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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

just walked in. just want to walk straight back out.

, a 1500 watt power inverter that runs off a cigarette lighter,

Any device that claims to be a 1500 watt inverter will not provide 1500 watts through a cigarette lighter power port. You could make one, and have a nice vehicle fire to go along with it.

Hopefully the fuse to the cigarette lighter will blow before a fire lol

@dustinb3403 said in XS 7.5 released:

USB passthrough was also a pain in the ass, but I never really would use this, so meh, maybe for a special device or license fob of some sort. . .

I have 2 pain in the ass devices that this will hopefully help me with. A usb-to-serial adapter for our ancient punch clock and a CAD software license USB stick. The CAD stick I have one of these for. and the punchclock goes to an old PC that uses some USB over ethernet software to connect to the punchclock VM, which I'm super excited to be getting rid of. Bye-bye extra things :raising_hands:

@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I don't get why people want to use it

because games

@stuartjordan I've been running XCP-ng in my lab since it came out. I'm planning on switching my production servers once 7.5 has been out for a couple weeks.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Trying to find a plumber in TX...

https://mangolassi.it/topic/21870/plumbing-haltom-city-tx

Hey Here ya go!

Yeah, there were like 10 of them this morning. Most I've ever seen :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_closed_eyes:

Can't you just setup the APs on the phone app? It looks like there is an option to do so, I just can't do it on mine since my APs are managed by a controller already.

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Then there are others that actually only email and submit a ticket and you need to go through every single question in the world to get to the answer which they don't provide until like the 10th email and by then your time has been wasted.

Yes, this too! I usually cant diagnose a problem via email. I believe Scott has even said something to the effect that users have no clue what they're talking about 99% of the time. So why all of a sudden is a single email the most efficient way to help somebody? I just don't think that's realistic at all.

Sometimes after 9 emails and 2 hours of going back and forth, it's just way faster to call somebody and figure it out.

@krisleslie Because that costs money and our current solution technically still works even though it requires 30 minutes of my time every week. My labor is cheap and a new attendance system is expensive, even if it were inexpensive it's still new, which is bad for stubborn management.

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Looking at installing FreePBX in Vultr for some testing. I had a local install in my lab but never connected any trunks to it. May even use the server after it is all set up for "production" for my family.

The problem is the cost of the phones. would love a no frill VOIP phone for say $30 - OK entry level Yealink SIP-T19p E2 https://www.amazon.com/Yealink-YEA-SIP-T19P-E2-Entry-level-phone-Lines/dp/B013GUGP7M $40.

Now to find a portable where the base and 1 handset is $99 or less.

Have you considered purchasing used phones? Looks like ebay has some decent deals. $40 doesn't seem unreasonable for a device that's going to last you 10 years, but I understand that everybody has their circumstances.

The $140 for a portable phone is a little harder pill to swallow. If you already have a cordless phone, maybe just get a $40 ATA?

@wrx7m

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Finally extended the Root partition on my FreePBX, which has been giving me hourly emails for being at 78% capacity for like the past year... :man_facepalming: Nice to have my email back in check lol

You could not do any cleanup? The email threshold is 75% I believe.

I've been doing cleanup for a while and that would usually buy me a week or two without the onslaught of emails. The last updates I did pushed me up to 78% though. Not sure why I only gave it 15GB to start with, so another facepalm there.

Unless a system has some stupid large requirements, I go with 64GB minimum for the OS drive / root partition.

It's amazing how this varies. I do 20GB, used to do 24GB. Find that I almost never use the 20.

20GB seems to be a good spot for us. 15GB worked for years.

@nashbrydges

server {
    client_max_body_size 40M;
    listen 443 ssl;
    server_name unifi.example.net;
    ssl          on;
    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/unifi.example.net/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/unifi.example.net/privkey.pem;
    ssl_stapling on;
    ssl_stapling_verify on;
    ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.1 TLSv1;
    ssl_ciphers 'EECDH+AESGCM:EDH+AESGCM:AES256+EECDH:AES256+EDH';
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
    ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;
    ssl_dhparam /etc/ssl/certs/dhparam.pem;
    add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload";
    add_header Content-Security-Policy upgrade-insecure-requests;
    add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
    add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
    add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff;
    add_header Referrer-Policy strict-origin;

    location / {
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        proxy_pass https://192.168.10.12:8443;
        proxy_redirect off;

        # Socket.IO Support
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";

    }
}

server {
    client_max_body_size 40M;
    listen 80;
    server_name unifi.example.net;
    rewrite        ^ https://$server_name$request_uri? permanent;
}

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

No, that would be infinite latency because anything that they send never arrives. That's the opposite of zero.

Apparently it went right over my head, too... I thought the same exact thing :man_shrugging:

@papaf I would honestly just start with a fresh install at this point. It's so trivial to get a new instance up and running.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Building an updated XOCE tiny template to host on GH so people can perform direct install's from SSH on their XCP-ng servers.

Just now saw that Ubuntu isn't building a mini.iso any more. I may have to rebuild this with Debian instead to keep the size of the final XVA as small as possible.

I've been running my XOCE on Debian for over a year now. It seems to work better for me for whatever reason

@obsolesce said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:

It's very simple to set up in a properly configured AD environment. You basically just install it, join it to the domain, configure it remotely. It just works. (so long as your AD environment is set up correctly)

This is the huge gotcha. The fact that it has to be domain joined to easily manage it is silly, IMO. Other hypervisors don't require this at all. Other hypervisors just work without this step.

@obsolesce said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:

Also, it's the most compatible solution for Windows-world stuff.

What specifically makes it more compatible than other hypervisors? I've run windows on several hypervisors and can't tell any difference.

You guys need a coffee tracker so we can add a sort category on the users page for most coffees

@obsolesce said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:

don't use it.

:thumbs_up:

@obsolesce said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:

It doesn't have to be. I've got a Hyper-V host off domain working as easily as if it's on the domain. No issues at all, and was almost as quick to set up. The extra steps are minimal...

They aren't minimal. They are confusing as shit and it's stupid. They aren't anywhere as easy as ANY other hypervisor.

In fact, I don't even know why people say this. It's ridiculous. If you aren't using an existing AD infrastructure you should never be recommending Hyper-V as the hypervisor.

@scottalanmiller said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:

@bnrstnr said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:

@scottalanmiller said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:

@bnrstnr said in I think I am missing something about Hyper-V....?:

My opinion is Hyper-V is only an option when you need vSAN, otherwise I’m just not buying it.

What makes it special in that case? AFAIK there is no production vSAN for Hyper-V that is unique to it. Hyper-V is effectively completely dependent on Starwind for vSAN and they recommend KVM most of the time.

Right, Starwind makes it a more viable solution because it’s free and easy and well documented, right?

No, Starwind does not. Starwind just doesn't discriminate against it. Starwind is just as easy on VMware or KVM. So it's a draw, unless you consider Xen, then it is just a negative for Xen.

Lmao, so I was wrong. I was trying to help Hyper-V, but damnit I should have known there were better solutions

@scottalanmiller said in Agent and Agentless Backups:

@dustinb3403 said in Agent and Agentless Backups:

And a wonderful kicker to it is that I was even able to mount my agentless backups as a disks in my VM and restore individual files.

Or the entire VM in a matter of minutes, be it AD or the file server.

That's a HORRIBLE way to deal with file restores. But agentless is better than that. Agentless has no such limitations. If it did, that would be the big killer right there.

A little late to the party... but for the record, you definitely do NOT have to mount a snapshot and do all that manual stuff. You can do it straight from the XOCE web interface

https://i.imgur.com/FmHmIDT.png