Best posts made by DenisKelley

I was bummed also. Since I'm virtual now, I just created and updated the trial and then turned it into a VM Template. Doesn't really take much to spin up a quick one when needed.

Uhhhhhhhh.......

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/545782-raid-5-unsafe-where-is-the-proof

Also, don't bring up multiple DCs in the same test lab at the same time. Apparently there will be a death cage fight and no one wins in that lab.

@Carnival-Boy said:

Testing: do people really test updates? How common is this. I'd never find the time. Updates are released weekly, so you'd be testing constantly. And there are loads and loads of updates. Plus, by having a testing strategy in place, you are delaying the roll-out of updates. For critical security updates, this is leaving your systems exposed to zero-day threats. Isn't the risk of having an unpatched system greater than the risk of an update breaking a system? There was an IE update recently that broke our ERP system and I was advised in advance by the ERP vendor not to install it so I configured WSUS accordingly. But this left me in a dilemma, the ERP vendor was effectively dictating that we run IE unpatched and this is not a good place to be. What should you do in this scenario? Or do you release all critical updates and just test non-critical ones?

I think with 20+ PCs to manage, WSUS is a good solution for managing the updates. Testing is pretty easy too. As you probably are aware, you just setup a different Group Policy for those PCs you wish to test. Out of the 30 odd that I deal with, I've got about 4-5 that I let suck down and auto-install. I agree that most of the time there are no issues, but there have been, and as recently less than a year, that Microsoft released a hastily, untested patch that screwed people. While that happens infrequently, I don't wish to be the one having to deal with that. In addition, I also time my synchronizations a good 8 hours later than when MS does their patch Tuesday thing, so I can catch and deny one if need be even before it gets to the test PCs.

Honestly, I'd rather have a total solution to include app updates, but as we all know, not every company will pay for that software so we all make do.

@Carnival-Boy said:

QA=Quality Assurance

I still can't believe how much you slag off your employer on a public forum (and on your blog). I think it's only a matter of time before you get caught and fired.

No matter how many times he is told, he still keeps doing it. Something is seriously wrong here.

Don't even get me started. I have flagged so many of those that this one is pretty tame. When you use pics of people being disabled, you've kind of went over the line.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Carnival-Boy said:

Word

Does that work on Kindle devices? I don't believe that it does.

PDF works natively on both, no extra software needed.

LOL, I took his response to mean http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Word

@nadnerB said:

@thanksaj said:

Sorry @Nic
<insert video of numpty>

That clown is not a representative on Aussies.

Awesome, I didn't know you could do animated gifs. Now you can see my Avatar.......dance!
http://www.gifcrap.com/g2data/albums/Animals/Dancing kitten.gif

This post made my day. I needed something to lift my spirits.

Congrats on the new job and I hope I get an awesome title like "Technical Support Engineer lols"

My complaint earlier this year:
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/895156-ssds-and-how-can-hp-and-dell-justify-their-prices

I think I saw someone where the replacement drive for one of the HPs was actually an Intel drive. This stuff grinds my gears.

I got one of these for giggles at BJs and nothing sticks to this thing:
http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/product/the-rock-by-starfrit-nonstick-fry-pan/3255031

Got one for $20. Best pan so far.
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I'll be at VeeamOn next week and one of the things I need to wrap my head around is how Veeam processes synthetic fulls when pushing to the "cloud." I run my setup with Reverse Increments and drop to tape, but now that my Internet bandwidth is speeding up, I'm thinking of switching to Forward Increments and using the synthetic fulls.

While not backup, you can have a parallel replication job to an offsite server. You can seed the job and then kick the deltas over which would not require a full after you set it up. At the target server, you can also keep a number of versions. I have a local server (cheap HP box) where I use this replication setup monthly so it mirrors my monthly off-site tapes. Mainly for convenience so when I need to grab something 6 mos. out (we keep 31 days local) I don't have to restore from the actual monthly tape. Just started this 3 mos ago.

Did you steal the font from the Miami Dolphins? That was might first impression.

@Dashrender said:

@DenisKelley Do you have Veeam creating new full backups on any type of schedule? or are you only using continuous incrementals?

Right now I use Reverse Incrementals, so no, I don't generate separate fulls. With the reverse method, you don't need to create fulls like you do with the Forward method. With reverse, you get one delta file which is then injected into a master full each backup. I then move that one file, after running a SureBackup (super cool feature) and move it offsite daily via tape.

I won't be able to use the Reverse if I start porting the off-site stuff to "cloud", since based on my last calculation, it would take me 20 Days and I think that just might be a problem.

@KOOLER said:

@DenisKelley said:

** I'll be at VeeamOn next week** and one of the things I need to wrap my head around is how Veeam processes synthetic fulls when pushing to the "cloud." I run my setup with Reverse Increments and drop to tape, but now that my Internet bandwidth is speeding up, I'm thinking of switching to Forward Increments and using the synthetic fulls.

Check you PM. I'll be there. You're welcomed to shake hands and share some drinks

Dang, sorry Kooler. I didn't have alerts go to email and completely missed this. I was wondering if you were going to make and am sorry we didn't get a chance to meet.

I've run Veeam both (in the past for over a year) on a VM on one of my hosts and now on a physical server. The latter is recent and I'm doing B2D2T and my LTO hangs off the physical server. Just was a free box. Whether physical or virtual, definitely keep the backup config in a different location. With that, it really doesn't take long to get it back somewhere else. My target is still a NAS using CIFS, but that will change probably when I redo my storage and hosts. You get a decent performance boost by using it as a iSCSI target vs CIFS. Mine works fine with the latter, so YMMV.

I believe HP Web JetAdmin can do this:
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/solutions/business-solutions/printingsolutions/wja.html

C and D are physically separate disks or vmdk files. They are sitting on a VMware datastore. You could individually shrink C and grow D with a utility, but you can't chunk off space from C logically and give it to D. Remember these are just files logically presented to your VM as disks.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@DenisKelley said:

@scottalanmiller

Too Bad grounding doesn't provide enough of a load on a circuit to trip a 15/20amp breaker . So you'll still get shocked or killed. 30mA is the deadly point. a GFCI will trip at 5mA (unless it's a modified 30mA)

You do realize that this was a joke....a play on words.