What Are You Doing Right Now
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
...and I just had a great conversation with the boss about virtualization and why we should be using it. I think I will have some hefty hardware to virtualize our whole infrastructure (development testing environments included) by the end of the year. Today is a truly great Friday... the weather is awesome today, I'm going home in a half hour, and I finally got a partial green light for making VMs.
Archived diary from 2005?
Sadly, no. But because they had lots of trouble with VMware a few years back, management has shyed away from virtualization altogether. I have managed to change that attitude by just wearing them down with facts. It's past due, but a victory nonetheless.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
...and I just had a great conversation with the boss about virtualization and why we should be using it. I think I will have some hefty hardware to virtualize our whole infrastructure (development testing environments included) by the end of the year. Today is a truly great Friday... the weather is awesome today, I'm going home in a half hour, and I finally got a partial green light for making VMs.
Archived diary from 2005?
Sadly, no. But because they had lots of trouble with VMware a few years back, management has shyed away from virtualization altogether. I have managed to change that attitude by just wearing them down with facts. It's past due, but a victory nonetheless.
Aye
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Probably due to my embedded background.
Speaking of that, the owner approved my project to build something for UPS monitoring. Going to order that RaspberryPi 3 kit later (probably tomorrow) and get this going.
Awesome. Will be a lot of fun.
Once i have this under my belt, I may seriously look at redoing it with a cheaper board and parts for wider roll out. THis is the best thing I can think of for a first project though.
Don't forget to make a thread on it. I know I'm interested.
As for something smaller and cheaper. I really think that the ESP8266 or the new ESP32xx would work nicely.
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Probably due to my embedded background.
Speaking of that, the owner approved my project to build something for UPS monitoring. Going to order that RaspberryPi 3 kit later (probably tomorrow) and get this going.
Awesome. Will be a lot of fun.
Once i have this under my belt, I may seriously look at redoing it with a cheaper board and parts for wider roll out. THis is the best thing I can think of for a first project though.
Don't forget to make a thread on it. I know I'm interested.
As for something smaller and cheaper. I really think that the ESP8266 or the new ESP32xx would work nicely.
ETA:
Please kind sir.
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Probably due to my embedded background.
Speaking of that, the owner approved my project to build something for UPS monitoring. Going to order that RaspberryPi 3 kit later (probably tomorrow) and get this going.
Awesome. Will be a lot of fun.
Once i have this under my belt, I may seriously look at redoing it with a cheaper board and parts for wider roll out. THis is the best thing I can think of for a first project though.
Don't forget to make a thread on it. I know I'm interested.
As for something smaller and cheaper. I really think that the ESP8266 or the new ESP32xx would work nicely.
Again, it's uC vs full blown Linux on ARM
You will need to implement everything yourself on a uC, from reading a RTC to controlling single bytes in the UARTs Tx and Rx buffers. I'm not even talking about persistent storage here (reading/writing to an EEPROM or a flash card for example) or communication with the UPS, which will all be handled by some Linux packages for you.I can see little to no benefit for this project in using a uC vs a single core ARM which can run Linux.
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Just got back from getting the car inspected.
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Just had a minor breakthrough in my VDI setups... Seeing as our current setup has no DHCP server on the VLAN, and we don't have an installed SCVMM... I decided to tinker with powerrshell...
It actually is possible to change a machine's IP address with powershell... So I made it set the IP based on the Machine name, and done. Now I have a fully automated build again... No more manually touching VMs when time to re-image!
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@dafyre You can do EVERYTHING with POwerShell.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre You can do EVERYTHING with POwerShell.
Apparently so! Now where's that coffee maker...
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Recovering after a power loss here.
Not sure what happened, but there were two explosions and the main cables between poles exploded off the poles.
And a tree was on fire.
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@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Recovering after a power loss here.
Not sure what happened, but there were two explosions and the main cables between poles exploded off the poles.
And a tree was on fire.
This should be interesting... Power back on yet, or did you get a visit by the fire department... details man... details! -
@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Recovering after a power loss here.
Not sure what happened, but there were two explosions and the main cables between poles exploded off the poles.
And a tree was on fire.
Wow. Fire, explosions, sounds interesting
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just had a minor breakthrough in my VDI setups... Seeing as our current setup has no DHCP server on the VLAN, and we don't have an installed SCVMM... I decided to tinker with powerrshell...
It actually is possible to change a machine's IP address with powershell... So I made it set the IP based on the Machine name, and done. Now I have a fully automated build again... No more manually touching VMs when time to re-image!
Wise choice. Probably awesome in a datacenter, but I think it's a total waste for everything < 20-50 hosts. There just is no more SMB version of System Center...
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre You can do EVERYTHING with POwerShell.
Yeah, it's ultra-mighty. As you know, I'm knee-deep into Linux, way more than into Windows, but I must admit that PowerShell is freaking awesome - just because of the way it is standarized (whatif, verbose, ...) and the way it handles output: as objects.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just had a minor breakthrough in my VDI setups... Seeing as our current setup has no DHCP server on the VLAN, and we don't have an installed SCVMM... I decided to tinker with powerrshell...
It actually is possible to change a machine's IP address with powershell... So I made it set the IP based on the Machine name, and done. Now I have a fully automated build again... No more manually touching VMs when time to re-image!
Wise choice. Probably awesome in a datacenter, but I think it's a total waste for everything < 20-50 hosts. There just is no more SMB version of System Center...
This could potentially swell up to 500 users in the distant future... or it may not grow past 20, lol. We're not sure yet. Just getting ready for a VMware View vs Hyper-V VDI bake off.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Recovering after a power loss here.
Not sure what happened, but there were two explosions and the main cables between poles exploded off the poles.
And a tree was on fire.
This should be interesting... Power back on yet, or did you get a visit by the fire department... details man... details!The fire department was definitely here. A Marshall, and a few police cars.
I shut everything down before the UPS ran out. The power people (PSEG) came after about an hour. They took out that segment and somehow got the power back on, but they warned us they'll be back to rewire the part that is now missing.
I'll admit I am not well versed in power distribution at that level.
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@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'll admit I am not well versed in power distribution at that level.
Need to talk to an electron herder. We affectionately call them Sparky(ies) up here.
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@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'll admit I am not well versed in power distribution at that level.
Need to talk to an electron herder. We affectionately call them Sparky(ies) up here.
They are surly here.
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Wondering what ML tips the pizza delivery guy. 5%? 10% 15% more?????
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@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Wondering what ML tips the pizza delivery guy. 5%? 10% 15% more?????
45% of course
