@scottalanmiller said:

@Carnival-Boy you hit the proverbial nail there. People always do weird things like move from fast local disks to unnecessary SANs when virtualized get and believe that SANs are fast no matter how they are configured and assume their hardware issues are virtualization problems. People also confuse consolidation with virtualization which causes even more problems.

Sounds like my last job where pretty much everything had to run on our Xiotech (now Xio) SANS...before I left that job, we had moved to their ISE models (basically, a module of permanently installed, self-healing drives)...had some major firmware issues with them which I assume have been resolved.

This is the HTTPS plugin.

wtf3

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Only as long as it takes you to get a new phone, which while possible expensive, really shouldn't be that long.

In theory. But when you are traveling, away from home or don't live near a big city that can be quite a challenge. When you are without a phone AND your are then cut off from your computer even hours can be pretty dramatic. It makes losing your phone go from an inconvenience (one form of communication down) to a big thing (all communication down.)

Granted.

MIS is a very specific role, not normal IT. Normally people get dedicated MIS degrees to do that.

@MattSpeller said:

I'd like to toy with one to control all the stuff in my apartment. Need network / wifi / whatever enabled powerbars but that's not a huge hurdle anymore.

That would be a fun project. If only I had a stable home in which to do that these days.

You may notice slowdowns as those NAS units use the Atom processor to handle the parity RAID system.

@NetworkNerd the p2v for this is nice... just remember to check off a box if you're looking to use hyper-v on 2012... The downside though is that you might get a bloated VM because you can't move some of the blocks from the end of the vm to the front. Had that happen to me on one drive that was a 160gb vm using only 40gb. used the tool and was left with a 120gb vm... turned out that there were 'unmovable files' at the end of the vm image...

When any load creates threads it has to limit how many it makes. It could be that whatever is doing the work only needs three threads in which to do it, or it is capped at three or it could be that it is three different things that are unrelated to one another.

Sounds like your DHCP pool is exhausted and when the clients refresh they are getting a new IP (though that's not how I understood DHCP leasing to work - as long as your assigned address was still valid, and you're renewing you should get the same one issued back to you - I suppose the DHCP server could be making issued addresses as now invalid).

What are you using to provide DHCP now?

DHCP clients normally try to verify their DHCP assigned address at the half way mark - 30 mins is half of the original 3600 lease time, so it makes sense that it's related, what doesn't make sense is why your machine is changing IPs?

@coliver said:

Hasn't Linux always been able to do something like VSS?
Always? No. Before VSS? Yes. VSS is heavily based on Linux LVM. You have long (but not always) been able to take snapshots of the filesystem.

@g.jacobse said:

@scottalanmiller
Myself - on rare occasions yes. It would be more for HR and our PR departments use.

Then keep it, you can always limit access to it.

I'm pretty sure that Landscape is Linux only. And it isn't free.

That looks like an interesting tool, I need to check into that.

Nothing right now but we're going to trial Team Foundation Server in the next couple of weeks. It's about the only repo that's integrated with PowerShell ISE's.

Tried that as well, but couldnt get the git command working on the command mode. This product seems to be very good for our requirements as we are planning to have QR code on all machines

Congrats on diving into Linux. I bet that you will find that BASH scripting is dramatically easier to get into than PowerShell too. 🙂

That's a bit scary!

Mine seemed fine today. Might have been the wireless.