So I stopped using the text install and went to full graphical and... it started working. WTF

@NerdyDad thats how our colo is. The rent includes security (keycard access to DC, combiantion access to rack), rack, power feed, and Internet. Oh, and basic PDU's. We wanted more advanced PDU's (remote management and monitoring) which we could either lease from them or buy ourselves.

@bigbear said in Need a full featured softphone:

Call disconnected when other extension picked up.

Sounds like no audio device present (e.g. sound card with autosensing but no microphone connected) then. Unless there is some late negotiation involved with direct rtp setup and no common codecs.

However it looks promising and is open source. I only messed with it for a few minutes.

See also https://github.com/alfredh/baresip

@scottalanmiller said in Hyper-converged infrastructure (I missed the storage part):

Then look at someone like @scale who implement their own storage system directly on the hypervisor itself. So the hypervisor is the only component that needs to be spread out to many nodes. It's kind of like DRBD, being in the hypervisor, but is scale out rather than just a two node mirror. The storage and the hypervisor and the management are all really one thing. Very tightly integrated.

I did something similar. I had Gluster running between the hosts and the VMs are stored on the bricks. However I've switched to just running Gluster in the VMs that need replication. Most are replicated at the application level but a few need data replicated.

That's very odd. I, personally, haven't had good luck with the gui partition manager. For some reason it seems to work differently than what I think it's telling me. Can you boot to a rescue environment and create the RAID array and partitions before starting the installation?

@DustinB3403 I figured, but just wanted to clear the air juuusstttt in case. 😄

@Tim_G said in Anyone try SIS (Dedup) on Storage Server 2008 R2 with SCDPM 2016?:

@DustinB3403 said in Anyone try SIS (Dedup) on Storage Server 2008 R2 with SCDPM 2016?:

We attempted dedup (straight dedup) on a share, and it caused corruption to the share.

Not sure if I'd trust windows dedup any more because of that..

That's a good point.

I've been using it in production on 2016, after testing it for a while first. It seemed fine later in 2012 R2. I have not used it in this way in 2008 R2, let alone Storage Server 2008 R2.

I may just leave it alone on there and weigh some other options.

I think I'll still test it for sake of thoroughness.

There is no functionality difference, at the backup level, in the editions of the new agent.

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@scottalanmiller said in Port - Linux login script from AD netlogon share:

Oh, I missed that you were cross posting 🙂

Me too. I was about to congratulate @DustinB3403 on the new job. 🙂

@fuznutz04 said in XO disk usage issue:

Fixed it. Thanks @DustinB3403 .

Total face palm moment. When I setup backups a few months ago, I properly had XO backing up to a remote SMB share on another PC, with the share called Backups. At some point, probably during troubleshooting, I must have pointed the backup folder to just /Backups...which was located on the XO vm itself. I was backing up XO to itself.

Is that like Inception?

Yeah, backing up to XO, while allowed, isn't ideal for this very reason. Glad we were able to resolve the issue.

@scottalanmiller said in Freenas 9.2.18 server , CIFS services unable to start:

@Ghani said in Freenas 9.2.18 server , CIFS services unable to start:

Yes i agree your sounds

If the only goal is an open source file server (we call this a SAM-SD, there is a section of the forum just for that) then the most likely recommendations for an OS will be openSuse Tumbleweed or Fedora. CentOS and Ubuntu are fine choices too. FreeBSD is excellent, but less well known.

You make it sound as though the wise choice here would be to install OpenSuse etc direct to the hardware.

Ha! Avast....

@stess said in Where do you buy home server?:

Thanks for the clarification. I'll debate with my wallet if I can afford NUC.

NUC is on the cheaper side of the options. What else were you considering?

@wirestyle22 said in Sunk Cost Fallacy?:

@DustinB3403 said in Sunk Cost Fallacy?:

@Dashrender said in Sunk Cost Fallacy?:

A solution is always about money. If money isn't affected, then why are you doing this?
We're a business right? All decisions are driven by money, right?

And money can not only be saved, but earned more rapidly by doing X,Y,Z.

So is it time to create a project proposal. (is that the correct term?)

I made a 5 year proposal for an old job that saved them 40k a year and improved everything. They didn't do it

Worth examining in another thread. You should post about it. Maybe it's related to presentation skills or tactics.

@coliver There are ways to prevent it you just have to do it the right way, depends on if you are using an 800 number or what you are doing with the call as it comes in, also depends on what kind of phone system you have. I worked for a company that set up failover for a suiceide prevention hotline that had an SLA of 100% it can be done.

@fuznutz04 said in CPU Cooler:

@MattSpeller said in CPU Cooler:

For what it's worth, my $0.02

Decent air coolers (aftermarket) run about $20-30 and will beat the pants off a stock cooler. Overclocking you can get quite high as well.

If you have the cash (or extreme noise sensitivity) then it's worth going to closed loop liquid. H100i has been my go-to with good results but I can't help but say they're unnecessary and I consider them bling. edit to add they also require a more careful cleaning regimen (gentle + more frequent).

I might make the jump to one of those when/if I get a new case. But eventually, the noise won't even matter for me. My plan is to put my PC on the other side of my office wall, into a closet. Then I don't have to hear it at all.

Most people wear headphones so it's rarely an issue.

I did set one up for a lady who works from home on video editing and had tile floors. Echo chamber!

Thank you anyways ... got to maybe rent it out then if anyone needs space.