Anyone who works with VM’s and their servers, how do you get the hosts to be redundant?
I have multiple VM’s with multiple live Main/Reserve servers but I don’t want to put all the VM’s on one host in case the actual host dies. I can do multiple hosts but they not going to be working very hard seeing that everything is split.
I’ve read up a bit on the subject but there doesn’t seem to be a clear solution, just what suits each situation best.
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I used to be a VMWare tech waaay back in 2011, just when VMWare was really kicking off. From what I remember there were load sharing multiple copies, and backup redundant multiple copies. The former mainly worked with DNS to split the loads. As for the backup redundancy, most of our clients accepted a few hours data loss and we kept taking snapshots thrkugh the day to keep the backup server up to date.
One client was keen on multiple servers running at the same time to ensure both load balancing and redundancy at the same time and I recall them investigating 3rd party software to do this, but then I gave up IT.
In short, I am of no use to you and wasted 90 seconds of your time reading this …🤦
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Not at all. Appreciate the insight.
I’ve had to do multiple P2V conversions and also fresh VM installs, I’m still struggling to P2V RH Enterprise, and was wondering if industry just stacks them all in one host or splits them. I am leaning more to the split, even multi location split maybe.
What hypervisor are you using? Which hosts?
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VirtualBox just on windows machines with lots of RAM
My condolences.
Is there any possibility you can look into moving anything to microservices? Sounds like you might be better off moving over to something like kubernetes.
Otherwise the only thing I can think of is to configure the guests to be a master/slave scenario, or whatever we’re calling it now.
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Haha
I’ll have a look at your suggestions. Never heard of that. Thanks
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Start with looking Docker. Kubernetes works on top of that.
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I know you’ve got it fixed, but just a workaround for anyone that might read this later. I often use the Ctrl+D shortcut to Duplicate the cell above the one selected. ie. If you’ve got a formula in cell B5, and you would like it to be copied to B6, select B6 and hit Ctrl+D.
If you want B5’s content copied to B6 aaaaaaaaaalll the way down to B50, select B5:B50 (important to select the source cell here) and the hit Ctrl+D. Your column is now filled.
Do you want to do the same thing for rows rather than columns? Ctrl+R is your friend.
Want to create a big old block of data? Select the block you want filled, with whatever is in the top left cell. Hit Ctrl+D to fill the left hand column, then hit Ctrl+R to fill the whole block. MAGIC.
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I was not aware of those shortcuts, thanks.
This helps!
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How do I go about getting a camera for my pc, do I need to use a Webcam or can I use something else??
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I believe anything with a USB connection should work fine if I am not mistaken, but I believe it is possible to use HDMI connections as well, from what I have heard from streamers.
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What do you want to do with the camera? Decent quality webcams are still currently overpriced and understocked at the moment.
Depending on your use need, you could look at using your phone camera as a workable alternative. There’s a lot of apps out there act as a bridge between your phone and the pc. Some are better for iOS devices others better for Android.
I played around with one called DroidCam on an old iPad that worked quite well. Had the added benefit of being WiFi enabled so I could follow the cat around the house 
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Thinking about it now, I remember @SigStart used something similar last year when he was streaming and introduced Syd the Wonderdog to the world. @Entity also had a multiple camera thing going to watch his pugs at the same time as streaming.
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Just use your phone. I used droidcam with my phone when i streamed.
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Just for video meetings etc, thanks so much guys 
will play around tomorrow and figure it out
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Moving to a more appropriate thread.
I can get standalone from tech soup. Problem is you can only buy Windows licenses in one batch, then never again. You aren’t restricted on the number of times you can purchase upgrade licenses though.
Other than a few cases, I’ve been letting people use the license that comes with their laptops, but I have a feeling it might cause a problem when people start installing Win 11 Home.
At least we have Office 2016 licenses.
How do you determine what kind of household bandwidth that you need or require?
Reason: considering changing to a lower speed to save and wondering what would be adequate.
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Add up what you expect to be going on at peak time?
How many people will be watching 720p+ video? How often do you download 50GB+ for a game or whatnot? Online gaming?
For gaming though, a low contention ratio is more important than throughput.
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Only have 2 mobile devices, 2 Xbox’s and a laptop. Though all devices may have an active connection, there may only be a maximum of 2 or three active streaming/downloading.
Not really one to download media (by means of pirating) but will often be downloading games (they’re quite big these days). Media streaming consists of mostly Netflix or YouTube and I like to get 1080p.
Don’t really game online, much, maybe on the off occassion. When I do it’s often when everyone else is asleep anyway.
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What is your current speed? What could you ‘live’ with?
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