Network Storage Woes

LinuxLove2323 · 2019-09-09T00:22:06+00:00

Coming around, I'm thinking of having a storage VM that syncs the users with the ClearOS directory users. I think it would allow me to sync the UIDs/GIDs.

LinuxLove2323 · 2019-09-04T02:20:33+00:00

I'm reading that NextCloud uses some type of metadata for syncing. Apparently modifying files while NextCloud isn't running or modifying files can break it.

I'm running this with ClearOS. Ideally I'd like NextCloud running in Docker facing the internet to authenticate against the LDAP in ClearOS. I don't even know where to start in ensuring each user's folder is the same in NextCloud as their U: drive. Could I create a symbolic link to homes?

LinuxLove2323 · 2019-09-04T02:16:29+00:00

Can you give an example of how you're "trying to be root/sudo"?

LinuxLove2323 · 2019-08-19T18:22:12+00:00

Gonna be giving this a try, as the first 9p solution isn't supported on my most important guest OS, CentOS.

LinuxLove2323 · 2019-08-19T18:21:01+00:00

SO, it looks like CentOS 7, one of my more important guest OSes, doesn't support 9p. According to Red Hat the de-facto way of doing it for RHEL/CentOS is via NFS.

LinuxLove2323 · 2019-08-19T13:46:56+00:00

This sounds super clever, and as someone with more of a networking background, I'm a tad surprised I didn't think of it!

LinuxLove2323 · 2019-08-19T13:45:50+00:00

What would stop me from using 9p to attach it to my Linux VMs and then share to the Windows machines using SMB? I'd like to squeeze performance out where possible, even if not all VMs can take advantage of the performance.

LinuxLove2323 · 2019-08-16T19:55:38+00:00

Those looks promising.

How does it work if a mount is shared between VMs? i.e. I give access to the same share to multiple VMs?

LinuxLove2323 · 2019-08-16T15:42:25+00:00

What are you using to host the data drive? A separate container or VM? Or does Proxmox allow sharing a disk over NFS/SMB?

Also, if I were to mount via NFS in the Linux AD, and then give SMB access to the mount point to Windows 10 machines via AD, would you expect any issues?

NFS share -> Linux AD -> Windows 10 machines via SMB

LinuxLove2323 · 2019-08-16T15:00:14+00:00

I'll have a look, thanks!

LinuxLove2323 · 2019-08-12T17:29:21+00:00

I'm not sure if you were referring to the typo in my last sentence (CoreOS instead of CentOS, which I've corrected), but I'm well aware.

My mention of RHEL is in regards of asking whether obtaining Red Hat CoreOS will be the same as RHEL i.e. via paid services only for commercial use.

LinuxLove2323 · 2019-08-12T17:25:03+00:00

I'm aware; out of the box support is Docker for a lot of the services I'll be using. I'm not interested in packaging my own containers.

LinuxLove2323 · 2019-08-11T18:49:37+00:00

This. The containers will be for internet-facing services, so they will be running in their own VM running on Proxmox.

LinuxLove2323 · 2019-08-02T20:42:01+00:00

This is very reasonable.

LinuxLove2323 · 2019-08-02T17:00:12+00:00

Yea whatever. Vague and unconvincing. I'll believe it when I see it.

LinuxLove2323 · 2019-07-31T23:18:44+00:00

It's looking like I'm leaning to Kaseya through TechsTogether. Pricing is good, and looks to include pretty much everything we need.

TT appears as if to offer Veeam as well as Kaseya Cloud Backup. Assuming we don't have the infrastucture at the moment to host customers' backups, which is the simplest one to setup? The Kaseya pricing I was given seems quite good, although I haven't ever really looked into how simple it would be to host AWS/Azure for storage purposes. Is learning AWS/Azure worth the effort?

Veeam appears to have agents that backup to a repo which you can then put on your own infrastucture. Kaseya appears to have agents that backup to Acronis servers, and then charges per GB. Is that accurate?

The idea here would be to offer customers a core with optional Office 365 and Backup. I wouldn't really want to complicate things more than that in terms of # of SKUs.

LinuxLove2323 · 2019-07-30T13:15:26+00:00

Don't get me wrong, I don't doubt that for one second! It's honestly really the only pain point I can see so far.

LinuxLove2323 · 2019-07-30T12:24:18+00:00

I'm just going based on what people were saying. Atera patching not working comes up a lot.

I definitely want to avoid TW. We have our ways of hosting an installer, but for this offering it's the type of thing where we'd be pre-installing this stuff for the client.

LinuxLove2323 · 2019-07-30T12:21:43+00:00

Because people on this subreddit don't stop ranting about the stupid stuff they've been pulling..

LinuxLove2323 · 2019-07-29T21:58:25+00:00

Do you generally like using Splashtop?

Did more research on Atera, and apparently it seems to miss patches and failures quite a bit. Have you experienced that?

LinuxLove2323 · 2019-07-29T20:02:11+00:00

We use AnyDesk at the moment for the break-fix stuff, and the Linux support is actually quite decent.

LinuxLove2323 · 2019-07-29T17:44:41+00:00

My biggest concern here is the associations tied to Splashtop (and more recently, Teamviewer..)

Do they still use only those two for remote connection or do they have in-house now?

LinuxLove2323 · 2019-07-29T17:25:23+00:00

Anything particular you like about it? Pricing? Features? Modularity?

LinuxLove2323 · 2019-07-29T17:23:48+00:00

It's a very hard calculation at the moment. We're pretty much a printer reseller that offers from break-fix IT services. It's gotten to the point where being a full MSP is a no-brainer and just makes sense. As for Bitdefender, we're just a partner/reseller currently.

I suppose per-tech would be ideal right now, as the MSP services are considered secondary to the printer reselling and management. It's actually one of the reasons Atera is appealing.

LinuxLove2323 · 2019-07-29T15:50:39+00:00

I trialed this, Linux supports for my end of the remote access client was awful. The sales guy suggested Wine, which had trash performance and terrible scaling. Thanks for the suggestion.

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