@mike-davis said in Business thinking - PC replacements:

@scottalanmiller said in Business thinking - PC replacements:

I did this for a shop last week. Everything done in one day, the whole thing. Even replaced the firewall, apps, basically everything. If you have a company that has weekends off, you can do this in a weekend.

How many users and how many apps? Did you migrate user profiles? Was it part of the job to make sure the My Little Pony screen saver was migrated?

Fourteen users, not a lot of apps. Mostly MS Office, some basic stuff that you'd expect like new browsers, a few odds and ends utilities as requested by people and their medical system (which was not large.) Please installing printers, scanners, shared drives and such. All pretty basic, but you generally expect pretty basic in an office of that size.

@aaronstuder said in Korora Custom Partitioning - KVM:

I am installing Korora on a small 120GB SSD drive.

It's a SFF PC, so adding another drive for data isn't an isn't an option... unless I use an external drive...

This system will be a KVM Host, so whats the best way to setup the partitioning?

50GBfor root seems like a lot... and doesn't leave much space for VM's etc.

Also, Where should I store the VM's? I know some people create /data, and store them there?

Disk /dev/sda: 111.8 GiB, 120034123776 bytes, 234441648 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xfc93f734 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 2048 2099199 2097152 1G 83 Linux /dev/sda2 2099200 234440703 232341504 110.8G 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/mapper/korora-root: 50 GiB, 53687091200 bytes, 104857600 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/mapper/korora-swap: 7.8 GiB, 8325693440 bytes, 16261120 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/mapper/korora-home: 53 GiB, 56941871104 bytes, 111214592 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

For a drive that small, shrink the root partition to 20 GiB or less, give the swap partition 4 GiB and the rest to home partition. Or just have root and swap partition only.

VM in user session, the default location is
/home/username/.local/share/libvirt/images

VM in system session, the default location is
/var/lib/libvirt/images

@stacksofplates said in Non .com TLDs:

I paid $1.50 for the first year. It also depends on the domain. A lot of .coms are significantly higher.

They are all the same price. Those that are higher are not available and you are buying ones that someone already owns.

@tim_g said in When you deal with VMs CPU resources, do you give them Vcpu or Vprocessors ?:

It's all the same on they Hypervisor level.

But I'm guessing it may register differently (how you set it up in your screenshot) in the guest OS and software.

@stacksofplates

Btw Centos got updated to:

CentOS 7.4 (1708)
CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core)

https://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS7?action=show&redirect=Manuals%2FReleaseNotes%2FCentOS7.1708

Noteable mentions

At least 1024 MB RAM is required to install and use CentOS-7 (1708). When using the Live ISOs for install, 1024 MB RAM produces very slow results and even some install failures. At least 1344 MB RAM is recommend for LiveGNOME or LiveKDE installs.

The initramfs files are now significantly bigger than in CentOS-7 (1503). You may want to consider lowering installonly_limit in /etc/yum.conf to reduce the number of installed kernels if your /boot partition is smaller than 400MB. New installations should consider using 1GB, which is now the upstream recommended, as the size of the /boot partition.

Sadly Centos 7.4 does not work with this guide 😞 Damn

It is really a fantastic piece of software. It blows many of the other options out of the water for a fraction of the price.

You can also no longer place calls from it. That is now a feature request.

@scottalanmiller lol, right out of the gate! Although I shouldn't be surprised. 😃

I guess I'm posting more for those who want to do right by their employers, even if the employers are dumb and don't understand the issue(s) around IT. Or even for those who aren't forced to handle the droning day-to-day monitoring sort of work and get to operate in more of the company officer who oversees the technical side of the business sort of role perhaps?

For instance, more and more I'm shifting into that sort of role, where if we were a much larger organization, my title would be much different... but as it is, I am predominantly operating as the company security officer and the head of IT's short and long term planning and implementation. Being in a small org though means that I'm also hands-on involved in the actual acquisition, deployment, and management of the environment as well.

I do have an MSP that handles much of the everyday, routine monitoring for me, and a subordinate who is basically our on-site bench-tech who handles all the user-support side of things because no MSP wanted to hire and train someone to put on site for us for any less than we could do it ourselves. My boss just prefers to keep folks in-house when able, and in this case, it gave me a chance to pull somebody away from Geek Squad and offer them a legitimate career-starting opportunity.

@fateknollogee said in Fedora 26 Cinnamon KVM QEMU VM Guest dual-monitor:

Why not triple monitors at 2560 x 1600...

No need. I only have two 1080p monitors set up. So one at full screen and the other at 1600x900 works perfectly for my needs.

@black3dynamite Good to know. Thanks.

@jaredbusch said in Help me understand Cloudstack and Openstack use scenario:

@dashrender said in Help me understand Cloudstack and Openstack use scenario:

Why quote Scott, then give yourself the winning answer?

Because you can only select your own posts as the answer.

huh - weak!

@marcinozga said in What Industry Apps Are Awful and You Are Stuck With?:

One more, UPS Worldship. While you can do your shipments online, interface is just terrible. While this app supports remote clients, you cannot install it on Windows server, at least it's unsupported, I haven't personally tried.

Oh, I've already purged the memories of FedEx's Ship Manager. Just as bad.

So they are not just managing the datacenter, but the IT as well?

@networknerd said in Yealink Phone Provsioning Strategy:

Just out of curiosity, which PBX are you using in conjunction with the Yealink phones?

I realize this does not scale well, but when we rolled out Yealink phones,we ended up doing a manual configuration of each phone. It was simple and didn't require us to configure some kind of provisioning server. But in truth, I always wanted to setup a provisioning server to learn how to do it.

Elastix (assuming you have not migrated) and FreePBX both expose /tftpboot for this.

I do not have any Elastix instance running, but I do believe it was accessible from http as well as tftp.

In FreePBX you specify which services are available in the Firewall and SysAdmin modules.

Then you just drop the files into /tftpboot and access them however. With a local install you can use tftp or with a remote install you can use https so that the SIP credentials never go over the internet in the clear.

For example, here is my phone's (redacted) config file.

https://fpbx.bundystl.com:1443/00156565xxxx.cfg

None of you should be able to access it, but it is redacted just in case 😛

When I navigate to the URL from an allowed network, I see it though.
0_1505138689318_b18f417c-e87a-4577-a524-f6b3fe34ebc8-image.png

The scheduled task survives and runs at first login as planned.

But Win10 and TV have a known issue with silent installation. Hopefully it gets fixed.

@stacksofplates said in AWX and OpenStack:

@aaronstuder said in AWX and OpenStack:

@stacksofplates Link doesn't work.

Ya I'm an idiot.

No, It's early on the weekend. Could have happened to anyone 🙂

@s-hackleman said in How do you do Escalation?:

So 2 accounts it is. I have always been in enviroments where there was only 1-2 admins so I wasn't sure. Thanks guys.

Also look in to JEA. Better for larger groups. (in addition to two accounts)

@nerdydad

Time to purge everything

Finally, this is great news for ansible users.