@JaredBusch said in Amazon Lightsail OS Choices:

@dbeato said in Amazon Lightsail OS Choices:

@JaredBusch said in Amazon Lightsail OS Choices:

@dbeato said in Amazon Lightsail OS Choices:

@scottalanmiller said in Amazon Lightsail OS Choices:

@JaredBusch I wonder how performance compares.

Price is on par now, but historically the price drops lag behind. Since it is a subscription model, the historic price modelling makes it more expensive. If we are deploying a workload only momentarily, we assume that the prices are on par. But from past performance, the expectation is that any long running workload will cost more over time.

Perfomance is good, I have customers on it and works well but it is based on Bitnami for a lot of apps like Wordpress.

FFS. It is a VPS. Not an app system. Yes, there could be some apps preset to spin up just like DO and Vultr do.

Yes....

So the whole thing is not based on Bitnami......

Correct, I said it wrong and for that I apologize. What I really was trying to say was that Bitnami is what they use for running Wordpress if you use their template for WordPress and other applications (But yeah it is not an OS). As below
https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/apps/

@JaredBusch said in Hyper V - USB Disk not showing up:

@dbeato said in Hyper V - USB Disk not showing up:

@syko24 said in Hyper V - USB Disk not showing up:

@Joel said in Hyper V - USB Disk not showing up:

Hi Guys
Wonder if you can help shed some light on this.

I have a Hyper V core host machine with 2x VM's installed (1x DC and 1x SQLServer).
We have a USB device (8TB) plugged into our host, (put offline) and then bought online within our SQLServer. This has been working well and we use the USB to backup.

HOWEVER, recently the USB from the SQLServer has disappeared and we cant bring it back online! We've rebooted servers but it still wont show up on our SQL Server.

Note: we use Windows Admin Centre to manage the host and VM's and in the pic you can see within Admin Centre you can see in the settings for the SQLServer shows our 8TB Hard Drive, however when we list disk's on the actual VM we dont see it!!! DiskMago.JPG

Can anyone help identify how we can bring our USB back online?
This did happen before and it seems the way we bought it back online was by going on site and using Hyper V Manager software to re-attach the drive but seems a long winded way to bring it back visible. Any ideas?

Thanks

Any reason to not just create a VHDX on the usb drive and attach that to the VM? Passing the usb drive from the host to the VM I don't believe is actually supported. It may work but clearly not reliable.

In order to pass it through the VM needs to have the Storage of the VM as SCSI Controller and add a hard drive and then set it as offline on disk management.
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Not what anyone is talking about.

okay, didn't know that.

@scottalanmiller said in Complete Idiots Guide to Linux:

@CCWTech said in Complete Idiots Guide to Linux:

@scottalanmiller said in Complete Idiots Guide to Linux:

OMG, I am doing some cleaning and I just stumbled on the original CD from "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Linux" which is the first copy of Linux that I ever used. It's the disc that contains the original copy of Caldera Linux from the mid to late 1990s that Andy West and I picked up at a Borders in Rochester, New York and was used to run our first server and client farm for MUD gaming!

I need this!!

I'm pretty sure that you don't want this, lol.

LOL, I just need to get more comfortable with Linux. Learning more every day but just enough to be dangerous...

@Jimmy9008 said in Networking/ISP:

@Dashrender said in Networking/ISP:

@Jimmy9008 said in Networking/ISP:

@scottalanmiller said in Networking/ISP:

@Jimmy9008 said in Networking/ISP:

Can one fibere cable route our Internet traffic to them, whilst also passing 'private' traffic over this line too?

That's the norm. And not just for ISPs, VPNs do this, too.

The gateway out is public IP to the Internet. VPN tunnels between two public IPs, etc... all Internet.

What they seem to be saying is that the 89.x.x.x public 'Internet Stuff' can go through that cable, and my 192.168.3.x 'LAN' stuff can also go through that cable, and at the same time I can have Internet served to my Firewall, and 'LAN' to my device... can it work that way?

So their switch interface 2 is routing 89.x.x.x traffic, and interface 3 is is extending my LAN on 192.x.x.x (public IPs going on and private)... all through the fibre cable to their DC?

More or less - yes.
They can trunk the single line to act like many lines - think VLANs

Ok. I think that makes more sense to me.

So, the ISP switch eth1 is vLAN1, which passes 89.x.x.x to my firewall for my organisations Internet access. eth1 routes out over their eth0 fibre link. Then, vLAN2 is eth2 on their switch, which extends my 192.x.x.x private range to them, again over the eth0.

Ok, I think in that warped way I get it.

So, I can say to them:

"I'm going to plug my device 10.10.10.2 in to your switch at my office on eth3.
Connect my box at your DC. Its set to be 10.10.10.3. Now, make them talk over my fibre line..."

This assumes it's a straight extension of your network - and not a routed new network.

@pmoncho said in Slow MS SQL Queries between Windows 10 VMs and MS SQL 2014 on same host:

@JasGot said in Slow MS SQL Queries between Windows 10 VMs and MS SQL 2014 on same host:

Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner. It was MDTC and Windows Firewall. (Which is frustrating, because the firewall is turned off for the domain!)

Good job at troubleshooting. I'm wondering what led you down this path versus something related to Networking, hard drives or software drivers?

Remembered it from several years ago with another SQL based application. Don't know what made me think of it at 1:30am. But I'm ok with it!

@BRRABill said in Can You Uninstall OneDrive from Windows 10:

Ah I remember the early days when I would get in so much trouble for using terms like Onedrive.

ONly when you were talking about something other than OneDrive 😉

@stacksofplates Sounds like a good plan, thanks!

@IRJ said in Free equivalent of Hyena:

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/Active-Directory-Audit-7754a877

That looks pretty cool!

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@dbeato said in Installing printers in Fedora 29 Linux:

@NerdyDad said in Installing printers in Fedora 29 Linux:

@dbeato said in Installing printers in Fedora 29 Linux:

You can use CUPS Command Line
https://www.cups.org/doc/admin.html

lpadmin -p PrinterName -E -v socket://ip.address.of.printer -m printerdriver.ppd

Aren't printers and configs saved in a file somewhere? If so, could I copy that file to other minions, similar to remmina connection files as discussed in the other thread?

I did not see your other thread but let me check.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/18748/chromebox-for-clerks-and-data-entry/54

@scottalanmiller said in Did Zoho Just Increase Prices by 50%:

@dbeato said in Did Zoho Just Increase Prices by 50%:

@scottalanmiller said in Did Zoho Just Increase Prices by 50%:

@dbeato said in Did Zoho Just Increase Prices by 50%:

@scottalanmiller and @JaredBusch do you have any idea of what Zoho uses for their email systems backups? Not like your own backups (Which you can do on your own) but more their infrastructure.

@dbeato said in Did Zoho Just Increase Prices by 50%:

@scottalanmiller and @JaredBusch do you have any idea of what Zoho uses for their email systems backups? Not like your own backups (Which you can do on your own) but more their infrastructure.

I assume that they make their own. SaaS carriers can't really use commercial backup products effectively.

I see

At a scale like that, it would be all a database storing files. So they'd have to use database dumps regardless. So let's just say it is a giant PostgreSQL database. We can assume that something like 99% of the backup capacity is for the database only. Other than that, it is likely just app servers that are being built automatically, probably Docker images. So backups of the infrastructure would be essentially non-existant, and the database backups would be everything. But normal backup tools can't take backups of the clusters.

So they'd have to use PostgreSQL's own tools to get the backups. Then they'd just have to ship them somewhere.

No expected need for traditional backups.

Very interesting indeed.

Here's the write-up. https://mangolassi.it/topic/18994/static-site-in-a-ci-cd-pipeline

It's somewhat brief, but a lot of this is kind of self explanatory.

@Mike-Davis said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

@Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

@IRJ said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

@Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

@IRJ said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

@Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

@CCWTech said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

@Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

No one here knows - we don't run that software.

No one here runs Server 2019 Essentials?

No - most here run standard Windows Server or some flavor or Linux. Essentials is only for SUPER tiny environments (I think it's limited to 25 connections)... a version that at least with 2012 didn't require User CALs, making it significantly cheaper for super tiny shops that required Windows, but once you hit over 25, you got a HUGE upgrade cost i.e. full server license and 25+ CALs.

Yep. It is generally not reliable either. At least earlier version weren't. Throw all MS services on one piece of underpowered hardware and then throw all your apps over it. What could go wrong?

I guess i was lucky - when they started calling it Essentials - there weren't that many services left - File/Print/AD/DNS/DHCP and what WSUS? that's all pretty typical single box stuff in my mind. WSUS could be shit for sure, but the rest can work together no issues.

Back when it was SBS server and had Exchange and possibly a corporate firewall and SQL server - OMG - yeah, kill me now!.

That's just the out of the box stuff that can be simple solved off windows very easily 😉

Dont forget that these businesses like to throw quickbooks and other poorly made sofware on their Essentials server including these other services which are already too much to have on one box IMO. It's 2019, virtualize 🙂

It would be interesting to know if Essentials allows for the install of 3rd party software like that?
Probably does..

QuickBooks is the reason I have so many Essentials servers out there. If the environment is large enough where you can't just make one computer "the server" and share QuickBooks from there, Server Essentials goes in along with QuickBooks Database manager and its 25 year old architecture and you call it a day.

Same kind of problem here.

@jmoore said in Question about Raid Performance:

@scottalanmiller Ok thanks I understand a little better now. I certainly have no complaints with my current setup but I'm always looking to expand my knowledge.

Youtube Video

@DustinB3403 said in RedKey - Kickstarter Project:

@gjacobse did you say your a donator on this Kickstarter?

What about this was attractive?

NOT for this project.. no -

@Curtis said in PiHole for Friends and Family:

@Romo Are you still maintaining this?

He is.

@DustinB3403 said in Troubleshooting Help Requested:

@wrx7m said in Troubleshooting Help Requested:

VLANs?

No, and this VM is on the same vlan as other VMs on the same host.

PS I've restored this VM to a completely different hypervisor and the issue persists. So either its the VM or the gateway.

Have you tried a different IP, or even power down this machine and assign the same IP to another host to see if it gets blocked? Is the restored VM using the same MAC address as the original or has the restored version got a reinitialised MAC?

Do you have access to check the logs on the gateway / edge / router to see if it's blocking / intercepting / messing with your host

@brandon220 said in File sync and storage issue.:

I am going to assume that the SQL server would use webdav to get the files from NC to process them if they replaced the method now with NC or have the sync client on the server to pull the files into a local folder.

Reasonably, yes.

@JaredBusch said in Building a Mail Server:

@scottalanmiller said in Building a Mail Server:

@JaredBusch nice. Going to look at moving to Zoho again. Got a customer about to move as well, this will be great for them.

I'd pay $2/user for Mail Lite with 30GB+ storage but not Zoho Docs.

I might do so as well.