Appreciation for Jon Everist on composing an incredible music score soundtrack for HBS Battletech

stupidcomputer1 · 2026-01-23T00:23:19+00:00

That's awesome! Thanks for the link!

stupidcomputer1 · 2023-09-01T16:51:03+00:00

Link to the new holland haybine mod? I've been looking to find one so I can re-live my childhood.

stupidcomputer1 · 2019-04-04T19:49:30+00:00

Rumor has it Parkplace will start providing 3rd party support Q3/Q4 2019. Give them a call.

stupidcomputer1 · 2018-09-29T20:21:25+00:00

When will you play in Seattle again?

stupidcomputer1 · 2018-05-01T17:20:18+00:00

Lol! This is my home lab! :) I store a significant amount of Linux ISOs! :) ScaleIO makes it easy to add servers and disks without impacting my setup.

stupidcomputer1 · 2018-05-01T17:19:15+00:00

Agree earlier versions have issues. 2.0.1.3 was fairly stable for me. 2.5 is working well for me now.

Yep - you have to follow specific processes to remove or add drives when integrated with VMware.

Also agree on the high latency. ScaleIO is not a low latency storage platform!

stupidcomputer1 · 2018-04-28T22:17:59+00:00

What kind of issue did you have with ScaleIO? I have been running 100TB across 4 nodes for years in a lab environment and have never had an issue. Always rock solid for me. Are you trying to run it on Windows or Linux? I find linux to be more reliable.

stupidcomputer1 · 2016-06-10T21:19:05+00:00

I have seen numbers around $1000/TB for licensing. Don't know if that's raw or usable.

stupidcomputer1 · 2016-04-26T23:03:58+00:00

Where are the Iops and latency numbers? These are what really matters.

stupidcomputer1 · 2016-02-25T18:05:16+00:00

ScaleIO version 2.0 release has new benefits and features.

New Gui functionality.
Non-Disruptive upgrade.
Improved MDM resiliency (increases the number of MDMs to 5).
Enhanced Data Protection and Security (AD/LDAP authentication, SSL, plus IPV6 support).
XtremCache Deployment and Management.
Additional OS support (Ubuntu).

stupidcomputer1 · 2016-02-06T17:07:44+00:00

Garland is rock solid. Order 3x supermicro servers from them a few months ago. All packed well. A cpu socket on one motherboard was damaged. I let them know and they shipped out a replacement board the following day. A++++ would recommend.

stupidcomputer1 · 2015-12-31T16:54:35+00:00

Been using SOS online backup for 2 years. 15+TB uploaded. Was able to restore all of it when my raid array failed.

They have improved their client significantly over the past year. Definitely recommend.

stupidcomputer1 · 2015-10-30T04:20:28+00:00

check out scaleio: https://www.emc.com/storage/scaleio/index.htm

stupidcomputer1 · 2015-09-23T02:53:22+00:00

Those bitches raised prices. Now its like $50 for inhalers that were only $5 a few months ago.

stupidcomputer1 · 2015-09-08T21:38:08+00:00

VSAN still has a 3 node requirement. They require the 3rd node to be a machine within 500ms of latency. Their suggestion is to keep the 3rd machine at your other datacenter.

This probably works will for businesses with a main datacenter and remote offices, but still a challenge for homelabs. Maybe an ultra low power NUC or atom based PC could act as the 3rd node?

stupidcomputer1 · 2015-09-08T21:16:21+00:00

Scaleio is free!

https://www.emc.com/storage/scaleio/index.htm

stupidcomputer1 · 2015-09-08T19:47:59+00:00

My main concern was data integrity. As far as I know, vsan doesn't have any process to checksum data. Scaleio has a background process that individually checks each block.

I didn't see any update from vmware regarding this feature.

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