iogear is pretty popular for kvm
That reminds me, does anyone know of any desktops that do have IPMI, or similar. I remember seeing demo videos of people VNCing into the bios of an Intel vPro machine, but that technology doesn't seem to have reached the real world
i think supermicro desktops have ipmi
my laptop has vpro...a lenovo t61p. but it was the first thing i disabled after purchase. don't know what it is capable of
up_the_irons: That's interesting. Their SuperWorkstations do say they have IPMI. But they appear to just be their normal Xeon server boards in a tower case. I was ideally looking for small and cheap i3 or i5
plett: keep looking, they have tons of configs.  even their atom servers have ipmi now. (~ $250, just add ram! ;)
i have one sitting next to me
up_the_irons: That's in a rack mount case though, rather than a tower?
yeah
And yes, I use a load of supermicro kit at work. I like the little atom servers. We use them as customer-facing DNS resolvers, etc
ah cool
Things that don't need much processing power, but which are too important to virtualise onto a platform that might depend on them being there
Ahh. They do exist. http://www.supermicro.co.uk/products/system/midtower/
what would you guys recommend as a good server backup software (e.g. for  your VMs) that supports all three: Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD?
my thinking: for less technical users that don't know exactly how to set up their own backups, i'd like to provide some docs, or installation help
duplicity?
rdiff-backup?
it appears duplicity runs on them all...
rsync? :P
CaZe: thing is rsync won't perserve perms, file attribs, etc.. etc.. unless you also have root on the backup server (which customers won't have)
CaZe: so you need something that handles that meta data (e.g. rdiff-backup, duplicity, etc...)
bacula is popular among some in here
plett: cool, you found some :)
plett: this one would be my pick: http://www.supermicro.co.uk/products/system/tower/5037/SYS-5037C-i.cfm
looks like around $300 USD
hmm... but i don't see IPMI, bah
up_the_irons: Wow. A built in Matrox G200! I haven't used one of those in years
lol
hello anybody can help? just got a few questions..
up_the_irons: deja-dup is a very user-friendly (gui) frontend to duplicity. Ubuntu uses it iirc
did IPv6 just die?
Anyone else seeing IPv6 issues?
twobithacker, staticsafe: lteo did
:p
twobithacker: yes i did :)
can't ping ipv6.google.com at the moment. no responses
Looks like we're having some fun packet loss style
i'm a long-time customer!
:o
I don't even know how long I've been with ARPNetworks
Years now
ima newb :( 6mo something
Oct 2012 here
up_the_irons: for backup i'd say go with duplicity
up_the_irons: probably a good idea to include a mention of sshfs (and the like)
phlux: tim spent in this channel tends to indicate ops + being a customer, customer alone, well, .. ;-)