@scottalanmiller said in Purchasing new hard drives: Embrace 4kn?:

@EddieJennings said in Purchasing new hard drives: Embrace 4kn?:

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From: https://msdn.microsoft.com/windows/compatibility/advanced-format-disk-compatibility-update

This topic introduces the effect of Advanced Format storage devices on software, discusses what apps can do to help support this type of media, and discusses the infrastructure that Microsoft introduced with Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 to enable developers to support these types of devices.<

I must've misunderstand the usage of apps. Article was a good read.

It's about performance. Not support.

Curious, because it read to me like it's a support issue, which can be worked around with the 512e drives with a possible performance cost. However, on second thought, it would make sense that if the OS supports 4kn sectors, then the applications running on top of it shouldn't care about the sectors (which is what you said before).

@scottalanmiller said in Debian File Server File Recovery:

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@wirestyle22 said in Debian File Server File Recovery:

We finally found the replication point and recovered the file. One thing I noticed working here is that the VM's are not named the host names. I looked for it for hours across all of our subdomains and could not find it. I had to go through each individual VM and eventually found it.

We still have some old Unix white beards that do this. It annoys the crap out of me. He just set up a server and called it Odin.....

That's all fine and good as long as odin.mydomain.net actually resolves to that actual server, lol.

Ya it just annoys me ha. Everything else is named by purpose.

Our one server... it got names Zues. Of course we knew it was going to be just the 1 server for the foreseeable future.

If you must use Planets, Greek gods, Mythical creatures, et al... Please make sure they are pselled correctly to avoid further confusion.

I don't understand the reason to do that over function. I'd much rather name a server WDS01 then Ptah01.

Potato01
Cauliflower7
Aubergine4

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I've restrict my choice to XZ vs LZIP.
XZ is adopted by GNU, the kernel distribution and the majority of linux flavours…
But it looks like LZIP is better designed, more simple, with better docs, but not that widespread.

Any advice on that?

But you might want to see if the same thing happens first when another user logs in. If so, then it's not a user profile issue most likely.

@StrongBad said in DNS record will help prevent unauthorized SSL certificates:

Not a bad idea, I guess. There is some security concern there. I would wonder how often this is really an issue. Is this common? Or just proactive?

I'm thinking a bit of both.

Definitely ubiquiti

@scottalanmiller said in Why are local drives better:

@StrongBad said in Why are local drives better:

@Oles-Borys do you have any information on the pricing for ACloudA? Seems like a really interesting product.

I'm having beers with aclouda right now.

What? What craziness is that?

Well that was a fail. The append function was not what I thought it was. It's for elements within the XML file, not the value of a given element. Arg. Hmm...

@Slackmaker said in Firebird !:

Thanks !
Resolved ;=)

Wow, that's awesome that that was all that it was. I was shooting in the dark there a bit 🙂

@gjacobse said in Public Cloud vs. Hosted Hyperconvergence Costing Project:

@scottalanmiller said in Public Cloud vs. Hosted Hyperconvergence Costing Project:

@gjacobse looks like you quoted but forgot to write anything?

Was back reading - deleted as I wasn't intending to reply

LOL, fail.

@jt1001001 said in New StarWind Virtual SAN Free - All restrictions removed!:

In case you didn't see, the webinar is now up on their site:
https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-virtual-san-free-all-restrictions-removed

THanks

Perfect timing...

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Not an expectation, but would love to see alternative back ends like NoSQL options. At large scale it would be very beneficial.

@sreekumarpg said in SQL Multi Site Failover High Availability Suggestions:

Thanks All for the valid comments.

Management is looking for a low cost solution , Currently we are having a two Physical Windows Server 2012 R2 standard Cluster with Microsoft SQL 2014 standard edition. Storage is Dell compellent. This setup is done in Datacenter A and In datacenter B we are having two Physical Windows Server 2012 R2 standard Cluster with Microsoft SQL 2014 standard edition and storage is Dell equallogic.

Now the application is configured to send data to both SQL cluster and in outage or maintenance we are reconnecting all services to Datacenter B.

Requirement is to reduce the manual process and only doing a DNS change or Load balance change should move service from Datacenter A to Datacenter B and SQL data should be the same. SQL alwayson seems to be the exact solution but not in budget.

So why are you even worrying about this any more. Management said it's to expensive, so you or your boss should tell them to stand by that decision.

Edit: Easier said than done I know, but the decision is out of your hands.

@alefattorini said in Substitutes for Active Directory and Windows Server:

u're not forced to do it. You can install a module on a server and another module on another sharing the userbase. NethServer can join another remote NethServer using LDAP or AD
Scenario:

NethServer1: firewall with VPN, Proxy, ecc..
NethServer2: mailserver, personal cloud and fileserver

NethServer1 joins NethServer2 so you can use NethServer2 users/groups for authenticated proxy or VPN users
That's just a pretty simple example.

Oh yeah, I agree with NethServer, I was just saying about Zentyal. I have used it in the past and not a big fan. I just came too late to the post so sorry 😞

@RojoLoco said in Bloging:

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@NetworkNerd said in Bloging:

If you tag everything correctly, you could use ML as your platform - https://mangolassi.it/tags/networknerd blog. I haven't written as many as I would like, but hopefully the ones I have are helpful to others.

Actually I am all for that idea 🙂

All our blog are belong to you?

Something like that. Free Content!!!

@coliver said in Azure AD Open Source Alternative:

@StrongBad said in Azure AD Open Source Alternative:

Samba 4 does what AD does, for free. But I'm not aware of anything that does what Azure AD does using open source software that you can host yourself. Does anyone know if something exists?

I guess what are you looking for? Azure AD is basically hosted AD with some limitations as to client management.

It's a totally different technology. Azure AD is a competitor with hosted AD. It's not AD in any way. Very different technologies. One is a LAN design and one is LANless as well.

Reinstallation fixed it but I don't know why.