@johnhooks I used install other media and it worked... thanks!

Thanks @scottalanmiller ! Ya pretty much the IT guy for an small real estate appraisal business and getting into film effects rendering, and ya... about 10 hrs behind @scottalanmiller in time zone so pretty interesting he is up right now haha.

Hey, after speaking with @scottalanmiller yesterday I have been looking around for a tower system that can run a website, virtual desktops, database, and active directory.

I found the Lenovo TD350 with five hot swap drives. The specs of the machine are two Intel Xeon E5 2620 v3 2.4 Ghz processors, 64 GB of ECC RAM, four 2TB hot swap drives set in RAID 5, a single 240GB SSD (for ESXi) and a AMD FirePro W700 for VDI enhancement.

The networking for the system is already set in stone. Using a set of Cisco Meraki MX 64s at two locations we are able to create a VPN to the locations so managing low-level system architecture is easy from two locations.

The site where the server is located at already has an on-site natural gas powered generator with 22 second delay from power failure, in sight of this we already have a smart APC battery backup unit that will provide power for the dual redundant server as the generator is powering up.

Software is pretty simple; vSphere 6 for the host OS (installed on the SSD), a couple Windows 10 Pro licensees for VDI, vSphere 6 Essentials, Windows Server 2012 R2 for active directory, CentOS 7 running NGINX for website, CentOS 7 for Redis database, and a couple other guest machines as the small company grows.

What are your opinions on this setup?

@scottalanmiller Damn that really sucks dude...

I have tried multiple times to install the ISO image of 6.5 on both my Dell R900 and R710 with one big issue, I cant use the keyboard no matter what... I have tried everything from BIOS USB changes to using a completely different keyboard. Any ideas?

@johnhooks Only big problem is I still can't install 6.5...

@johnhooks Ill try that, thanks!

Hey, so pretty much I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 server running Remote App role and after a large amount of DNS/Port Forwarding the FQDN still doesn't work. I can access the server its self remotely through the public IP and port forwarding but the Remote Apps can't run as they can't access the FQDN for the server... any ideas?

@scottalanmiller I got it working!!!! I fell so accomplished. Jk

Hey, so I got HipChat server installed on my TD350 but I need to access it through hipchat.gaultnetwork.com. How do I do this?

@Dashrender publish?

@Dashrender Well there different servers...

@scottalanmiller Im also trying to get gitlab to work and its on port 81... I just want to type it gitlab.gaultnetwork.com and get to the server...

@Dashrender I have a Cisco Meraki MX64...

@JaredBusch I have tried portforwarding and it works on the Meraki side but cloudflare DNS dosn't like ports added to the public IP address...

Hey, so I got HipChat server installed on my TD350 but I need to access it through hipchat.gaultnetwork.com. How do I do this?

@johnhooks I already set it up where I don't use SSH.

@scottalanmiller Welcome @ernie123

@JaredBusch Well whats a best practice for protecting RDS?

@scottalanmiller I got it working!!!! I fell so accomplished. Jk