VSAN has proven unreliable in our environment, with no real answers from VMWare. We have pulled it from production do to machines just dropping offline when a disk has timing issues.
Yes, we used nothing but VMWare approved hardware and run in a sanitized environment. They can't explain what is wrong, and haven't been able to fix the issue. Unstable environments aren't "Enterprise" ready.
VSAN looked promising, and the promises were such that we bought it. The reality is that it isn't ready IMHO. We wish we could get our money back. Yeah, it is that bad.
They aren't a fucking socialist community organizer from a corrupt district in Chicago, who friends our enemies, and makes enemies of our friends. But hey, he smoked dope... and that is kinda the whole point.
And now focus on the missing part of the question, how much does it cost to go from place to place by rail, and how often does it run?
I'll give you a hint. I just drove from Nor Cal to Seattle and back, and it took around 12 hours each way driving. There were four of us in the vehicle, which didn't get great mileage. Total cost of the trip was around 175 in fuel. Traveling by train would have taken around 1.5 times longer , and cost per person one way at around $90 each ($1440 total for all four) and on a limited schedule.
Tell me, why would I go slower, pay more and only have two chances to get on board?
Now, you may argue that it would cost less if more people would use it. Fine, but airfares between the two closest airports is $79 ea way (still less) and much faster than any train. Again, explain to my why paying more, having less flexibilty and slower makes any sense?
Trains, do not make sense except in some weird sort of romantic liberal rose tinted world.
I didn't even begin to propose consolidation. I proposed removing the last mile from the equation.
My house to COLO facility, infrastructure maintained by Municipality. (Fiber to my house)
At the COLO, I (the customer) can choose between any one of a number of providers, free from Government mandates and franchise agreements, and free to offer up whatever services at whatever prices they want.
We at Archangel's house already have Fiber buried underneath our driveway. It already exists. (yes, I saw them pull it). It didn't even require digging up the street OR the driveway. They did an Horizontal drill and pulled conduit and fiber though the conduit. Amazing huh? OH and you didn't read my original suggestion.
Last mile is the problem, remove the problem by back hauling all the fiber to a COLO where you offer customers to a variety of providers.
Again, government is the solution to government created monopoly. Naturally occurring monopolies are fairly rare.
AND you're missing my main point, the problem IS last mile. Why would you keep insisting that a single company own/control the last mile, when if you remove that from the equation, it opens up free markets? We don't need ATT at the last mile, we need ATT, Sprint, Comcast, Verizon... all competing for the last mile customer. Let me, the customer, decide which provider I want, and real competition will change the marketplace.
People proposing more Passenger Rail in the US, don't understand a few things, and typically are comparing the US to some small European country (like Denmark).
This creates huge problems for people who think France is big. Who in Europe would take a train from Madrid to Tel Aviv ? Yet these same people would be happy to tell us that we should build a rail line from LA to Atlanta. Or Seattle to New York. Or San Francisco to DC.
My first point is that people from Europe (I have French relatives) who don't have a clue how big the US actually is.
Second, we already have High Speed Rail here, they are called Airplanes. For most case scenarios, Air travel works much better than HSR does. It is less expensive, faster and more convenient than HSR. But they aren't as romantic as "trains" for some reason.
I am intrigued by the notion of a hyperloop for intermediate distance travel. Espeicially if it could incorporate travel from city centers (downtown) to suburban neighborhoods. On demand travel of intermediate distances would be a huge benefit to most cities.
I am not opposed to building out mass transit systems, but they have to make sense beyond some romantic notion or socialist utopia viewpoint.
Once again, we see the government stepping in to solve a problem private industry wouldn't touch.
The problem you describe, is caused by government in the first place. In this case, municipalities offering up "Franchise" agreements to ONE company for Cable (not Fiber) and excluding all others.
Yes, this is typical "Government" causing a problem that only it can solve by itself. And not really solving ANY problems in the long run, but actually causing MORE problems than needed.
IF the Municipalities instead built a single COLO facility and brought fiber to every residence or business (or at least Conduit), we could have private enterprise competing for customers, without needing a franchise agreement. BUT nobody thinks along those lines, and thus, we have government solving problems, that create more problems, that only government can solve!
And in the end, you have bureaucrats and politicians taking over more and more control of our lives, while people like yourself blame businesses for doing exactly what governments are telling them what they can and cannot do!
Capitalism says nothing about your value as a person or as a living being.
But our founding documents DO say what our value is as human beings. "We hold these truths to be self evident..." is something Liberals tend to forget, because they only value people by what they can tax them for, or by some other "group" political worth.
All systems have "in theory" and all systems have "in reality". In theory, Socialism sounds fantastic. In reality it sucks because eventually it breaks down at individual, when they realize that working hard doesn't pay nearly as much as sponging off the system as much as you can get.
I would postulate that Monopolies are eventually self defeating in pure capitalism. The problem is, we are impatient beings and don't want to wait for that to happen.
Imagine a world where we didn't break up Standard Oil, and some guy invented some sort of means of producing power cheaply and effectively other than Petrol. Say someone like N. Tesla? Imagine the total lack of CO2 problems we have today, because we never had cheap oil!
Oh wait, we can't, because it never happened. Opportunity costs are real, and most people don't have a clue how they work. Capitalism doesn't care about anything other than efficiency and costs. We cannot know what could have been. We only can know what is. And we are too dumb to let things sort themselves out because we get all emotional and do irrational things, rationalizing why we do them.
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This drive isn't for you. it is for people who need the IOPS and storage density, such as Huge Databases.
VSAN has proven unreliable in our environment, with no real answers from VMWare. We have pulled it from production do to machines just dropping offline when a disk has timing issues.
Yes, we used nothing but VMWare approved hardware and run in a sanitized environment. They can't explain what is wrong, and haven't been able to fix the issue. Unstable environments aren't "Enterprise" ready.
VSAN looked promising, and the promises were such that we bought it. The reality is that it isn't ready IMHO. We wish we could get our money back. Yeah, it is that bad.
Bernie?? Oh wait, nope, he is gonna expand just about every tax out there ... to pay for all the "free" stuff he is giving away.
Okay. It looks like you're trolling /. , which of the following do you wish to use*?
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They aren't a fucking socialist community organizer from a corrupt district in Chicago, who friends our enemies, and makes enemies of our friends. But hey, he smoked dope ... and that is kinda the whole point.
Someone who isn't a Nazi
You can't mean "Hillary", can you? I would rather drive a nail through my scrotum than vote for that ____________ (fill in the blank insult)
And if you say, "but at least she isn't as bad as ________" ... she is just as bad, maybe worse in just about every category that actually matters.
And now focus on the missing part of the question, how much does it cost to go from place to place by rail, and how often does it run?
I'll give you a hint. I just drove from Nor Cal to Seattle and back, and it took around 12 hours each way driving. There were four of us in the vehicle, which didn't get great mileage. Total cost of the trip was around 175 in fuel. Traveling by train would have taken around 1.5 times longer , and cost per person one way at around $90 each ($1440 total for all four) and on a limited schedule.
Tell me, why would I go slower, pay more and only have two chances to get on board?
Now, you may argue that it would cost less if more people would use it. Fine, but airfares between the two closest airports is $79 ea way (still less) and much faster than any train. Again, explain to my why paying more, having less flexibilty and slower makes any sense?
Trains, do not make sense except in some weird sort of romantic liberal rose tinted world.
Vote for Trump == Vote for satan
Vote for Hillary == Vote for satan
don't vote for either.
Where is the +1 and/or "Like" button?
have you been to Texas? Mostly cows and tumbleweeds.
Paris to Lyon is about the same distance as Dalla to Galveston
Hey look there is a rail line between the two. http://ftp.dot.state.tx.us/pub...
Jackass youself,
I didn't even begin to propose consolidation. I proposed removing the last mile from the equation.
My house to COLO facility, infrastructure maintained by Municipality. (Fiber to my house)
At the COLO, I (the customer) can choose between any one of a number of providers, free from Government mandates and franchise agreements, and free to offer up whatever services at whatever prices they want.
Great! You want us to become more like Russia and China, and fail to see the real connection between trains and economic systems ;)
Except Rail costs more, takes longer, and isn't in rail cars for much of the trip in many cases.
Exactly my point. Except you probably missed my point.
I think laying fiber is more complicated than that. The rights of way can be awfully complex
Rights of way are easily solvable if the Municipality actually built the last mile infrastructure.
Government SHOULD build the infrastructure. Think Roads. The last mile is the roads, but we let UPS, FedEx and the USPS all use them to deliver mail.
Dear Stupid AC,
We at Archangel's house already have Fiber buried underneath our driveway. It already exists. (yes, I saw them pull it). It didn't even require digging up the street OR the driveway. They did an Horizontal drill and pulled conduit and fiber though the conduit. Amazing huh? OH and you didn't read my original suggestion.
Last mile is the problem, remove the problem by back hauling all the fiber to a COLO where you offer customers to a variety of providers.
Again, government is the solution to government created monopoly. Naturally occurring monopolies are fairly rare.
AND you're missing my main point, the problem IS last mile. Why would you keep insisting that a single company own/control the last mile, when if you remove that from the equation, it opens up free markets? We don't need ATT at the last mile, we need ATT, Sprint, Comcast, Verizon ... all competing for the last mile customer. Let me, the customer, decide which provider I want, and real competition will change the marketplace.
People proposing more Passenger Rail in the US, don't understand a few things, and typically are comparing the US to some small European country (like Denmark).
First, the USA is quite large, compared to Europe. See: http://i.imgur.com/GML5Ei0.png
This creates huge problems for people who think France is big. Who in Europe would take a train from Madrid to Tel Aviv ? Yet these same people would be happy to tell us that we should build a rail line from LA to Atlanta. Or Seattle to New York. Or San Francisco to DC.
My first point is that people from Europe (I have French relatives) who don't have a clue how big the US actually is.
Second, we already have High Speed Rail here, they are called Airplanes. For most case scenarios, Air travel works much better than HSR does. It is less expensive, faster and more convenient than HSR. But they aren't as romantic as "trains" for some reason.
I am intrigued by the notion of a hyperloop for intermediate distance travel. Espeicially if it could incorporate travel from city centers (downtown) to suburban neighborhoods. On demand travel of intermediate distances would be a huge benefit to most cities.
I am not opposed to building out mass transit systems, but they have to make sense beyond some romantic notion or socialist utopia viewpoint.
Once again, we see the government stepping in to solve a problem private industry wouldn't touch.
The problem you describe, is caused by government in the first place. In this case, municipalities offering up "Franchise" agreements to ONE company for Cable (not Fiber) and excluding all others.
Yes, this is typical "Government" causing a problem that only it can solve by itself. And not really solving ANY problems in the long run, but actually causing MORE problems than needed.
IF the Municipalities instead built a single COLO facility and brought fiber to every residence or business (or at least Conduit), we could have private enterprise competing for customers, without needing a franchise agreement. BUT nobody thinks along those lines, and thus, we have government solving problems, that create more problems, that only government can solve!
And in the end, you have bureaucrats and politicians taking over more and more control of our lives, while people like yourself blame businesses for doing exactly what governments are telling them what they can and cannot do!
Capitalism says nothing about your value as a person or as a living being.
But our founding documents DO say what our value is as human beings. "We hold these truths to be self evident ..." is something Liberals tend to forget, because they only value people by what they can tax them for, or by some other "group" political worth.
Where is the liberty in enslaving the working class in the name of Progressive politics?
Taxes in support of progressive social policies are slavery (see 13th Amendment)
reading comprehension 0%
He never said he was in support of slavery. He said it was once a reality, and decisions based on that reality were at that time logical.
In fact, if you read his whole post, he says this ... " People who own themselves and get money and gratitude for work well done are better employees."
Which basically says the opposite of what you think he said.
All systems have "in theory" and all systems have "in reality". In theory, Socialism sounds fantastic. In reality it sucks because eventually it breaks down at individual, when they realize that working hard doesn't pay nearly as much as sponging off the system as much as you can get.
I would postulate that Monopolies are eventually self defeating in pure capitalism. The problem is, we are impatient beings and don't want to wait for that to happen.
Imagine a world where we didn't break up Standard Oil, and some guy invented some sort of means of producing power cheaply and effectively other than Petrol. Say someone like N. Tesla? Imagine the total lack of CO2 problems we have today, because we never had cheap oil!
Oh wait, we can't, because it never happened. Opportunity costs are real, and most people don't have a clue how they work. Capitalism doesn't care about anything other than efficiency and costs. We cannot know what could have been. We only can know what is. And we are too dumb to let things sort themselves out because we get all emotional and do irrational things, rationalizing why we do them.