I gave up on the Dell iDRAC console long ago.

@hobbit666 checked other links here at ML, it's not generated by the system. So a typo, I guess.

@Dashrender said in Is Windows 10 Pro a free upgrade for businesses?:

@scottalanmiller said in Is Windows 10 Pro a free upgrade for businesses?:

@Dashrender said in Is Windows 10 Pro a free upgrade for businesses?:

Exactly - the confusing part is they (Microsoft) use the generic term Business, and say they will have to pay for upgrades, but that only applies to companies with Enterprise Level agreements, i.e. Windows Enterprise Edition.

When has Microsoft said that businesses would not be free? i've never seen them say that.

I've read many things that said that businesses would have to pay for upgrades - sure never MS, always journalists.

I know the OEM and FPP licenses are all upgrade-able free, Enterprise Agreements and VL licenses are what don't upgrade free.

VL is only for upgrades, though, so it overlaps. It would be silly to upgrade a VL since the VL itself is the upgrade! The upgrade replaces your VL rather than being on the VL. Only VL that doesn't count is the version of Windows that doesn't apply.

@John-Nicholson said in Vmware Audit:

@thwr 7 days isn't actually that hard to meet with if your a Fortune 500 who properly tracks your licensing. If you don't then you need to ask for extra time (Which even Microsoft and Oracle will give you) and assistance (VMware has licensing optimization scripts that can be run even outside of audits to make sure your in compliance).

Do you just install Office on computers, and Windows and create Windows SQL servers without tracking your usage vs. licensing or do you just use BSD licensed software?

I'm in public EDU. We're running quite a bunch of MS products like SQL Server, SharePoint, Forefront UAG, System Center and others. I have a very exhaustive stack of paper about where we use what since when - and it's driving me nuts. It's very hard to keep track, especially in case of upgrades. Try to keep track of a machine upgraded since XP. Very funny.

That's why I am replacing quite a few things with FOSS alternatives wherever possible.

@Jason said in What's your favorite brand for network gear?:

@Dashrender said in What's your favorite brand for network gear?:

@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite brand for network gear?:

@Dashrender said in What's your favorite brand for network gear?:

Huawei could solve this by making their platform completely open. Basically only sell hardware and allow others to make their own firmware/software that runs on it.

Who would buy it then? Useless hardware without vertical support? What business would use that? That's the DD-WRT model. Great for hobbyists, but that's not what they are going for. They want business usage.

Well the hope would be that the FOSS environment would make awesome firmware for it, than you could KNOW didn't have a back doors.

Hardware itself can have backdoors

Heard the story where the NSA intercepted shipments of switches and routers from well-known brands just to open the package, install a custom firmware and repackage it and finally sent it to the customer?

We're living in an odd world, even Orwell wouldn't believe that I guess. Hardware can have backdoors, same for software. But even the NSA or the big red dragon need to use IP I guess, so we can at least place a firewall in front of everything.

As for FOSS, well, I had a look at this:. There are quite some Linux based OS's for switches out there, like Cumulus or OpenSwitch (http://mangolassi.it/topic/9388/openswitch-moves-under-linux-foundation-umbrella). This on some open switch (bare metal or SDN) like the ones from Quanta (http://www.qct.io/-c77c75c159) or SuperMicro (https://www.supermicro.nl/products/accessories/Networking/SSE-G3648B.cfm for example) would at least increase the situations about software backdoors, but won't solve the hardware backdoor problem. But having software and hardware separated, both can be more easily tested for backdoors. And THIS could in fact improve the situation.

Sadly, we are just not there yet: Bare metal and Linux/BSD in core networking is coming, but it will take many years to reach the average SMB. Right now, the whole open switch story is all about SDN in the datacenter, as far as I know.

@cakeis_not_alie said in at cakeis not alie looking for Ubiquiti experience:

Following up on this thread, the above information worked. Removing the "any" and replacing with "the external IP of the box into which you are currently logged in" solved the problem.

Roar! It sucks that "any" is in literally every other piece of configuration information about site-to-site VPNs for Ubiquiti! Hat's off to Jared Busch for his knowledge of edge cases, and a case of beer owed for my salvation.

Cheers to all who helped.

IMO, firmware 1.8.0 is buggy as shit with IPSEC. There were a lot of posts on their forums about various issues back when it first released.

p.s. http://www.beermonthclub.com/join-or-give-a-gift-membership.htm

Just figured I'd post this as it's a really simple graphic explaining the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 Hypervisors.

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@JaredBusch said in Entry Level Desktop Needed Quickly:

I always go through my VAR and just get a ready to ship Dell or HP

We do this for HP. We work with Softmart and can get most things in a few hours when needed, next day is very doable.

@travisdh1 said in LastPass Replacement?:

@Dashrender said in LastPass Replacement?:

@scottalanmiller said in LastPass Replacement?:

@dafyre said in LastPass Replacement?:

Because they got bought out by LMI(Log Me In), I think... and in some circles, LMI has a horrid reputation.

That and they are not free. But mostly the LMI buy out.

For the cloud auto sync options, I'm totally fine paying $12/yr. But the LMI thing does bug me.

Yeah, call this a preemptive action on my part. I don't want LMI getting any $$ from me.

Or my passwords.

^ @ntoxicator said.

@scottalanmiller said in Artificial Latency:

http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/dummynet/

I'll forward that along thanks.

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Data-Exposed/SQL-Server-on-Linux-Sneak-Peak

If you be XenServer from Citrix with support there is indeed a EULA.. the EULA doesn't just cover support.

The other piece of the chain here is of course, the VPS provider that I'm using. I'm on the east coast, my VPS is in Milwaulkee, connecting to a Vitelity server, which appears to be in Colorado. I'm evaluating the idea of testing another local VPS provider closer to me. (Vultr for example)

@scottalanmiller said in Dell PERC Question (Server Down):

What's the latest on this project?

Well, I still do not have production servers on it yet. (I was waiting for XS7 to come out.)

But I put a Splunk instance on it (as well as XO, and a few other things) and it hasn't had any issues yet. Of course it didn't with the EDGE drives until I really got things running on it, so we shall see. But nothing was writing to it like the Splunk machine is.

But so far, so good.

@scottalanmiller said

The more that you add, the better T-Mobile gets.

You mentioned, perhaps privately, to look into adding everyone in our company, including family members.

Do people actually do that? To me, it's always seemed like a PITA. Business users, sure. But family members?

@Dashrender said in XenServer 7: best practice: noob question:

@scottalanmiller said in XenServer 7: best practice: noob question:

@Dashrender said in XenServer 7: best practice: noob question:

@scottalanmiller said in XenServer 7: best practice: noob question:

@DustinB3403 said in XenServer 7: best practice: noob question:

@FATeknollogee said in XenServer 7: best practice: noob question:

@DustinB3403

Does it have better performance & is it easier to setup?

That is all dependent on how comfortable you are with software / hardware raid.

Even for software RAID experts, hardware RAID is easier.

well yeah - it's practically plug and play - so few options.

Plus, in hardware RAID (assuming the chassis supports it) you get hot swap, something you don't get with Software RAID.

All enterprise software RAID has hot swap and always has. Only FakeRAID doesn't offer that and even that sometimes does. Hot swap is basically ubiquitous. Even ridiculous Windows software RAID has hot swap.

excuse me, I used the wrong term - I meant Blind swap - the lack of need to tell the OS to demount the drive before you pull it from the system.

Yes, now that software RAID generally lacks.