What Are You Doing Right Now
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Sorting my desk out and the cabling around it.
Then moving some VM's onto a RDX tape for backup, before destroying two hosts and resetting them up. Not sure if i'm going to use Hyper-V/ESXi Free/XenServer yet on them
Why ESXi Free, are you attempting to learn the interface?
No I just like ESXi
So you enjoy technical debt and restrictions. . .
Technical debt? I can understand the restrictions and the cost factor, but is their tech debt?
Yes it's technical debt if you become locked into a platform unable to change for one reason or another. Or an unwillingness to change.
What is locking you into a platform and stopping you from changing?
An unwillingness to change due to a comfort level with a certain product is technical debt.
Using a free product doesn't change that.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Choosing it because you "like it" is and does fall into that realm.
No, that is not how that works.
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I thought technical debt was choosing the easier option over the best option
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@wirestyle22 That's how I understand it.
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Sure it is, you're choosing what you know, even if that product doesn't give you the best benefits. It may or it may not.
While there is value in using what you know, it shouldn't be the sole deciding factor in a decision.
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I will admit ESXi is there as that's what the manager knows and is comfy with. Also should of said this is for a "lab" host so will only have temp/test VM's on.
The other host will have 1 windows server doing Radius and other Linux production VM's like Zabbix/Unifi/ScreenConnect. This one i'll choose more wisely lol
One side says stick with XenServer and XenOrch for management and backups, other side of me says "go on....give HyperV a try" -
ML just went down with a Error 523, anyone else see it?
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And again Error 523
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
And again Error 523
Reddit is down, so there might be larger issues.
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@Kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
And again Error 523
Reddit is down, so there might be larger issues.
Unacceptable.
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And again 523
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
ML just went down with a Error 523, anyone else see it?
Didn't see it here and I was posting at that time.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Sure it is, you're choosing what you know, even if that product doesn't give you the best benefits. It may or it may not.
While there is value in using what you know, it shouldn't be the sole deciding factor in a decision.
Or even a major one. It should just be a normal part of the financial calculation.
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@DustinB3403 No issues here, that's essentially a destination unreachable error code right?
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@QuixoticJeremy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 No issues here, that's essentially a destination unreachable error code right?
Yeah it resolves to Website Down Error 523.
And some temp website.
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Sorting my desk out and the cabling around it.
Then moving some VM's onto a RDX tape for backup, before destroying two hosts and resetting them up. Not sure if i'm going to use Hyper-V/ESXi Free/XenServer yet on themOutside of a lab or insanely special cases ESXi Free should never be used. It's the only one that should be avoided. There are three excellent choices in the free "didn't pay for support" space. ESXi is the only player that is bad here. ESXi only becomes rational once you are paying for support.
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Sorting my desk out and the cabling around it.
Then moving some VM's onto a RDX tape for backup, before destroying two hosts and resetting them up. Not sure if i'm going to use Hyper-V/ESXi Free/XenServer yet on themWhy ESXi Free, are you attempting to learn the interface?
No I just like ESXi
You should hate it for crippling you.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I thought technical debt was choosing the easier option over the best option
No, not at all. That's bad, but not technical debt.
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Sorting my desk out and the cabling around it.
Then moving some VM's onto a RDX tape for backup, before destroying two hosts and resetting them up. Not sure if i'm going to use Hyper-V/ESXi Free/XenServer yet on themI'm assuming this is for a lab? If so, why not try all of them? Expose yourself to all of them. Setting up the environments, setting up datastores and connecting them with iSCSI or your connection of preference, setting up servers, backing servers up, etc. What errors will the environment throw if a datastore is down? How do you properly restore the datastore to the environment?
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Looking at what ports are listening on our servers to see how I need to configure the built-in Windows firewall.
