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Hi there. Just registered, mainly because SAM suggested it, and to read his linux tutorials. Been at spiceworks a about 7 years and now i am here as well.

In Sensenbrenner's head this makes sense because he doesnt need to use the internet. At all. He tells his servants to gather all information he needs, print it out, order his food, buy shit for his family, post garbage on twitter or facebook, read his emails.

Dashrender's post got me thinking, because i really didnt know the answer, having not set any of this up. I rebooted the server Friday about noon, and it refused to POST. I then remembered this winter, about 4 days after i started here there was a power outage at the office, and that none of the servers were correctly hooked up to the ups' to shutdown gracefully.

Ok well, after some more testing Friday due to losing my pool master, i determined the bios on this mobo was bad, and i have replaced the mobo and now there seems to be no problems. I will keep tracking the Windows event log and see if the errors are gone or not over the next week or so.
This happened also when i upgraded the XenServer to 6.5sp1(a few reboots from 6.2). I realized that it kept getting stuck most of the time during post, and i would have to hold down power button til it turned off, then turn it back on, and normally it would boot correctly. The errors i were getting were quite strange, and some online resolutions from citrix or 'the internet' hinted at interrupt remapping being the issue for certain intel chipset. But i didnt have the affected chipset.

Still mystified about XenServer using the broadcom network drivers with Intel nics though. I will dig into this more later on; just glad to have 2 hosts again now instead of 1.

I have no context for fully understanding this, but good luck! Youre very good at your job so it should be no problem finding one.

Swimming in the ocean is fun. Much more fun:risk ratio than the very remote danger of getting eaten by a shark. When i lived in Orlando i used to drive out to the public beaches just outside Canaveral multiple times a week. Sometimes even got to watch rockets take off from about 2 miles away.

That whole server uses less power than my 4930k processor does while idle.

If you goto the Storage in your Xencenter (i assume yorue using xencenter to look at things) Go to the SR with trouble, and look at the Storage tab for that SR. In the disks section you may see those 2 'orphaned' vdi, as well as the real one.
Is that the case? are they listed in Xencenter>SR>Storage?

Not a big fan of watching videos, I think this is only the 2nd or 3rd ive watched of @scottalanmiller , but this one is spot on for online dating and job searching. Cheers!

Steam on Linux gets me about 1/3 of my 300 games library.
Luckily many of those are crpgs. Shadowrun, pillars of eternity, Divinity all work. Rocket League is even just about to get released on steam for Linux. When that happens I might not be booting Windows for awhile.

Seems lyke yt could be good, myght need to get one for a superworkstatyon someday.

In XenCenter, if your Xenserver is up to date with all hotfixes, you can use the performance tab in XC on the XS host to measure disk performance (read/write/total iops, queue length for each SR or vd) and you should get accurate results. If you dont have the hotfixes installed, you prob will not get accurate results.

In general longer queue lengths mean the disk cant keep up with what it is being asked to do.
You can also query performance from the cli using iostat.

That is a lot of stuff, but I would only be concerned with the routing stuff. The rest is Generalist things i do all the time. But i know jack about OSPF, BGP routing and configuring things like that. Also looks like all their gear is Cisco, including that nightmare UCS.

@thwr
I have Arma2 with all dlc, but havent got 3 yet. my buddy keeps telling me to.

It is an isp mitm attack.
"We don't know if the ISPs are in cooperation with the malware distributors or whether the ISPs' infrastructure has been hijacked."
Either option is very bad.

Yes, i think i am going home early today, for real this time. Last night i read more about icmp, there is really a lot going on with that old protocol. 99.99% of the time you can get your troubleshooting done with Reply and Unreachable. but there is much more.

Trying not to condescend to users is a tough one; sometimes I am thinking "Youve been using a gd computer for 20 years, 8 hours a day, at least, and you dont know how to do this?" but of course one cant say that.

Its 88 degrees in winter in texas? f that ish.

@dashrender It is not HP stuff. It belongs to me or the company for whom i work.

Making a new topic, rather than add on to one started today.
One thing i find lacking in XS is teh abillity to give users access to start/stop a vm without giving them that access to the entire pool. So far this does not seem possible in XS as it is in VmWare(never used HyperV). Am i right about this? I would really like to move some esxifree vms to XS, but to do that i would need this ability. I suppose i could make a 'pool of 1' and do it that way.

Yes i also hate Cisco. the sub fees, the expense. The people that require it to connect to their networks (vzw, others). Everything about them is terrible compared to just about everything else in most situations.