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Hello from Oregon. I just came here for more SAM

Where I work, I dont have control over my colleagues. I am sure most places suffer from those people that are just there to stay in their lane and keep the status quo, at least everywhere I have ever worked. This sometimes applies to department heads and those people that should be taking charge of things like training. Generally, I find myself training users on specific tasks that they need to do their job, but a lot of times it comes down to how to process a specific task within our ERP, or somehow relating to how they use the technology we provide. I dont train our estimators how to make an estimation, but I will show them how to enter that into our ERP, or show then where to put all related documents. In a company our size, if there is no one that will take charge and try and force some sort of consistency and order, there will be chaos. A great example is the idea of a classic file server, whether it is a NAS or something else. Without proper permissions and forethought, you will end up with multiple users trying to share the same resources in multiple ways, that are often mutually exclusive. It also doesnt help, when talking about training, that some 'department managers' or other mid level managers are not really managing as much as they are just the most senior person in that department. We have a lot of these types of managers where their workload is still doing the primary task of the department, instead of managing their workers who do the actual work. It makes it hard to have consistency for training, when no one seems to even have the time to train any properly, let along work up any training materials and document any procedures ahead of time. It pays off in the end when it happens, but its never an organic thing that happens, that's not how entripy works. This is one of the primary struggles for our company, and I have taken on some of this (not all of it mind you), possibly because I happen to be able to find a solution that fits our variables, and other people are not as well suited to the task.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-re-releases-windows-server-2019/

Does this mean Hyper-V 2019 will also be available?

@scottalanmiller said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

@donahue said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

Hello from Oregon. I just came here for more SAM

Well then, welcome to the SAM party!

thanks. I just realized today that you were no longer at Spiceworks, and I happened to have stumbled on this site maybe a week ago. I had no idea there was alternative options for my IT questions. I am happy to be here.

what are you trying to actually accomplish? From what I understand, the synology HA is an active/passive system and it takes a long time to actually fail over. I say this having no personal experience, but I have researched it because I have 3 synology's. The general consensus seems to be that their HA should not be considered a business level protection and its performance compared to other proper HA solutions reflects this.

It should be the same as cars, and probably will be regulated at some point to be similar by the government. With cars, you are supposed to be able to have the right to repair it using 3rd parties if you desire so. It helps reduce the possibility of a monopoly for that car maker. Tesla is kind of fighting that idea at the moment, but any time the consumer is forced to only use the OEM, it gives the OEM all the leverage and the consumer is left with no option but to use them at whatever price point the OEM thinks they can get away with. It also puts the consumer at risk of the OEM arbitrary deciding that they no longer wish to offer that service at any price, and the consumer is now completely screwed. This is like MS arbitrarily deciding they dont like your o365 or azure account, and just disabling or deleting it. Imaging if MS tried to say that if you were going to run windows in the cloud, you HAD to use azure or else windows would lock itself out and become inoperable.

I am fine with the idea that apple would not honor warranties when third party attempted repairs, but the consumer should still have that right to get the service done without fear of triggering booby traps.

I had to subscribe in order to break the curse

@scottalanmiller said in Getting DHCP BAD_ADDRESS on Windows DHCP:

We are looking for rogue DHCP servers now, but dont' know of where one might be hiding. We've ensure all of the network gear does not have one.

turn off the DHCP you know of and see if you still have DHCP being served. That will easily tell you if you have a rouge DHCP server somewhere.

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thats a good problem to have

Better than having pizzas delivered by Nobody.

That's my dream future. Robot pizza delivery.

I feel like there should be a relevant futurama meme for that

Let me start by saying that I am rerunning the test with a longer duration to see if my initial results are an anomaly. But in the meantime, I would like some speculation. I ran Dell live optics a while back, twice. The first test was for only 10 minutes and the second test was for 12 hours. Apparently I had only been looking at the results of the 10 minute test and I didn't pay attention to one specific part of the 12 hour test.

On the 12 hour test, there was an initial spike of IOPS from one of our datastores that is an 8x250 raid 10 array with SSD's. The spike lasted ~30 minutes and had a peak of just over 60k read IOPS. It started right after the test was started. What can cause something like this? Can the test itself cause results this high?

It may be a coincidence, but while this test was being done, our main database VM that sits on this array corrupted itself to the point that I had to restore from a backup from before this test. Could that somehow be responsible for the spike, or could the test have caused the corruption? I hit start right before leaving for the night and when I came in the next morning, the VM said it had no OS disk.

I would upload a screenshot of the live optics, but ML is giving me an upload error.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Watching Now:

Awesome production from WGBH in Boston... Lennon Claypool Delirium, live at the House of Blues.

Youtube Video

(That's right, John Lennon managed to make 1 talented kid. Who woulda thought it would be with Yoko?)

does anyone else think this looks like Adam Savage?

@Dashrender said in Large or small Raid 5 with SSD:

@Donahue said in Large or small Raid 5 with SSD:

I know the analogy is not perfect, but in my head I am thinking of the spare disk as a spare tire on a car. having a cold spare on the shelf to me is like having the spare tire mounted to the back or underneath the car, not being actively used to help the car stay on the road. So my instinct is to make sure I've got a spare. In the case of a 4 drive raid 5, that means a 5th disk. But as you say, IF I have that disk anyways, it is better, and as you say, emphatically so, to actually use that disk in the array from the beginning and have a 5 disk raid 6 and no spare. But that leads me back to my original position of not having a spare which my animal brain intuitively thinks of as bad and that I should get a spare. I know that my assumptions and instincts are wrong here, because I do not fully understand the scope of the difference in risks between the 4 drive raid 5 and the 5 drive raid 6. That is why I am asking all these questions, so that I can more fully understand my options and evaluate my choices based on empirical data or good logic, and not on instinct or intuition.

In the case of the cold spare with RAID 5, if you loose one drive, you're now at risk of a second drive failing, that second drive is doing you zero benefit until the rebuild process is 100% complete - AFTER you start that process.

with RAID 6, you are protected from a second drive failure situation entirely. Now you order a second drive, and assuming no more failures, you stayed as safe as possible during the entire endeaver, BUT, if you loose a second drive during the process, you saved yourself the hassle of restoring because of RAID 6.

This all mostly only matters because you've 'decided' the expense of having the 'spare/extra' drive onsite already was worth it. If you determined that the spare wasn't worth having onsite, then back to RAID 5 you go.

I agree, and that is where I am at now. I need to decide if it is worth having that 5th disk.

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Amritsar: India train mows down crowd killing scores

I am not sorry that you stood on train tracks and got run over by a train. I can feel sympathy for the families, but not for the stupid.

But the kids... Just standing with their parents.

Very sad, they think people couldn't hear the train coming.

Even if they couldn't hear it, you'd think they would still feel it.

Yeah.... trains are loud and cause a lot of vibration on both the tracks and the surrounding ground. Not sure how people couldn't hear it coming.

who stands on an active track and doesn't assume a train could come at any minute? That's like darwin award worthy.

I feel like this is a 100% human problem, and no matter what we do with the OS, its still human judgment that is the cause of the problems.

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WTH?

So I got a quote from xbyte, but it includes this. I had been expecting that I would just load the hypervisor on the raid 5 array and that having a seperate R1 array for the OS was an old way of approaching this. Thoughts?

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Donahue technically speaking, you could have the receptionist install this drive.

But do you trust that person?

nope

@scottalanmiller
If only I had found ML before I bought my Fortigates. I may have made a difference decision.

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@DustinB3403 the whole thing is wrong, from so many angles. the meme is wrong because it is making light of the situation, but I would agree that the topic of the meme is much much worse, and is the worst part of humanity. It's sad that it's also true. My opinion as a someone who is heavily involved in my church is that people are people and the church has just as many bad apples as the rest of society.

This is what turns a lot of people off to organized religion. I'd suggest that some non-religious folks see this and go WTF -- they came to my house trying to cram their religion down my throat and now they're all caught up in [fill in the blank].

I think the people that cram it down people's throats are doing it wrong, that that this is very much the vocal minority of "organized religion". Too many people are caught up in judgement, and not enough are caught up in mercy.

then why do VLAN 1 and 2 need to be on different VLANs?