@scottalanmiller posted here too https://mangolassi.it/topic/16567/dell-machines-unable-to-vpn-due-to-smartbyte-bloatware

@dbeato said in Dell Machines Unable to VPN Due to SmartByte Bloatware: @scottalanmiller said in Dell Machines Unable to VPN Due to SmartByte Bloatware: SmartByte, a bit of bloatware or possibly malware - certainly closer to malware than not, is shipping by default on some Dell laptops and desktops. If you are doing a clean OS install as is best practice, this bloatware will be unknown to you. But if you keep the random stuff that ships with your machine, you may run into networking problems. SmartByte has been found by Cisco (and us, now that we know about it with clients) to break network connections and specifically has been found to cause VPNs to fail to connect. You'll need to disable, or better remove, or best do a proper, clean OS install, to get your machine able to network reliably. None of my Dell Devices has ever come with this. Not even laptops bought through Amazon. In the past Dell and HP have had the Cisco AnnyConnect client but that is found more on home and retailers like Best Buy, Staples or such. Then again I don’t buy Dell Inspiron (Which are the ones with SmartByte for sure) I never run into it because I would never run a machine without doing a proper OS install, you never know what is on there. But we ran into this (and I've been ranting about how people got into the process of not doing a clean install - dealing with that separately) just now because someone had a machine that didn't get installed and, of course, terrible bloatware problems.

@dbeato hey bro! I was already using it last year I actually like it. Pretty decent.

@dbeato said in KB4074588 breaks USB mouse and keyboard: Also are your devices with AMD Processors? No, Intel, different gen on both laptops too

No experience with it, I'm afraid.

@JaredBusch said in Anyone put Korora/Fedora on an Inspiron 2 in 1: Well I had to buy the Inspiron, because it was in stock and available now. My MBP officially has no reliable wifi. That sucks, on two counts!

@Tim_G said in Caching Needs and SSDs: you have something on I/O path going wrong What do you mean? Everything looks good and appears to be going smooth according to all monitoring. No errors or performance issues. It's been doing a very good job the past couple years. I keep it fairly updated. So if something recent broke something on it, let me know and I'll hold off on updating.

@dafyre said in Linux RAID Question - Software or "Hardware" ?: @anthonyh said in Linux RAID Question - Software or "Hardware" ?: @anthonyh said in Linux RAID Question - Software or "Hardware" ?: @dafyre said in Linux RAID Question - Software or "Hardware" ?: @marcinozga said in Linux RAID Question - Software or "Hardware" ?: My money is on fake RAID you got there. So use md. @marcinozga said in Linux RAID Question - Software or "Hardware" ?: My money is on fake RAID you got there. So use md. Also because you already use MD. You know what, I can even move the two disks to my new workstation and not have to transfer any data. I think the answer may have been found... Actually even better, I can break the RAID 1 on my current box and convert it to non-RAID, then move one of the disks to my new workstation and convert it back to RAID 1. If done right, I think I can do it all without any data loss too. I'd prefer to just move the two disks and not have to transfer any data... but that's just me. Yeah. I'll need to copy my home directory to the SSD in my current box before doing that though. That might be easier than breaking/re-creating the RAID. I'm not quite ready to "switch" yet. Hmm...

@beta said in SW Port - New Server for virtual host - Sanity Check: Oh, one thing I was really curious about too, would it make sense to get an extra drive as a hot spare? Normally with OBR10 and spinning HDD, I'd put every spindle into the array, but since SSDs are going to give me plenty of IOPS and capacity, I didn't know if it is a good/bad idea with OBR5. The rule of "no hot spare ever" for RAID 5 still applies. If you were going to do this, you would do OBR 6. OBR6 can make loads of sense here, but OBR5 + HS does not. But it is up to you, depends on cost and risk aversion.

@scottalanmiller said in Dell T20 with Intel Intel Rapid Storage Controller RAID is FakeRAID: @matteo-nunziati said in Dell T20 with Intel Intel Rapid Storage Controller RAID is FakeRAID: @stacksofplates said in Dell T20 with Intel Intel Rapid Storage Controller RAID is FakeRAID: I didn't realize people still bought tower "servers" There are some tower servers which really quakify as great imho. Noticeably from Dell Any that I've seen that are any good are convertibles (tower OR rack.) Ya we have 20 z440s that are racked. But those are higher end workstations.

@dbeato But again this is the official article http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/4/SLN266045/windows-server---the-poweredge-raid-controller-s100-and-s300-are-unsupported-on-a-hyper-v-host?lang=EN

@travisdh1 said in Dell VxRail: @scottalanmiller said in Dell VxRail: @NetworkNerd said in Dell VxRail: There's an entire Ready Node selector here on VMware' site - http://vsanreadynode.vmware.com/RN/RN. One thing we learned is that you can go single-socket with the hosts to save on vSphere and vSAN licenses. Just beef up memory because there will be some overhead for vSAN traffic that folks seem to overlook. I know we did. Most vendors are pushing single socket these days, except for MS. That's why Scale starts on single socket, for example. That actually makes sense. With got 22core/44thread processors available, the need for more than a single processor is far less than it used to be. Yes, it's a very common SMB mistake to buy two procs when almost never is that warranted in the SMB market. Single proc of the same core count and speed is faster than two procs and cheaper.

That's what I get for posting before I'm totally awake. This is what I get when I run the command on my group: BackupTarget> show member Name Status Version Disks Capacity FreeSpace Connections ---------- ------- ---------- ----- ---------- ---------- ----------- 16TB online V7.0.7 (R3 16 11.34TB 6.72TB 2 97085) syr-8TB online V7.1.2 (R4 16 5.66TB 3.69TB 3 02088) 4TB online V7.0.7 (R3 16 2.83TB 1.84TB 2 97085) BackupTarget> I think the command is showing the free space on the volumes after creation, not before since I think I have mine fully provisioned. Just type: show and it will scroll through all the things under the show command and you should be able to figure out the size of your member. This is just the first of like 4 pages: BackupTarget> show ______________________________ Group Information ______________________________ Name: BackupTarget Group-Ipaddress: 192.168.100.21 DateAndTime: Thu Apr 20 03:32:04 2017 TimeZone: America/New_York TotalVolumes: 3 VolumesOnline: 3 VolumesInUse: 3 TotalSnapshots: 0 SnapshotsOnline: 0 SnapshotsInUse: 0 TotalMembers: 3 MembersOnline: 3 MembersInUse: 3 TotalCapacity: 19.83TB VolumeReserve: 7.58TB VolumeReportedSpace: 7.58TB SnapReservedSpace: 3GB SnapReservedSpaceInUse: 0MB ReplicationReservedSpace: 0MB FailbackReservedSpace: 0MB DelegatedSpace: 0MB DelegatedSpaceInUse: 0MB FreeSpace: 12.24TB TotalDisks: 48 OnlineDisks: 45 SpareDisks: 3 OfflineDisks: 0 FailedDisks: 0 Collections: 0 Snapcols: 0 CustomSnapcols: 0 ThinProvFreeSpace: 122.49TB TotalSpaceBorrowing: 0MB Connections: 7 _______________________________________________________________________________

Ya I've got a low power CPU with a single m.2 and using a tuned profile.

@Tim_G said in Dell R510 RAID Battery Replacement: Okay I realize I totally hijacked your thread. Can I get this split off as a new topic in the sam-sd forum? I'll do that once I'm at a real computer.

@NerdyDad said in Deployment Scenarios for the Dell PowerEdge FX: Its a nice concept, but unless you can purchase more than 2 chassis for ultimate redundancies, your eggs are still in one basket, shared with the storage. But in IT, eggs in one basket is a good thing, not a bad one. It's better to have your storage in the same basket as your servers, even when doing an IPOD. The worst option is to separate them.

True lesson in this story is do not work on a production system with changes that could take it out of service when time is critical. Better to say, "Next time you have a long meeting at the end of a Friday, let me take a look at your computer."

@Tim_G said in Deployment Scenarios for the Dell PowerEdge VRTX: I'd certainly love one of these for a home lab. That's for sure! I can see the whole ROBO deployment scenario. Even in single/several use situations, like you mentioned... such as for specific critical high-performing services that won't outgrow it. Anywhere else, I'd feel stuck with it... what happens if you start to outgrow the resources? How scalable is it? That's what would determine it's worth for usage in place of regular 2u deployment servers. Maybe I'm just not a blade type person. It's really meant for contained scenarios where you know how big you will grow. For a normal SMB, the issue is growing into it, rather than outgrowing it.

Cool. They seem to have really come through.

Expensive, but looks like some really great hardware. I could definitely get by with a less expensive model.

@scottalanmiller said in Dell Power Edge R330 Issue: CPU 0000 CPU1 Internal error (IERR): The error says to contact support, I'd start there. While waiting for them. I'd do routine testing... reseat everything, pull some memory out, etc. If it is not time sensitive, I'd just wait for Dell to get back to you. I've never had to wait more than 5 minutes for Dell chat support.

@thwr said in Dell iDrac still requires Java: @travisdh1 said in Dell iDrac still requires Java: @thwr said in Dell iDrac still requires Java: @JaredBusch said in Dell iDrac still requires Java: I have not needed to use the iDRAC console in a couple of years now, and I had not realized that I still had to have f'n java installed in order to use it. WTF.... Pretty much the same for every kind of remote console, be it on an IBM, Dell or SuperMicro server or on an Aten IP KVM. PITA, big, nasty PITA. How many of us have a VM on our workstation just for this? I know I do, and it's hard to get much smaller than we are and still need any IT. Yup, using a VM for this. Yet another system to maintain. I have a machine or VM (depending on client) running Veeam already so I drop java on that via chocolatey.

@BRRABill said in R730 PDR1001 Fault on Drive 3: @scottalanmiller said in R730 PDR1001 Fault on Drive 3: Thankfully just a PERC, so pop out the old one, pop in the new, enjoy your coffee. I know we've been over this before, but is there any way to ensure that doesn't blow a second drive? Or is that mainly age related, with a little bit of bad luck thrown in? Ensure? No, that's never an option. But replacing a drive in mirrored RAID (RAID 1, RAID 10) does not increase the risk of another drive blowing. That's part of parity RAID, not mirrored. So you protect the "other" drives from blowing my choosing mirrored RAID from the outset.

@DustinB3403 said in CP - Dell vs HP server quotes: I've received two quotes for new server hardware - one from our local reseller and one directly from Dell. As far as I can tell, the two quotes are identical spec-wise but the local reseller is almost $12k more expensive. Here are the two quotes: Quote from Dell: 2x Dell PowerEdge R430 servers $6,665.60 2x Xeon E5-2630 v3 CPUs 2x 32 GB RDIMM Diskless configuration 1x Dell SCv2020 iSCSI SAN $10,303.26 14x Dell 1.2 TB SAS 12GB, 10k, 2.5" HD 1x Dell N2048 gigabit switch $1,693.49 TOTAL: $18,662.35 HP Quote from local reseller: 2x HP ProLiant DL360 servers $7,266.00 2x Xeon E5-2630 v3 CPUs 64 GB RAM (unknown configuration) Diskless configuration 1x HP MSA 2040 SAN $20,932.00 14x HP MSA 1.2 TB 10K SAS 2.5in drives includes $5,850 in labor so actual price is only $15,082 1x Cisco Catalyst 2960-X gigabit switch $2,320.00 TOTAL: $30,518.00 Difference: $11,855.65 Is there any reason why I should choose the HP solution over the Dell solution? I will be running vSphere 6 on these servers. I'm not familiar with managing either server line so either way I'll be learning new management tools. When it comes to support I think I trust my local reseller more than Dell but $12k extra is hard to stomach just for that. [Edit: CP Code M.] Unless that OP is restricted to 1U hosts, I would go with the quote from Xbyte for Dell 730xd with same specs as in quotes is Multiply by 2, add Starwind's vSAN and a couple 10Gb NICs and he's done. Especially if only 2 hosts. Same(ish) price, way more reliability, better performance all around. I'd post that reco on SW but would likely get banned lol. The one thing not mentioned is if there are other hosts connecting to the SAN.

@dafyre said in Open Text to buy Dell-EMC enterprise Content Division: @stacksofplates said in Open Text to buy Dell-EMC enterprise Content Division: Right but with our software, they only support the default which is Gnome 3. And at $70K per seat per year for some of it, we don't stray too far away from that. Okay, yeah. That's understandable. Set up Gnome 3 on one of your Home VMs and see how painful or not it is, lol. Ha I've got a couple running here and I've tried different ways to get in. We can run apps with X2Go with the published apps list, but just no desktop. It's not a big deal, but some people like having the full desktop to work with.

xByte would be a great option, I bet that they would have a solution for you with this.

I gave up on the Dell iDRAC console long ago.