And to make it really overkill and reliable, duplicate this physical installation twice more and setup DRBD and Pacemaker for an extremely HA filesystem with Quorum.

@gjacobse said in UNRAID: Did it improve since 2017?:

I can't say I trust it,.. to few would suggest it, and the few that might mention it have regularly said - no.

That said - ... what I really find interesting is that I have now seen it mentioned twice now in almost as many days... Just seemed funny and needed some 'additional' exposure.

I have an end goal - and with that an expectation that it will be done similar to how (sane) enterprise solutions would be done. In some regard - I enjoy the challenge of making a number of differently aged platforms work together - but if I want to extend my marketable skills - they need to be,.. in line with the market.

Proxmox may not be common in day to day discussions, but it's been around long enough - and has proven itself that it is 'on par / scale' as most Virtualization software out. So, I'm learning that and rather enjoying it.

But, storage is a failing point for my rack currently. With the ReadyNas biting the dust about a year ago, I decided on a solution, and would rather build anything I put online.

I have several monster cases which could be used,.. or I could go with an prebuilt system... But they quickly exceed the permissible budget..

I don't have any issue with having a discussion around a technological approach. What I do tend to have an issue with is when someone says "this thing is a magic bullet to solve every problem" but they can't explain why it's a magic bullet.

From your point of view, the ask to the other party is "what is Unraid doing that can't be done with mdadm and Cockpit?"

If they need an explanation, spin up a rocky vm with 6 disks, 2 for an R1 and the rest for an R10 (for laughs), it's the same process with a web gui to administer the storage.

Do the same thing on hardware and you have yourself an Array that isn't using a lesser known piece of software compared to existing and well known tools.

While I get the potential desire of Unraid, an easy to use web/gui to administer your storage.

What I don't understand is why you wouldn't do this with standard mdadm and Cockpit (with Storage Module) and nothing else.

Unraid seems like a OS built because they could, not because it was needed. Whereas something like Rocky Linux or Ubuntu are extremely common place and you can find support for them everywhere.

@dave247 Going from expensive VMWare to expensive Nutanix makes little sense.

@Oksana The issue started with keeping Hyper-V around... so many better options to be able to leverage StarWinds vSAN with.

So this is what I've been able to sort out; PrivateLink allows a VPC to privately access a specific service (like an API, NLB, or AWS-managed service such as S3 or Secrets Manager) via a VPC interface endpoint. It operates at Layer 7 (Application) of the OSI model, so there’s no need to worry about CIDR overlap between the consumer and provider VPCs. Traffic is routed entirely over AWS’s internal network infrastructure and never traverses the public Internet. The consumer only interacts with the service endpoint (DNS → ENI) and does not have visibility into the provider’s backend network. PrivateLink is suitable only when both the service and the consumer are within AWS and is not intended for on-premise connectivity.

It's not a VPN in the traditional sense, but it is a VPN between VPCs (essentially), which only works within AWS.

I'm having this discussion now, and I'm failing to see how a coworker thinks that AWS PrivateLink is anything but a VPN, specifically for AWS VPCs.

He expressly said "VPN != VPCe (which is the AWS name for PrivateLink)"

Can someone explain this to me in crayola?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 That a whole version back. No current release that I'm aware of.

Yeah there has been nothing newer released that I've seen.

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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I had a fun night last night adding storage to a server. When I went to move VM storage location, found a checkpoint (Hyper-V, ugh) from 2018.... Took a long while to coalesce.

This morning everything had finally coalesced and moved to the new storage array. Only took ~10 hours.

You're using Hyper-V? How's that been going and what management tools are you using?

I had some lunatic INSTALL it in the last two months! W.T.F.

Was it installed properly, IE with the Hyper-V iso and not via a Windows Server Role installation?

Does that still exist?

Yeah, granted its 2019.... but it's still there https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-hyper-v-server-2019

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I had a fun night last night adding storage to a server. When I went to move VM storage location, found a checkpoint (Hyper-V, ugh) from 2018.... Took a long while to coalesce.

This morning everything had finally coalesced and moved to the new storage array. Only took ~10 hours.

You're using Hyper-V? How's that been going and what management tools are you using?

I had some lunatic INSTALL it in the last two months! W.T.F.

Was it installed properly, IE with the Hyper-V iso and not via a Windows Server Role installation?

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I had a fun night last night adding storage to a server. When I went to move VM storage location, found a checkpoint (Hyper-V, ugh) from 2018.... Took a long while to coalesce.

This morning everything had finally coalesced and moved to the new storage array. Only took ~10 hours.

You're using Hyper-V? How's that been going and what management tools are you using?

I recently got Backseat Drivers, game is hysterical.

Need a group of people to play it though, but it's good fun.

Abiotic Factor is another game I've been playing for a bit that is under constant dev, really cool game.

Blocking apps that were approved by users with the "Sign in With Google" that are just trash apps, like Fireflies.

@travisdh1 I've been pretty disappointed in Firefox personally, ha.

@CloudKnight interesting read.

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...

@scottalanmiller said in List Windows Printers from PowerShell Command Line CLI:

If you need to remote into a Windows machine and get a list of printers without interrupting the user, this powershell command is quick and easy...

Get-Printer | Format-Table

Make it easier Get-Printer | FT

Reviewing the output of sslscan, it seems we have some depreciated ciphers that need to get pulled.

Waiting for a meeting to start with a client.