VMware Fusion Zevo contingency plan

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Re: VMware Fusion Zevo contingency plan

Post by ilovezfs » Tue Jun 25, 2013 5:59 pm

monkeyfoahead wrote:Another thought I just had: Why not just dual boot lion and mavericks? I'll just only boot into mavericks when I need features that it supplies over lion (see opengl 4.1). That should buy me several years for this zfs business to sort itself out.

Better idea :idea:: buy one of those drool-worthy new Mac Pros coming out in the fall, and keep the old Pro as a ZFS server. :mrgreen:
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Re: VMware Fusion Zevo contingency plan

Post by lundman » Wed Jun 26, 2013 12:14 am

I got the rawDisk to work ok, but it asks for a password every time I boot. I did try to use the vmware-auth thingy to NeverAsk, but it just ignores it :)
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Re: VMware Fusion Zevo contingency plan

Post by monkeyfoahead » Wed Jun 26, 2013 10:30 am

ilovezfs wrote:
monkeyfoahead wrote:Another thought I just had: Why not just dual boot lion and mavericks? I'll just only boot into mavericks when I need features that it supplies over lion (see opengl 4.1). That should buy me several years for this zfs business to sort itself out.

Better idea :idea:: buy one of those drool-worthy new Mac Pros coming out in the fall, and keep the old Pro as a ZFS server. :mrgreen:

Ha believe me, I wish I could afford this! Although, the new pro kind of scares me. Don't get me wrong, it is a very cool design. It just looks a little too proprietary for me. The whole reason I bought a Mac Pro was so that I had the freedom to put whatever I want in it. Also, size has never mattered to me. I'd buy a computer the size of a IBM server rack if it meant more space and less cost.
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Re: VMware Fusion Zevo contingency plan

Post by ilovezfs » Wed Jun 26, 2013 10:53 am

You mean they're not giving them away for free? Damn it.

The new Pro has 6 Thunderbolt 2 ports, so you can effectively put whatever you want "in" it using these:
http://store1.sonnettech.com/product_in ... cts_id=423

By the way, your "fear" of the VMware solution has me thinking you don't have an actual backup independent of your raidz2. ZFS is not a backup...
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Re: VMware Fusion Zevo contingency plan

Post by ilovezfs » Wed Jun 26, 2013 11:04 am

lundman wrote:I got the rawDisk to work ok, but it asks for a password every time I boot. I did try to use the vmware-auth thingy to NeverAsk, but it just ignores it :)

I think there's a setting for this in Virtual Machine --> Settings --> Advanced if the VM is for an actual Boot Camp partition. Maybe there's a way to "trick it" into exposing the setting.

http://pubs.vmware.com/fusion-5/index.j ... %2522%2520
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Re: VMware Fusion Zevo contingency plan

Post by monkeyfoahead » Wed Jun 26, 2013 1:59 pm

ilovezfs wrote:You mean they're not giving them away for free? Damn it.

The new Pro has 6 Thunderbolt 2 ports, so you can effectively put whatever you want "in" it using these:
http://store1.sonnettech.com/product_in ... cts_id=423

By the way, your "fear" of the VMware solution has me thinking you don't have an actual backup independent of your raidz2. ZFS is not a backup...


I'm aware of the Thunderbolt. I prefer internal housing of my components. That's just my preference.

As for the ZFS not a back up, I'm well aware of this also. I'm too poor to afford 12TB of backup storage lol.
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Re: VMware Fusion Zevo contingency plan

Post by ilovezfs » Wed Jun 26, 2013 6:27 pm

monkeyfoahead wrote:As for the ZFS not a back up, I'm well aware of this also. I'm too poor to afford 12TB of backup storage lol.

Have you considered Backblaze ($5/month) http://www.backblaze.com or CrashPlan ($6/month) http://www.crashplan.com ?
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Re: VMware Fusion Zevo contingency plan

Post by monkeyfoahead » Thu Jun 27, 2013 10:18 am

ilovezfs wrote:
monkeyfoahead wrote:As for the ZFS not a back up, I'm well aware of this also. I'm too poor to afford 12TB of backup storage lol.

Have you considered Backblaze ($5/month) http://www.backblaze.com or CrashPlan ($6/month) http://www.crashplan.com ?


:o I was unaware that unlimited backup services existed! Do you use these?
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Need Help with a Backup Solution - there's discussion of Amazon, Arq, Backblaze, CrashPlan and more.
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Re: VMware Fusion Zevo contingency plan

Post by ilovezfs » Thu Jun 27, 2013 9:23 pm

monkeyfoahead wrote: :o I was unaware that unlimited backup services existed! Do you use these?

I have a CrashPlan subscription.
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