I am 26% complete with the CISSP course. I have taken various practice exams and I feel my Udemy course has covered the content well so far.

New one here, too. Doesn't sound familiar.

@BRRABill said in XenServer 7 install to Dell R730 OBR10 15TB:

@Dashrender said in XenServer 7 install to Dell R730 OBR10 15TB:

@BRRABill said in XenServer 7 install to Dell R730 OBR10 15TB:

Isn't 2TB the max size of ext3?

I thought we found it's 16 TB

Ah, I was thinking of file size.

I think the max file size is 2TB maybe?

Which might also explain things since the VHD can't be larger than 2GB.

Yes, 16TB FS and 2TB file.

@stacksofplates said in HP DL385 G5 Repair:

@gjacobse said in HP DL385 G5 Repair:

While in NY for MangoCon 2016, I picked up a HP DL385 G5 from the NTG Inventory.

As it turns out,.. it would seem that this is the unit with a failed MOBO.

Is it worth $100 (plus S&H) to replace?

DL385 G5

Dual PSU Dual CPU Two 73GB 15.1k drives Two 146GB 10k drives

I got a DL380 G6 with 24 GB RAM for $200 off of Amazon. I'd say no.

That's why we didn't get it fixed.

@Dashrender said in Nextcloud/Owncloud best use cases:

The local copy always stays local until you delete it, or a sync from another location deletes it.

Right. If you delete the local copy, it gets deleted from the NC server as well. So the next time the other clients sync up, it will get removed from them as well.

@DustinB3403 said in XenServer local storage on a T3500:

@stacksofplates said in XenServer local storage on a T3500:

@BRRABill said in XenServer local storage on a T3500:

@scottalanmiller said in XenServer local storage on a T3500:

@Dashrender said in XenServer local storage on a T3500:

@scottalanmiller said in XenServer local storage on a T3500:

@BRRABill said in XenServer local storage on a T3500:

When would you NOT want to thin provision?

And are you saying if it is over 2TB you cannot thin provision?

That's the issue, thin provisioning is limited currently to 2TB or smaller volumes (VHDs.)

Wait, is it 2 TB volumes as in ext3 partitions or is it 2 TV VHDs?

VHDs.

That was another thing people are always clamoring about with XS ... the lack of VHDX.

Which I think is ridiculous that it's not in 7. VHDX is over 4 years old. Even worse, QCOW2 is something like 10 (or more) years old, and has almost a 9 EB limit.

The limitation on the partitions sizes is because of the use of snapshot functionality. Imagine having a 9EB array and partition, and then trying to perform a snapshot on it.

VHDX has the same limit (or similar). No one would really have an image that size, but it would be compatible with every other system. And snapshots wouldn't take any longer. It creates a new file and writes to it and reads from the old one.

@travisdh1 said in Few Windows clients randomly can't resolve DFS:

@thwr said in Few Windows clients randomly can't resolve DFS:

Both clients were able to see the DFS root again this morning - without even touching them.

How annoying.

Si senior...

@i3 said in RAID recommendation for Hyper-V host:

@scottalanmiller said in RAID recommendation for Hyper-V host:

@JaredBusch said in RAID recommendation for Hyper-V host:

@i3 you do not install server 2012 r2 onto the hardware. You install Hyper-V Server 2012 R2

This is very important.

Besides the licensing aspect, is it important for performance reasons? So the host can dedicate as as many resources to its vm's as possible?

Regardless of those other two posts above... what do you mean by licensing aspect? Just trying to get a feel for where you are.

@StuartJordan said in Install Zentyal 4.2 on Scale HC3:

@scottalanmiller Brilliant thanks for the info on that.

No problem. Also check this out...

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

@JaredBusch

Excellent. BTW, the UI for the EdgeSwitch on the latest firmware is pretty nice. A lot nicer than the Dell switches I'm used to configuring in the past.

Lol, sure... But if a graphics design person can't work out this situation, they probably belong on another line of work. Considering the OP. 😉

@IRJ said in Moving on....:

@dafyre said in Moving on....:

Cool. We're going on an online, non-live training course. It's still been really cool. Not quite as much hands on type stuff as I'd like.

I'll have to find out how much the test is by itself, it would seem.

I think it is $500 or $600 and you have to send in documentation proving your security background.

Wow. Sounds...interesting, considering I don't really have any official security background. It was all "other duties as necessary" at my last job, lol.

@jospoortvliet said in NextCloud box:

@Reid-Cooper said in NextCloud box:

It's a hobby device. NextCoud said so themselves. Not meant for business use. Just for fun.

Yeah, certainly not a business device, it isn't powerful enough for that. It is meant for home users.

And yes, it is designed to not require maintenance. That is, the OS automatically updates, as does Nextcloud itself. I think that at the moment, you'll have to re-enable apps, that is the only thing. We're working on making that work automatically too. Help is obviously welcome.

Oh OK this just got a lot more interesting. I personally feel that anything that goes to a consumer needs to handle 99.9% of maintenance tasks completely on its own. If it doesn't then most of us know that in a consumer environment it will never happen, and we end up with IOT devices helping to cause 1 TB DDOS attacks.

So I found a quirk, not sure if it's an actual bug. For incremental backups to work you have to use the NFS syntax (BACKUP_URL="nfs://<server>"). If you mount the share, and then write to the local mount it won't do incremental.

I find this happens most often to my users when they are trying to reconnect to a RemoteApp that they had left open and got disconnected from. I've seen it happen to Word & Excel, as well as a number of internal applications that we use here.

Unfortunately, like you, I usually have to log in to the server and boot them off.... I usually just keep an RDS session open to that server and leave a script running to make it easier for me to kill a user's hung session.

https://gitlab.wellston.biz/dafyre/powershell-scripts

autoUserSessionDetails.ps1 Should help you with that. If your machine is AD joined, you can run it from your own machine, but I still recommend running it from the Connection Broker.

@wrx7m said in Offline files nightmare:

I had a freezing issue where the system would just stop responding for like 30 seconds at a time. It wasn't the well-documented one because I have a single partition for the OS and data. There was also another issue with the way that it was handling multiple networks being connected. After reverting, it worked fine. I tried installing it several weeks later with all patches and it seems good to go for now.

Awww, I did hear about that issue, just never saw it. All of my systems have the extra partitions as part of install.

@wrx7m said in So this happened....:

Curious as to which spam filter service this is...

https://www.mimecast.com/

Awesome

Comforting.... so so comforting...

The issue was resolved moments after calling our Rep (so something sporadic)