@Jimmy9008 said in Disk2VHD M.2:

No luck. Upon starting VM:

These are added as SCSI disks. The boot disk is M.2 drive. I think it needs to be added to the VM as an M.2 drive, but guess HyperV doesn't support that yet...

M.2 literally has zero to do with it.

It doesn't matter if you use disk2vhd on ide, scsi, iscsi, ssd, usb, m.2, nvme, lmnop, xyz, etc.

What matters is that you capture all needed volumes needed for boot, such as c volume, system, esi, whatever is needed for secure boot and uefi if that's used.

If you can't boot, verify you captured more than just the c drive, and also got the system volumes.

Then if you don't know, try the different combinations of gen1/2, secureboot.

Question... Did your desktop use uefi and secure boot or bios? I can tell you exactly what settings to use and capture on your original disk.

@Dashrender said in SMB vs Enterprise:

I don't know if this is true or not, but I'm hearing this is the case regarding Muslims in the UK. There are sections of the UK where the police don't even go because Sharia Law is taking over.

You need to stop following Donald Trump on Twitter :)

December 18, 2009

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/84516-xfps-3-or-4-cheating-or-not

Thanks for posting this!

I managed to get every module in DuoLingo Spanish to full gold.

Last few Naruto episodes in preparation of tomorrow's DVD release.

Final hour of the Phantom Castle (game timer was apparently wrong earlier).

Welcome @mpatrick

A CPA at a farm and one for a restaurant across town do essentially the same job and can fill in for each other easily. Two IT people at two different businesses might have careers that are nothing alike.

@Dashrender The app doesn't have ads :)

@DustinB3403 said in Monitoring Systems:

Grafana is pretty cool looking.

Here's a simple dashboard I built for a few VMs at home to show load.

This is a really detailed one that is tabbed. I couldn't possible show all of it.

@wirestyle22 But your drill sergeant would want you on the team always so do not lose sleep over it :)

@JaredBusch said in Korora Desktop Rollcall:

Dell Inspiron 5000 series 2in1 no keyboard in tablet mode, but haven't looked into it yet. Macbook Pro late 2011 hibernate issues Dell Optiplex something from 2012 no known issues yet

I know Gnome has the on screen keyboard. There might be one you can install and call from a shortcut.

@scottalanmiller said in Port from SW - Salt master rsa key issue:

@dgingerich said in Port from SW - Salt master rsa key issue:

@scottalanmiller said in Port from SW - Salt master rsa key issue:

@dgingerich said in Port from SW - Salt master rsa key issue:

@scottalanmiller said in Port from SW - Salt master rsa key issue:

@dgingerich said in Port from SW - Salt master rsa key issue:

There's a lot of customization in the iptables config and other areas that are scripted so that future systems could be deployed quickly.

If that was handled in Salt, it would be all automated so that it would solve this problem, rather than create it. That's actually a reason to use Salt in that case.

The production stack has Salt working. It's the QA stack that doesn't. The production stack is 62 servers, and needs Salt. The QA stack is just 8 servers plus 2 management servers, and the salt config is supposed to be the same, but adjusted for other system names. I don't have the Salt skills to adjust the Salt scripts to work for the QA stack.

Hmmm... might want to pressure your Salt guy to automate that. In theory, you could have something like QA in the name that designates that for the future.

Yeah, the reason I'm in the middle of all this is because our Salt guy is on his honeymoon in Italy this week, and the UK next week. So, he's not going to be of much help for a while.

That was not good timing!

Fun story: He's planned this for a year. He married his wife a year ago in the US to allow her to stay in the country, to then have a real ceremony on their 1 year anniversary with her family and go on their honeymoon. In January, our company got bought out, specifically because our technology was far better than the other company's, yet they had better sales contacts and more business, and the new CTO has a very special and fast timeline for converting some of our apps to cloud for use by our new coworkers. That plan just happened to step on our Systems Engineer's wedding plans that were not able to be changed. So, we got stuck in this mess. Sometimes, various things just make the perfect storm.

@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

@JaredBusch said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

@JaredBusch said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

@JaredBusch said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

I never read the linked thread. Just responding to your statement here.

Oh FFS! . . .

Where is my beer. . .

But the linked thread is not relevant to your statement here that I was responding to.

FFS. . .

Would you all be happy if I said " OP is looking to downscale from a column designed network into an IPOD when he requires only 43TB of storage and 1250 IOPS"

damn. . .

You are not understanding. You claimed that size of storage is what decided the need for a SAN or not. That is what is being argued with you. It has nothing to do with anything else.

We all generally understand that at under certain host count a SAN (and the storage it can provide) makes no fucking sense at all.

Why are you guys up my ass about it today?

because you are insisting on a totally different decision factor that doesn't make sense.

Even if you only need 250GB of shared stuff, but you need to share it to enough hosts, then a SAN make sense.

Not in context of the OP, which is a 2 host 1 san solution he's looking for.

But then why state the red herring as the reason instead of the actual reason? the reason is "two hosts", nothing to do with the capacity number, but you implied that a large capacity number would make a SAN make sense, even just for one host.

@JaredBusch said in Twilio as a SIP provider:

@EddieJennings said in Twilio as a SIP provider:

@JaredBusch Thanks for checking, and I have. I'll do one more check of all of my numbers before it's all presented to my bosses.

I would not show specific names and totals to them. It should be presented in terms of % saved per month or $ saved per month. With a generic "SIP Provider" noted.

Because as soon as you show specific names and numbers, you will be stuck with that no matter what you find out after more testing.

100% agree. Said spreadsheets are for my own calculations.

@brianlittlejohn I'll keep an eye out for it, we get Flying Dog beers here.

@black3dynamite said in How would you build this:

Production Checkpoints -- uses Volume Shadow Copy Service or File System Freeze on a Linux virtual machine to create a data-consistent backup of the virtual machine. No snapshot of the virtual machine memory state is taken.

always using these in my hyper-v

@Tim_G I did the same thing too...

Good to know.

Thanks

Starwind Symbiote

What questions and answers brought you to use ESXi? Did you purchase ESXi or are you using the free version?

Titles don't matter that much except for companies that literally base your pay range on it. If they are going to do that, then fight for the best paying title!

And yes, I do work for a comp that does it. I started as "IT Helpdesk" and could not get my title changed even once I began supporting Linux web servers and doing all the purchasing and essentially being responsible for all-the-things.
The person before me who remained on staff for a while was called "IT Coordinator", whatever that means.

Eventually I had to write like a 6 page letter explaining what I do and what titles actually mean and finally got my title approved to be "IT Systems Administrator" (a most appropriate and generic title for my position and duties). And then negotiated my pay as a separate thing. Plus I like calling myself a "SysAdmin" and can celebrate national SysAdmin Day.

What's funny is that when my boss would send phone calls or emails to me to do things, he would use important-sounding titles to look impressive to the other person. Like "I'll pass you on to our CTO to handle that" even though I'm no such thing, lol

@scottalanmiller said in SMBv1 is removed in the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16226:

@dafyre said in SMBv1 is removed in the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16226:

@scottalanmiller said in SMBv1 is removed in the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16226:

Not quite the same as NFS 3 and NFS 4, but we intentionally use NFS 3 much of the time today even though NFS 4 is old.

This may be good for a fork...but why hang on to NFSv3 instead of stepping up to NFSv4??

Because the work differently and having the overhead of NFSv4 often does not make sense.

Can you give more detail?

@Oksana said in Managing Hyper-V:

StarWind is currently working on the new product - a flexible and customizable web-based platform which will allow users get the full control over their IT infrastructures from a single HTML5 graphical interface including S2D, Failover Clustering and Hyper-V. More information to be found in a nearby thread: https://mangolassi.it/topic/14114/help-starwind-to-pick-the-name-for-the-upcoming-product

Very cool - but the big question - will it allow the launching of a console connection to a VM?

@jt1001001 said in Printing broken by June 2017 updates:

Has anyone had success with the fix?

I don't have any Windows 7 machines to test on. I've read reports that Win 7 is fixed by this.

Still waiting for a fix on Win 10.

@Grey said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@RojoLoco said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@Grey said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

I cooked up carnitas on Saturday and made tacos that evening. It was amazing. I followed it up with pizza on Sunday, and it had carnitas meat on there, too. I love carnitas.

Same here. Got a recipe?

Not really. I bought it as a vacuum sealed pork shoulder in sauce from the grocery store (Kroger). I followed the directions on the package to make it.

Interesting. I've seen lots of different recipes, some are braised in stock/beer, some add lard to the liquid, some are just cooked in lard. I haven't seen the pre-prepped ones.