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Since we're speaking of the hardware side, is there any way to use my laptop as a VGA KVM for hooking up to hosts? Like a USB dongle with a VGA Input with USB Virtual KVM? I've never had a situation where there wasn't a spare monitor and Keyboard mouse in a server room, but it would be nice not to have to locate these items.
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Whoa, niiice. Yes that is what I was talking about. awesome, now to justify the cost!
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DevNull posted:Yeah, I actually tried the USB-serial on my Macbook Air first, and couldn't get any drivers to work. I am not installing linux on an old box that has a serial port. I guess I need to find a laptop with a serial port. I wrangled with this a bit and found a combination that works for me. I've been using a rMBP on mavericks without a crash, but admittedly I don't run faster than 9600 bps. This one uses the FTDI chip AND has pinout lights, woooo http://smile.amazon.com/GearMo%C2%AE-RS-232-Adapter-Indicators-Support/dp/B00AHYJWWG with the FTDI drivers http://www.ftdichip.com/FTDrivers.htm which I learned about from this site http://pbxbook.com/other/mac-tty.html
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Thanks Ants posted:Do people have an opinion one way or the other on the Windows cluster-in-a-box products like the Fujitsu CX420? One SKU gets you the chassis, two nodes, shared storage, and 2x Windows Server Datacenter licenses. I've played with a VRTX, they are mighty cool. I would recommend it for anyone who needs a smaller cluster. The footprint reduction alone makes it attractive and it has a lot of nice redundancy features. Obviously you still need somewhere to move VMs if you need to power off the chassis.
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Oct 1, 2014 15:31
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Nukelear v.2 posted:I was going to post that this options disables the controller cache, but it seems that as of two days ago they put out firmware that fixes that. It's actually a viable option now. Does this fix also make them hot-swappable?
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Wicaeed posted:What kinds of companies are heavily invested in VMware? Anyone using computers in manufacturing has already decided on their highly available solution. My parent company is already invested in the Microsoft Ecosystem, so even though we want to use VMware we have to use Hyper-V. We still end up using VMware workstation and fusion for portables, because of the whole "no local USB" thing until your HyperV host is W8.1 and running a V2 guest.
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