@scottalanmiller said:

@gjacobse said:

@scottalanmiller
Actually - yes. Yes it was.

That alone probably explains most of the issues. They do so many dumb things...

FTFY

As with any system, you should always swing back around and re-visit issues.

With the help of the group here, and other resources i hope to go over the GPP and see what I can clean up and improve.

Hi there!

XO just uses the host.address value from XAPI, for all operations (backup which use the XAPI HTTP handler for export but also import, consoles, etc.)

You'll have to find a way to have XAPI telling that host.address is the one you want.

The XAPI doc says:

The address by which this host can be contacted from any other host in the pool

See http://xapi-project.github.io/xen-api/classes/host.html

Updated as I figured out where things have moved away from the documentation that I had. The five minute install video is for Stacki 1.x and they have changed quite a bit at the core so that is why the video does not reflect the needs of the current installer. Avoid the StackiQ video for installation.

@Jason True 🙂

Keeping things updated while at the same time not breaking things.

@BBigford Overall this is just poor planning. I shouldn't have built them on the actual machines. I should have built virtual images so I could:

*Obtain snapshots before sysprep and
*Get around sysprep rearm because snapshots date back prior to first sysprep.

If I can convert them, I don't have to rebuild them. 🙂

It seems like, unless you've already made enough videos of this, that putting together ones that show your expertise in a given area would be most effective. Then you're not only educating, but also marketing.

I have it installed. Just dropped the forwarder on the firewall so far. So it alerts me whenever something gets by the first box.... no alerts so far (I'd knock on wood if I could.)

Only free up to 12. It's called a loss leader. Those customers are not going to pay anyway, they will just go somewhere else. but when they get to the thirteenth person, they are more likely to pay than to migrate elsewhere.

Delivering the service costs little, so they lose "nothing" doing this while they use it as a low cost form of marketing.

@Ambarishrh Glad to hear that did the trick!

I have it installed for a second time. The installation video is incorrect and it does not ask the questions that they say during the install. I did it twice because I thought that I had missed something. Nope, just that their documentation isn't right. So it drops you to a command prompt without any indication if you did it correctly or not or where to go next.

Okay, makes sense then. I'd lean towards XenServer with local storage then. You can migrate to CEPH when it is ready. This would get a single node up "instantly" and let you move others as the opportunity arises.

Very sad. He leaves quite a legacy.

@scottalanmiller said:

@PSX_Defector said:

If you only have Samba controllers, hell it might work.

that's the normal way to use it. Mixing it in would just be weird. Lots of companies run on just it, it works great from what I hear. I've never heard of a shop that had issues after moving to it. It's full AD with all the bells and whistles. You can even manage it from Windows and GPOs work great too.

I saw somewhere online someone set up an environment that way and used RSAT from a Windows 7 computer to do GPO and users/computers.

@scottalanmiller said:

And would a campus agreement cover them after they leave school?

Don't know, I don't work there.
I'm not defending either party. I do think one party has shot themselves in the foot while the other has shot their mouth off.

lol Doh!

@DustinB3403 said:

@ChrisL said:

@DustinB3403 said:

FYI "Pr1^c3S$" would take a whopping 3 days to crack....

More than enough time to come up with a new password... like ':PR!n<3$$'

If you actually leave the single quotes, sure, secure password to brute force.... otherwise 50 days

What is irritating about single quotes is the number of commercial systems that strip them off without notification.

I've had this done to me at a company. I passed, but got to watch someone from the Windows Admin team go through a public lecture of not understanding security. That was rough. I'm pretty sure that he was crying. They didn't fire him that day, but that was pretty much the end.