Okay, so I took a pot shot at @adam-ierymenko and told him Bridging should be easier... It turns out it is, lol. I blame Microsoft!

Hyper-V has some security features that prevent the system from communicating on the network using a Mac Address that wasn't assigned to it via Hyper-V... There's a fix for that!

In PowerShell, on the Hyper-V host, run the following (it should be typed all on one line... I broke it up for readability)...
*note: This enables the Mac spoofing on ALL NICS attached to the VM.

get-vmnetworkadapter -VMName MYVMNAME|where {$_.SwitchName -eq "MY_HYPERV_SWITCH"}|
set-vmnetworkadapter -MacAddressSpoofing on

Edit: In VMware, you will need to enable Forged Transmits and Promiscuous Mode on the VM that you run things like this on. I don't have access to a VMware system to chek this.

Totally Random... and sung (mostly) to the tune of Michael Jackson's Beat It...

I give you the first verse of "Patch It"

Patch It (to the tune of Michael Jackson's Beat It)

They told you, "Now you do the updates here.
Don't wanna get you hacked. Ain't got not time to fear.
There's hacker's on the way, let me be really clear
Just Patch it. Just Patch it!

Better hurry, better do what you can
Gotta watch the logs, don't look away man
You want your site to stay up, better do what you can
I tell you: Patch It, but you really ain't glad.

Just Patch It, patch it, patch it, patch it
No one wants their data stolen
Showin' your uptime, and blinkin' your lights
It doesn't matter, You done been hacked.

Just Patch It, patch it

We had a UTM applicance that was excellent for web filtering and sucked big time for IPS.

I cut the IPS off and ran Snort / Suricata for a few years in-line so I could actively block the attacks and things like P2P It was awesome. Sadly, our Badnwidth outpaced the hardware and we had it converted to an IDS out of band so it just monitored.

I am a HUGE believer in knowing what is going on on your network. Get something in place, even if it can only see what is going on and alert you.

@NattNatt said:

@dafyre said:

@NattNatt said:

@dafyre said:

@NattNatt said:

@IRJ said:

Yes, I still have it.

Developer Package
1 vCPU
512MB ECC RAM
10GB SSD Storage
100mbit Network
1 Static IPv4
Remote KVM/reboot
Reverse DNS (Self Serve)
Server Rebuilds (Self Serve)

Oh wow...that's...terrible...I have an account I use for VMs with the place I work that's build using openstack:
Up to 10 instances
20 vCPUs
40GB RAM
10GB network
4 IPs
Not sure about the Storage, but I'm currently using 190GB (all SSD storage)

All administered remotely through a webpage...it's amazing for trying things out for me atm, as if I mess up, I delete and it creates a linux VM in less than a minute normally...so teaching myself the linux basics again!

What host, and what's the monthly cost?

Host is UKFast (it's the ecloud flex) - not sure on the cost lol, can find out if you want?

Nah, I can check them out though.

Thanks!

https://www.ukfast.co.uk/cloud-hosting.html - free 30 day trial atm to try it

Cool. They don't have any pricing on their site, so that makes me less than excited to talk with them, lol. Especially since I'd likely be a very small fish in their pond.

@aaronstuder said:

@dafyre said:

I get half the CPU & RAM, but almost 10 x the storage for $25 a month through KimSufi.

Your still using that? How do you like it?

It's pretty good! I tried running XS on it, but XS simply does not like having one public IP and NATing VMs behind it... So I'm running KVM on it now. It's great!

I use Duplicity to backup my VMs and then ship the backups off to my Amazon Cloud Drive. I do not think their systems have RAID, but I get 16GB RAM, a 4 Core CPU (I forget which one) and 2TB of Spinning Rust. Bandwidth is excellent too.

I don't have any major workloads on it... Just a Chat server for my pops and about 10 people, a testing web server, and my ownCloud server with ~3 users.

Yeah... I tend to buy running shoes when I can. They are far more comfy than the $20 Walmart pair I'm wearing now... but I'm heck on shoes regardless... but if you see me running... you'd better run too... Something is probably chasing me.

I've got the Tablet with 2GB of ram. It doesn't seem laggy at all. But like @scottalanmiller , I wasn't able to get the PC version to boot on any of my computers (AMD or Intel).

It might be worth investigating Android N since it looks like that one will have multiwindow stuff built in.

I'm enjoying KVM right now. Once I get my home desktop & a few hours of time together, I'll be enjoying XenServer again, lol.

@scottalanmiller said:

The RAIN storage here mirrors at the block level across the cluster providing a very high durability storage layer. And very importantly that's a native storage layer, in the kernel. There is no VSA here, this is a more advanced and more powerful approach. The storage layer runs right in the hypervisor kernel.

A couple of my colleagues told me they lost TWO nodes in their 4 node scale cluster... and everything kept right on trucking... and these units are the 3-year old models.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Minion-Queen said:

I hate April Fools day.... Really I'm getting divorced etc. is supposed to be funny?

I wonder how many people are going to think that it is an AFJ that we just moved to a farm in the remotest bit of Romania that you can imagine?

At least one of us. I thought yawl were headed to China next.

I just got an email this morning from Netwrix. They have a File Change Notifier tool that is free....

https://start.netwrix.com/free_tool_for_change_auditing_of_file_servers.html

Test it out and see if you like it. I haven't been bombarded by spam emails or phone calls from them.

I am crying right now... I think my desktop bit the dust last night... But now when I rebuild it, I can rebuild it with XS! 8-)

@wirestyle22 said:

Has anyone attempted to use ODfB as their primary file server?

I think NTG & co do that for some things, if I'm not mistaken.

@scottalanmiller said:

Thirteen kids have descended on my home! That's in additional to my own. Most around eight to twelve years old. Our deck is loaded with kids playing games.

Every parent's dream, right? You know where your kids are at, and what they are doing, lol.

How did the account get compromised is the real question.

@johnhooks said:

I don't think I can go on SW any more. I don't want to be a jerk, but it's like people over there are getting a prize for being completely ignorant to how things should work.

Yeah. The problem is the sheer number of people that are entry level IT folks...or in marketing (no offense meant to honest marketers anywhere) I saw somewhere on here (ML) today that somebody thought it was 80% newbies and 20% IT pros... and I think that's about right.

Instructions for setting up your own RocketChat VM...

http://mangolassi.it/topic/8086/installing-rocket-chat-on-centos-7

@travisdh1 said:

@NattNatt said:

@dafyre As in it doesn't really matter? This person is now telling other people to do it as standard to get a bit more processing power for stuff too...like, if your CPU is that bad...

Time for a "talk"?

With this...

@scottalanmiller said:

That's going to be my new phrase...

RAID 1 and Done.

Sounds like a new SMBITJournal article in the making, ha ha ha.

@scottalanmiller said:

That's very popular body spray, even in Europe!

There's also things like the axe that you would use to chop wood.