What Are You Doing Right Now
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone heard of Prometheus?https://prometheus.io
No, but looks interesting. What have you looked into thus far?
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@Romo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to learn about the pros and cons of the various image formats (qcow2, raw, lvm) available for my kvm hypervisor. @stacksofplates any opinion and/or some benchmarks you can share?
I don't usually use raw images unless I'm just testing something and don't care. Qcow2 is the slowest, but if you preallocate, it gets much faster. You can preallocate the metadata or do a full preallocation. If you do full though, I believe you lose thin provisioning.
I don't have anything currently on volumes. I did for a while, but I don't have anything right now that needs that speed. I definitely go with volumes over raw files. Volumes give you all of the added benefits of LVM (snapshots, thin provisioning, etc).
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone heard of Prometheus?https://prometheus.io
No, but looks interesting. What have you looked into thus far?
My friend, works for a huge security agency in DC, said they were using it to monitor most of their infrastructure. Haven't really looked at it other then that. Thought someone here may find it interesting.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone heard of Prometheus?https://prometheus.io
No, but looks interesting. What have you looked into thus far?
My friend, works for a huge security agency in DC, said they were using it to monitor most of their infrastructure. Haven't really looked at it other then that. Thought someone here may find it interesting.
It would be interesting to know if this can monitor Windows as well.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone heard of Prometheus?https://prometheus.io
No, but looks interesting. What have you looked into thus far?
My friend, works for a huge security agency in DC, said they were using it to monitor most of their infrastructure. Haven't really looked at it other then that. Thought someone here may find it interesting.
It would be interesting to know if this can monitor Windows as well.
Generally most tools can monitor Windows (because of the lack of security)
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@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm considering getting half a cow. . . The price per pound is $3.95 . . . Not sure if I have enough freeze room. . .
I take delivery on 1/2 a cow this week. Around 65 lbs. But I will can most of it not freeze it.
You're only getting 65 lbs of meat from half a cow? Wow, tinny cow, even without growth hormones.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone heard of Prometheus?https://prometheus.io
No, but looks interesting. What have you looked into thus far?
My friend, works for a huge security agency in DC, said they were using it to monitor most of their infrastructure. Haven't really looked at it other then that. Thought someone here may find it interesting.
It would be interesting to know if this can monitor Windows as well.
I doubt it. It looks more like application monitoring then anything else.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm considering getting half a cow. . . The price per pound is $3.95 . . . Not sure if I have enough freeze room. . .
I take delivery on 1/2 a cow this week. Around 65 lbs. But I will can most of it not freeze it.
You're only getting 65 lbs of meat from half a cow? Wow, tinny cow, even without growth hormones.
I am really only taking 1/4ish of it. I do have to pay for the full half however.
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@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm considering getting half a cow. . . The price per pound is $3.95 . . . Not sure if I have enough freeze room. . .
I take delivery on 1/2 a cow this week. Around 65 lbs. But I will can most of it not freeze it.
You're only getting 65 lbs of meat from half a cow? Wow, tinny cow, even without growth hormones.
I am really only taking 1/4ish of it. I do have to pay for the full half however.
Pay for the meat, or processing of it? It sounds like you're getting ripped off if you're paying for half the cow + processing and only getting 1/4 of the cow.
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@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm considering getting half a cow. . . The price per pound is $3.95 . . . Not sure if I have enough freeze room. . .
I take delivery on 1/2 a cow this week. Around 65 lbs. But I will can most of it not freeze it.
You're only getting 65 lbs of meat from half a cow? Wow, tinny cow, even without growth hormones.
I am really only taking 1/4ish of it. I do have to pay for the full half however.
Ah, 130lbs sounds about right after processing, that makes more sense. Wondered if you secretly enjoyed veal for a minute
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Heading to a client to swap out their old networking gear for a new UBNT edgerouter and edgeswitch
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Reading this thread. Hoping people actually do switch to Linux over this. What actually happens remains to be seen.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Reading this thread. Hoping people actually do switch to Linux over this. What actually happens remains to be seen.
They won't. Hardware vendors are going to build servers to accommodate this licensing so very few people will actually realize it.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm considering getting half a cow. . . The price per pound is $3.95 . . . Not sure if I have enough freeze room. . .
I take delivery on 1/2 a cow this week. Around 65 lbs. But I will can most of it not freeze it.
You're only getting 65 lbs of meat from half a cow? Wow, tinny cow, even without growth hormones.
I am really only taking 1/4ish of it. I do have to pay for the full half however.
Pay for the meat, or processing of it? It sounds like you're getting ripped off if you're paying for half the cow + processing and only getting 1/4 of the cow.
I agreed to half a cow long ago but decided I didn't want all the meat. They will donate the rest to someone in need. So not getting ripped off.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Reading this thread. Hoping people actually do switch to Linux over this. What actually happens remains to be seen.
I've already seen a shift of local businesses that I know of who heard of this change a while back, and have started to move away from Microsoft products.
The Microsoft tax is a literal nothing in overall terms, but the CALs + the tax are what bothers most people.
And the whole thing about "you might pay more to license the new OS if you utilize high-density, multi-core processors. "
Well who is honestly purchasing servers today with 8 or less physical cores? My lab has more cores than that, and the server is from 2009!
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@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm considering getting half a cow. . . The price per pound is $3.95 . . . Not sure if I have enough freeze room. . .
I take delivery on 1/2 a cow this week. Around 65 lbs. But I will can most of it not freeze it.
You're only getting 65 lbs of meat from half a cow? Wow, tinny cow, even without growth hormones.
I am really only taking 1/4ish of it. I do have to pay for the full half however.
You are getting ripped off. Hugely! - I grew up with this stuff. Typically, from a full grown animal, you'll get 440 LBS of freezer ready beef. (220 lbs for half, 110 lbs for 1/4) - From this, about half will be ground beef, and the rest in cuts such as roasts, steaks, ribs, brisket, and tenderloin.
Here's about how much freezer space is required for 1/4 cow:
http://www.clovermeadowsbeef.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/quarter-cow.jpg
Processing charges vary, but generally about $0.50/pound hanging weight, or about $475 total for the average cow (700lbs hanging weight + kill charge)
If you're only getting approximately 65lbs and still have to pay the processing for 1/2 cow, you're likely paying more than store prices for the same beef.
Just sayin'
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Reading this thread. Hoping people actually do switch to Linux over this. What actually happens remains to be seen.
That thread said there was a two processor minimum. But when I was reading the licensing do use an example of a 2 x 8 processor system but no where did I see it specifically say you had to license to processors if you only have one
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Reading this thread. Hoping people actually do switch to Linux over this. What actually happens remains to be seen.
That thread said there was a two processor minimum. But when I was reading the licensing do use an example of a 2 x 8 processor system but no where did I see it specifically say you had to license to processors if you only have one
Correct, you don't have to license two processors, but they only sell a 2 processor license.
So if you have a server with a single processor and want 2016, you are still paying for that second CPU.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Reading this thread. Hoping people actually do switch to Linux over this. What actually happens remains to be seen.
That thread said there was a two processor minimum. But when I was reading the licensing do use an example of a 2 x 8 processor system but no where did I see it specifically say you had to license to processors if you only have one
All the stuff I've read said licensing is the number of cores was all that mattered.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Reading this thread. Hoping people actually do switch to Linux over this. What actually happens remains to be seen.
That thread said there was a two processor minimum. But when I was reading the licensing do use an example of a 2 x 8 processor system but no where did I see it specifically say you had to license to processors if you only have one
Correct, you don't have to license two processors, but they only sell a 2 processor license.
So if you have a server with a single processor and want 2016, you are still paying for that second CPU.
No they sell 2-core packs
