The key...if you're into functional GPO's (vs. monolithic) is having an effective and meaningful OU structure. Otherwise, half of your time will be creating security filters or specific targeting which can get very confusing very quickly.

The performance impact of processing GPO's in general is negligible, but it does depend on what that GPO is doing (i.e. deploying software in general or printers over slow links? Have a seat and grab a cup of coffee). I would be more concerned if you have slow links at your sites - if this is the case, you need to ensure that you have Sites and Services configured appropriately and a RODC at your remote site to facilitate speedy logins.

Being aware of GPO enforcement (which you should try to avoid) and LSDO ordering will help you tons.

There's really no right or wrong way to deploy GPO's as it is more about what you're doing with them, how they are deploying, and what you're deploying them to.

Personally, my preference is to break my GPO's out to functional objects - i.e. this one is for security, this one is for desktop preferences, this one is for drive mappings, etc.

@dafyre said:

@Carnival-Boy said:

Workloads that you can't get working virtualised for whatever reason. I couldn't get Hamachi to work virtualised. Googling suggested a common problem with Hamachi not liking the VMware network drivers or something.

I've virtualised our firewall. I wonder if there's an argument that says I shouldn't because it means I have a hypervisor on a public facing host. Maybe? I dunno, could that be a security risk? It's not something I'm going to lose any sleep over.

How do you virtualize the Firewall without exposing the underlying hypervisor? By making sure that there is not an IP address assigned to the actual host on the interface that connects to the WAN?

Have the hypervisor exposed on a different physical adapter that is not on the WAN network side.

Unfortunately no. We at @ntg used to provide leasing for Upstate NY but have gotten away from that, too much complication without enough benefit. We have never leased gear ourselves, especially internationally.

@scottalanmiller Planning to start it this week.

I'm still finding parts to use. Trying to be as cost conscious as possible as this is only my home lab. (and the significant other gets testy when I want to "buy toys")

@JaredBusch said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@Obsolesce said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@JaredBusch said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

based on the word voxel is the world completely buildable and detroyable?

Not in the same way Teardown is, (another awesome game by the way), but you can build/destroy.

@JaredBusch said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

based on the word tycoon is it a sim?

Yes, along the lines of a Sim City type game, but more fun.

I had time later and looked at the steam store. looks interesting.

I actually had it in my Steam wishlist for like a year or something. I had constantly ignored it because the name doesn't do it justice, and never really bothered to look much. I had added it back when I was playing more Teardown and searched for other voxel based games out of curiosity. I wish I would have looked at it closer a long time ago.

I know I'm dragging a topic up from the past, but here is a topic where a business has made a purchase with the goal of Shoe horning 16tb (4x4TB) HDD's into ProLiant MicroServer G7 Server.

Wasted money, with clearly no concept of what is an appropriate way of setting something like this up.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/18677/windows-server-2003-cluster-dead/

Celery, yes that stuff for rabbits and me it would seem.

Thank you for the recommendation @Dashrender

@scottalanmiller I think of Snapshots as a quick point-in-time view... if something breaks, I can restore that snapshot in mere seconds, and I'm good to go.

If I have to pull a full image from a backup, it could take minutes - hours to restore that backup...

Howard - "Oh she doesn't care where I get my motor running, so long as I park in the right garage."

@PSX_Defector said:

@Dashrender said:

@PSX_Defector said:

We just bought four new blades with 1TB of RAM. And we buy tons of equipment all the time. Ain't nobody got time to put in RAM!

They pay you to much to even install the blade, let alone the RAM on the blade.

Well, someone gotta put it in. And that's the smarthands in the DC.

exactly - again you cost to much to do that work... I'm salary - and sure, while my time could be spent better doing other things, I'll take my own prerogative in these rare cases of getting new hardware 😉

20 votes to go.

@JaredBusch said:

@DustinB3403 said:

Jared on this Host we aren't running Hyper-V but Xenserver, but yes vDISK would be the VHD/VHDX (in hyper-v) or OVA (in Xen)

I know you're using sin but I was using the term that @Dashrender was familiar with

Thanks! 🙂

I think that sticking to standard P2V processes would be just fine.

Buy another gift card with it?
Why?
Well, why not?

@dafyre said:

Not yet... I still haven't even figured out what the default desktop is... (It feels like Gnome 3 to me).

Whta is the KDE Connect?

Here's what the notifications look like:

KDE Connect

@dafyre said:

@Dashrender http://makezine.com/2015/08/07/2015-hoverboard/

LOL I purchased one of the KickStarter kits from Hendo. It's suppose to be here by Nov.

I heard about Nike making those shoes too... I hope they make them for the masses, I'd love a pair.

What we might do is for our non-servers go with the cloud free platform, and for the servers just purchase the standard business version.

Sure it splits up the monitoring, but at least it gives us the tools we need (for our servers), at a reasonable cost.

@RojoLoco said:

@scottalanmiller said:

If you are looking for free, what about Avast for Business?

I have that on a few boxes here, and boy it sure likes to turn off the real time protection randomly. And it's super bloated... but it is free.

Oh, that's not very useful.