@scottalanmiller said in Broadcom Acquired VMware: Does KVM Have a Chance?:

@Oksana Does KVM have a chance? It's the only game in town. VMware is such a backwater of out of date, out of touch, "why would anyone use this" tech. If you use KVM, then you use VMware, it's like going from living in a beach front mansion to a caveman's cave where they are still pooping in a dark corner in the back.

VMware has been dead tech for years. It's so antiquated like they think it is the 2005 era.

XCP-ng is picking up a ton of customers as well, since there is a support model behind it.

@johnhooks You're not convoluting the clients setup. If you document everything as you set it up. Anyone should be able to come in and manage it easily enough.

Intel CPUs are vulnerable to attack by attacking the branch detector.

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I need to run to the store here pretty soon. Out of the necessities.

Eggs... Bacon.... Ketchup... Milk... ?

Eggs Bacon Ketchup Beer

@Romo said in Programming Printers:

So when can I learn how to program printers during my internship, I MUST have this knowledge.

You mean you don't already have this knowledge... jeeess and here I thought the NTG internship was worthwhile....

Yeah using Hyper-V when there has been zero improvement of the environment in nearly a decade would be horrifying to hear about, much less to be actively considering.

I could see, finding solutions to migrate away from it, but actively deciding to deploy to it... When Microsoft is actively depreciating work on both Windows Server, and Hyper-V.... not ever in a hundred years...

So in working on an existing project to update our server fleet we've decided we need to virtualize. It is simply not a choice any more.

With that, I've already built a pretty solid platform it needs a few tweaks. Specifically adding 4(plus the original 8 ) totally ~ 11TB of storage on each host. Duplicate hosts.

The backup device options that I'm trying to figure out now is what's the best way to keep 1 months worth of full Server Backups off site. In a colo or sister location etc and one on-site for "rapid recovery". The full backups from my estimate can take 22 days to run... Is this realistic to even pursue an Off-site backup solution?

30Mbps symmetric Internet service at our main location with approximately 8TB of OS and file storage space across our server fleet.

To summarize I've settles on a Dell R510, 12 Bay 3.5 Drives with Western Digital RE 4TB, in RAID 6.

I would prefer to use RAID 10, but just don't think I can find something reasonably priced for this. I'm expecting to have 2 backup units. One onsite, the other offsite.

This is building backups from XenServer using NAUBackup which creates full snapshots and then pushes them off host to a file server.

In addition to this I need a way to keep hourly incremental changes onsite for 72 hours and then dump them. My boss doesn't want to reuse the equipment we have. So looking for ideas.

Maybe just another R510 server in RAID 6 as well. Total in 3 for backup purposes?

What do you guys think? Be brutal as I really am looking for ideas.

@NashBrydges said in 9 Year Old Linux Bug Found and Quickly Resolved:

@DustinB3403 said in 9 Year Old Linux Bug Found and Quickly Resolved:

@scottalanmiller said in 9 Year Old Linux Bug Found and Quickly Resolved:

Shows how well the open source system works.

Sadly it took 9 years to find the bug in the kernel. . .

Yeah not sure how 9 years would be considered quickly but, glad it was found.

The time from when this bug was discovered and patched was minimal like maybe a few hours.

The initial discovery phase was the issue.

@RojoLoco said:

Found out yesterday that the whole building HVAC (including supplemental units) will be off for cleaning all day tomorrow... so I guess we are shutting it all down for a day. I'm glad the boss didn't suggest that I sit up here and guard the open server room door all day.

I need your bosses phone number...

@scottalanmiller said in Programming Printers:

Remember, he ACTUALLY said that he programmed his oven, too.

But he did, he programmed the clock to the correct time of course...

So in regards to my other topics, and different price points. I'm looking for a PCI RAID Controller. Something that can hold 12 drives. Specifically WD RE 4 TB Enterprise Hard Drive model: WD4000FYYZ on a Supermicro / X9SCL/X9SCM motherboard.

Any recommendations?

I read that already, and the Navy admitted to installing the software to thousands of computer systems, without being licensed (but with the developers permission).

Um.... Hey Scott, I give you permission to drain my bank account.

@MattSpeller & @scottalanmiller we even wrote an article here on ML on how to install and configure an MD Array from a USB boot device.

OK so @scottalanmiller was able to explain StorageCraft backup and restore to me in much more clear terms.

Create a new VM, boot from SC ISO media, and import the files.

That's simple.

Why didn't anyone explain that to me in such simple terms before?!

This statement right here I find it hard to understand why Google only allows you to download your data if your account is active. They claim the data belongs to you, but if you violate any of their terms you will lose the ability to retrieve your data.

Um, its the same as if you are fired from your job, they don't let you continue to use your domain credentials jackass. You've been cut off. Like a new born from mothers milk!

I read both the Lemon law and the Engel wiki pages.

Both are summarizing that by supporting any religion in a Public office (school or otherwise) in any capacity with public money that it's against the constitution and therefor illegal.

Now, using school time and assigning an assignment like this one, might light a firestorm under some parent's asses, but will the government step in to reprimand the school and teach?

Or was/is next weeks assignment calligraphy of the old testament?

So @Dashrender and I were talking, and he was doing some looking around at different backup options, and what caught our attention is that Veeam offers a product for $700 that will backup an unlimited number of VM's.

What I am unable to find is, does this application run at the host or guest level? I'd imagine that it runs at the host level (as it appears it does for VMWare and Hyper-V) but would like some clarity on it.

I am still tossing up XenServer or Hyper-V as the hypervisor, and my proposals are Hypervisor agnostic. Due to all of the options that still need to be discussed / panned out.

So the summary to this security issue is don't use apps that come from untrusted sources.

@coliver And of course to celebrate @Dashrender birthday... I mean that's the real party item...

This is the topic regarding Consumer SSDs vs Enterprise SSDs