@scottalanmiller Containers with some exceptions (ESXi Instant Clone, and Photon Fast Boot) are orders of magnitude faster to create than VM's.

Containers running in a shared OS instance also can lower CPU overhead on the scheduler. Until recently Containers also sucked pretty bad at high IO activities (still not amazing, but a bit better).

@AlyRagab said in Zimbra Security:

@scottalanmiller said in Zimbra Security:

Seems like the Zimbra security would be redundancy at that point.

so i can use the two ways at the same time?.

Yes, it's a standard interface between them so you can have as many as you like. Although I'm unsure what the benefit would be unless they are completely different systems.

I use Linux Mint here, still on 17.3 though.

Did you use my instructions for Zimbra with Apache on CentOS?

https://mangolassi.it/topic/8344/installing-zimbra-email-8-6-on-centos-7

@scottalanmiller said in What Linux Are You Running:

CentOS is based on Fedora. But one is about long term support and one is about currency. If Fedora seems weird to you, so would Ubuntu as they both match a six month cycle. Fedora just has the long term support option of CentOS that Ubuntu lacks (they have the name, but not the product.)

The advantage to Fedora or Ubuntu is in currency. Packages are updated every six months, everything from Node to the kernel. So you get new features much earlier. For example PHP7 is standard on Fedora for some time, but nowhere close for CentOS. If you are running modern web apps, like NextCloud, there are some pretty huge benefits from not getting outdated.

Updating every six months instead of every several years (about three or four) means that updates are typically small and incremental rather than large and cumbersome. Updating becomes a normal process and newer security features are available too, just like new stability features. Suse takes this even farther with rolling updates.

The idea behind LTS releases like CentOS is that you can stagnate on a platform and ignore it for a long time. This, of course, has value. But we aren't a stagnant company. We have active support and want the latest features and latest software. We aren't looking for vendors to blame, so long term lock ins to known platforms lacks the value that it might have in a slower moving company.

Yeah, that makes sense.

@RamblingBiped said in I know you're not crazy...:

We use Skype for Business as our primary means of communication within the company, and HipChat for inter-department communications for all things IT. We are going to be canning HipChat here in a couple of weeks when we move to Microsoft Teams

HipChat is buggy and I don't recommend it to anyone; horrible unintuitive user experience. I'm not a Skype fan either, but that decision is outside of our sphere of influence so we have to deal with it. I'm hoping Microsoft Teams offers at least the same functionality as HipChat without the bugs. If that happens I'll be happy enough.

Same. We have on premise skype for business. I never had a big problem with it, but it never wowed me with anything.

It is nice how their status shows up in outlook though.

Faxstation, formerly faxbochs or something of the sort, works flawlessly and gives companies exactly what they really want - the use of a fax machine.

It takes the fax transmission locally, converts to a doc, sends to Sangoma servers then is manually faxes to the receiving party. And vice versa.

I've been using scanstate and loadstate from the Windows Automated Installation Kit to go from 7 to 10 and 10 to 10. I like it better than easy transfer because it's command line and scriptable.

Ya with a preallocated qcow2 I can get pretty close to raw speeds. No one is going to notice 10MB/s or even 20 in normal settings.

Smart switches are cheaper than managed switches, normally by quite a bit. And they are way easier for a small business to manage as they normally just use a web browser or a simple utility instead of making you use expensive and complex central management tools for SNMP.

OBS is pretty much the industry standard. If you want, you could take its code and BE the official support for it. If your company does not want to do that, you could do it yourself. Or hire any third party to do that.

Did anyone mention CrashPlan?

They have a free offering that should work.

First step - determine what it is that you want to be learning.

The real "power" of the Raspberry Pi is in making traditional "embedded" devices with it. Building your own sensors, thermostat, light controls, and things like that.

But of course you could use it to build small servers too, instead of making VMs. You could get five RPs and make five little servers with them.

@jepoytengco said in OSPF uses:

@scottalanmiller

so eventhough it is widely used in Big networks or Enterprise networks. Having said that OSPF is shortest path, in terms of connection convergence is one advantage of OSPF?

Thanks
Jeff

OSPF detects the shortest path, detects status of the path and chooses the shortest working path for traffic. That's the high level summary.

@Brett-at-ioSafe said in What Makes Something An Appliance:

They say.....

It took us nearly two years to select, design, test, and qualify the myriad hardware components that go into TrueNAS, which is a purpose-built appliance — meaning software coupled with custom hardware — designed for its one specific application: critical storage.

"Purpose built"... they don't even build it.

We do Yealink 48G with WF40 module all the time, prior to that we used Snom wifi 5+ years ago, which was maybe the only option then. Works great, no issues above wired networks if you have a decent wifi network deployed (UBNT, Ruckus, etc)

@jrc said in Dell Poweredge 2950 CPU Heatsink Retention bracket:

@Tim_G

That looks perfect to me. Tell me when you undid them, where they screwed into the chassis, or was there a nut on the underside of the board? Trying to ascertain if I have to pull the motherboard to install these or not. I'll have to work it out either way, but I figured if you noticed this when you removed them then maybe I could save some investigative time.

I just unscrewed them and they came right out. Nothing special.

@Ambarishrh said in All-in-one printer: Suggestions please:

We have a global hardware catalog which is decided and agreed with vendors all around the world in all offices. I dont get involved in these decisions but the request for such device came from our India office and i was just helping them.

Got it. I wasn't arguing it. I was curious but that, at least, I get.