So this will definitely impact some if not all of you, but all Gen 10 and newer HPE Servers with hardware RAID, running ESXi will no longer be able to monitor the drive or array's health. Below I'm quoting Mario Glenwin from L2 Technical Solutions Consultant from HPE.

We received a confirmation from engineering team. Smx-provider package is set to retire and we are recommending customers to remove the same going further.
There is no additional development/research happening on smx-provider.

Engineering team have recommended that we could monitor drives from ILO/AMS and One View if configured.

Support article for the recommended fix: https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docLocale=en_US&docId=a00117054en_us

With 3.53 or newer raid controller firmware on Gen10 or newer servers you can expect to see misreported issues like the ones pictured below.

HPE's current officially recommended solution to prevent seeing these errors is to uninstall the SMX-Providers from within ESXi. Unfortunately VMWare and HPE documentation lists the smx-provider as the solely supported way to monitor storage.

https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/pdf/vi_cim_guide.pdf

You could of course move to HPE OneView or potentially use ILO to email alerts out of an individual server but there are far more fault domains then getting directly reported from the tooling on the Hypervisor (in this case VMWare).

I've been in conversations for months now about this with HPE and it appears that this is likely not going to change for the better.

@wrcombs said in NTFS Permissions Tools:

@voip_n00b said in NTFS Permissions Tools:

I'm looking for a NTFS Permissions Tool that can give me a simply report to show who has access to what.

Anyone have a tool they like?

have you tried the powershell script for this?

I actually have one written, I'll try to remember to post it when I get a free minute.

University loses 77TB of research data due to backup error

@gjacobse said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

I challenge you-

Just another surprising TikTok Challenge with a possible shocking outcome.

-to do better.

Electric Shiffle Challenge.

Climb a high power transfer tower, and connect all 3 wires together using a copper wire AND SURVIVE the climb down.

At the vet hospital again, 2nd time in 4 days. Dog has started having seizures, which have returned even though she is on medication.

I've had continual issues across chrome, edge firefox and brave on Android mobile.

Scrolling sucks now were as before it was smooth. Or I can't post for some error etc, so I just don't post any more.

The site is more and more broken with each update.

Happy Thursday to you!

This is all you have within the SonicWall control, on or off. I saw this yesterday and assumed I was missing something critical. The most basic APs in the world include the "Identify AP" functionality.

Apparently, SonicWall APs are more basic than basic as they don't include this functionality at all.

On or off is all you get.

They include no means of blinking the LEDs on these AP's!

It's on or off, which works but is annoying..

How do you blink the LEDs on a sonicwave AP to identify it?

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@krzykat said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I'll be in west palm tomorrow

What you doing in my back yard?

Flew down to pick up a car and drove it back to NY.

Ooof. Bet that was a fun trip!

It was definitely a rough drive back due to the duration. But otherwise uneventful.

@krzykat said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I'll be in west palm tomorrow

What you doing in my back yard?

Flew down to pick up a car and drove it back to NY.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Due to a super annoying chain of events, we are trapped in Miami for several days. Missed our flight yesterday because of the mountain of paperwork necessary to get on the plane and no one could get the other countries to send confirmation of paperwork fast enough. So we are trapped and the next flight is on Sunday!!

I'll be in west palm tomorrow

@irj said in Does Mesh Central support blanking remote screen:

@krzykat said in Does Mesh Central support blanking remote screen:

@dustinb3403 said in Does Mesh Central support blanking remote screen:

With another product I had a customer complain because we had to jump into a server because of performance issues, and they could graph that we too access the active console of the server (all virtual). And thought it was a security risk because we could potentially see confidential data.

Of course we are the domain administrator as well so...

Then their option is to hire their own onsite personnel that handle the same tasks, won't be as qualified and cost them more money. If you don't trust your IT team ... well time to move on. I don't want any clients that don't trust us.

Insider threat is the number one threat.

True, but that isn't such a concern here more than just a basic lack of understanding of remote support tools and how console access works (to a physical or virtual system)

@krzykat said in Does Mesh Central support blanking remote screen:

@dustinb3403 said in Does Mesh Central support blanking remote screen:

With another product I had a customer complain because we had to jump into a server because of performance issues, and they could graph that we too access the active console of the server (all virtual). And thought it was a security risk because we could potentially see confidential data.

Of course we are the domain administrator as well so...

Then their option is to hire their own onsite personnel that handle the same tasks, won't be as qualified and cost them more money. If you don't trust your IT team ... well time to move on. I don't want any clients that don't trust us.

Yes exactly, either trust your support team or not, from time to time we may access the same vcenter guest console. Same difference with our support tool except we aren't authenticating to vcenter.

With another product I had a customer complain because we had to jump into a server because of performance issues, and they could graph that we too access the active console of the server (all virtual). And thought it was a security risk because we could potentially see confidential data.

Of course we are the domain administrator as well so...

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Just realized that SharePoint turns 20 years old this year!

Mean ShartPoint?

@dashrender said in Good deal on 14TB drives - BestBuy:

externals?

I'm thinking the expectation is to open the casing and pull the drive out.

But yeah externals.. . For a nas.

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I'll be doing something similar when I pick up my new car this weekend.

@jaredbusch said in KVM or VMWare:

@hobbit666 said in KVM or VMWare:

What about XCP-ng? Would that be something to consider to run a business on?

I am unclear on how supported it is. Tech wise, it is still KVM.

Xcp-ng isn't kvm, it's Xen.