Re: [lopsa-tech] backing up your VMs

2015-10-29 Thread Steven Miano
Be aware that the cost of TSM may be structured much differently from Veeam. Paying for consumption with TSM is fairly costly (anecdotal). The offset for paying by sockets on the hypervisors is that you will need to also consume resources in the backup infrastructure (per vCenter in our topology).

Re: [lopsa-tech] Linux on laptops

2015-11-12 Thread Steven Miano
I've had very little headache when it comes to Fedora on Dell's Latitude E6430s and similar within the line (E series in general). On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) < lop...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > I'm looking for a small, light, cheap, laptop to run linux. I prefer > ei

Re: [lopsa-tech] VM as an NTP server

2016-04-05 Thread Steven Miano
No one wants to pay for insurance. Running a dozen Chrony or NTP servers in VMware for a month does not equate to: "Hey look, if I don't pay for auto insurance for 30 days, everything is fine; let's cancel all of our policies on the fleet of trucks". If you only have to worry about Kerberos in yo

Re: [lopsa-tech] filesystem feature flags

2016-06-07 Thread Steven Miano
There is information for how the mounts are currently configured (for instance if you used defaults in /etc/fstab) located in: /proc/mounts on most Linux hosts. The options should likely be referred to from either /proc/mounts, or /etc/mtab - and of course in the man pages mkfs.{your_filesystem_ch