Thank you all for the input. I'm trying to decide between the PEPWAVE and the Netgear. The Netgear has some bad reviews, but your remarks will keep it in the list to explore. I'll let you know how it works out for us when I get one in and test it.

@stacksofplates said in Automated Provisioning - KVM & CM tools:

@fuznutz04 said in Automated Provisioning - KVM & CM tools:

@stacksofplates said in Automated Provisioning - KVM & CM tools:

Terraform will do this and I have an Ansible role to do it also.
As @IRJ mentioned Vagrant will work also. However I feel Terraform is a better fit as you have more control over the specific pieces of your infrastructure.

You would still prefer Terraform over Ansible for this as well?

Yeah. My role can create the VMs, but Terraform had more functionality for that. Ansible overlaps in the infrastructure provisioning space a lot, but it lacks keeping states like Terraform does.

I'd like to learn both. I just started with Ansible a day or two ago. I have been (and still am) using SaltStack.

@stacksofplates Thanks! I started down the path of Logstash/Greylog/others and realized that it's going to take a bit more of my bandwidth than I can dedicate at the moment. So I ended up throwing together a BASH script that'll copy the current log files over to the share every minute. It works for now...

So I ended up making a special trip because it was bothering the crap out of me. I brought a different usb drive with me to test. The replacement usb drive had the exact same problem. I plugged both drives into my laptop and both worked fine. Finally, I reformatted the drives from my laptop and then reconnected to the server and everything worked perfectly. I shutdown the server a couple times and did a couple cold boots just to make sure everything stuck and all was well. The original formatting of the drives were all NTFS so I am not sure what difference reformatting them from my laptop made but seemed to do the trick.

I appreciate all the feedback from everyone.

Thanks again!!

@coliver said in Software Catalog:

@Kelly said in Software Catalog:

@coliver said in Software Catalog:

For the opensource side. https://www.opsi.org may have something of what you're looking at. I tested it out in the past but SCCM fit with what the management was looking to do.

Just to be clear, I'm not as concerned about the deployment side of things (yet). Do how much is opsi and SCCM: Software Center oriented around end users and how much around administration? I know it should be part of the fabric. I'm just trying to modernize some processes that have been enshrined in the halls of familiarity, and this is the first step for us.

Software Center is almost 100% end user oriented. If you are looking to automate this without hands you wouldn't even expose the interface. I think Opsi is the opposite. I don't think, if I recall, it has any real means for the end users to request applications outside of a really bad web interface... even then I may be mistaken.

That's good to know. I had only done some surface digging into Software Center, and then when I hit the opsi website it looked as you describe it now, so I wanted to be sure that I was communicating clearly. Thanks.

@WindowsGuy said in Install Nextcloud 13.0.0 on Fedora 27:

The Apache vhost file location is no longer available. Do you have another location where I can find it or steps to configure it manually?

here:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sorvani/scripts/master/Nextcloud/nextcloud.conf

We had the same problem with VitalPBX, and @ScottAlanMiller's suggestion, we made the Opus codec the highest priority and it resolved the issue for us. Maybe it is worth a try for you?

@RojoLoco Because the account is only 7 hours old and no moderators have seen it.

@StorageNinja said in Veeam with NetApp?:

Netapp E-Series is the same as the old Dell MD36xxx or the LSI enginio code base (IBM also sold a similar low-end modular array). These things were wicked fast/cost-effective at streaming workloads (got used for Lustre clusters a lot as the DAS on the nodes). Dell's abandoned reselling them for Seagate (Dothill) but they still around

Not wicked fast compared to building your own. And the staggering lack of internal support if anything goes wrong is a big deal... storage is one of those things you want to have work, especially at these price ranges. Having been a NetApp customer, I know that their support is helpless when it comes to trying to do high performance, their crap just falls over and so do their engineers.

Conveniently, he can also do the same over the ZT network so that he has speed tests from the same tool on both networks.

@Dashrender said in DeviceMetadataServiceURL Bad Certificate:

@wirestyle22 said in DeviceMetadataServiceURL Bad Certificate:

This is an easy line of questioning

I wonder how their alerts can be missing this for days?

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@manxam Yea I'm probably going to give them basic Office suite and some browsers as well. No thanks on the sample xml. I'll be making one shortly anyhow. Much appreciated though! 🙂

Great thread. I have a super simple setup for a friend and this should solve it for him easily.

Thanks for asking the question.

@Pete-S maybe if you gave a concrete example of where you see replacing good five year old drives with new drives as good we'd see what you mean. Under normal circumstances, I'd replace the old drives with the same size drives today (don't want to lose speed or reconfigure) and just lose money.

@Pete-S said in Server with multiple backplane / Drive Configuration:

@CCWTech said in Server with multiple backplane / Drive Configuration:

@Pete-S said in Server with multiple backplane / Drive Configuration:

@CCWTech said in Server with multiple backplane / Drive Configuration:

@Pete-S said in Server with multiple backplane / Drive Configuration:

What server/model is it?

HP ML350 Gen 10

https://techlibrary.hpe.com/docs/iss/ML350_Gen10/setup_install/

OK, looks like there are many storage options on that machine and many different raid controller options as well.

But, there are no SAS expanders on the backplanes. Backplanes are straight "dumb" wiring so to speak. HPE has an additional SAS expander card that have to be installed if you're using that.

So if you have 16 drive bays I assume 8x2.5" drive bays per "box". You then probably have it paired with the P816i-a controller in which case you have each drive bay directly wired to one SAS port from the controller.

So it makes no performance difference how you install the drives. I would however put the SSDs in one box (one backplane) and the HDDs in the other - just to make it less confusing and less of chance to pull the wrong drive when something fails.

I don't understand why you would use 2.5" HDDs at all though but that is another matter. The server can also be configured with one 8x2.5" and one 4x3.5" bay which would be my preference.

Yes, it is the HP SAS expander card I'm using.

Since the backplanes in that server doesn't do anything, it makes no difference in what bays you put the drives. Not from a performance perspective and not from a redundancy perspective.

From the SAS expander to the backplane to the drive is electrically the same as just having a straight cable. So there is nothing that can fail - unless you physically abuse it.

The backplane does have some electronic components on it though but that is for driving the LEDs in the drive bays.

Awesome thank you everyone!

I just found this. I guess it is called "Camp" or "Call Back"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_callback

Not I can start researching how to do it with VitalPBX.

The conversation here, on this topic was instrumental in getting me on the right path for a solution. Thank you all!
We can keep talking about it too, if you want 🙂

I really like Pluralsight. The Udemy courses I've taken have been okay, but haven't really been designed in a way to optimize learning.