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    Burned by Eschewing Best Practices

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    • DustinB3403D
      DustinB3403
      last edited by

      @brianlittlejohn said:

      @scottalanmiller Hopefully he has an actual RAID card.

      Hopefully (if he does) the drives are actually connected to it, and not the motherboard....

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @brianlittlejohn
        last edited by

        @brianlittlejohn said:

        @scottalanmiller Hopefully he has an actual RAID card.

        Not looking likely.

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        • brianlittlejohnB
          brianlittlejohn @scottalanmiller
          last edited by

          @scottalanmiller Thats a shame.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller
            last edited by

            It's a Lenovo Thinkserver TD350

            td350.png

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller
              last edited by

              And... it's FakeRAID.

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              • RomoR
                Romo
                last edited by

                He could still use software raid, couldn't he?

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                • RomoR
                  Romo
                  last edited by

                  I use mdadm with our kvm vm hosts, I haven't used xenserver but I would think mdadm would also be a possibility for him

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @Romo
                    last edited by

                    @Romo said:

                    He could still use software raid, couldn't he?

                    That's what we are preparing to walk him through now. With XenServer that's a bit of a learning curve, though. Not going to be run.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller
                      last edited by

                      https://blog.trendelkamp.net/2015/02/configure-software-raid-xenserver-6-5/

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @Romo
                        last edited by

                        @Romo said:

                        I use mdadm with our kvm vm hosts, I haven't used xenserver but I would think mdadm would also be a possibility for him

                        Yes, works the same. But for someone who is new to Linux this will be a shock to his system.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller
                          last edited by

                          This guy is in for a tough time. No AD for 40 machines..

                          http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1274733-40-workgroup-pc-s

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                          • RojoLocoR
                            RojoLoco @scottalanmiller
                            last edited by

                            @scottalanmiller said:

                            This guy is in for a tough time. No AD for 40 machines..

                            http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1274733-40-workgroup-pc-s

                            ...and all are home versions, some Vista.... ewwwww

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller
                              last edited by

                              Yeah, it is going to be tough. No AD with forty machines. Not fun. But I've seen way bigger without AD, it's not that bad. I'd rather AD, of course. But you can do a lot without it.

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                              • StrongBadS
                                StrongBad
                                last edited by

                                That's a lot of PCs to have no Active Directory. Going to need to do ridiculous things like having common admin passwords or using Keepass and storing tons of passwords.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller
                                  last edited by

                                  Not a bad approach.

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                                  • DustinB3403D
                                    DustinB3403
                                    last edited by DustinB3403

                                    Here is another topic of it, where an IT Department virtualized, but failed to develop and deploy a proper backup solution. Now the IT person is stuck manually restoring files and ActiveDirectory from a Snapshot created in January!

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                                    • brianlittlejohnB
                                      brianlittlejohn @DustinB3403
                                      last edited by

                                      @DustinB3403 I wonder if that snapshot from January is part of what messed his system up when it lost power. You shouldn't keep snapshots hanging around that long. Nothing but trouble.

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                                      • DustinB3403D
                                        DustinB3403
                                        last edited by

                                        Well the story appears to thicken, as he was panicked (not having a recovery strategy) and simply restored with what he saw...

                                        So likely it did.

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                                        • brianlittlejohnB
                                          brianlittlejohn @DustinB3403
                                          last edited by

                                          @DustinB3403 Panicking leads to bad choices.

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @brianlittlejohn
                                            last edited by

                                            @brianlittlejohn said:

                                            @DustinB3403 Panicking leads to bad choices.

                                            And bad choices lead to panicking.

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