and high availability without any licensing non sense like VMware. XOSAN-O2 and CephFS are available on the respective hypervisor, so could create a SAN without another appliance which is also a great feature.

[@cyberpunk9487]

Great to see Xcp-ng and XOA getting the level1 love it deserves

[@JordanBennett19829]

Hope your week has been well wendel and team

[@JefferyMiller21]

Can't wait until the pt2 of this. It's very interesting

[@Vincentl2189]

I've been running XCP-NG in my home lab for a year now. Works great!

[@bertnijhof5413]

Nice video of very advanced setups. I'm only ~18 years behind with networking my VMs. I use 1Gbps Ethernet and my VM backup snapshots copy at 200Mbps, because of a load of 95% on one of the Pentium 4 CPU threads (1C2T; 3.0GHz; 2GB DDR). The only thing, that is somewhat modern, is my 32-bits software FreeBSD 13.0 and OpenZFS 2.0 released April 2021.

[@marcogenovesi8570]

1Gbit is too rich for that kind of hardware lol

[@bertnijhof5413]

@@marcogenovesi8570 I don't need the 1Gbps, the 80 to 100GB increments it backups each Saturday just take ~1 hour :)

[@brianmccullough4578]

Wooooo! Servers baby

[@wyattarich]

Great upload!

[@christopherjackson2157]

Lawrence systems makes really good fairly in depth how to guides

[@bw_merlin]

A quick overview of what XCP-ng is at the beginning of the video would of been helpful.

[@bcredeur97]

What about backups? Thing that has disappointed me is the lack of advanced backup software for Linux solutions. Like being able to spin up instant VM’s in other places, database-aware backups, etc. Like what if someone deleted emails in someone’s exchange mailbox and asked you to restore it? I’d like to see better backup software for proxmox/XCP-NG. I’d love to dump Windows more often at work but this has been one big thing always in my way

[@MegatronYES]

Literally the first thing I ever ordered on my first trip to a Freddy’s was a Nutter Butter custard cookie. They discontinued it a week before I started working at a Freddy’s.

[@0M9H4X_Neckbeard]

20:25 Nutanix does the same thing (data locality, VMs are always run from local storage but remote writes happen in accordance with replication policies set on the data pool) and is KVM based rather than having to deal with a Xen spinoff

[@marcogenovesi8570]

I thought Nutanix was its own thing. It's hard to get actual info about it

[@ckbwtf]

The locality aspect really has nothing to with AHV. It’s just the CVM’s fabric monitoring the back channel storage requests and ensuring those bits get stored locally after enough hits. It does that across AHV, VMWare, Citrix, and Hyper-V. If I remember correctly, though, any affinities outside of AHV have to be set in the CVM admin panel *and* in the hypervisor. The problem with Nutanix (well, one of my many problems with Nutanix) is just how excessively diversified their productized features are while remaining decoupled from each other, meaning getting all the different products and services working together can be a hassle. There’s also a lot of technical debt in their products, causing a lot of inefficient use of resources, and slow adoption of alternative architectures.

[@LarsBerntropBos]

HCL Domino also does software based clusters

[@densonngumo7028]

How did you add XOSAN to your XO community edition? Mine just says it is only available on the official XOA

[@TopHatCentury]

I never heard of XCP-NG util today. I have to wonder if XCP-NG could theoretically work in a similar way to the Big Little architecture for ARM or Intel's Performance Efficiency architecture but for server virtualization. The analogy I had in mind may not be entirely applicable to how XCP-NG works but I am curious to learn more about it.

[@kortaffel]

can you build a ceph cluster with those?

[@stephenreaves3205]

Wendell Openshift When?

[@h4X0r99221]

Not sure if I should go for Proxmox or XCP-NG HA Cluster now. I will use 10G network and Truenas Core as SAN. What you suggest for homelab/future business use?

[@Amogh-Dongre]

Xcp-ng is more flexible while proxmox is more first time user friendly

[@h4X0r99221]

@@Amogh-Dongre I feel like it's exactly the other way around. I have been watching all of LawrenceSystems videos since he started making them and it always felt like a fleshed out hypervisor with a sanitized GUI, but I'm not sure how edge cases can be handled. Proxmox has been on the market for years and has a giant community around it. I suspect it has more functionality for niche use cases instead of just the obvious ones. One example could be the whole PCI passthrough and nvidia vgpu stuff that can be done with proxmox (I don't know if XCP-NG can do all the same things). Another big reason is the way Promox supports ZFS natively while xcp-ng uses it as file system only. You can see that with Proxmox backup server, which is another big plus for proxmox as it really takes care of all your backups needs for pve. Maybe the ZFS implementation of the two products could also be an interesting topic for Wendell.

[@LampJustin]

Another Hypervisor that's not on anyone's radar would be oVirt with Gluster ;)

[@klikmaker]

Here's how dumb I am: I can't tell if, when Wendell puts out a video, I understand what he's saying, or if I just THINK I understand what he's saying.

[@mattparker9726]

@Wendell I have a request of you, since I lack the funds to do it, but I would LOVE to see a Unicomp model M with a retrofitted Rasberry pi 400 inside it. Do you think you could do it? Do you accept the challenge? Do you even care about such things? For me I love case mods, and that's basically what this would be. Also it would be closer in look to a C64, which is super cool, but not a C64, cause I think that would be actually too tall, and would look weird.

[@mndlessdrwer]

If you wanted an even more baller version of that kind of compute multi-node server design, you'll want to reach out to Dell about the PowerEdge C6525. Up to two 3rd Gen 64-core Epyc processors per node. All the RAM. M.2 Gen.3x8 internal riser, dual PCIe Gen.4x16 risers with an OCP3x16 Gen4 onboard card slot for some truly insane connectivity options in such a small footprint. Oh, and each node gets up to six drives, with two being optionable NVMe capable backplanes. Not quite as nice as having all of them be NVMe capable, but at least there is some option for it.

[@thf62]

wtf partial lick in the intro music

[@MegaAshabasha]

This episode made me suspect you are a Borg. Something about nodes...

[@dumbboatproject]

need more random wendel.

[@marcogenovesi8570]

ah yes, I also make impulse purchases of used server hardware

[@DJDEAD3.0]

plx help star citizen with the server meshing problem, i think you have a lot of ideas for a good networking based solution.

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[@PeterMarszalkowski]

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[@bigp3t3_cpt]

@0:39 um slow down - why is there a blank PS/2 hole? Wendell are you stripping demo mobos for serial ports?

[@marcogenovesi8570]

what? those holes are for wifi antenna pigtails (not installed)