- Ubiquiti ES48-500W
- Netgear GS724Tv3
- 2 x PowerEdge R210II running HA Sophos UTM 9
- 1 x PowerEdge R210II used for family remote backup
- 1 x PowerEdge R210II for the teenage kid to run Minecraft and some other war game for he and his friends
- PowerEdge R710 & MD1000 Veeam backup target (52TB RAID6)
- Spare MD1000
- PowerEdge R510 Hyper-V host running Plex media server (60TB RAID6)
- PowerEdge R420 Hyper-V host running a bunch of VMs including various desktop OS for testing as well as FreePBX, Sophos iView, Fastvue
- PowerEdge R610 spare server. Will probably get sold off as I haven't used it in some time.
- 2 x Dell 1000VA UPS
- Not pictured is a Synology DS2415+ as offsite backup target (80TB RAID6)

Best posts made by NashBrydges
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RE: I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs
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RE: What is your perspective on the overall tone of interactions here on ML?
@kelly said in What is your perspective on the overall tone of interactions here on ML?:
Am I being too sensitive, or can this be a somewhat hostile place at times? (Telling me that I'm wrong here is not being hostile, btw.)
Nope, not oversensitive. It's very true that this can be quite a hostile place.
Two things I try to keep in mind.
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I'm an adult. I can choose to participate in the animosity or choose to ignore the assholes. I pick and choose what is useful here and to be honest, the useful stuff far outweighs all the other bullshit I see.
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I'm a professional. I know more than some, and some know much more than I. So I don't care too much if someone is going to be an asshole. Because if I post a question and I get useful information, I'm ahead, despite any animosity or hostility. If I post a response to a question, hopefully it's useful to someone. Of course, if I post a response and it is technically incorrect, I appreciate the responses that allow me to learn. Everything else gets ignored (most days).
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Feel like a WTF moment to start your Monday? Blank password = full access to AMT
Is it just me or are we hearing about these things almost every other day?
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/05/intel_amt_remote_exploit/
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Been Wanting 10Gb Lab For A While
I've been complaining about my current Ubiquiti ES48 switch only having 2 SFP+ ports for 10G and I've had a few Intel X520-DA2 cards installed on my home lab servers for a while just waiting for a reason to make the full move to 10G. Looks like I found it.
https://store.ubnt.com/beta/unifi-switch-16-xg.html
Beta, true, and I may have a few headaches but it's for the home lab so I figured, at $299 for a 16 port 10G switch, I had to do it. Cross my fingers it doesn't turn out to be a dud.
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RE: CP - Dell vs HP server quotes
@DustinB3403 said in CP - Dell vs HP server quotes:
I've received two quotes for new server hardware - one from our local reseller and one directly from Dell. As far as I can tell, the two quotes are identical spec-wise but the local reseller is almost $12k more expensive. Here are the two quotes:
Quote from Dell:
2x Dell PowerEdge R430 servers $6,665.60- 2x Xeon E5-2630 v3 CPUs
- 2x 32 GB RDIMM
- Diskless configuration
1x Dell SCv2020 iSCSI SAN $10,303.26 - 14x Dell 1.2 TB SAS 12GB, 10k, 2.5" HD
1x Dell N2048 gigabit switch $1,693.49
TOTAL: $18,662.35
HP Quote from local reseller:
2x HP ProLiant DL360 servers $7,266.00- 2x Xeon E5-2630 v3 CPUs
- 64 GB RAM (unknown configuration)
- Diskless configuration
1x HP MSA 2040 SAN $20,932.00 - 14x HP MSA 1.2 TB 10K SAS 2.5in drives
- includes $5,850 in labor so actual price
is only $15,082
1x Cisco Catalyst 2960-X gigabit switch $2,320.00
TOTAL: $30,518.00
Difference: $11,855.65
Is there any reason why I should choose the HP solution over the Dell solution? I will be running vSphere 6 on these servers. I'm not familiar with managing either server line so either way I'll be learning new management tools. When it comes to support I think I trust my local reseller more than Dell but $12k extra is hard to stomach just for that.
[Edit: CP Code M.]
Unless that OP is restricted to 1U hosts, I would go with the quote from Xbyte for Dell 730xd with same specs as in quotes is
Multiply by 2, add Starwind's vSAN and a couple 10Gb NICs and he's done. Especially if only 2 hosts. Same(ish) price, way more reliability, better performance all around. I'd post that reco on SW but would likely get banned lol.
The one thing not mentioned is if there are other hosts connecting to the SAN.
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RE: UK To Fine Some Service Agencies if Found with Inadequate Security
This is from the same government that wants to insert backdoors into all encrypted communications? Gotta love the duplicity of that kind of bull$hit! Let me poke holes in your security but if you get breached, I'll punish you. Lol
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RE: NAKIVO Backup & Replication v7 is released with support for Hyper-V!
@Helen No one in their right mind is going to click on a shortened URL. No reason for a shortened URL here. I get you may be wanting to get your click reporting out of this but I think you've chosen the wrong community for a bitly link.
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RE: Colocation America- Ask Me Anything
- What are the right questions a first-time colocation seeker should be asking?
- How should colocation facilities be compared against one another? Pricing is obviously important but when services differ between offerings, what can be used to provide a valuable, effective comparison.
- What are the most common "gotchas" that need to be considered in colocation?
- Are there things that come up with tenants that surprise you on a regular basis? Perhaps things they should have known?
- What's the dumbest thing you've seen from a tenant?
Latest posts made by NashBrydges
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RE: Disable Windows PIN Azure AD Joined PCs
@michiganbb So you thought that necro-posting and whining about a 3yo post would be useful? Give it a try and see if that fixes your issue. You would have to do this anyway. Even if something works for one, doesn't mean there's a guarantee it works for you,. Backup the PC and try the changes. If they don't work...move on to something else.
There was NO resolution here. Client was one of those who was difficult getting payment from so we terminated the relationship before we did anything else.
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RE: HP iLO Rootkit
Appears to require admin access in order to install so not sure how prevalent this could actually be.
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HP iLO Rootkit
https://threats.amnpardaz.com/en/2021/12/28/implant-arm-ilobleed-a/
In this report, we analyze a rootkit discovered in-the-wild that hides inside the iLO, cannot be removed by firmware upgrades and can be hidden from the sight for a long time. This malware has been used by hackers for some time and we have been monitoring its performance. As far as we know, this is the first report of the discovery of real-world malware in iLO firmware in the world.
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RE: I can't even
...if I was such a Curtis I'd have had my account locked and left the scene....
Love that the name is now a common noun. Needs a Wikipedia entry.
*corrected
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RE: Working Unifi UNVR NGINX Config
@dbeato Thanks. I'll give this a try over the weekend.
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RE: Working Unifi UNVR NGINX Config
@travisdh1 I did, yes, however this was at the top of the page which prompted me to come here...
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Working Unifi UNVR NGINX Config
As the title says, I am trying to setup UNVR behind NGINX and wonder if anyone has a working config. I can get the webUI to show up but livestream or video playback is not working. My google-fu is failing me in trying to find which ports need to be part of my config.
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RE: Miscellaneous Tech News
Florida water treatment facility hack used a dormant remote access software, sheriff says
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/10/us/florida-water-poison-cyber/index.html
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RE: Miscellaneous Tech News
@warren-stanley said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Synology to enforce use of validated disks in enterprise NAS boxes.
And guess what? Only its own disks exceed 4TB
NAS spinner's drives are Toshiba tin with custom firmwareSynology has introduced its first-ever list of validated disks and won’t allow other devices into its enterprise-class NAS devices. And in a colossal coincidence, half of the disks allowed into its devices – and the only ones larger than 4TB – are Synology’s very own HAT 5300 disks that it launched last week .
https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/02/synology_enterprise_nas_drives/
Can't find any media release other than the article you pointed to. Looking at the Synology site, while it's true they have removed a ton of drives from their compatibility list, I'm not yet seeing anything suggesting they would not work without a "compatible" drive. Will have to keep an eye out.