Posts made by krisleslie

Here's another photo of what I found. I am thinking that basically I just need to replace the flash drive and reinstall xenserver. Any thoughts?

Anyone got this error before and how to resolve it? I have rebooted and determined it's gotta be something with the SDB1 (which is my flash drive). I guess its a FS error? Are there kinda way I can fix this?

ZeroTier (with Flow rules) + RDP is how I solved this for my clients.
Can you make a guide I'd be interested in that read.

Thoughts?

I used ZeroTier and RDP (without the flow rules) worked fine. If you have AD then yes you have more work to do! I never properly got it working with RDP+AD.

@Obsolesce said in Get Insight into ZFS Benefits for Your Infrastructure:

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Make an account that isn't your main account and continue living...

@travisdh1 you have a problem with Googles tracking I bet security isn't a problem but that tracking is debatable. You can always install Neverware and lose some of the tracking especially if you don't use the Google Console.

@notverypunny yes to get the best performance per dollar, yes buying a beefier refurbished laptop that runs Chrome OS is better. Make sure you install an SSD, as the HDD's tend to choke bad (had 5 die over a few years) while running Chrome OS. Nothing more fun than have a i5 or i7 for pennies with 16 GB of RAM and a SSD and a fast Chrome OS install. If you go this route get the bigger cell batteries if your dealing with a 10 year old system. If you are able to scavenge modern, smaller models with better batteries then you have hit gold.

For home use, honestly, I stay away from Acer only because they have had hardware issues reported for years which can either be a combination of a bad choice of GFX card or driver (dunno never resolved). I've seen hardware issues from the HP models as well but most of the issues could also stem from Chrome OS and a lack of proper hardware acceleration. We get kids complaining about "green screens" during Google Meets maybe 1-2 times a week. For newer generation Chromebooks with beefier components haven't had a problem. If you use Youtube check out Chrome Unboxed channel ( example video) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkHgegL2XiXSlwY5zeCKKyg

We buy primarily the clamshell models with usb 3 charging. They are usually 14 inch model and pretty much have same specs depending on vendor. HP, Lenovo and Dell pretty much make identical model down to the trackpad. Almost every Chrome vender makes the same model in that 14 inch model and they tend to best best price, and combination of hardware. The best in general is the newer HP 360 model and its perfect priced. The best overall is going to be the higher end Pixel models. Think apple prices 999.99 and better.

At work, I stand in the middle. I have charging carts and Chromebooks for our students. The best thing at school/work is uniformity. Kids and apparently staff are stupid at times. Keep things simple. Use the exact same model (or it's cousin) and with that comes modularity. When you get different models, you get people not charging or confused as to what goes where etc. Keeping things modular simplifies and hopefully decreases the chances of people plugging in wrong cables, not plugging them in at all etc. If someone breaks one (yes this just happened) then doesn't matter cost is cheap and replacement screen is also as long as it's not touch screen. Battery life is 10+ hours usually. Security is simple and backups and updates are the easiest it could ever be.

One thing I just found out is the God mode for metrics pertaining to Google Meet which allows me to see across all devices how the meetings/webinars are performing which is outstanding. Can help idenitify some issues.

@bnrstnr That I did not, I'll look back over the command tomorrow. I have one of my servers home and will be testing the BIOS settings change.

The data is from one of my Ubiquiti UniFi Video (NVR) server. So the files are not really big. So are you proposing like maybe zipping the files into one file then transferring?

@Dashrender I actually started the job off with Robocopy. :0) 500 GB got transferred after about 12 hours or so. Thats SLOW.

@black3dynamite thats why you the man, I sure will.

@bnrstnr well hate to tell you but you hit the nail on the head. It's literally 1000's of small files between 100-500k.

@black3dynamite Scott has been begging me for a while to switch over to KVM I have enough servers at home to give it a try. What are you using for host management? Last I saw, Kimichi(sp?) was hot.

Also I gave up using thin provisioning in production unless its a damn good reason to be honest. Just seem to be better off with thick and keep it moving.

it barely gets better on any host. I have roughly 10-20 vm's on each host. 3 at work are in production, 1 server at my home is being setup. Out of the 4 servers, 2 are brand new. The others aren't super old just 2.5 years old. I have my own lab and 2 servers also. Only 1 of my home servers is in use, but its running a Raid 0 for 2 10K RPM drives. All my servers have crappy speed when it pertains to windows file transfer. I do use linux also but I'm not as proficient with it so I focus right now only on Windows. My new servers are R540's one with full SSD's the other with 4 SAS 10K RPM hdd's. Only the full ssd host is in production. XCP-NG is installed on a BOSS ssd.

Just for reference, my home server is a Dell R220 and a R710. I've installed XCP-NG on everything you can imagine, still same issue. Bottleneck of Windows and I did confirm on my R710 it does use a broadcom nic.

I use to believe heh maybe there is a driver issue or OEMU but I've not seen anything like that.

Nothing has raised a flag to that being an issue. Speeds like that have been present for literally every server I've used over the years with virtualization. I have a fresh new server sitting behind me that when I finish installing XCP to it tonight I bet barely yields much of anything better ;(

Time to take a peak.