@Dashrender said in RAID 10, 20 Disks, How Many Hot Spares:

So is it done? Does Matt understand and agree to the point that Scott was making?

Yes I believe so.

TL;DR attempt #1 #2 #3 #4 (counting edits)

RAID10 does not need hot spares

If you have spare slots you'd be better served by a larger array with more IOPS

The corner case (the one raised by the op's question?) is would hot spares reduce the risk of array failure. The answer is 100% absolutely yes it will reduce the risk of failure.

The disagreement (I think..?) was if that's necessary. We agreed that it isn't necessary to have any hot spares for RAID10 unless there's mitigating factors (examples: remote COLO with horrific access issues, extremely risk averse use case).

@DustinB3403 said in How Do So Many People in IT Not Know What a Database Is?:

Databases are magic that your throw data at and then it all just makes sense, right?

That part I would get... it's the not knowing that the OTHER thing is an application is what makes it so crazy.

@PSX_Defector said in Suggestion on Domino to office 365 Migration:

@Dashrender said in Suggestion on Domino to office 365 Migration:

I know NTG can handle migrations from Exchange to O365 (and from Rackspace). Don't know if they have any experience with Domino to O365.

Hopefully @Minion-Queen doesn't look at my resume and see all the Domino experience.....

I already knew that 😛 Your safe.

@wrx7m said in Anyone using storj.io?:

That reminds me of a similar tech but within the LAN. Some sort of distributed storage across clients and servers. I can't remember the name... argh.

ÆtherStore - https://aetherstore.com/

@Dashrender said in Java Suspected in Level 3 Outage:

But we are talking about something for the betterment of all, like the universal healthcare you are for - like that we should all want a safer, more secure internet. The only way we are going to get that is if the vendors are forced to provide it, as the consumer will never demand it.

Yes, so if you can define a standard level of effort and make it a regulatory thing, then by all means. But how will you do that without crippling small companies, interfering with security in bad ways, etc.?

@fuznutz04 said in Vitelity inbound calling is failing:

@JaredBusch said in Vitelity inbound calling is failing:

@fuznutz04 said in Vitelity inbound calling is failing:

@JaredBusch Good idea to manually down the trunk. However, I think you're right, Not sure if it would have done anything as the calls were coming into Vitelity but then not working 100% Such a random event.

I've had decent luck with Vitelity so far. Let's hope this is just a special case.

I quit using Vitelity because of these types of issues repeatedly happening a few times a year.

You typically use voip.ms right?

Yes.

I grew up with my father working as an internal consultant in engineering and they would call their clients customers, even when they were internal. Never users. It's not an IT thing, it's a standard "service department" thing. And was common by the 1970s for sure.

Have not tried this combination. I'm pretty confident it will work, but what the settings are.... no idea.

@fuznutz04 said in SIP registrations failing for 2 phones:

@hubtechagain said in SIP registrations failing for 2 phones:

their bridge mode isn't a true bridge either. just FYI

Right. I was reading up on that a bit. People seem to call it a "pseudo bridge mode."

That's why they call it "bridge mode" rather than bridging.

@Dashrender said in Android OS and tracking:

Unless she is willing to root it and put on her own firmware/ROM, I wouldn't use it if she's worried about that at all.

The built in ROM could easily restore any tracking, etc, software installed when you wipe the phone. Only way to be sure would be to not use it. Second best way, replace the ROM. I'm not sure you can actually update the BIOS to ensure nothing is hiding in there - remember LoJack - it can be in the BIOS and reinstall itself on a new OS install - just like the Lenovo BIOS thing of last year.

While it is possible that tracking is built into the stock ROM, I find that highly unlikely. Also, since this is a gaming device, there is no real need to use your main Google Account on this device if you are wary of it. If you just play the games on it and disable the GPS, I don't see much of an issue.

I do agree that rooting and putting a custom ROM on there is a good idea. However, I think the risk of tracking with the stock ROM is virtually non-existent.

@Dashrender said in pagefile size on Windows Server with dynamic RAM?:

@Mike-Davis said in pagefile size on Windows Server with dynamic RAM?:

@dafyre Only on servers with dynamic RAM? Those are the only servers I'm having that issue with, and setting the page file size manually didn't fix it they way I thought it would.

If you didn't also change the PF size, I'm not surprised that it didn't fix the Zabbix issue.

No, it have issues with all of my servers with that trigger. It's definitely a zabbix issue, as far as I'm concerned.

I haven't had time to research it.

Which CAD software are we talking about again?

Every single one that I've worked with had it's own version control built in, but would often cost extra for the licensing. You setup a server with the version control software for everyone to use. The workflow is then open V.C.S. -> checkout the file to be changed/add new file -> make changes -> save changes locally -> login to V.C.S. and check in the new version. Most of them would keep previous versions of files as well, and log who checked out each file (mostly so the next person who works on the file can go track them down when someone doesn't do the final step.) I'd say stick with the built-in tool chain.

@stacksofplates said in MTS Data Card issue in Ubuntu 17.04:

Just as an aside, 17.04 hasn't even been released yet. Why are you trying to install on this release?

It's a LONG way from being released, too. It's nowhere near beta.

@gjacobse The customer didn't get back to me, so I'm waiting on them.

@mkoestesur said in Stratoscale, any opinions about it?:

Ones you try it you will never want anything else.

What aspects of it do you like?

I just feel websites should display what's the latest version easier 😄 for us lazy people that can't be bothered to click though several pages and register just to see lol 😄

Just a switch, not a server, but it was 12-15 meters above the ground on a steel construction for a 50t indoor crane. Lots of oil and dust, no railing and a dozen pigeons right above me.

Freaking experience. Did I mention that I'm a bit acrophobic? At least at 10 meters and above 😉

@scottalanmiller said in How Many Ads?!:

It also appears to count ads that are commented out in code. So it is blocking things that are not there, as well.

Late to the party, but it was I and someone else at MangoCon that dug into it and found that counts all unused/unshown ads

@MattSpeller said in Shadow Protect and Disk IOPS usage..:

@scottalanmiller said in Shadow Protect and Disk IOPS usage..:

@MattSpeller said in Shadow Protect and Disk IOPS usage..:

@scottalanmiller said in Shadow Protect and Disk IOPS usage..:

@DustinB3403 said in Shadow Protect and Disk IOPS usage..:

The read usage on this system is insane for what it is normally doing.

Even a tiny SW install we recommend some hefty resources and dedicated SSDs. You definitely just figured out the problem. Had you led with this we could have told you instantly what the issue was.

Our rather beefy SW install runs on rust just fine. Not even a half decent rust array. Old junk.

I'm surprised. Even when ours was tiny we gave it 100,000 IOPS and it remained slow.

¯\(ツ)/¯

There's only 3 of us in IT here. I suspect more concurrent users would kill it.

We had probably ten or fifteen and loads of tickets. But that isn't that much of a jump, I wouldn't think.