For home use:
- vCenter
- Horizon View Connection Server
- 2x pfSense
- 2x Untangle (UTM, Bridge mode)
- 2x Domain Controllers
- File Server (Hosted off SAN)
- WSUS
- PBX
- Web Server
- Windows Media Center backend (ESXi has USB tuner as passthrough)
- Mac OS X 10.10 (Time Machine backups, etc...
Thanks for the reply. Basically I confusingly was just trying to reference something simple in which the longer failovers most DNS resolving clients were on trying A records or NS records and the typical timeouts on them. I'm working on design a special purpose Anycast DNS system. Just was...
There are always multiple views on this and I'm trying to get the best setup for my ideal use.
I want to ensure I have my name servers for web hosting failover the quickest way on a DNS resolve. I currently am running 16 named servers distributed across the US.
Which will failover the...
Do you not have any spare ones from like a case for the external jacks? Save the cash if you have them. They aren't anything special.
Difference between you and me, all mine are loaded.
Shame C7J0yc3, datastore1 and datastore1 (2), come on....
Haha, but looks like you've got a fun project ahead of you. Make sure that the guy before you also enabled VT support in BIOS. If he forgot the HT step in ESXi.
For the clear ends I found these doing a quick search. I've never bought them before so I can't give any feedback on them, but you can order some here.
Cheaper...
I was running FreeNAS 8 with clients such as Win2k8 and ESXi.
I hated the reboot for a configuration change too, especially when setting up a LAG when setting up remotely.
I believe it started in 8, they revamped the iSCSI bits a lot and I find it more unstable. Performance is...
If you want to use iSCSI, I recommend staying away from FreeNAS. FreeNAS is good if you want to do NFS/SMB/CIFS, but you were heading the right way with Openfiler since I saw you were using iSCSI.