@jimmy9008 said in Hyper-V 2016 (Switch) and NIC:

169.x.x.x shouts out that the VM cant reach a DHCP server. If the vSwitch is using the active interface, and allows guest VMs to share the adapter, i'd check if my DHCP server is ok, on the same network, has IPs available etc. The host would be static so thats why that would be working as it was manually configured.

Should have thought! A reboot of my router fixed it! Thanks guys.

Thanks again. I'll take a look.
One prob I ran into last time was when I wanted to install Server 2016 on my guest VM. I had the CD Rom connected to my host, but I couldnt find where to load it to boot the VM from it.
I'd like to use a Gen2 server and i'm unsure how to get either a) to boot from the physical DVD connected to my host, or b) load an ISO to the host (ie in the D drive) to then boot from there. Any ideas on that?

@black3dynamite said in Firewall rules for outgoing traffic:

Block all DNS servers except for the one you provide via DHCP?

Not necessarily via DHCP, but whatever ones you have approved. 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, for example.

Create a new folder in the root of the data partition being used, if any, and call it something like Hyper-V-2018.

Copy the VHDX file(s) from their current location to that (assuming there is enough space to do so).

Run the following in an elevated PowerShell where X is the destination partition:

Set-VMHost -VirtualHardDiskPath "X:\Hyper-V-2018\Virtual Hard Disks" –VirtualMachinePath "X:\Hyper-V-2018"
Get-VMHost | fl VirtualHardDiskPath,VirtualMachinePath

Create a new VM and configure its settings using the existing OS VHDX. After that is complete, open the VM's properties and add the second VHDX if it exists.

Try and start the VM. If it starts, it will require some tweaking at the network level as the vNIC's GUID and MAC will be different.

@bnrstnr said in Group Policy - Printer Deployment:

@jaredbusch Do you run the script at login?

Still a work in progress right now, so it is manual.

@emad-r said in Linux As File Server- Break Out From Other Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Linux As File Server- Break Out From Other Thread:

@emad-r said in Linux As File Server- Break Out From Other Thread:

The only down side to it, that the files will take size on their machine as well as the NC server, thats it. If you can afford this, then this is the way to go.

That's purely optional. Not a given. NextCloud can be used with files purely on the server just like with SMB.

Huh, how so ? you mean only via web client. If your installing the agent at somepoint it will need to sync the files to your account synced folder.

That's one option, but not what I mean. You can map drives to it, too.

Have you checked eventvwr to make sure it isn't powering on to run a backup or something?

@phlipelder that sounds like a cool setup. Yeah I'm not looking to go crazy here but it looks like I will be staying with what I got. I got a single PCi-e 3 something along with a couple 1 tb sandisk ssd's for storage with a bunch of fast ram. I thnk I will just stick with that formula for my next workstation

@dbeato said in Force Mailbox deletion in Exchange 2016:

@wls-itguy said in Force Mailbox deletion in Exchange 2016:

So the answer is yes it is gone through the ECP and is now in Exchange PowerDOS

Well, if you Disable a mailbox it is not shown as disabled until 24 to 48 hours in the ECp. Also deleting the mailbox doesn’t translate on space save as the space is not changed on the DB.

Not worried about space. We created a shared mailbox for a calendar and then they wanted to change the name of it so instead of creating a new mailbox I changed the name and alias and then found that not to be working right so I tried to create the right name and boogered it all up.

All good now though.

I finally got this to work if anyone is interested. The sql file is fine, but I had to change my batch file. The correct one looks like this:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\Client SDK\ODBC\110\Tools\Binn\sqlcmd" -I -S \.\pipe\MICROSOFT##WID\tsql\query -i C:\Scripts\WSUSDBMaintenance.sql

It must be run from an Administrator command prompt. This took me several days to figure out so I hope it can benefit someone else. Everything I found about reindexing the WSUS database was on Server 2008 or 2012. This works on Server 2016.

@bnrstnr yeah, the price premium for the form factor tends to be nuts. Double the cost sometimes, just to make it look nice in a rack! Maybe if it was customer facing in some way, but not for normal use. And often there are other things that need to be on a rack shelf, anyway. Put them all together on one.

Good stuff. Thanks for pointing this up and writing it up.

@jaredbusch said in Backup server - Software layout:

I use teams, even if there is only one NIC in the team most of the time, because I can add and remove NICs without impacting the higher layers.

Good idea. This server I just got has the onboard GB NICs, but also 2 dual port Intel GB NICs as well. I could create a BIG team if I wanted.

@obsolesce said in Windows 10 Always Says Up to Date, But Always Needs Updates:

or just stop ignoring my posts...

@obsolesce said in Windows 10 Always Says Up to Date, But Always Needs Updates:

If you want to do automatic Windows updates in a similar way to DNF-Automatic for example, I'd load this module:

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/2d191bcd-3308-4edd-9de2-88dff796b0bc

And then set up a scheduled task to run a script that loads the module and runs Get-WUInstall.

Too easy 😉

@pete-s said in Comparing 15k SAS and SSD:

@jaredbusch said in Comparing 15k SAS and SSD:

@pete-s said in Comparing 15k SAS and SSD:

@obsolesce said in Comparing 15k SAS and SSD:

@travisdh1 said in Comparing 15k SAS and SSD:

@obsolesce Nice to confirm what most of us have been saying already.

Yeah its nice to see the numbers.

There is also the reliability rate to consider. SSD drives have 3 to 4 times lower annualized failure rate.
And you're more likely to use more 15K drives and do RAID 10 instead of RAID 1 with SSD.

Regarding SAS/SATA SSD they will all disappear soon. NVME drives in the U.2 format have superior performance and a small price premium per GB compared to the same drive in SATA.

As far as I'm concerned SATA/SAS SSD should be bought for legacy use only.

That is totally not useful as the server manufacturers are not manufacturing servers to use those generally. Once that changes then I would recommend switching to those.

That might have been true in the past. But just looking at Dell Poweredge servers with one or two sockets, the following support hot-swap NVME drives : R6415, R7415, C4140, R440, R740xd, R640, R7425.

Yes, it is becoming standard, but it is not ubiquitous yet.

Bonus points for using reply as topic though.

@phlipelder said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

@scottalanmiller said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

@phlipelder said in Use Hyper-V to replicate Linux vm file share:

Hyper-V Replica would work in this situation with a few caveats.

There is a 15 second limit on replication cycles. If the VMs are running database/active services this could be a problem.

That would be handled earlier in the process by the backup job. If the backup is good, the replication won't cause an issue. If the backup is bad, the replication can't fix it, of course, but will replicate the bad backup. But the only place that this can be addressed is in the backup step, the replication is of backup files, so not at a point in the process where it matters.

"Garbage in garbage out" never seems to go away. It's been the bane of our existence since the switch to image/block based backups. :S

File backups suffered from this, too. Databases are just hard to back up.

@fateknollogee said in NFS Server...what to build??:

@scottalanmiller said in NFS Server...what to build??:

@fateknollogee said in NFS Server...what to build??:

@scottalanmiller said in NFS Server...what to build??:

@fateknollogee said in NFS Server...what to build??:

HW is simple:

2x SSD for o/s 4 - xx SSD for NFS shares

Why would you have drives for the OS? This both breaks standard storage practices AND assumes a physical install which is a 'no no'.

Why would you assume a physical install ?
I'm installing the hypervisor (in this case FC28) on a Raid1 array of 2x SSDs

Because you stated a dedicated array for the OS, not for the hypervisor. I'm only going by what you wrote. If you wanted dedicated for the OS, you'd need it whether you had a hypervisor or not.

Understood. Next time, will be more specific

Since that's a lot of money to spend just for a hypervisor that isn't used, it seems much more rational to use it for an OS than a hypervisor. It's not that there is truly zero value to a dedicated HV array, but it is nearly zero. SSDs, even cheap consumer ones, aren't free. But the value is so low, they'd basically have to be.

@ambarishrh nice!