BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
That is all.

Good stuff. Now I have to rethink the system I'm saving for

Thanks everyone for your input.

I'll grab the the appliance and have a good look at it.
Now I can get on to planning the upgrade

Good to hear about good customer service. Thanks for sharing

All to often we tend to forget about the good service and focus on the bad service.

Thanks everyone, especially @JaredBusch. I can't thank you enough

I'm still coming to terms with the fact that you spooled up a testing ground for me to tinker with!
Totally sold on the WordPress platform.

@thecreativeone91 said:

I can see virtual desktops confusing the heck out of end users. Probally will generate many helpdesk calls like; My application/windows got lost, or closed itself. Fix It. I need it etc..

Turn off multi-Desktops by default via GPO

G'Day all,

The time has come to replace one of my ESXi hosts.
Currently, I'm using ESXi 5.1 (with vSphere 5.1) and since I have to install a new host from scratch, would it be worth upgrading everything to 5.5?
 

1. Are there any major benefits to the upgrade?
2. I read somewhere about vCenter as an Appliance being available.
   2.a Thoughts?
   2.b Any extras required? e.g. a separate SQL box
3. How difficult is it to upgrade?
   3.a Can it be done inplace with out dataloss?
   The last time I upgraded, I moved all VMs off the host, upgraded and returned the VMs which I feel may have been unnecessary.

I'm using Essentials Plus licensing.

G'Day Mangoites,

I've been considering setting up a blog as a dumping ground for scripts and solutions that I find for various things.

What do you use?
Do any of the multitudes of options support code tags to format code readably?
 
 
At this point, I don't really care about traffic to it and I'm not in a position to pay for hosting or register a domain.

Very interesting. I like those additions a lot.
Makes it quite tempting to review my current handset.

As always, two things stand in the way of me joining team iOS:

1. All iOS devices are still well out of my price range.
2. I'm not a fan of iTunes or the App Store set up.

Looks like a mix of Windows 7, 8 and Linux.

I hope they rename it in Australia to Windows Mongrel.

@ajstringham said:

@scottalanmiller said:

InfoWorld: Windows 9 A New Hope

Hopefully it's better than Windows 8 was. It can't be much worse...

8 was ok but should have been only ever a beta. 8.1 should have been the retail release of 8.
8.1 is orders of magnitude better for non-touch screen users.

I can just see all the app store comments flooding into various apps:
1 Star - Battery Eater

New meaning to "Fire it up"...

Since A.J. is putting the kibosh on everything. I think he needs to be evicted from the island.

The creators and curators can be Farmers and the rest can be Fruitarians.

@JaredBusch said:

@nadnerB Your response did not really clear up my question.

What I want to know is where is Veeam installed. How are people using it. Because it cannot reliably do its job if it is in a VM on the server that craps out.

Does everyone run it on some random box? If so what kind of specs? Does the backup traffic actually pass through the box running the Veeam software? If so, then it needs to have as much network as the backup target and source.

Right. My apologies.
I run it on a separate VM inside my vSphere environment.
I don't see it as an issue if it goes toes up as I have regular backups of the veeam config also going to NAS boxes in two separate buildings.

So in a nut shell... vSphere --> ESXi host --> Veeam Server

My Specs:
CPU: 2 Sockets with 2 Cores (4 in total)
RAM: 8GB
HDD: 60GB (thin provisioned)
OS: Server 2012 R2

The traffic passes through the backup proxy. This can be a separate server OR the same server.
I have opted for the all-in-one approach.
Here is my thread regarding my initial Veeam setup queries: http://mangolassi.it/topic/1221/veeam-installation/2

@JaredBusch said:

What I want to know is where is Veeam installed. How are people using it. Because it cannot reliably do its job if it is in a VM on the server that craps out.

Respectfully, Isn't the same true for a bare-metal installation?

Hopefully, I've been more helpful this time

@Dashrender said:

(they don't like the internet)

Sounds like a religious group I used to work for (before my IT days)

@JaredBusch said:

@nadnerB You install Veeam itself on the Synology?

Nope, the NAS is just a CIFS/NFS network target
Veeam server --> \ <NAS IP><backup folder>
(ML doesn't like double slashes so I added a space)

oops, typo.

@nadnerB said:

I propose they rebrand to NTGworks

FTFM (Fixed That For Myself)
Since you lot are doing the lions share of the work over there.