@JaredBusch said in dbeato why are you migrating from Hyper-V to XCP-ng:

@DustinB3403 said in dbeato why are you migrating from Hyper-V to XCP-ng:

@JaredBusch I agree, Olivier's business model is the difficult part to look past.

XOA was a great tool from what I could tell with all the conversations here. But the price structure was something discussed quite a bit.

Which is why I exclusively use XOCE. $6000 a year isn't cheap for the highest teir of support and functionality.

@JaredBusch said in Dashrender why did you migrate to Hyper-V from XenServer:

The XCP-NG team is a team that had a horrible business model that they were trying to implement around XenServer (XOA). Great concept, poor business model.

I wish them well but they are fighting a few things...

Citrix couldn't make any real money even when they charged more and people were taking the product seriously.

Last time I checked they were just replacing some management components and packaging some storage stuff. They are not investing in upstream and there's a lot of... changes coming in hardware that are going to require non-trivial investments for hypervisors to remain relevant.

The real problem with Xen is upstream investment is drying up. Citrix has pulled back, Amazon and other cloud providers have moved on to KVM, SuSE doesn't even market virtualization (SAP HANA support, containers, OS is as close to bare metal as they get). Outside of some people in ARM/automotive virtualization I haven't seen anyone picking it up for net new projects. In the enterprise Oracle is the only champion of it these days. KVM won the open source hypervisor war (although at this point does anyone really care?)

@RojoLoco said in OSX Mojave - System Storage - Time Machine Disabled:

@DustinB3403 said in OSX Mojave - System Storage - Time Machine Disabled:

That seems unnecessary as this shouldn't be so difficult, nor should it ever occur.

...because everything apple does is perfect and never, ever malfunctions in any way, right?

Yeah. . . no I get the stance. What makes no sense is there is no way for me to find where this bulk is coming from.

@DustinB3403 said in OSX Power Saving Settings:

@black3dynamite said in OSX Power Saving Settings:

Does that also prevent it from sleeping when the lid is closed?

The lid closed is powernap 🙂

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So with further testing, a restart is required if the user is using their system, otherwise they'll continue to get the notifications.

@dbeato said in lpadmin - remove printer with a space in the name:

@DustinB3403 said in lpadmin - remove printer with a space in the name:

Nevermind!

lpadmin adds spaces as underscores!

So with lpadmin -p I was able to find the list of printers.

lpadmin -p
Accounting_Printer

And with lpadmin -x Accounting_Printer was able to remove the printer!
Removed Accounting_Printer

Good to know for central administration of Apple devices. What are you using right now?

ARD and Unix cli

@wrx7m said in OSX 10.14.X Bug - Roaming AD Accounts unable to login when Off Network:

@DustinB3403 said in OSX 10.14.X Bug - Roaming AD Accounts unable to login when Off Network:

My co-worker thinks he may have a workaround, which involves backing up the user profile, deleting the existing one and restoring the files for the user.

We're testing this currently to see if this actually "sticks".

Did it work?

Waiting to hear back

Ah I found it, they moved it under the other SSIDs now in the blacklist regions.

@DustinB3403 said in Troubleshooting Help Requested:

@wrx7m said in Troubleshooting Help Requested:

VLANs?

No, and this VM is on the same vlan as other VMs on the same host.

PS I've restored this VM to a completely different hypervisor and the issue persists. So either its the VM or the gateway.

Have you tried a different IP, or even power down this machine and assign the same IP to another host to see if it gets blocked? Is the restored VM using the same MAC address as the original or has the restored version got a reinitialised MAC?

Do you have access to check the logs on the gateway / edge / router to see if it's blocking / intercepting / messing with your host

@IRJ said in The Receptionist conumdrum:

It's not always true that first level support is useless. Tenable has great support. The guy you chat with is the guy that will work your case. They do everything from chatting, spinning up VMs to test and try to get the same results, analyze diagnostic files, etc.

Elastic is the same way. They have a dedicated developer pair that supports you and since we were DoD we could even get cleared people as support so they could on site visit.

Long file names can be a serious pain... for copy and backup reasons.

I recall a NTG client that used a long name for the directories,.. and it made updating nearly impossible Should follow the KISS method... Directory names don't need to be 120 characters long,.. and four deep.

Just used this again today, as another script I have had this attribute.

Not sure when the attribute was written to the script though. But it's working now.

This is the full error.

/bin/sh: bad interpreter: Operation not permitted

@Dashrender think of this as XOCE to XenServer/XCP-ng but with a desktop instead of a web interface.

Literally nothing different and is completely normal.

@coliver said in Is this inaccurate or just missing details or are they the same:

https://techdirect.dell.com/api_docs/apiwarrantyv4.pdf

Purchase date works but if you want specific information Dell has an API designed to look up Warranties.

Those warranties are only valid if you purchase direct - otherwise they can be months off. You buy a PC from a vendor, where that unit has been sitting on the shelf for 3 months - that's three more months of warranty you typically get.

Though in lacking the purchasing invoice, the manufacture date is better than nothing.

Too bad it is KVM only right now. Not that KVM is bad, it's just early. The have LXC coming "soon" and that will be really awesome. I want VDI on LXC so that we can do it faster and on top of Scale HC3.

Oh dear.....{sigh..}

@DustinB3403 said in O365 SafeLinks Service 503:

SafeLinks

I was wondering why I wasn't familiar with safe links. I only have Business premium.

@DustinB3403 said in Backup Options - Licensing Costs - Storage Targets:

@dafyre said in Backup Options - Licensing Costs - Storage Targets:

When we start looking, we'll start with the usual culprits like Veeam. ShadowProtect comes highly recommended to me by several folks (Including the guy who just built the ReadyNAS)... We'd hit the other major players as well.

So cost is going to bite you in the ass, since you said there were concerns about licensing. But they are all valid options.

@dafyre said in Backup Options - Licensing Costs - Storage Targets:

Good Backup Compression / Deduplication is a must. We have ~30TB of systems and data.

You can perform the compression on your storage layer or use dedup or both. This may affect the overall performance though.

@dafyre said in Backup Options - Licensing Costs - Storage Targets:

We don't care if it's full install, agent based, or Hypervisor based. It just needs to work.

Based on this I would think Agent based would be a decent option. But didn't you say you have something along the lines of 300 VMs? Might become tedious.

Yeah, we'd likely do the dedupe at the Storage layer. Our Current Nimble devices do this relatively well with our live data. Something like 1.3 or 1.4 to 1 compression is what i remember. It may be more or less.

If we went Agent based, we can push the agents via PDQ Deploy for Windows and a shell script or something for Linux. (Most of our Production Linux systems are SLES 12)... If reboots are required, systems can be rebooted during our patch window... (5-7am every day).

@flaxking said in Which is easier to learn Ansible or Chef or Puppet:

The whole container/CM thing is kind of at a weird place right now. With containers, we've sort of migrated back to the golden image thing, just with the pressure to create an image using a config file. I don't really like images on docker hub that don't have links to the dockerfile.

Yes, images that can't be tweaked without rebuilding. It's has benefits, and a lot of caveats. Having to deploy new containers for every patch is pretty silly. And so many things can't be immutable, including the platform on which the containers run.

At the end of the day, containers are either mutable, or immutable. The former need CM inside the container, the later need it outside the container.

@Spiral said in Court Case - Court orders company to produce previous records:

I will look to see if I can find it. I remember reading this issue, and the referenced case from years ago.

This is not an “issue”

This is simply how it works.

If it was in the news it was because some company was stupid.