I'm building out a Starwind SAN for this. It's partially done. But I've been traveling.

@RamblingBiped said in Bandwidth Usage By Host:

I use iftop: http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/iftop/

@Romo said in Bandwidth Usage By Host:

I use iftop as well.

Oooh, so if I mirror the port connecting to our WAN and put the NIC in promiscuous mode, iftop should give me what I'm looking for?

@Reid-Cooper said in Why is Hyper-V More Confusing:

@Jstear said in Why is Hyper-V More Confusing:

I will mention that when I took Windows Server classes in college, we were using Windows Server 2008 R2 and installing the Hyper-V role. It wasn't until after college that I realized there was an actual free version called "Hyper-V Server".

Because.... College. 😉

Nah, I think that is pretty much the problem everyone has, and the root of a lot of this.

@DustinB3403 said in Phone Tone quality:

@Danp said in Phone Tone quality:

I would have thought the 'D' stood for Dial, not Dual. 😲

It's dual because the tones are a combination of two "pure" audio frequencies.

DTMF tones are fun to play with in an audio editor.

@JaredBusch said in ER-X static routing:

I would use a source and destination NAT rule to force it.

Thanks. I'll have to wait till after lunch or tomorrow to get that setup. Redoing the server over there as well, so no remote access at this point 😞 (I want my jumpbox back!)

yeah me too

We have replaced them everywhere with Ubiquiti stuff I don't think any of our clients have them remaining.

I have a feeling that given the question, they want the customer to put a written policy into place for whatever they describe in the paragraph.

That is special 🙂

No worries 😉
Hope you get it working.

@Breffni-Potter said in Lab/Demo/Training Server, Refurb:

@scottalanmiller said in Lab/Demo/Training Server, Refurb:

@Breffni-Potter said in Lab/Demo/Training Server, Refurb:

If you can't cope with doing hyper-v well, you can't cope with XenServer, Yes you do get more toys immediately with XenServer but to use them properly you need that competence to use them safely.

I don't know if I agree. Installing XS well takes, like, zero effort. Take any decent commodity server, pop in the CD, it takes care of itself. It's done well (enough at least) out of the box.

Hyper-V is nothing like that. You will, by default, be led down all kinds of bad and confusing routes. You can do XS well long before you can even figure out how to acquire Hyper-V.

I literally built a brand new server in full disaster mode at 2am, the crucial time when I am bound to make mistakes, Hyper-V, 2 server VMs, all done nicely to a standard but most of the work was the guest VMs, the hypervisor was simple. Whether that's XS/ESXI/Hyper-v, they are almost apples to apples for installing, I mean maybe for fun we should line up a tech with the same hardware, video record time trial him installing each hypervisor.

Maybe the problem is that people who know choose XS and people who are confused chose HV? At one time, @John-Nicholson and I watched for like a year on SW and every single (literally EVERY single) mention of HV was because the person deploying it was confused and thought that they had to or were deploying something else or didn't know how it got there or thought that it gave them something that it did not. Every, single, one.

It might be the confusion leading people to HV, which then causes them to be confused about how to use it.

That you can use it well, already knowing how virtualization works, isn't relevant to the normal Windows world and isn't indicative in any way.

If you were using a high availability platform, like a Scale HC3 (just as an example off of the top of my head) you could easily get by with just a single RDS instance and a single file server instance, which would potentially reduce the licensing needs for Windows (this depends on how you want to use it), and if RDS were to be on a node that failed it would be automatically migrated to a working node. And the same for the file server. So you get automatic, instant recovery for failure without needing a complex load balancing scenario or external high availability tools.

RDS and file servers are ideal roles for platform high availability like Scale HC3 provides.

@scottalanmiller

Thanks Scott. That jogged my memory to enable ssl module. That was what I missed.

@Dashrender said in Greenfield IT Department Questionaire:

Some of those don't seem to be Greenfield type question. Doesn't Greefield mean there is nothing there now?

No IT there now or what is there is trivial. Not that there is no company there now.

@thwr said in RunDeck - Workflow Automation:

Looks like a generic workflow engine - might come in handy in some situations. Could you please report back when you tried that?

here's some more info on it ..

http://rundeck.org/docs/manual/introduction.html

Okay I tested it out. If you log in as a new user it asks you to sign in but works anyway. So you know that you have not signed in, but you aren't blocked from accessing the application.

Cool, thanks.