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  Anyone from xByte around
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  @lakshmana said in Anyone from xByte around: @scottalanmiller said in Anyone from xByte around: @lakshmana said in Anyone from xByte around: @scottalanmiller What is that Blueberry ? I thought that we were naming fruit Why did you say raspberry? https://www.raspberrypi.org/ Raspbery Pi Oh, they only sell Dell Servers.
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  Testing the Limits of the Dell H710 RAID Controller with SSD
  raid dell ssd xbyte perc h710 • • ryan from xbyte  

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  @creayt said in Testing the Limits of the Dell H710 RAID Controller with SSD: Link seems to not work. A bit of necromancy there. . .
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  Spiceworks Post... Need help please.
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  @jt1001001 Awesome!
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  Deployment Scenarios for the Dell PowerEdge FX
  dell server xbyte dell poweredge dell poweredge fx dell poweredge fx2 • • scottalanmiller  

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  @NerdyDad said in Deployment Scenarios for the Dell PowerEdge FX: Its a nice concept, but unless you can purchase more than 2 chassis for ultimate redundancies, your eggs are still in one basket, shared with the storage. But in IT, eggs in one basket is a good thing, not a bad one. It's better to have your storage in the same basket as your servers, even when doing an IPOD. The worst option is to separate them.
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  Deployment Scenarios for the Dell PowerEdge VRTX
  dell vdi das dell poweredge blade dell vrtx perc8 dell poweredge m630 dell poweredge m830 robo • • scottalanmiller  

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  @Tim_G said in Deployment Scenarios for the Dell PowerEdge VRTX: I'd certainly love one of these for a home lab. That's for sure! I can see the whole ROBO deployment scenario. Even in single/several use situations, like you mentioned... such as for specific critical high-performing services that won't outgrow it. Anywhere else, I'd feel stuck with it... what happens if you start to outgrow the resources? How scalable is it? That's what would determine it's worth for usage in place of regular 2u deployment servers. Maybe I'm just not a blade type person. It's really meant for contained scenarios where you know how big you will grow. For a normal SMB, the issue is growing into it, rather than outgrowing it.
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  Single Box HA Server
  server high availability hpe integrity • • Dashrender  

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  xByte to Carry HPE
  hpe xbyte • • scottalanmiller  

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  @coliver said in xByte to Carry HPE: @JaredBusch said in xByte to Carry HPE: @coliver said in xByte to Carry HPE: @JaredBusch said in xByte to Carry HPE: I don't care about the hardware, but I have always bought Dell because the onsite warranty costs were better. I have clients that prefer one thing or another for whatever reason. But I care not. I'm not sure I understand brand loyalty especially where servers are concerned. They are commodity hardware now, and have been for the past several years, get what you need for the moment at the best price and move on. You are reading something into what I said. I said I buy dell because the warranty is cheaper. Period. I did not say anything about the parts. I also have not bought a new server in years. Last few have been from XByte. Nope, not reading anything into what you said. Using your comment, that your customers have a preference, to spring board to something else. Those preferences don't matter though, because they are just responses to marketing. They are not IT people and have no idea. Thankfully there is no difference as we have all said.
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  xByte Offering Free Veeam Availability Assessment. Plus $25 Amazon gift card.
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  You could run the free version and get the same results, but who doesn't like free money @wrx7m message me your details, I'll see if cant send something your way. If anyone else would like to sign up, send me a message.
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  xByte now offering Cisco, Juniper and HP networking
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  @JaredBusch said in xByte now offering Cisco, Juniper and HP networking: @scottalanmiller said in xByte now offering Cisco, Juniper and HP networking: I want them to get Ubiquiti! I assume this is used / returned gear again? I have never any second hand Ubiquiti hardware worth anything. I guess the switches will be once they are old enough to have a secondary market. Do you see it with Juniper or HP? I'm happy with refurb, but don't want used with those either (I don't want Cisco even new) but xByte doesn't sell used, primarily, only refurb so effectively new.
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  This is why xByte rocks
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  @hobbit666 said in This is why xByte rocks: Wish they were in UK. Shipping costs a bit too much And now the exchange rate can't be helping either. Everything just went up 15% from that alone!
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  xByte Swag!
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  Dustin promised me a beer, so I had to get it there ASAP.
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  New Infrastructure Plan - Re-written
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  I agree you - it's a waste of $10K. Scott's comment digested means - we can either have some money in the bank, or we can spend it. Sure, since we have money in the bank we can spend it today/now.... and if we need that $10K for something else, something more important tomorrow - Oh well, I guess we'll live without because of our shortsightedness.
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  Server Quote
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  I use @BradfromxByte too.
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  Looking for a scrap unit
  home lab equipment needs • • DustinB3403  

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  X8SIU-F for $150 with 8GB memory and a 2 hour round trip drive....
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  xByte R820 Video
  dell ssd hardware servers xbyte poweredge dell poweredge r820 • • BradfromxByte  

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  The R820 is a very cool unit. So many cores and so much memory. Perfect for massive Linux and FreeBSD systems.
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  Viability of Samsung EVO 850 SSD on Dell PERC H710P
  storage server ssd samsung poweredge raid controller samsung evo 850 poweredge r720xd perc h710p • • DustinB3403  

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  @ryan-from-xbyte said: In the interest of reliability and compatibility, we opted to only support enterprise level SSDs. We actually only recently supported non-Dell drives because of those same reasons. We started talking with Edge and found a partner who would co-developer firmware to limit the risk to our customers. If Dell makes a firmware change, we didn't want our customers to experience any issues with their drives. That what made me reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally nervous about non-DELL drives. Not that anything would happen, but the last thing you need is some change form DELL and then your drives stop working, or booting. Total BS that they do that, but whatever. It's their company and there are other options.
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  xByte Virtualization Tech Chat
  storage virtualization hyperconvergence poweredge powervault • • BradfromxByte  

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  Are we going to be getting more of these?
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  Dell PowerEdge C2100 with 24 Drive bays
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  Weird how these things come in groups. Had someone else a day later try to use a Dell C series too.
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  Awesome xByte Beach Ball Swag
  spiceworld xbyte spiceworld 2015 swag • • scottalanmiller  

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  Me pissed off at it right now.
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  Home lab server
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  I just saw this. Sorry. Do you still have questions? I am guessing not.
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  xByte R720XD Video
  virtualization dell hardware poweredge • • BradfromxByte  

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  Thanks, great video!
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  xByte can now offer Dell's Pro-Support
  storage dell hardware servers poweredge • • BradfromxByte  

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  @ryan-from-xbyte said: FYI - For those of you who have already purchased a server from xByte, we can go after the fact and add Dell ProSupport. Oh very nice. People will love that they can add it to pre-existing machines!
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  xByte Corporate Video
  storage virtualization vmware dell hardware servers • • BradfromxByte  

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  Very cool!
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  Hey Xbyte, Where y'at?
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  Posting so you have another rep to contact if you need anything.
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  3 R620s 3 CPU 704 Errors
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  I've never seen this error before, from what I've heard XByte has great support and warranty services have you tried giving them a call?
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  Enabling Virtualization on the Dell PowerEdge R510
  dell poweredge r510 • • scottalanmiller  

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  It's surprising that it hasn't been default for longer. Why would someone want "off" as the default for the past several years at least. What is the advantage of having it off, anyway? Is there a performance or security advantage for those who are not using it?
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  USB as a Main Storage device
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  @scottalanmiller Pertino is installed, and LogMeIn is currently running. I'll send you an email with login creds.
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  iDRAC not defaulted?
  dell xbyte idrac • • JaredBusch  

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  @scottalanmiller said: I think that you are probably stuck making an in-person appearance if your colo facility does not offer a KVM hook up for you. Offered, but if I spin up a new asterisk instance on this new server and migrate my settings, I can can turn off the old one and will need to go on site to reconfigure those drives and install server 2012 data center on it anyway. So I will just do it all at the same time.