@dashrender said in Goodbye hardware monitoring on HPE Gen10 and newer equipment running ESXi:

I agree, in this day and age - that's super risky, i.e. you get compromised and all of your customers are now compromised.

though just because you have 100 passwords, one for each client, that info has to be stored somewhere and perhaps it would be compromised as well - and your clients are still compromised...

Risk has to be managed but it's not more risky having 100 customers with one server each on-prem than having 100 servers in one location.

@dustinb3403 said in Goodbye hardware monitoring on HPE Gen10 and newer equipment running ESXi:

@pete-s said in Goodbye hardware monitoring on HPE Gen10 and newer equipment running ESXi:

@dustinb3403

Unfortunately tech that goes obsolete always causes problems but it's more technically sound to monitor through the OOB management interface.

It's after all independent of the OS running on the hardware, independent of the server's NICs, independent of most hardware failures and can be used for a lot more than just monitoring.

And in any modern installation, the OOB management should have been setup and in use already.

Absolutely I agree with that, except the only OOBM that existed before OneView was Ilo and smtp emailing. Which is hardly reliable.

And I do agree that moving to an OOBM like OneView makes sense, it doesn't make sense for an ITSP to have to use though, as it's setup per customer, and would be running on the same hardware it's monitoring in most cases.

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Why can't you have one Oneview hosted centrally and have it communicate with iLO over VPN or whatever?

That's how a centrally managed vCenter is setup isn't it? It's also how you would have to manage a server remotely using iLO.

To me it looks like there are fewer and fewer reasons for SMBs to have their own servers and hardware as each day goes by. Both on-prem and colocated.

But where does the workloads go?

Is it common for MSPs to manage and own their own fleet of servers and move the clients workloads to be hosted on the MSP's own hardware?

Or are MSPs moving the workloads to cloud servers hosted by other providers (vultr, digital ocean etc)?

Or are the MSPs perhaps migrating the workloads to the public cloud (AWS etc)?

Or are the SMB workloads moving to SaaS solutions instead? And the MSP sets up and manages the service for the SMB instead?

Or are the SMB's on-prem workloads just going to stay where they are?

@dustinb3403

Unfortunately tech that goes obsolete always causes problems but it's more technically sound to monitor through the OOB management interface.

It's after all independent of the OS running on the hardware, independent of the server's NICs, independent of most hardware failures and can be used for a lot more than just monitoring.

And in any modern installation, the OOB management should have been setup and in use already.

I've actually found one difference and that is that the T41S has a USB port and I don't think T41P has one.

Does anyone know what the difference is between Yealink T41P and T41S?

I know T41S is newer but what is the actual difference? They look identical.

@scottalanmiller said in ProxMox eating SSDs?:

@dashrender said in ProxMox eating SSDs?:

Anyone run into this issue on enterprise hardware?

There is no "issue". Even those that claim that they are running into it, it's consumer drives with HA logging going to those drives. Its' nothing to do with ProxMox, it's just standard, everyday CoroSync logging. The people saying "this is system administration basics" are correct.

Or just understanding what hardware you need for the job.

All VM guest OS will write to the same drive as well. So 10 guests will generate 10 times as many writes + whatever the hypervisor itself is generating.

I just checked and Crucial MX500 have 0.2 DWPD, which is not bad for a consumer drive.
But compare that to enterprise drives that usually start at:

• 1 DWPD (read-intensive)
• 3 DWPD (mixed use)
• 10 to 100 DWPD (write intensive)

@dashrender said in Best practice MFP scanning to email for M365 shop?:

@gjacobse
what brand MFPs are those?

My Canon's do fine with 1.2 to MS.

Do you set up the MFP with credentials from a M365 user?

@gjacobse said in Best practice MFP scanning to email for M365 shop?:

Something we ran into is issues with TLS... We have a number of devices still in use that are not compliant with the most recent change on Microsoft's side and TLS (it seems). This effectively breaks Scan to Email with Encryption.

While the firmware on the printer is the most recent - and shows TLS 1.2 Scan to Email with Encryption fails.

So Microsoft requires TLS 1.3 and the printers don't support it?

What's best practice when setting up MFPs for scanning to email when you have businesses using M365?

Is it to set up the MFPs so they use Microsoft to send it or is it to use a 3rd party SMTP service (transactional email service)?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/mail-flow-best-practices/how-to-set-up-a-multifunction-device-or-application-to-send-email-using-microsoft-365-or-office-365

Wordperfect

Norton Commander

Novel Netware

Turbo Pascal

Microsoft Word

etc,
etc,
etc...

They're all have a blue color scheme.

He didn't get to the bottom of it, except that Win10 was blue because the developer's workstation had white on blue text.

The question then becomes, why was that white on blue? Probably because almost all applications in the 80s used a blue color scheme. Which was logical because there were only 8 colors to pick from and blue was the only dark background color besides black.

@stuartjordan Nice!

When I followed your link I noticed they have a whole range of free services:
https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/post/oracle-builds-out-their-portfolio-of-oracle-cloud-infrastructure-always-free-services

@obsolesce said in AMD Epyc Gen 4 will have 128 cores, 5nm tech:

What's the price going to be for one of these?

The top of the line AMD Gen 3 today is the 64 core EPYC 7763 2.45 GHz base clock and 3.5GHz turbo boost. 256MB L3 cache and 280W TDP.

That one is $8K list so the 96 core will be north of that. So maybe $12K or so.

@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

@travisdh1 said in KVM or VMWare:

@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

@travisdh1 said in KVM or VMWare:

@irj said in KVM or VMWare:

@francesco-provino said in KVM or VMWare:

@WLS-ITGuy I haven’t been in this forum for years, and after years I still see similar questions and the same arguing…

Do yourself a favor and learn something useful like Terraform to automate VMware or similar stuff, the real deal today is not wasting your time reinventing the wheel and doing manual operations, not saving a few bucks on hypervisor’s license.

I agree here. Many on here don't understand the benefits of IaC and proper SDLC because they haven't been exposed to it yet. Penny wise and pound foolish.

Granted many of these one man shops don't have the resources (IT employees) to do it. If you're fixing printers you don't have the bandwidth to do this kind of stuff. Either way there is still pain in the long run for not doing automation, but for them it's just not feasible.

I'm all in favor of automation.

What I question is why you NEED VMWare to automate things? I've done it with XenServer/XCP-NG, and I don't see why anyone couldn't also automate KVM based things as well.

Can you give examples of this automation? I have a feeling the terms aren't exactly the same here.

What I'm thinking of in this case is using Ansible to provision and build and manage VMs and/or the host server.

Yeah. That's what I assumed. It's reliant on many disparate cli tools that aren't necessarily related.

There's a terraform libvirt provider but using a centralized place for images doesn't work because it copies the image through the machine running terraform because of libvirt limitations.

If you don't use virt-clone you're heavily limited to either using the domain xml and manually copying the images or wiring up another cli tool like virt-builder.

It's a mess. VMware has its idiosyncrasies but it is light-years ahead in automation.

It isn't the ability to automate that is the problem. It's the availablility of easy to use tools that is the problem.

Big tech companies will build their own tooling. Those tools end up in the public domain. And then everyone can use them without having to allocate the resources to build it themselves.

You could of course do the same if you have the time and inclination.

AMD unveils its first processors based on its new Zen 4 architecture.

The first, nicknamed Genoa, is built for general-purpose computing and packs up to 96 cores (thanks in part to a 5nm process) as well as support for DDR5 memory and PCIe 5.0 peripherals. It arrives sometime in 2022, and partners are sampling chips now.

https://www.engadget.com/amd-zen-4-genoa-bergamo-cpu-191633260.html
Youtube Video

Microsoft pushed their UWP apps (aka Metro/Windows Store apps) but are now silently reverting back to native Windows APIs (formerly called Win32 API).

All UI features that UWP had will be ported to the native Windows API. And all future UI development, aka WinUI 3, will be developed only for the native Windows API SDK. UWP will get security and bug updates but no new features.

https://www.thurrott.com/dev/258377/microsoft-officially-deprecates-uwp
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/windows-app-sdk/migrate-to-windows-app-sdk/overall-migration-strategy
https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK/discussions/1615

@gjacobse said in SAS 10k 600GB Drive RAID Adapter:

a friend has more than 30 SAS 10k 600GB drives that he'd like to see about testing for use. Only thing is that he's having some trouble finding an appropriate controller.

If he's going to use all those 30 drives, he's going to need server class hardware to put them in. No desktop computer has that many drive bays.

I've used some Supermicro servers that wouldn't even be half full with 30 x 2.5" drives.

Looks like this:

4U with 72 x 2.5" bays

And if you want 3.5" drive bays (fits both 2.5" and 3.5" drives):

4U with 36 x 3.5" bays

@gjacobse said in SAS 10k 600GB Drive RAID Adapter:

Is there a suggested card that would drive, that doesn't require server class hardware?

What do you mean by that?

Any SAS controller PCIe card will work. If you don't have a backplane to put your SAS drives in, you need a SAS breakout cable.

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft VDA?:

Otherwise, if it were free, you would just pop Hyper-V onto any PC and avoid buying the OS license (when used remotely.)

Possibly but I wouldn't call it free if you need the VDA license.