@travisdh1 My server was up and running in 10 minutes! I was presently surprised. 🙂

@black3dynamite said in XenServer Shrink Disk Size:

Never tried it but since you are using thick instead of thin provision. Maybe you can shrink the disk using lvresize.

Don't know if it'll be worth the effort to try. Might just create a new drive (at the smaller scale) and copy the data over.

I'd run check disk a lot more..

Remember my P2V that took 6 chkdsk to get it working?

@scottalanmiller said in Azure & "CentOS based" Compute node:

@fuznutz04 said in Azure & "CentOS based" Compute node:

@scottalanmiller said in Azure & "CentOS based" Compute node:

But in the past CentOS was there as a direct option. We used it and have customer still using it.

I wonder if MS will offer a base image again in the future with their new "commitment to Linux" claim.

Their commitment was never to CentOS. Ubuntu and Suse.

Ahh, missed that detail.

Well, it's something to use until they vanish again, at least, lol. I'd like to see a self hosted version of something like this.

@openit said in Software restriction policy on Workgroup network ?:

Oops, this many posts till I came back 🙂

We all get busy. 😉

@stacksofplates said in CentOS 7 networking issues:

NetworkManager still creates the ifcfg files under network-scripts. So those configs will still be there, but should have NM_CONTROLLED=yes

Also, for some reason CentOS ships with both network and NetworkManager on at the same time. So that's most likely why you saw the DHCP for NetworkManager and the static file that you created. I always disable and mask network to keep people from turning it back on when they aren't paying attention.

So it looks like they took out the NM_CONTROLLED section. I must have been thinking of RHEL 6. But NM still creates the ifcfg files in the same directory.

@Ghani said in Extend ZFS zpool Volume Size Without Any Data Loss:

@scottalanmiller

yes rsync not a backup solutions

So in a "read back" mode, this tells us that the data stored here isn't important so there isn't really anything to worry about. If you do the expansion and it causes data loss, they can't be upset as they don't see value in the data. This also tells us that the servers shouldn't be there, because if they aren't backed up and they aren't a caching system then you shouldn't have them at all.

So there is clearly something wrong.

@Mike Davis

Can you share the template you've used for Fortigate interfaces.

Thanks
Jeff

@JaredBusch said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:

@scottalanmiller said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:

@JaredBusch said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:

@scottalanmiller said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:

For those wondering like @BRRABill the storage instances are MORE available now than two weeks ago and here are the prices:

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I believe that @BRRABill actually contact them last week and was told that they were phasing the storage instances out. Someone needs to contact again and verify.

I did. I followed up and was told that that was not true and that the channel that he used for support did not exist and they wanted names and links of how he was told that because he was told via chat and officially they have no chat support.

Since then, they've added two more sites for options that were sold out when he had asked.

Good to hear. Now I want backups on those, which is not available.
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@BRRABill and I had long discussions about why those aren't available. If you extrapolate the backup costs from their non-storage devices, the cost of backing up these VMs would easily be greater than the cost of the VMs themselves. I think that they rightfully guessed that no one would pay for that. If you want a backup of them, buy another Vultr storage VM and backup to that. Or backup to S3/B2 or something.

It would be awesome if they integrated a backup service, I agree. But it would have to be a special offering for those and I think that it makes sense that it's not offered - seems like a wise business move.

@Dashrender Exactly see new thread here.

@RojoLoco said in Help With Resume:

@Dashrender said in Help With Resume:

@RojoLoco said in Help With Resume:

Wait, there is a "reality" show about getting hunted by cops? How do they consider it realistic if the contestants don't have the option to kill the cops that are after them? Because if I was on the lam, with nothing else to lose, you better believe I'd be ready and willing to ice a cop or two if it would help me escape.

LOL - I was kinda wondering the same thing.

My best guess is that the thinking is that these criminals are more of the white collar type, not willing to just kill anyone in their way.

Then they certainly aren't desperate enough to make that show remotely believable. Once you take the job/car/house/wife/family from that white collar guy, he might actually show some real survival instincts. But then again, I despise the very idea of "reality" TV, and would only watch this if they truly destroyed a person's life in order to make it "real" to them.

I only see this as a way to desensitize the public to the invasion of privacy that the gov't is doing to our lives now. and trying to claim it's all for the greater good.

@Grey said in DFS conversion:

@coliver said in DFS conversion:

The existing shares wouldn't automatically be imported into DFS. It is pretty easy to add them after the roles are assigned though. What you want is doable. We don't use DFS-R here just use a DFS namespace to make things easier for the end user.

Is there a powershell to import the existing shares?

That I don't know.

@MattSpeller said in AWS Outage Reported:

@Jimmy9008 said in AWS Outage Reported:

Have Amazon said what caused this yet? 'Tech spilled coffee on core equipment...', 'Powercut and generator failure at the same time'... any info at all?

They forgot to feed the hamster

Not seen anything yet tbh

Like this little guy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gIH94st0mY

@scottalanmiller said in Fonts: an idiot's guide:

@Breffni-Potter said in Fonts: an idiot's guide:

In branding, you normally have a corporate font, which goes on signage, posters, logos, business cards, properly designed materials.

NTG does that. We only use the one, though. We don't have official font(s) for things like literature, just for the brand name.

Umm...congratulations?

@matteo-nunziati said in wetting my feet with CM software:

At that point if you have interleaved common/specific tasks you have to create a lot of fragmentation with all that includes and a number of "micro" files, or you end up duplicating code in files to have less fragmentation...

How is that any different than if/else statements?

if == ubuntu package=apache2 else package=httpd when: ansible_os_family == "Debian" pkg = apache2 when: ansible_os_family == "RedHat" pkg = httpd

You don't need mico files at all. Just call variables in your j2 templates depending on the OS or OS release. Say for instance you use port 22 on RHEL and 2222 on Ubuntu (stupid but just an example), use the same j2 file with a {{ ssh_port }} variable and have the task insert the port number. No need for anything else other than a single template file.

@jrc said in Suggestions on a VPN Solution:

@scottalanmiller said in Suggestions on a VPN Solution:

@Dashrender said in Suggestions on a VPN Solution:

@coliver said in Suggestions on a VPN Solution:

But I think the big one is that you don't want your firewall to handle switching. You should have an independent dedicated switch for that task.

What's the concern here? The ER-X specifically has a switch chip in it, where the ERL and ER8 don't. Granted I probably wouldn't use the ER-X in a 15+ user environment (though even then that's completely arbitrary and I should only care about bandwidth throughput, not number of users).

It's just not good practice to mash everything into an "all in one" device. You'd never want an AP in your router, and an AP is just a wireless switch. Keep your devices lean and purposeful.

Agreed!

I plan to go with the ERL at both sites, the main site already has a separate switch from the Netgear router, so it'll be a drop in replacement there. At the remote site, I will use the ERL with an 8 port gigabit switch and add in a ubiquiti AP for wireless. Keeps it simple and modular.

Sounds like the right choice.

@EddieJennings said in Ranting about Windows Licencing:

Bah. I was hoping for an opportunity to make a snarky remark about CALs.

LOL. That might be an issue, too. Some Windows hosting includes CALs, some does not. I didn't see any mention of it when they said that Windows was free, which doesn't guarantee anything, but is suggestive.

Oh this is another cool feature that was added recently.

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