@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.

@Dashrender said in Hours I work/PTO:

@dafyre said in Hours I work/PTO:

@Dashrender said in Hours I work/PTO:

Not to mention the fact that there's a belief (no idea if it's true or not) if your hobby becomes your job, good chances are you'll eventually hate that hobby.

I can safely say that this has not been the case for me. I've been around computers and made it my hobby almost my entire life. I even finally got a job in it, and I do it all day every day... (I'd do it more if I could, lol).

I spend a large portion of my waking life in front of a computer. I talk to my wife all day via Facebook, I talk with you guys on here all day, except when I'm actually needed to be AFK... and I come home and tinker with computers too, while still chatting with folks and talking to the folks at the house... I still love my job, and what I do.

I don't have as much time to devote to it any more...but for good reasons (family!).

Chatting via Facebook is hardly IT related. Granted there are tons of non IT people I know that work on computers all day (as in PowerPoint/Excel/ERP, etc) and they totally want to disconnect from the computer completely at night.
But wanting to be online is simply social, not really computer related, just happens to be way more convenient online than going to the bar or where ever to socialize.

What you say is very true. But for me, the fact that I can chat with you guys and my wife all day as I'm working is a large part of my job satisfaction, and it makes me feel much less disconnected from my family and friends while I'm at work.

Not quite the level of freedom that @scottalanmiller has, but lightly leaning in that direction.

@tirendir said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

@scottalanmiller You make a fair point, and I agree with your assessment that legitimate success should enable us to have more control over location and income with less risk of losing control over any of those things.

Really, we could probably boil "success" down to getting what we want out of life. More or less anyway, right? 😃

Or... the leverage to get what we want from life 🙂

@ntoxicator said in Cannot decide between 1U servers for growing company:

@scottalanmiller

Hi Scott -thanks for the follow-up. I've moved on from that company; hence my absence. Moved back to Upstate NY area.

Ah, congrats I hope. Where in Upstate are you now?

Yea, being very explicit here is what would protect the company.

IE No overtime will be approved, unless with explicit written consent from you manager. Any overtime not approved beforehand will be viewed as a breach of company policy, repeated breaches of company policy are subject to disciplinary action.

Edit: ... disciplinary action. Up to and including termination.

@Danp said in XenServer 6.2 servers down. I have no Xen skill. Most likely networking? Help!:

@Dashrender said in XenServer 6.2 servers down. I have no Xen skill. Most likely networking? Help!:

The only cost here would be the drive. Clonezilla is free, the use of the PC is free (of course that user is not ideal, so I guess there is cost there 😉 )

The owner is currently out of the country... use his desktop! 😁

If AD works. Lol

@BRRABill said:

It seems as though you can install another DC, then replicate, then demote the EVAL one.

But I think I'll just go with not doing that. 🙂

Yes, it wouldn't be a functional AD if you could not do that. You risk schema issues, though.

@obsolesce said in Handling DNS in a Single Active Directory Domain Controller Environment:

@scottalanmiller said in Handling DNS in a Single Active Directory Domain Controller Environment:

@obsolesce said in Handling DNS in a Single Active Directory Domain Controller Environment:

@stuartjordan said in Handling DNS in a Single Active Directory Domain Controller Environment:

I believe the forest level with Samba can only be 2008R2 though.

If you're not using Windows AD, what's it matter?

If he's merging in DFS, it might. It's rare to do, but could matter.

Oh I see, so Windows AD and other services were involved at some point.

Depending on what you want to do, sometimes AD has to support it.

@msff-amman-Itofficer said in A Mandate to Be Cheap:

@scottalanmiller

But I work for non profit organization ... where cheap means cheap

As Jared points out, if their goal was to provide whatever service that their mandate is, they would not be cheap. Cheap is just another work for wasteful or ineffective.

@JaredBusch https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/ZFS_on_Linux

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@scottalanmiller said in CloudatCost Issues:

Damn. Yeah they had me snookered. At least to the benefit of the doubt level.

Yeah. I used them for a while and when it worked, it was good. But by the time they started trying to bill me for the maintenance or whatever, I had already stopped using them due to the number of problems.

You should never over lap channels that causes co-channel interference. If you have to then as stated above the AP's that are farthest physically apart should use the same channel.
Also, I would turn off 2.4GHz unless you NEED IT and even then you probably don't NEED IT on all 4 AP's. Try just on 2 AP's to reduce interference and see what happens. Many cases in our offices I have either completely turned off 2.4 or I have it on only 1 AP and absolutely no complaints about wifi since I did that.

@scottalanmiller said:

But there are really convenient options. It's not like those don't exist and aren't used all of the time. It's just that you need to license them. But you CAN do recovery very easily.

The real issue is using Windows systems without being able to or willing to afford the cost to do so. Windows has a cost, which we all accept, to a point. The issues arise when we (or companies) don't want to spend enough to do it "right." Then it feels like there is a limitation with the product, but really it is just a lack of willingness to pay for what it cost to run it. But Windows is always a choice, as are the features like this kind of recovery.

I fully understand this now.

I understand that I can do EXACTLY what I want, which IMO makes for a much safe/better/quicker backup and recovery. As long as I buy another license. Or, in the case of larger companies, am already properly licensed.

My take has always been that making it more difficult to backup and restore is not in the interest of anyone. Even though Microsoft could theoretically make more money,
a -- they probably aren't because most people just run the backups anyway without proper licensing (most probably unaware)
b -- they will push people to other systems when backups fail or they realize the "cost of Windows" as you say

Datto, StorageCraft, etc ... these companies have great products that take great backups, and easily let you know if they are working. We're not talking about running systems here. We are talking about EASILY checking to see if backups have worked. That's it. Yes, it's possible to do another way, but again, that adds complexity and downtime. Yes, there is a cost to those things, but considering how important backup and recovery is, I think it should be allowed.

Well Spiceworld London was completely cancelled, I'm sure they had to put something up to cover the cost of peoples tickets to SW.

@Minion-Queen Woo! Can't wait... just need to bring it up to my owners!

@Dashrender Oh and look closely at the URL....

🙂 I know its a few days early, but come on.... 🙂

@scottalanmiller said in New Infrastructure to Replace Scale Cluster:

So if a VM dies, oVirt will provide non-FT failover, yes. And by having failover you might achieve HA. And oVirt is a critical part of making that possible. But it itself isn't HA, nor does it guarantee HA. It's just a failover component that you can use to "do" HA.

It's a component you buy (well, this one is opensource, but still), part of a solution that would cover other potential failure points. The solution in general is also something you can buy, in order to achieve a certain level of HA for those VMs

@coliver Indeed, but what's interesting is how 5 drives specifically beat other quantities of the same drive in Raid 0 on the same hardware from my earlier posts ( can't link to them because Mango Lassi has been freaking out on me and doing weird stuff including not rendering the images as I scroll ).

@IRJ said:

Its amazing how many guests have been lurking Mangolassi today. You know what they say....

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I have been noticing an increase in lurker activity. Good stuff.

@scottalanmiller said in Exchange Online Migration From POP3:

@Carnival-Boy still looking to move Sharepoint? Any progress.

I'd forgotten that Microsoft has killed Foundation (2013 will be the last version), so there is no longer a free version of Sharepoint. If you need it, you have to pay for it. I'd forgotten this even though I actually posted it on ML a year ago (I think my memory is going in my old age).

Add that to the fact that it appears that migrating from on-premise to online is not a simple task (compared with say Exchange), and I'm coming round to thinking it would be foolish to further invest in Sharepoint Foundation 2013 and we're better off moving to Sharepoint online asap. It will mean extra cost in the short-term, because we'll have to buy a load of O365 subscriptions, but less cost in the long-term (as eventually we will have to migrate from on-premise to online since Foundation is the only product that makes financial sense on-premise and Foundation has been killed).