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Gnodal switches

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Gnodal switches
posted by Matt Daly on Feb. 27, 2015, 4:25 p.m. (1 day ago)
some weird detritus found on ebay...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/380792437327?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

is this a bad idea? I would mainly be using twinax to the hosts, but I am sure I would want to source some optical connections as well.

I don't care about not having layer 3. It's 'new' so hmmmm


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some weird detritus found on ebay...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/380792437327?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

is this a bad idea? I would mainly be using twinax to the hosts, but I am sure I would want to source some optical connections as well.

I don't care about not having layer 3. It's 'new' so hmmmm


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MATT DALY
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BA Mercury HDD firmware...

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BA Mercury HDD firmware...
posted by Dan Young on Feb. 27, 2015, 6:50 p.m. (1 day ago)
So, can you tell we have an EOL Mercury or what? We bought some spindles to match our Cheetah 15k 600gb as we had some dead disks and Hitatchi cannot source them for us - but they're not letting them play ball citing the following;


4900Severe2015-02-2714:45:38RS12C_1141FG000878: [226D] Drive in volume group or hot spare in use removed

8401Severe2015-02-2714:45:43[ ba-smu ] RS12C_1141FG000878: [226D] tray 0 (2660, SN SX12501580), slot 2: disk (ID ST3600957SS, Cap 558.91 GB, FW MS07. These are details of similar disk to facilitate an RMA.) issue reported. See the next LSIEventLogEntry event with ID [226D] for more information.

4900Severe2015-02-2714:45:43RS12C_1141FG000878: [226D] Drive in volume group or hot spare in use removed

8401Severe2015-02-2714:48:14[ ba-smu ] RS12C_1141FG000878: [2260] tray 0 (2660, SN SX12501580), slot 2: disk (ID ST3600057SS, Cap 558.91 GB, SN 6SL9P6XL0000N5229QY9, FW 000B) issue reported. See the next LSIEventLogEntry event with ID [2260] for more information.

8455Severe2015-02-2714:48:14[ ba-smu ] No system drive contains the physical disk reporting a severe event (described in event 8401 logged at or shortly before 14:48:14).

4900Severe2015-02-2714:48:14RS12C_1141FG000878: [2260] Uncertified Drive Detected

8401Severe2015-02-2714:48:15[ ba-smu ] RS12C_1141FG000878: [2260] tray 0 (2660, SN SX12501580), slot 2: disk (ID ST3600057SS, Cap 558.91 GB, SN 6SL9P6XL0000N5229QY9, FW 000B) issue reported. See the next LSIEventLogEntry event with ID [2260] for more information.

8455Severe2015-02-2714:48:15[ ba-smu ] No system drive contains the physical disk reporting a severe event (described in event 8401 logged at or shortly before 14:48:15).

4900Severe2015-02-2714:48:15RS12C_1141FG000878: [2260] Uncertified Drive Detected

Anyone got a dodgy firmware updater or suggestions?

Annoying.
DY
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So, can you tell we have an EOL Mercury or what? We bought some spindles to match our Cheetah 15k 600gb as we had some dead disks and Hitatchi cannot source them for us - but they're not letting them play ball citing the following;


4900Severe2015-02-2714:45:38RS12C_1141FG000878: [226D] Drive in volume group or hot spare in use removed

8401Severe2015-02-2714:45:43[ ba-smu ] RS12C_1141FG000878: [226D] tray 0 (2660, SN SX12501580), slot 2: disk (ID ST3600957SS, Cap 558.91 GB, FW MS07. These are details of similar disk to facilitate an RMA.) issue reported. See the next LSIEventLogEntry event with ID [226D] for more information.

4900Severe2015-02-2714:45:43RS12C_1141FG000878: [226D] Drive in volume group or hot spare in use removed

8401Severe2015-02-2714:48:14[ ba-smu ] RS12C_1141FG000878: [2260] tray 0 (2660, SN SX12501580), slot 2: disk (ID ST3600057SS, Cap 558.91 GB, SN 6SL9P6XL0000N5229QY9, FW 000B) issue reported. See the next LSIEventLogEntry event with ID [2260] for more information.

8455Severe2015-02-2714:48:14[ ba-smu ] No system drive contains the physical disk reporting a severe event (described in event 8401 logged at or shortly before 14:48:14).

4900Severe2015-02-2714:48:14RS12C_1141FG000878: [2260] Uncertified Drive Detected

8401Severe2015-02-2714:48:15[ ba-smu ] RS12C_1141FG000878: [2260] tray 0 (2660, SN SX12501580), slot 2: disk (ID ST3600057SS, Cap 558.91 GB, SN 6SL9P6XL0000N5229QY9, FW 000B) issue reported. See the next LSIEventLogEntry event with ID [2260] for more information.

8455Severe2015-02-2714:48:15[ ba-smu ] No system drive contains the physical disk reporting a severe event (described in event 8401 logged at or shortly before 14:48:15).

4900Severe2015-02-2714:48:15RS12C_1141FG000878: [2260] Uncertified Drive Detected

Anyone got a dodgy firmware updater or suggestions?

Annoying.
DY

OT - A very sad day indeed...

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OT - A very sad day indeed...
posted by Brian Krusic on Feb. 27, 2015, 7:10 p.m. (1 day ago)
our favorite Vulcan has died today; Spock!

Please joint me is a virtual Vulcan Live Long & Prosper salutation.

I am actually sad about this.

- Brian

Technologist...
i.e., Purveyor of the ironic"

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our favorite Vulcan has died today; Spock!

Please joint me is a virtual Vulcan Live Long & Prosper salutation.

I am actually sad about this.

- Brian

Technologist...
i.e., Purveyor of the ironic"

Anyone know where I can get a HP z820 now?

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Anyone know where I can get a HP z820 now?
posted by Saker Klippsten on Feb. 28, 2015, 3 a.m.
My Flame Does not want to power back on.. in the middle of a session.
Tried all the usual stuff. Its either the power supply or motherboard.. but the light turns green when I press the power button briefly but nothing powers up. even with all the cards out.

YAY!
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My Flame Does not want to power back on.. in the middle of a session.
Tried all the usual stuff. Its either the power supply or motherboard.. but the light turns green when I press the power button briefly but nothing powers up. even with all the cards out.

YAY!
-S

secure internet sandbox in a window...

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secure internet sandbox in a window...
posted by Julian Firminger on Feb. 28, 2015, 12:30 p.m.
Hi all,

Some time ago there was a discussion about secure browsing solutions, which I cant seem to find in the archives.

I am faced with ye olde problem of delivering internet access to workstations whilst preventing them from having internet access.

My mind is heading for something to do with Docker.... Any suggestions welcome.





Julian Firminger

Snr. Systems Administrator,
United Broadcast Facilities
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Hi all,

Some time ago there was a discussion about secure browsing solutions, which I cant seem to find in the archives.

I am faced with ye olde problem of delivering internet access to workstations whilst preventing them from having internet access.

My mind is heading for something to do with Docker.... Any suggestions welcome.





Julian Firminger

Snr. Systems Administrator,
United Broadcast Facilities
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

hosting dfs shares on a linux server

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hosting dfs shares on a linux server
posted by Mathew Sherman on March 1, 2015, 10:40 a.m.

I'm playing with the idea of using a Linux server to host a central namespace and a bunch of DFS links to shares on two different HNAS servers. We are in an AD environment with a combination of MacOS and Windows clients all over CIFS using AD single-signon. I know I can do this with a Windows server with traditional DFS. But on a domain bound Windows server I am forced to use the domain name/namespace and I'd prefer to create a totally different namespace without creating a whole new trusted domain to host it. I set up a CentOS server and a DNS entry with my new namespace resolving to it. I configured Samba as DFS host using this post as a guide:

https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/msdfs.html

It actually kind of works. I creatd a /dfs mount point and made a few symlinks in it pointing to HNAS shares. Domain-bound Windows clients can click on them and seemlessly get redirected to the HNAS shares under the new "fake" namespace. AD security is even enforced. But I have two issues- 1) Mac clients cannot click through the DFS links. They can connect and authenticate to the namespace server\share and see the symlinks but when clicking on any I get a popup telling me "The operation can't be completed becuase the original item for <the name of the share> can't be found. and 2) When inspecting any files/folders from a Windows client all files seemed to be owned by SIDs and they don't resolve into proper domain usernames. If one of these DFS routed clients creates a file and the file is inspected from a Windows client connecting via traditional (\\HNASserver\sharename) method the file is in fact owned by the correct user. But anyone connecting via the DFS setup sees only SIDs. I feel like I'm getting there but finding very limited resources online to do this. Am I crazy with this attempt? Anyone else doing something similar, or is there a better way? The goal is to create a "ficticious" namespace and host virtual shares to various servers all under one roof. No replication needed, HNAS and other means handle this. It's really for single namespace only.

 

Any thoughts?

Mathew.

 

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I'm playing with the idea of using a Linux server to host a central namespace and a bunch of DFS links to shares on two different HNAS servers. We are in an AD environment with a combination of MacOS and Windows clients all over CIFS using AD single-signon. I know I can do this with a Windows server with traditional DFS. But on a domain bound Windows server I am forced to use the domain name/namespace and I'd prefer to create a totally different namespace without creating a whole new trusted domain to host it. I set up a CentOS server and a DNS entry with my new namespace resolving to it. I configured Samba as DFS host using this post as a guide:

https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/msdfs.html

It actually kind of works. I creatd a /dfs mount point and made a few symlinks in it pointing to HNAS shares. Domain-bound Windows clients can click on them and seemlessly get redirected to the HNAS shares under the new "fake" namespace. AD security is even enforced. But I have two issues- 1) Mac clients cannot click through the DFS links. They can connect and authenticate to the namespace server\share and see the symlinks but when clicking on any I get a popup telling me "The operation can't be completed becuase the original item for <the name of the share> can't be found. and 2) When inspecting any files/folders from a Windows client all files seemed to be owned by SIDs and they don't resolve into proper domain usernames. If one of these DFS routed clients creates a file and the file is inspected from a Windows client connecting via traditional (\\HNASserver\sharename) method the file is in fact owned by the correct user. But anyone connecting via the DFS setup sees only SIDs. I feel like I'm getting there but finding very limited resources online to do this. Am I crazy with this attempt? Anyone else doing something similar, or is there a better way? The goal is to create a "ficticious" namespace and host virtual shares to various servers all under one roof. No replication needed, HNAS and other means handle this. It's really for single namespace only.

 

Any thoughts?

Mathew.

 

OSX lockdown app/tool/guide?

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OSX lockdown app/tool/guide?
posted by  on March 2, 2015, 9 a.m.
Hi, all Security seems to be all the rage all of a sudden I need to lock down a few Macbooks but am finding that targeting particular system prefs, even when that does work, is awfully inconsistent and things like requiring a password after n seconds of screensaver activity can be bypassed by any user. Looking for a good policy enforcer app/tool/guide. We do not operate in an OpenDirectory or AD domain, so it needs to function standalone. Portable configs would be a big bonus! thank you! - cal@bluebolt To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe
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Hi, all Security seems to be all the rage all of a sudden I need to lock down a few Macbooks but am finding that targeting particular system prefs, even when that does work, is awfully inconsistent and things like requiring a password after n seconds of screensaver activity can be bypassed by any user. Looking for a good policy enforcer app/tool/guide. We do not operate in an OpenDirectory or AD domain, so it needs to function standalone. Portable configs would be a big bonus! thank you! - cal@bluebolt To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

Vray: v2 to v3 nonsense

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Vray: v2 to v3 nonsense
posted by Brian Krusic on March 2, 2015, 6:50 p.m. (1 day ago)
Hi,

So my vendor keeps re assuring me the Chaos Group will not let you run Vray 2 and 3 simultaneously.

If you have an urgent need, they will cut a 30-60 day key, but its not a perm solution and you must use 3.

Has any one had a diff experience, one that is more realistic to how the world works, less Draconian?

And are you all willing to go along with this and if so, why?

- Brian

Technologist...
i.e., Purveyor of the ironic"

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Hi,

So my vendor keeps re assuring me the Chaos Group will not let you run Vray 2 and 3 simultaneously.

If you have an urgent need, they will cut a 30-60 day key, but its not a perm solution and you must use 3.

Has any one had a diff experience, one that is more realistic to how the world works, less Draconian?

And are you all willing to go along with this and if so, why?

- Brian

Technologist...
i.e., Purveyor of the ironic"


Floating Maya Rentals

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Floating Maya Rentals
posted by Thomas Ericsson on March 3, 2015, 8:45 a.m.
We were told a while ago that we no longer will be able to get floating Maya rentals since it is not a product they actually sell and the administration is not in place for it. Is this just us, being lowly small fry, or is it all over the board? Thomas -- To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe
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We were told a while ago that we no longer will be able to get floating Maya rentals since it is not a product they actually sell and the administration is not in place for it. Is this just us, being lowly small fry, or is it all over the board? Thomas -- To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

RedGiant Volume program

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RedGiant Volume program
posted by Saker Klippsten on March 3, 2015, 1 p.m.
I am sure some of you were on the beta list or are aware.... but myself and others spent much time lobbying for this in our crusade to simplify plugin licensing and track usage for budgeting.


-S

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I am sure some of you were on the beta list or are aware.... but myself and others spent much time lobbying for this in our crusade to simplify plugin licensing and track usage for budgeting.


-S

Sandisk InfiniFlash -this looks like it could be fun.

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Sandisk InfiniFlash -this looks like it could be fun. <1$ per GB
posted by Saker Klippsten on March 3, 2015, 4:25 p.m. (1 day ago)
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Sandisk InfiniFlash -this looks like it could be fun.

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Sandisk InfiniFlash -this looks like it could be fun. <1$ per GB
posted by  on March 3, 2015, 4:35 p.m. (1 day ago)
is this what the great annoucement and webinar was about today? A former FusioIO rep told me about something new and bold coming up

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APC firmware v6

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APC firmware v6
posted by Jean-Francois Panisset on March 4, 2015, 12:15 a.m.
Just updated an APC UPS network card to firmware version 6. It's like a brand new world in there... In particular the email notifications now support authentication on SMTP servers and SSL.

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Just updated an APC UPS network card to firmware version 6. It's like a brand new world in there... In particular the email notifications now support authentication on SMTP servers and SSL.

JF

Help explaining and/or choosing between two different solutions?

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Help explaining and/or choosing between two different solutions?
posted by Gustaf Larm on March 4, 2015, 5:13 a.m.

Hi everyone!

I've been trying to get my current workplace to upgrade their storage and network, and now I got a Go for doing something. I'm trying to help them choose, but without much success.
We've got several offers, that they shut down because money-reasons, but somehow got one they like.

Recently they got an suggestion (from someone else) that's based on synology hardware. It's an DS2015xs (https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS2015xs#spec), offered to run with 8 WD RED at 4 TB with synologys hybrid raid 2 (raid 6 equivalent).
They loved it, since they can run an FTPserver on it, a DNSserver, synologys cloudstorage (like dropbox) and a few other mobile services.
All in all, it will cost about $3k plus installation. They love it because the cloudstorage stuff, and the pricepoint, and the guy said the performance should be around 900MB/s (read).

Another solution that they shut down before, is a Dell Poweredge R720 (2x Xeon E5-2630v2,128 GB RAM, 4 x 480 GB SSD, 2x146 15Krpm SAS drives, 2x 10gbe) and a powerVault MD1200 with 12x4TB Nearline SAS. Would run Windows storage spaces, with the SSD's as cache and a Raid 10. A total of $17k with installation and support. Would go down in cost since I see no need too have that much ram or even two cpu's, so I'm thinking it will end around $10-12k

Short about us (or them, I've put in my notice to quit and my last day is in 3 weeks), it's 11 employees, 3 administrative, 6 2d/3d-vfx artists, 1 editors and 1 colorist. Sometimes up to 6 freelancers doing vfx-work.
Working mostly with Maya, Adobe CC, Final Cut and Resolve. Pretty standard workflow, mostly DPX's, TIFs and ProRes. They also want to be able to edit directly on the storage. A small renderfarm with 10 nodes, soon-to-be 20, rendering 75% of the time. (75% windows, 25% osx)

I've been trying to explain the differences between the DELL solution and Synology, why there's a price difference, about redundancy etc, but always get stuck on first step since the spec on paper looks the same,
24TB usable space, 10GBe connection, around 900MB/s from synology, 1200MB/s from the DELL (according to a real-world test our vendor did inhouse). My concerns are more about redundancy, rebuild-times, type of drives, the CPU of synology, support etc.

Do any of you have any experience with either solution, or can see a problem with either one? maybe something positive? Or what they should get? They do have a trust-issue with me, and whatever I think, they won't really listen to me, unless someone externally can confirm my thoughts.

I have no real experience with synology except their home-consumer stuff, which I like, but don't really know what I'm thinking about the DS2015xs. And I can't get the decision-makers to understand why there is a price-difference like that between this synology and every other solution they've got. They are people who never invested in IT at all during their 7 running a company.

P.S. Our current solutions is an Yotta SAN, connected with Fiber to a PC running Nas4Free and shared out with 1 Gbit ethernet connection (the only upgrade I got to do, from the old crappy Hackintosh solutions they used).

Thanks in advance for any thoughts and or questions.

//Gustaf

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Hi everyone!

I've been trying to get my current workplace to upgrade their storage and network, and now I got a Go for doing something. I'm trying to help them choose, but without much success.
We've got several offers, that they shut down because money-reasons, but somehow got one they like.

Recently they got an suggestion (from someone else) that's based on synology hardware. It's an DS2015xs (https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS2015xs#spec), offered to run with 8 WD RED at 4 TB with synologys hybrid raid 2 (raid 6 equivalent).
They loved it, since they can run an FTPserver on it, a DNSserver, synologys cloudstorage (like dropbox) and a few other mobile services.
All in all, it will cost about $3k plus installation. They love it because the cloudstorage stuff, and the pricepoint, and the guy said the performance should be around 900MB/s (read).

Another solution that they shut down before, is a Dell Poweredge R720 (2x Xeon E5-2630v2,128 GB RAM, 4 x 480 GB SSD, 2x146 15Krpm SAS drives, 2x 10gbe) and a powerVault MD1200 with 12x4TB Nearline SAS. Would run Windows storage spaces, with the SSD's as cache and a Raid 10. A total of $17k with installation and support. Would go down in cost since I see no need too have that much ram or even two cpu's, so I'm thinking it will end around $10-12k

Short about us (or them, I've put in my notice to quit and my last day is in 3 weeks), it's 11 employees, 3 administrative, 6 2d/3d-vfx artists, 1 editors and 1 colorist. Sometimes up to 6 freelancers doing vfx-work.
Working mostly with Maya, Adobe CC, Final Cut and Resolve. Pretty standard workflow, mostly DPX's, TIFs and ProRes. They also want to be able to edit directly on the storage. A small renderfarm with 10 nodes, soon-to-be 20, rendering 75% of the time. (75% windows, 25% osx)

I've been trying to explain the differences between the DELL solution and Synology, why there's a price difference, about redundancy etc, but always get stuck on first step since the spec on paper looks the same,
24TB usable space, 10GBe connection, around 900MB/s from synology, 1200MB/s from the DELL (according to a real-world test our vendor did inhouse). My concerns are more about redundancy, rebuild-times, type of drives, the CPU of synology, support etc.

Do any of you have any experience with either solution, or can see a problem with either one? maybe something positive? Or what they should get? They do have a trust-issue with me, and whatever I think, they won't really listen to me, unless someone externally can confirm my thoughts.

I have no real experience with synology except their home-consumer stuff, which I like, but don't really know what I'm thinking about the DS2015xs. And I can't get the decision-makers to understand why there is a price-difference like that between this synology and every other solution they've got. They are people who never invested in IT at all during their 7 running a company.

P.S. Our current solutions is an Yotta SAN, connected with Fiber to a PC running Nas4Free and shared out with 1 Gbit ethernet connection (the only upgrade I got to do, from the old crappy Hackintosh solutions they used).

Thanks in advance for any thoughts and or questions.

//Gustaf

Help explaining and/or choosing between two different solutions?

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Help explaining and/or choosing between two different solutions?
posted by Ken Spickler on March 4, 2015, 9:20 a.m.
Synology is cheap, and the support level matches that. It's virtually all email-based and response times are often many hours long. If you have a failed drive, that must be dealt with by the drive vendor, not Synology (therefore avoid drives with a 1-year warranty). We use it for a sort-of tier 2-1/2 (files we're finished with, pending deletion within 30-60 days).

We do not have that exact model, but we do have a few 36-drive units with 10GbE and 4TB enterprise-grade WD drives. There's no way they will do 900MB/s. The fastest I've seen is less than 500MB/s. If your vendor is claiming 900MB/s, tell him to prove it with real-word work and not a graph on a PowerPoint.

Go with the Dell for something that would be so critical. Their support is much better, and in many cases they'll send a tech onsite. Have a look at the Dell Outlet website for refurbished equipment, too. It might save you even more money while still getting the same support.

Ken Spickler
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Hi everyone!

I've been trying to get my current workplace to upgrade their storage and network, and now I got a Go for doing something. I'm trying to help them choose, but without much success.
We've got several offers, that they shut down because money-reasons, but somehow got one they like.

Recently they got an suggestion (from someone else) that's based on synology hardware. It's an DS2015xs (https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS2015xs#spec), offered to run with 8 WD RED at 4 TB with synologys hybrid raid 2 (raid 6 equivalent).
They loved it, since they can run an FTPserver on it, a DNSserver, synologys cloudstorage (like dropbox) and a few other mobile services.
All in all, it will cost about $3k plus installation. They love it because the cloudstorage stuff, and the pricepoint, and the guy said the performance should be around 900MB/s (read).

Another solution that they shut down before, is a Dell Poweredge R720 (2x Xeon E5-2630v2,128 GB RAM, 4 x 480 GB SSD, 2x146 15Krpm SAS drives, 2x 10gbe) and a powerVault MD1200 with 12x4TB Nearline SAS. Would run Windows storage spaces, with the SSD's as cache and a Raid 10. A total of $17k with installation and support. Would go down in cost since I see no need too have that much ram or even two cpu's, so I'm thinking it will end around $10-12k

Short about us (or them, I've put in my notice to quit and my last day is in 3 weeks), it's 11 employees, 3 administrative, 6 2d/3d-vfx artists, 1 editors and 1 colorist. Sometimes up to 6 freelancers doing vfx-work.
Working mostly with Maya, Adobe CC, Final Cut and Resolve. Pretty standard workflow, mostly DPX's, TIFs and ProRes. They also want to be able to edit directly on the storage. A small renderfarm with 10 nodes, soon-to-be 20, rendering 75% of the time. (75% windows, 25% osx)

I've been trying to explain the differences between th e DELL solution and Synology, why there's a price difference, about redundancy etc, but always get stuck on first step since the spec on paper looks the same,
24TB usable space, 10GBe connection, around 900MB/s from synology, 1200MB/s from the DELL (according to a real-world test our vendor did inhouse). My concerns are more about redundancy, rebuild-times, type of drives, the CPU of synology, support etc.

Do any of you have any experience with either solution, or can see a problem with either one? maybe something positive? Or what they should get? They do have a trust-issue with me, and whatever I think, they won't really listen to me, unless someone externally can confirm my thoughts.

I have no real experience with synology except their home-consumer stuff, which I like, but don't really know what I'm thinking about the DS2015xs. And I can't get the decision-makers to understand why there is a price-difference like that between this synology an d every other solution they've got. They are people who never invested in IT at all during their 7 running a company.

P.S. Our current solutions is an Yotta SAN, connected with Fiber to a PC running Nas4Free and shared out with 1 Gbit ethernet connection (the only upgrade I got to do, from the old crappy Hackintosh solutions they used).

Thanks in advance for any thoughts and or questions.

//Gustaf

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Synology is cheap, and the support level matches that. It's virtually all email-based and response times are often many hours long. If you have a failed drive, that must be dealt with by the drive vendor, not Synology (therefore avoid drives with a 1-year warranty). We use it for a sort-of tier 2-1/2 (files we're finished with, pending deletion within 30-60 days).

We do not have that exact model, but we do have a few 36-drive units with 10GbE and 4TB enterprise-grade WD drives. There's no way they will do 900MB/s. The fastest I've seen is less than 500MB/s. If your vendor is claiming 900MB/s, tell him to prove it with real-word work and not a graph on a PowerPoint.

Go with the Dell for something that would be so critical. Their support is much better, and in many cases they'll send a tech onsite. Have a look at the Dell Outlet website for refurbished equipment, too. It might save you even more money while still getting the same support.

Ken Spickler
Sent from iPhone. Srry for tpos.

On Mar 4, 2015, at 2:13 AM, Gustaf Larm <content@studiosysadmins.com> wrote:

Hi everyone!

I've been trying to get my current workplace to upgrade their storage and network, and now I got a Go for doing something. I'm trying to help them choose, but without much success.
We've got several offers, that they shut down because money-reasons, but somehow got one they like.

Recently they got an suggestion (from someone else) that's based on synology hardware. It's an DS2015xs (https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS2015xs#spec), offered to run with 8 WD RED at 4 TB with synologys hybrid raid 2 (raid 6 equivalent).
They loved it, since they can run an FTPserver on it, a DNSserver, synologys cloudstorage (like dropbox) and a few other mobile services.
All in all, it will cost about $3k plus installation. They love it because the cloudstorage stuff, and the pricepoint, and the guy said the performance should be around 900MB/s (read).

Another solution that they shut down before, is a Dell Poweredge R720 (2x Xeon E5-2630v2,128 GB RAM, 4 x 480 GB SSD, 2x146 15Krpm SAS drives, 2x 10gbe) and a powerVault MD1200 with 12x4TB Nearline SAS. Would run Windows storage spaces, with the SSD's as cache and a Raid 10. A total of $17k with installation and support. Would go down in cost since I see no need too have that much ram or even two cpu's, so I'm thinking it will end around $10-12k

Short about us (or them, I've put in my notice to quit and my last day is in 3 weeks), it's 11 employees, 3 administrative, 6 2d/3d-vfx artists, 1 editors and 1 colorist. Sometimes up to 6 freelancers doing vfx-work.
Working mostly with Maya, Adobe CC, Final Cut and Resolve. Pretty standard workflow, mostly DPX's, TIFs and ProRes. They also want to be able to edit directly on the storage. A small renderfarm with 10 nodes, soon-to-be 20, rendering 75% of the time. (75% windows, 25% osx)

I've been trying to explain the differences between th e DELL solution and Synology, why there's a price difference, about redundancy etc, but always get stuck on first step since the spec on paper looks the same,
24TB usable space, 10GBe connection, around 900MB/s from synology, 1200MB/s from the DELL (according to a real-world test our vendor did inhouse). My concerns are more about redundancy, rebuild-times, type of drives, the CPU of synology, support etc.

Do any of you have any experience with either solution, or can see a problem with either one? maybe something positive? Or what they should get? They do have a trust-issue with me, and whatever I think, they won't really listen to me, unless someone externally can confirm my thoughts.

I have no real experience with synology except their home-consumer stuff, which I like, but don't really know what I'm thinking about the DS2015xs. And I can't get the decision-makers to understand why there is a price-difference like that between this synology an d every other solution they've got. They are people who never invested in IT at all during their 7 running a company.

P.S. Our current solutions is an Yotta SAN, connected with Fiber to a PC running Nas4Free and shared out with 1 Gbit ethernet connection (the only upgrade I got to do, from the old crappy Hackintosh solutions they used).

Thanks in advance for any thoughts and or questions.

//Gustaf

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Help explaining and/or choosing between two different solutions?

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Help explaining and/or choosing between two different solutions?
posted by Greg Whynott on March 4, 2015, 9:40 a.m.
for the capacity requirements you have stated, I'd be looking to purchase a Supermicro (or if you have the money go with a higher tier vendor and better support such as Dell/HP) box with a built in array. This way you could use ZFS for your storage requirements and enjoy all that a unix box brings, such as FTP.

The device you are looking at I personally would never even consider for a centric to the business use scenario, especially if support is via email only. walk away from that. looks nice for home use or on an editors desk maybe...

The Supermicro/Dell solutions may be more expensive but you have to sell them on the 'instant support', ask them how much money they would lose if you had to wait for a day to get to support and if they are ok with that. One or two incidents would likely cost way more than the difference between an enterprise solution and that which they are considering.

To reduce costs you likely do not need 2 CPUs. Start out with one but have the option to install a second one. If you choose to use ZFS, the more DRAM memory you can afford the better. Your users will love it as some of their requests will be served from memory as opposed to going to disk. If you add a cheap SSD or two, you can have quite a large read cache which will make people happy too. You could further reduce costs by going with a bonded 2,4 or 8 1 gigabit connections to your switch instead of a 10 gig connection, if your requirements allow for that.

-g







On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Ken Spickler <ken.spickler@gmail.com> wrote:
Synology is cheap, and the support level matches that. It's virtually all email-based and response times are often many hours long. If you have a failed drive, that must be dealt with by the drive vendor, not Synology (therefore avoid drives with a 1-year warranty). We use it for a sort-of tier 2-1/2 (files we're finished with, pending deletion within 30-60 days).

We do not have that exact model, but we do have a few 36-drive units with 10GbE and 4TB enterprise-grade WD drives. There's no way they will do 900MB/s. The fastest I've seen is less than 500MB/s. If your vendor is claiming 900MB/s, tell him to prove it with real-word work and not a graph on a PowerPoint.

Go with the Dell for something that would be so critical. Their support is much better, and in many cases they'll send a tech onsite. Have a look at the Dell Outlet website for refurbished equipment, too. It might save you even more money while still getting the same support.

Ken Spickler
Sent from iPhone. Srry for tpos.

On Mar 4, 2015, at 2:13 AM, Gustaf Larm <content@studiosysadmins.com> wrote:

Hi everyone!

I've been trying to get my current workplace to upgrade their storage and network, and now I got a Go for doing something. I'm trying to help them choose, but without much success.
We've got several offers, that they shut down because money-reasons, but somehow got one they like.

Recently they got an suggestion (from someone else) that's based on synology hardware. It's an DS2015xs (https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS2015xs#spec), offered to run with 8 WD RED at 4 TB with synologys hybrid raid 2 (raid 6 equivalent).
They loved it, since they can run an FTPserver on it, a DNSserver, synologys cloudstorage (like dropbox) and a few other mobile services.
All in all, it will cost about $3k plus installation. They love it because the cloudstorage stuff, and the pricepoint, and the guy said the performance should be around 900MB/s (read).

Another solution that they shut down before, is a Dell Poweredge R720 (2x Xeon E5-2630v2,128 GB RAM, 4 x 480 GB SSD, 2x146 15Krpm SAS drives, 2x 10gbe) and a powerVault MD1200 with 12x4TB Nearline SAS. Would run Windows storage spaces, with the SSD's as cache and a Raid 10. A total of $17k with installation and support. Would go down in cost since I see no need too have that much ram or even two cpu's, so I'm thinking it will end around $10-12k

Short about us (or them, I've put in my notice to quit and my last day is in 3 weeks), it's 11 employees, 3 administrative, 6 2d/3d-vfx artists, 1 editors and 1 colorist. Sometimes up to 6 freelancers doing vfx-work.
Working mostly with Maya, Adobe CC, Final Cut and Resolve. Pretty standard workflow, mostly DPX's, TIFs and ProRes. They also want to be able to edit directly on the storage. A small renderfarm with 10 nodes, soon-to-be 20, rendering 75% of the time. (75% windows, 25% osx)

I've been trying to explain the differences between th e DELL solution and Synology, why there's a price difference, about redundancy etc, but always get stuck on first step since the spec on paper looks the same,
24TB usable space, 10GBe connection, around 900MB/s from synology, 1200MB/s from the DELL (according to a real-world test our vendor did inhouse). My concerns are more about redundancy, rebuild-times, type of drives, the CPU of synology, support etc.

Do any of you have any experience with either solution, or can see a problem with either one? maybe something positive? Or what they should get? They do have a trust-issue with me, and whatever I think, they won't really listen to me, unless someone externally can confirm my thoughts.

I have no real experience with synology except their home-consumer stuff, which I like, but don't really know what I'm thinking about the DS2015xs. And I can't get the decision-makers to understand why there is a price-difference like that between this synology an d every other solution they've got. They are people who never invested in IT at all during their 7 running a company.

P.S. Our current solutions is an Yotta SAN, connected with Fiber to a PC running Nas4Free and shared out with 1 Gbit ethernet connection (the only upgrade I got to do, from the old crappy Hackintosh solutions they used).

Thanks in advance for any thoughts and or questions.

//Gustaf

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for the capacity requirements you have stated, I'd be looking to purchase a Supermicro (or if you have the money go with a higher tier vendor and better support such as Dell/HP) box with a built in array. This way you could use ZFS for your storage requirements and enjoy all that a unix box brings, such as FTP.

The device you are looking at I personally would never even consider for a centric to the business use scenario, especially if support is via email only. walk away from that. looks nice for home use or on an editors desk maybe...

The Supermicro/Dell solutions may be more expensive but you have to sell them on the 'instant support', ask them how much money they would lose if you had to wait for a day to get to support and if they are ok with that. One or two incidents would likely cost way more than the difference between an enterprise solution and that which they are considering.

To reduce costs you likely do not need 2 CPUs. Start out with one but have the option to install a second one. If you choose to use ZFS, the more DRAM memory you can afford the better. Your users will love it as some of their requests will be served from memory as opposed to going to disk. If you add a cheap SSD or two, you can have quite a large read cache which will make people happy too. You could further reduce costs by going with a bonded 2,4 or 8 1 gigabit connections to your switch instead of a 10 gig connection, if your requirements allow for that.

-g







On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Ken Spickler <ken.spickler@gmail.com> wrote:
Synology is cheap, and the support level matches that. It's virtually all email-based and response times are often many hours long. If you have a failed drive, that must be dealt with by the drive vendor, not Synology (therefore avoid drives with a 1-year warranty). We use it for a sort-of tier 2-1/2 (files we're finished with, pending deletion within 30-60 days).

We do not have that exact model, but we do have a few 36-drive units with 10GbE and 4TB enterprise-grade WD drives. There's no way they will do 900MB/s. The fastest I've seen is less than 500MB/s. If your vendor is claiming 900MB/s, tell him to prove it with real-word work and not a graph on a PowerPoint.

Go with the Dell for something that would be so critical. Their support is much better, and in many cases they'll send a tech onsite. Have a look at the Dell Outlet website for refurbished equipment, too. It might save you even more money while still getting the same support.

Ken Spickler
Sent from iPhone. Srry for tpos.

On Mar 4, 2015, at 2:13 AM, Gustaf Larm <content@studiosysadmins.com> wrote:

Hi everyone!

I've been trying to get my current workplace to upgrade their storage and network, and now I got a Go for doing something. I'm trying to help them choose, but without much success.
We've got several offers, that they shut down because money-reasons, but somehow got one they like.

Recently they got an suggestion (from someone else) that's based on synology hardware. It's an DS2015xs (https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS2015xs#spec), offered to run with 8 WD RED at 4 TB with synologys hybrid raid 2 (raid 6 equivalent).
They loved it, since they can run an FTPserver on it, a DNSserver, synologys cloudstorage (like dropbox) and a few other mobile services.
All in all, it will cost about $3k plus installation. They love it because the cloudstorage stuff, and the pricepoint, and the guy said the performance should be around 900MB/s (read).

Another solution that they shut down before, is a Dell Poweredge R720 (2x Xeon E5-2630v2,128 GB RAM, 4 x 480 GB SSD, 2x146 15Krpm SAS drives, 2x 10gbe) and a powerVault MD1200 with 12x4TB Nearline SAS. Would run Windows storage spaces, with the SSD's as cache and a Raid 10. A total of $17k with installation and support. Would go down in cost since I see no need too have that much ram or even two cpu's, so I'm thinking it will end around $10-12k

Short about us (or them, I've put in my notice to quit and my last day is in 3 weeks), it's 11 employees, 3 administrative, 6 2d/3d-vfx artists, 1 editors and 1 colorist. Sometimes up to 6 freelancers doing vfx-work.
Working mostly with Maya, Adobe CC, Final Cut and Resolve. Pretty standard workflow, mostly DPX's, TIFs and ProRes. They also want to be able to edit directly on the storage. A small renderfarm with 10 nodes, soon-to-be 20, rendering 75% of the time. (75% windows, 25% osx)

I've been trying to explain the differences between th e DELL solution and Synology, why there's a price difference, about redundancy etc, but always get stuck on first step since the spec on paper looks the same,
24TB usable space, 10GBe connection, around 900MB/s from synology, 1200MB/s from the DELL (according to a real-world test our vendor did inhouse). My concerns are more about redundancy, rebuild-times, type of drives, the CPU of synology, support etc.

Do any of you have any experience with either solution, or can see a problem with either one? maybe something positive? Or what they should get? They do have a trust-issue with me, and whatever I think, they won't really listen to me, unless someone externally can confirm my thoughts.

I have no real experience with synology except their home-consumer stuff, which I like, but don't really know what I'm thinking about the DS2015xs. And I can't get the decision-makers to understand why there is a price-difference like that between this synology an d every other solution they've got. They are people who never invested in IT at all during their 7 running a company.

P.S. Our current solutions is an Yotta SAN, connected with Fiber to a PC running Nas4Free and shared out with 1 Gbit ethernet connection (the only upgrade I got to do, from the old crappy Hackintosh solutions they used).

Thanks in advance for any thoughts and or questions.

//Gustaf

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Discount on CFEngine training in Austin, Texas

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Discount on CFEngine training in Austin, Texas
posted by Aleksey Tsalolikhin on March 4, 2015, 10:25 a.m.
Hello,

I'm holding another CFEngine training (Austin, Texas; March 23-27).

We offer StudioSysadmins members a 20% discount on registration (https://cfengine.eventbrite.com/?discount=SSA)

Student success:

It was more in-depth and intensive than most of the vendor training
things I've gone to. Good attention to detail and making sure all
points were understood.
--MichaelStevens

Thank you for your support.

Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Vertical Sysadmin, Inc.
sysadmin training provider
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Hello,

I'm holding another CFEngine training (Austin, Texas; March 23-27).

We offer StudioSysadmins members a 20% discount on registration (https://cfengine.eventbrite.com/?discount=SSA)

Student success:

It was more in-depth and intensive than most of the vendor training
things I've gone to. Good attention to detail and making sure all
points were understood.
--MichaelStevens

Thank you for your support.

Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Vertical Sysadmin, Inc.
sysadmin training provider

Help explaining and/or choosing between two different solutions?

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Help explaining and/or choosing between two different solutions?
posted by Todd Smith on March 4, 2015, 11:35 a.m.
Ahh there it is, don't know how I missed that.



Todd Smith
Head of Information Technology

soho vfx 
99 Atlantic Ave. Suite 303, Toronto, Ontario M6K 3J8


He did. Read first post.

8 spindles not enough for what they want to do +users +render farm expansion and editing off storage. 

Dell is a waste of money and spencer wrong.


Get a supermicro box, single 8 core processor 2.x ghz / 64 gb ram, LSI raid card , 4 Samsung SSD's for cache via LSI  and some  3/4TB drives . Fill this chassis up. Install widows 2012 or Linux. But sounds like they need windows as no one there Prob knows Linux after you leave. 2012 has snapshots and all the fancy stuff.. Easy to manage. DNS , ftp etc... 


Also do they even backup?




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Ahh there it is, don't know how I missed that.



Todd Smith
Head of Information Technology

soho vfx 
99 Atlantic Ave. Suite 303, Toronto, Ontario M6K 3J8


He did. Read first post.

8 spindles not enough for what they want to do +users +render farm expansion and editing off storage. 

Dell is a waste of money and spencer wrong.


Get a supermicro box, single 8 core processor 2.x ghz / 64 gb ram, LSI raid card , 4 Samsung SSD's for cache via LSI  and some  3/4TB drives . Fill this chassis up. Install widows 2012 or Linux. But sounds like they need windows as no one there Prob knows Linux after you leave. 2012 has snapshots and all the fancy stuff.. Easy to manage. DNS , ftp etc... 


Also do they even backup?




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Help explaining and/or choosing between two different solutions?

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Help explaining and/or choosing between two different solutions?
posted by Jeremy Webber on March 4, 2015, 5:10 p.m. (1 day ago)
We recently lost all data on 2 out of 2 Synology units, due to software - not hardware - issues.

In one case there was no hardware failure at all, the unit simply refused to see any data after a routine OS upgrade (point and click in the GUI thingy). And the backup data (copied to another Synology using Synology sync) was bad also. But the Synology health widget shows that both systems were perfectly fine!

In the other case, there was a single drive failure (RAID 6) and then the unit failed to rebuild the RAID from the hot spare. After ensuring we no longer required any data on the unit (having been burnt once), we rebooted on Synology supports recommendation, and again, no data visible.

In both cases, Synology support was was useless. It took them days to respond, even though we told them that the device was not serving data. Called their US support number, the person refused to help us and told us to send an email.

And, when they eventually did get around to remote logging into the units, their conclusion was the data is there somewhere, but we cannot access it.

I found a number of other customer reports in their support forums with similar issues.

Good luck, and keep good (independent) backups!
  Jeremy

On 4 Mar 2015, at 9:13 pm, Gustaf Larm <content@studiosysadmins.com> wrote:

Recently they got an suggestion (from someone else) that's based on synology hardware. It's an DS2015xs (https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS2015xs#spec), offered to run with 8 WD RED at 4 TB with synologys hybrid raid 2 (raid 6 equivalent).

-- 
Jeremy Webber
Senior Systems Engineer
Animal Logic Pty Ltd
T: +61 2 8310 3577
M: +61 2 9383 4800
F: +61 2 9383 4801


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We recently lost all data on 2 out of 2 Synology units, due to software - not hardware - issues.

In one case there was no hardware failure at all, the unit simply refused to see any data after a routine OS upgrade (point and click in the GUI thingy). And the backup data (copied to another Synology using Synology sync) was bad also. But the Synology health widget shows that both systems were perfectly fine!

In the other case, there was a single drive failure (RAID 6) and then the unit failed to rebuild the RAID from the hot spare. After ensuring we no longer required any data on the unit (having been burnt once), we rebooted on Synology supports recommendation, and again, no data visible.

In both cases, Synology support was was useless. It took them days to respond, even though we told them that the device was not serving data. Called their US support number, the person refused to help us and told us to send an email.

And, when they eventually did get around to remote logging into the units, their conclusion was the data is there somewhere, but we cannot access it.

I found a number of other customer reports in their support forums with similar issues.

Good luck, and keep good (independent) backups!
  Jeremy

On 4 Mar 2015, at 9:13 pm, Gustaf Larm <content@studiosysadmins.com> wrote:

Recently they got an suggestion (from someone else) that's based on synology hardware. It's an DS2015xs (https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS2015xs#spec), offered to run with 8 WD RED at 4 TB with synologys hybrid raid 2 (raid 6 equivalent).

-- 
Jeremy Webber
Senior Systems Engineer
Animal Logic Pty Ltd
T: +61 2 8310 3577
M: +61 2 9383 4800
F: +61 2 9383 4801


HNAS/BA CLI command grab?

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HNAS/BA CLI command grab?
posted by Dan Young on March 4, 2015, 9:45 p.m. (1 day ago)
Hey guys,

I'm trying to make some tools by way of Python modules that wrap BlueArc/HNAS CLI commands - and the CLI reference is amazing - but I'm not finding something I desperately need, so I'm wondering if;

1) There's a logger of some kind that logs all web GUI inputs as CLI commands?

As in, if I do it in a web browser, can I figure out what that's doing under the hood on the cluster when I hit go?

2) If anyone knows if I simply cannot do what I want to do?

What I'm trying to do, is create a File Replication Policy, which moves a vivol from a filesystem where it's currently living to another filesystem (which can be found on the webGUI at Home > Data Protection > File Replication > Policy Destination Type > Add Policy) - which basically uses the same path for the Vivols (so there is "no change" to the operator), then creates a Schedule for that policy, runs the policy, deletes the policy and schedule for it, then does the Transfer Primary Access thing, rmtree's the old structure, etc.

Seemingly, there's;

- replication-policy-create
- replication-policy-delete
- replication-schedule-create
- replication-schedule-delete

Which sound good, but when you crack open their actual command reference, it's missing some pretty critical things (like the option to do anything but snapshots?! or use my migration policies?)

Kind of a bummer - essentially I'm trying to make data management tools for operators with high-level understanding of shot activity - whilst trying to make it as easy as possible for them to migrate things on their own without having administrative access to the entire HNAS or BlueArc.

Interested in any comments about BlueArc or HNAS as we have both, and the CLI is pretty similar between the both of them. (one is v10.1, the other is 12.2)

Thanks!
DY
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Hey guys,

I'm trying to make some tools by way of Python modules that wrap BlueArc/HNAS CLI commands - and the CLI reference is amazing - but I'm not finding something I desperately need, so I'm wondering if;

1) There's a logger of some kind that logs all web GUI inputs as CLI commands?

As in, if I do it in a web browser, can I figure out what that's doing under the hood on the cluster when I hit go?

2) If anyone knows if I simply cannot do what I want to do?

What I'm trying to do, is create a File Replication Policy, which moves a vivol from a filesystem where it's currently living to another filesystem (which can be found on the webGUI at Home > Data Protection > File Replication > Policy Destination Type > Add Policy) - which basically uses the same path for the Vivols (so there is "no change" to the operator), then creates a Schedule for that policy, runs the policy, deletes the policy and schedule for it, then does the Transfer Primary Access thing, rmtree's the old structure, etc.

Seemingly, there's;

- replication-policy-create
- replication-policy-delete
- replication-schedule-create
- replication-schedule-delete

Which sound good, but when you crack open their actual command reference, it's missing some pretty critical things (like the option to do anything but snapshots?! or use my migration policies?)

Kind of a bummer - essentially I'm trying to make data management tools for operators with high-level understanding of shot activity - whilst trying to make it as easy as possible for them to migrate things on their own without having administrative access to the entire HNAS or BlueArc.

Interested in any comments about BlueArc or HNAS as we have both, and the CLI is pretty similar between the both of them. (one is v10.1, the other is 12.2)

Thanks!
DY
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