In a typical over provisioned system (you can think of any folder-based filesystem as being this way too) you have many VMs, not just one or two. Once you have, say, a dozen it is trivial to over provision safely. You do this by a few means:

Reporting and alerting so that systems growing rapidly are addressed. Maintaining caps that are large enough for flexibility but small enough so that if X VMs spiral out of control it will not be an issue. The X factor here is to be determined based on your risk and risk aversion. If you have, say, a dozen VMs, you might have the cap set so that ten VMs could expand to maximum but not all twelve. If any two VMs don't have an issue, you would be all set. Or maybe you'd set it for six. You don't overprovision to where any VM could use the entire space, it just doesn't make sense.

@Carnival-Boy said:

You got any examples, because I've never come across anyone saying these things?

I've seen (and been involved in) discussions where people seem to interpret "I have a different opinion to you" to mean "I am insane and deliberately put my company at risk", but that's not the same thing.

There was one last night that brought up the topic, but it is common. It is normally an emotional reaction to reasoning. I'll give a solid one from long ago not associated with any community.... a director was presented with a vendor selling a product that was known to not work and was going to cause a major project to fail and was presented with an internally tested, known working solution that was essentially free. When shown that the cost difference was only a million dollars he responded "I don't sign paper for only a million dollars."

Not only did he use that statement to funnel a million dollars to a vendor that he knew couldn't do the job, he let a project fail too!

Fully Automated Nagios (FAN) is probably the easiest to set up and has Centreon for the graphical configuration. It works well but it hasn't had an update in a while so it's out of date some. Still works well. If you check out my projects on my profile over on SW you will see some screenshots of my install. Nagvis is the add-on that gives the cool maps I made.

@IRJ yep, makes sense then - it's for consumption.

I've only ever used their stuff to test. If I wanted to try something, but didn't feel like putting the effort into actually installing everything, I just download an image and run it.

I'm pretty sure they come default with webmin and some other junk also.

That's what I felt like, a full decade!! I really did feel like it was brand new when I started at CitiGroup, just a couple weeks before that. I was managing OF systems then.

@DustinB3403 said:

My point is that the key he's been using has likely been blacklisted. Therefor it wouldn't have anything to activate against.

It would have something to activate against, it would just fail, in that instance. Your answer led him to the opposite conclusion from what you intended.

@johnhooks said:

@RamblingBiped said:

I started my venture in to Linux Administration when I moved into a new position a little over 2 years ago. The thing that helped me get a handle on things in the beginning was participating in the Linux Group in the Spiceworks community and using a lot of Google-foo. A lot of the questions you are going to need answered have already been asked/answered a few thousand times over somewhere within that group...

Youtube is also helpful. TheUrbanPenguin channel maintained by Andrew Malice(sp?) is exceedingly informative.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFFLP0dKesrKWccYscdAr9A

The resources listed on the right side of the screen from the BASH sub-reddit are also very helpful:

https://www.reddit.com/r/bash/

He just recently wrote a book too (Urban Penguin, I think it's Andrew Malet or Mallet)

This guy seems fairly knowledgeable also

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvA_wgsX6eFAOXI8Rbg_WiQ

Thanks, I fixed the spelling. Thanks for the heads up on his book as well, looks like it might be a decent reference.

http://www.amazon.com/CentOS-System-Administration-Essentials-Mallett/dp/1783985925/ref=la_B00J5Q924A_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1452791001&sr=1-1

Unitrends replication is a feature that is reserved for paid options. You can archive a copy of your local backups to a cloud target like Amazon S3 or similar, though.

@nic Yeah I wouldn't mind trying it as well.

My only experience has been the other issue we discussed, so I'd like to give it a spin.

@Dashrender said:

Sounds like they really just don't want customers.

Yeah, they can go fly a kite..

Good marketing though if you click on Asia Pacific
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I usually just power off the server, yank all the drives out, mix em all up and put em back in. I also enjoy testing my backups quite often.

I'll have to try your method next time!

😉

Interesting. Though it doesn't indicate that one could limit - only set a ringer volume. I'll have to try.

Thanks. I found other Mitel docs just not that one.

Not yet, in a year or two, I'd expect it to get there.

@Breffni-Potter

I have self-admittedly EXTREMELY high standards for what I define as "snappy", and it's a plague that prevents me from using some software ( like some popular IDEs ) because they just can't keep up w/ the pace at which I need to be able to stream code from my fingertips to feel fully productive. Basically I hate waiting for anything small. A new tab to open, one to close, code hinting to process and render, a file list read, a web page to serve and render. Things like boot up or shut down time don't matter to me, because those are one-offs when you're not trying to accomplish something granular. App load times also don't matter, though typically the faster those are the faster the overall "snappyness" will be. It's a quirk, but I think there are a lot of people like me, in fact I've seen a lot of people blow up on smaller scales when their computers aren't responsive. I also feel like I have an exaggerated ability to perceive latency, for example most people I've talked to can't feel that command + tab on OS X is slightly, but palpably slower than alt + tab on Windows ( probably because they have a programmed animation that has an exact, while superficial duration before the stuff is fully faded and at its final static position ). Stuff like that bothers me. The old OS X fullscreen animation used to make me homicidal. It's faster now ( as of El Capitan ), but still obnoxiously longer than it should be. So to answer your question, snappyness is achieved when I don't feel like I'm waiting on an interface to deploy my next keystroke or click, or in more abstract terms, "when a computer can mostly keep up with me". There is not a single mac on the market today, even a $4,000 Mac Pro, that consistently can. End rant.

That was a painful read....

@dafyre said:

Come up with a way to add a gas powered generator to it so it can kick in if your battery power gets too low or something?

Extra power is easy. But it adds cost, complexity and most critically in a flying machine, weight.

@JaredBusch said:

@BRRABill said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Apparently, when have they NOT? Where does this "first release" myth come from? Other than the unique case of Vista, which was a true first release of NT 6. This is NOT a first release, this is the latest version of NT 6. If you have concern about lower releases, then that would make you install this as this is the latest update to NT 6.

On the desktop side, I typically have always felt the first releases (like the now defunct Windows 😎 to be shaky. I do not think that is a myth.

There was not a single functionality issue with Windows 8.
Honestly, there was not a single problem with Vista either as long as your hardware worked with it. Vista had a driver compatibility problem.

Well this is not entirely true. Vista also included a brand new network stack that they wrote that had TONS of holes in it. They dumped that stack with 8.1 though.

@Dashrender said:

@JaredBusch said:

@nadnerB said:

Run a clean up
WSUS console --> Update Services --> Server --> Options --> Server Cleanup Wizard

Be prepared for this to take hours and more likely fail.

Really? I haven't had it fail except for the first time I ran it. And frankly I think it failed because I was impatient.

I think the first time I ran it, which was something like 5 years into it running, it would have taken 2-3 days to complete.

Now I run it monthly - still takes around 20 mins on average, but it never fails.

I have a server at one client that had cleanup ran monthly. then 2 months were missed. then cleanup never successfully ran again. I ended up having to install SQL Management Studio and then running some specific stored procedures on the native database to clean it up. Running those still took 2 days. The system now functions normally again.