@dafyre said in Supermicro SuperServer E200-8D and E300-8D – review:

@DustinB3403 said in Supermicro SuperServer E200-8D and E300-8D – review:

@travisdh1 said in Supermicro SuperServer E200-8D and E300-8D – review:

@DustinB3403 said in Supermicro SuperServer E200-8D and E300-8D – review:

@travisdh1 Yeah I saw that, which was why I was asking about it.

Just taking a quick look at the pricing, you can get those smaller Dell servers with 4 3.5" bays for less, at least in the US.

Could get a lot of equipment for the price (only ~$900) if you're willing to use refurb equipment. If we're only discussing new servers it would limit the choices a bit.

The single drive limit means no raid functionality to deal with, which also means no raid redundancy. . .

But if you were building this in a Starwind setup, you wouldn't' need RAID at all.

I suppose, but you're also very limited to the amount of storage you could fit into any single host.

So following along with my topic from the other day I was asked how is the data accessed.

Without having used a service such as BackBlaze or Amazon S3 cloud services I'm just guessing. It was asked if it's possible to mount a service to a server as a local share.

I can only infer that "mounting" a service like this impossible in a traditional Microsoft File Share sense.

In doing some research it appears that you have to run a VM on Amazon's service to act as a file server. You can configure SFTP access so tools like WinSCP could be used to access the data. The information I've found is that generally this is a cost per hour. But as you'll see below there are listed AWS Free Tier Eligible Software which cost $0.00/Hour. . .

There are a list of different options here of AWS Free Tier Eligible Software. What I assume this means is that I could run an SFTP server on Amazon S3 free of charge if using CentOS for as long as we have the service. Is this correct?

As a general inquiry are all online cloud services like this when looking at these sorts of options?

haha, time to upgrade to the Freeman model.

@johnhooks said:

Considering the test had questions about Token Rings and frequency modulation I am inclined to agree haha.

@scottalanmiller said:

Ding ding ding. If the people creating the test are this out of touch, imagine what the staff that you would be working with would likely be like!!

But at least he'd be able to have a great laugh until the constant migraine set in...

Wow these look awful.

@Sodium

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Good read and it explains very clearly what split-brain is, and how to prevent it in simple enough terms.

I've had to explain many times myself what split-brain is and ways to prevent it. I just get starred at. . .

That topic sounds an awful lot like several others asking where to find cracked CD keys and what not. Doing everything illegally because it's "free" to do so.

Yet when the system needs support or work done, nothing can be performed because they aren't legitimately licensed. So then comes the question of "How do I do <insert something completely weird> ?"

The answer is always, license your self properly and upgrade as needed. Trying to maintain 20 year old software without any upgrades is insane.

@JaredBusch said in Super Mario Run for App Store:

His comment is about the fact that Super Mario (a game from how long ago now?) is just now available on a different platform.

The platform change is a big move, but come out with a new game if you're going to do it. Make a bigger splash of it.

31 years closer to the grave today...

Throw a party!

The below script will revoke all permissions and disable a specified user account from AD. Additionally it will attempt to reboot their computer if you un-comment the indicated line.

Do{
	Try {
		$userInput = Read-Host -Prompt "Leaving Employee"
		$user = Get-ADUser $userInput -Properties memberof
		$invalid = $false
	} Catch {
		$invalid = $true
		Write-Warning "Invalid Entry"
	}
} While ($invalid)
$user | Set-ADUser -Enabled $False
$user.memberof | ForEach-Object {
#This line removes all group memberships besides "Domain User", confirmation is not required per membership. If confirmation is required modify "-confirm:$false" to be "#-confirm:$false" without quotes.
	Remove-ADGroupMember -Identity $_ -Members $user.samaccountname -confirm:$false
}

    # Un-Comment the below two lines and modify to match your PC naming convention.
#$computer = "$($user.samaccountname)-w7a" or "$($user.samaccountname)-w7"
#Restart-Computer -ComputerName $computer -Force

Write-Output "Account is disabled, and if found their computer has been restarted."

@Oksana said in Microsoft S2D vs StarWind VSAN: See what clients say about true hyperconvergence:

The official US motto sounds like “In God we trust”. But there is also another part of this phrase: "In God we trust, the rest we check". Do you want to choose the right soft- or hardware? Always check and read, especially user reviews. IT Central Station is an online platform that offers current, objective, and relevant user information and helps in choosing the best technical solution. Do you doubt what to give preference: StarWind Virtual SAN or Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct?

Take a look what customers have to say about hyperconvergence done in the right way and make your choice at the following link.

Why for the love of all thing natural do I have to register to download a whitepaper.

Please, PLEASE just post a link to an informative whitepaper without asking me to register.

@KOOLER can you fix this!

To sum this up. Ubuntu isn't officially supported on anything but what you can find here.

http://www.ubuntu.com/phone

If you're trying to use another device than what is on their site. Good luck but I doubt anyone else will even attempt to provide help.

Yeah and the recommendation from Yahoo is that if you haven't changed your password since 2014, you should change it...

Um yeah why not just close the account..

I'm back from vacation. From Thanks Giving Thursday until today 12-7-15. Eleven (11) days off.

The below script will list all group members. It can definitely be improved.

Import-Module Activedirectory
$credentials = Get-Credential

$groups = Get-ADGroup -Properties DistinguishedName -Filter * DistinguishedName
Foreach ($g in $groups)

{
	Write-Host $g.Name
	Write-Host "---------"
	Write-Host "         "
	$g.Members

}

@Oksana Microsoft should really learn that a PIN is not a Password.

Forcing Windows Hello on businesses that opt to not have E3 or higher licenses and then forcibly making people use a PIN is just plain stupid.

There is a registry edit that can be made to disable Window Hello, but it's annoying to do so as it's a piecemeal approach.

So posting here on behalf of an SW user (topic here) who's getting horrid throughput when he has two nics bonded on his HyperV 2012 server.

Any ideas?

The government wanted to start their own operation and couldn't have two different telephone numbers going at the same time.

Therefore arrest those guys...

Looking for a cheap $50 - 60 air compressor on Amazon with the basic tools, an Air Gun for blowing out computers, and a Filling Nose.

Anyone have any recommendations, trying to find a good quality unit, that is as quiet as possible. (When recharging or inuse)

So without writing this myself I was able to find this which might work for what you need.