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Down to three interviews next week got this email today

Good morning,

Thank you for your interest in career opportunities with [Local Newspaper] At this time, it has been determined to close the IT Administrator position and not move forward with filling this role. We truly appreciate the interest you have taken an encourage you to view other opportunities on our website.

Thank you again for your continued interest in opportunities with [Local Newspaper]

Sincerely,

Human Resources

scottalanmiller

Well, it's a local newspaper, I'm sure the only thing they need to do these days is shut down and sell off the assets.

@scottalanmiller said:

Well, it's a local newspaper, I'm sure the only thing they need to do these days is shut down and sell off the assets.

Sounds like it as they have 3 IT positions that recently came open and they closed them all.

coliver

Trying to figure out the best way to update my XenServer install to the new release.

@coliver said:

Trying to figure out the best way to update my XenServer install to the new release.

You should be able to install the updates via cli

coliver

@thecreativeone91 said:

@coliver said:

Trying to figure out the best way to update my XenServer install to the new release.

You should be able to install the updates via cli

Can you install point releases that way? I've been doing it with patches but they released 6.5 in January and I am thinking about updating to that. According the this https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/migrate-from-xenserver-6-2-to-6-5/ it seems seamless updates are built into the release. Hopefully it won't affect my software raid.

@coliver said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

@coliver said:

Trying to figure out the best way to update my XenServer install to the new release.

You should be able to install the updates via cli

Can you install point releases that way? I've been doing it with patches but they released 6.5 in January and I am thinking about updating to that. According the this https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/migrate-from-xenserver-6-2-to-6-5/ it seems seamless updates are built into the release. Hopefully it won't affect my software raid.

You can do it from XenCenter http://xenappblog.com/2012/citrix-xenserver-rolling-upgrade/

scottalanmiller

@coliver said:

Hopefully it won't affect my software raid.

Your unofficial software RAID?

coliver

@thecreativeone91 said:

@coliver said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

@coliver said:

Trying to figure out the best way to update my XenServer install to the new release.

You should be able to install the updates via cli

Can you install point releases that way? I've been doing it with patches but they released 6.5 in January and I am thinking about updating to that. According the this https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/migrate-from-xenserver-6-2-to-6-5/ it seems seamless updates are built into the release. Hopefully it won't affect my software raid.

You can do it from XenCenter http://xenappblog.com/2012/citrix-xenserver-rolling-upgrade/

Ooh, good to know. Thanks for that info.

coliver

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

Hopefully it won't affect my software raid.

Your unofficial software RAID?

I'm not sure I understand?

I'm sure it will affect the raid though. It's not supported by XenServer without modification.

mlnews

@coliver said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

Hopefully it won't affect my software raid.

Your unofficial software RAID?

I'm not sure I understand?

XenServer doesn't support software RAID. Xen does, XenServer does not.

coliver

@thecreativeone91 said:

I'm sure it will affect the raid though. It's not supported by XenServer without modification.

Oh, yeah I got that. Have to figure out the best way to back it up and rebuild it. I really need to invest in a NAS or something for local backups.

scottalanmiller

OMG, Forest Gump is on in the house. Even just hearing from time to time I can't stand that movie.

coliver

@mlnews said:

@coliver said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

Hopefully it won't affect my software raid.

Your unofficial software RAID?

I'm not sure I understand?

XenServer doesn't support software RAID. Xen does, XenServer does not.

Oh, yes I knew that. This is a personal server where I didn't have a RAID card so I just set it up with the MD utility on XenServer. I know it isn't officially supported. Been working fairly well so far though.

@coliver said:

@mlnews said:

@coliver said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

Hopefully it won't affect my software raid.

Your unofficial software RAID?

I'm not sure I understand?

XenServer doesn't support software RAID. Xen does, XenServer does not.

Oh, yes I knew that. This is a personal server where I didn't have a RAID card so I just set it up with the MD utility on XenServer. I know it isn't officially supported. Been working fairly well so far though.

The motherboard doesn't even support RAID without a cache or anything?

scottalanmiller

@thecreativeone91 said:

The motherboard doesn't even support RAID without a cache or anything?

Very few do. Very, very few. I don't actually know of any server except for SuperMicro that does that and it is only a handful of their models.

coliver

@thecreativeone91 said:

@coliver said:

@mlnews said:

@coliver said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

Hopefully it won't affect my software raid.

Your unofficial software RAID?

I'm not sure I understand?

XenServer doesn't support software RAID. Xen does, XenServer does not.

Oh, yes I knew that. This is a personal server where I didn't have a RAID card so I just set it up with the MD utility on XenServer. I know it isn't officially supported. Been working fairly well so far though.

The motherboard doesn't even support RAID without a cache or anything?

No, not in the least, it is a whitebox I had lying around with a decent processor in it. I know MD RAID has a really good reputation when compared to motherboard RAID though so I didn't even think about it. I know the whole do IT at home thing @scottalanmiller talks about. I just don't have the budget to be running a full-fledged server in my house right now. Would that I could, my whitebox is maxed out at 16GB of RAM and it is becoming a bit of a pain.

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

The motherboard doesn't even support RAID without a cache or anything?

Very few do. Very, very few. I don't actually know of any server except for SuperMicro that does that and it is only a handful of their models.

Is it actually a true server. I don't run my home server VM hosts from true server due to noise. They are all one Desktop machines with extra Intel Nics added.

scottalanmiller

MD is enterprise RAID, used in some massive systems and in many NAS and SAN devices too. In a case like there where XS doesn't support MD, maybe I'd take a motherboard hardware controller if one was available if it was mirrored RAID. But I can't think of a single server that I'd be likely to run across that could do it.