@black3dynamite said in Server Time Zone configuration: @dashrender said in Server Time Zone configuration: @black3dynamite said in Server Time Zone configuration: What does BIOS time use local time or UTC? Whatever you set it to? BIOS: local time or UTC OS: UTC Or is only an issue if you are dual booting? In general I don't care about the BIOS/UEFI time because I sync my devices from a time server. that just means I need to set my devices to the correct timezone, then the time will come over as desired.

@dustinb3403 said in Veeam Free Windows Server Backup Agent: @jaredbusch said in Veeam Free Windows Server Backup Agent: @dustinb3403 said in Veeam Free Windows Server Backup Agent: So the biggest item missing from the Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is it lacks a central management component. Which isn't horrible but it does leave some things to be desired. . . No, it is not missing. That is a feature of the Veeam B&R product. You can (or soon can) manage Veeam Endpoints that point to a Veeam B&R instance. Yea with licensing, the topic is solved. Veeam Endpoint works without limits. But it lacks a central management interface. B&R is a licensed product, right? Yes, it is.

@dbeato said in Goto Linux Server OS: @scottalanmiller said in Goto Linux Server OS: @dbeato said in Goto Linux Server OS: @bbigford said in Goto Linux Server OS: @scottalanmiller said in Goto Linux Server OS: @bbigford said in Goto Linux Server OS: RHEL if support is required, CentOS if I'm being lazy on updates (joke); beginning to just use Fedora Server for everything not requiring support. I will probably start phasing out CentOS. That's what we are doing. CentOS is nearly gone now. Only required for Zimbra. Zimbra actually requires CentOS? Can't use FS? Zimbra does not require CentOS, you can also use Ubuntu which others might not like. We mean in the context of the RPM distos. It only supports Ubuntu LTS and not current which is arguably not even a form of support since Ubuntu’s own support path can be to force you to current meaning Zimbra isn’t actually supported in that ecosystem. Yeah, Zimbra supports Ubuntu 16.04 LTS but yeah we are almost on 18.04 Yeah. So far worse than only supporting CentOS 7 in the RPM world. At least RHEL 7 offers full support from the vendor, not partial.

@thwr said in Flushing GPOs: @dbeato said in Flushing GPOs: You need to setup the settings to Delete or changed to not configured, wait until it applies and then delete the GPOs after confirming they are not applied any longer. Get-Content c:\temp\gpos.txt | foreach { Get-GPO -Name "$_" | Remove-GPO } http://jeffwouters.nl/index.php/2013/08/remove-group-policy-objects-through-powershell/ I bet you could do something like this to set all GPOs to "on delete remove from client" too This assumes a txt file with all GPO names. You could also just use Get-GPO

Before you can get in to what OS to run the clients on, do you have to ask what apps the business needs to run? If they need some kind of CAD package and it's only offered on Windows, the linux client goes out the window. (pun intended)

This is missing a few: Protected access for admin over all files & PC's, Visuals (graphs) , Easy to use interface. Here is what I have so far for important features outside of the standard. Do you guys see anything that is more important than another? Anything I'm missing completely? This list is not complied by priority, however it needs to be ( my Boss asked me to make a list) so any / all input would be greatly appreciated.

@emad-r said in Hyper-V 2016 Server free file server included ?: @dustinb3403 said in Windows 2016 Server free file server ?: Not legal. You can't legally use Windows Server for production purposes without it being licensed. Also I dont see any licensing options for file server role, FYI. It's not a role. To license the use of any non-hypervisor functionality the license is a full Windows Server license.

@coliver said in Dumb question - 2 Post Rack Part Names: Really should ensure a two post is anchored. Yeah.. tell me about it. . .

@scottalanmiller said in Out of Band Management - does it mean no keyboard at all: @JaredBusch said in Out of Band Management - does it mean no keyboard at all: @scottalanmiller said in Out of Band Management - does it mean no keyboard at all: @Carnival-Boy said in Out of Band Management - does it mean no keyboard at all: Well, I'm glad that's been cleared up. You can probably delete the thread now I don't even know what the original thread was! And that is why you have no concept of what you posted being completely wrong for the context of the thread. Honestly, it is pretty straight forward if you read the first post. https://mangolassi.it/topic/13595/out-of-band-management-does-it-mean-no-keyboard-at-all The first post also contains links back to the thread that @DustinB3403 pulled this from. I was responding the post quoted, though. Which was in the context of the entire thread. If you want to cherry pick something, then clearly, state as much. You did not.

Start with old Desktop with Virtualization extension, something that you can install OS and dont have to remove cause of free space or you need it for something else. Cause learning Linux or Centos or anything else needs environment, and virtualbox can work but it wont allow you play with KVM, and thats for me the big part of the fun. Also you need to keep learning that means its is process some day you will leave it 4-5 days dormat cause your stuck in an issue the other day bulb lights up mainly due to reading this site and you get back on it.

@JaredBusch said in Hardware Design for SAM-DR Small Rackmount Backup Device: @matteo-nunziati said in Hardware Design for SAM-DR Small Rackmount Backup Device: @scottalanmiller just a question (sw not hw) why veeam rather than say.. altaro. Just curious! There is no backup software on this device. It is a storage target. One assumes that @scottalanmiller will be using some base OS that lets you setup basically any type of connectivity. Ok! Got it wrong! Thanks for clarifying

@msff-amman-Itofficer said in Help me with this Server Purchase (beginner in server hardware) regarding RAID ?: @scottalanmiller said in Help me with this Server Purchase (beginner in server hardware) regarding RAID ?: MD RAID People rave about the new features of BTRFS so I thought can I do it for a new production server in 2017, perhaps I thought by now we will have more people tested it. They sure do. Phoronix over the weekend: Btrfs Getting RAID 5/6 Fixes In Linux 4.12 Kernel

@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.

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SuperMicro recommends against RAID on the SuperDOM / SATA DOM modules but fails to explain why: https://www.supermicro.com/datasheet/datasheet_SuperDOM.pdf

Just a switch, not a server, but it was 12-15 meters above the ground on a steel construction for a 50t indoor crane. Lots of oil and dust, no railing and a dozen pigeons right above me. Freaking experience. Did I mention that I'm a bit acrophobic? At least at 10 meters and above

@StuartJordan said in My First Server: Build Basics: Good post Scott and very relevant. Thank you, sir.

Adding in @HPEStorageGuy as we were discussing this exact topic a few minute ago on SW in another thread.

I know a guy who built his own blade unit. Wooden blade enclosure and some simply power supplies and his own fans, then made it allow straight motherboards to slide in so that it make having a handful of systems running in a cluster super cheap. Pointless for production, but for a lab was very interesting.

@Jason said: @gjacobse said: @MattSpeller said: @coliver said: @MattSpeller said: @coliver said: I've had a low success rate with startech devices. They are cheap and when they work they work ok... but most of the time they don't. Even if one had been working fine come in the next day and it doesn't work at all. Exactly my experience, but I will add that the more complicated the product is the lower it's chances of working properly. It's a sliding scale from "meh, yeah, ok" to "possessed by demons" to "complete and utter failure to chooch" At a former job we bought a serial to USB from them for a PLC once... never again. It did funky things and inserted random characters into programs. We returned it for a replacement... the second one didn't work at all. Oh sweet jesus those are the exception. NEVER buy one unless it's straight from these guys. Trust me, I spent years doing electronics engineering programming chips and bit banging http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/Cables/USBTTLSerial.htm Yea,.. there is a lot of fakers that just won't work on those FTI drivers... ugh. The driver has a verification software in the download you can check the chip with though.. in Windows 7 the fake ones would still work I believe. Until FTDI decide to block them again heheh

Just installed this on the Hyper-V Server 2016 instance I setup a couple days ago. Was previously installed on this hardware under Server 2012 R2 Datacenter, so good to know there were no issues just because of Hyper-V Server 2016. I was lazy and did not look for a newer version of OMSA, as I had a version on the local network already.

@scottalanmiller said: You could, but it would require making lots and lots of shares potentially. As opposed to one or two shares with granular permissions. Ah ok, makes sense.

It is not uncommon to only have servers approved to access the storage listed. So many shops will go in and add a server one by one to enable access. If your servers almost never change, this works pretty well and is extremely secure. You can do this in the firewall too, for even more security. But if you are using DevOps and creating and destroying VMs regularly you will want to automate this in some fashion.

@ryan-from-xbyte said: In the interest of reliability and compatibility, we opted to only support enterprise level SSDs. We actually only recently supported non-Dell drives because of those same reasons. We started talking with Edge and found a partner who would co-developer firmware to limit the risk to our customers. If Dell makes a firmware change, we didn't want our customers to experience any issues with their drives. That what made me reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally nervous about non-DELL drives. Not that anything would happen, but the last thing you need is some change form DELL and then your drives stop working, or booting. Total BS that they do that, but whatever. It's their company and there are other options.

Right now all my production Linux hosts are on VMs so I have snapshots of the backend infrastructure along with application-level backups of data as needed. Mostly these are EC2 instances running WordPress where I have a base AMI ready to go with offsite BackupBuddy backups. It's served me well in the few times I've had to use it - I can go from a launching an instance to all data recovered in about 15 minutes or less. With that said, I'm really looking forward to seeing how Veeam's Linux backup works once it's released!

Awesome. Nothing like the feeling of unboxing your new server.