Posts made by NashBrydges

@scottalanmiller Nope. There is a reseller in Canada that uses ubnt.ca but they make it clear there is no association with ubnt.com.

@scottalanmiller Corporate HQ is in California.

@scottalanmiller The UBNT online store is only available in the US.

@Breffni-Potter Yeah, the store is for US only but I'm Canadian and I managed to keep returning and clearing my cache and eventually let me in. I have family that lives in NY state so it's getting shipped there. And you have to register for the beta program to see the 299 price otherwise it only shows 599 on the site.

@MattSpeller I'll be sure to post.

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.

@scottalanmiller I not quite at that max but pretty close at 56TB in a single volume local storage. Running Win 2012 R2 VM on Hyper-V 2012 R2 hypervisor. So far so good (2 yrs now). No issues other than that initial backup was a real b1tch but now that it's incremental, it's all good. No other caveats that I'm aware of.

@garak0410 Motion blur is a well documented effect of TVs running at 60Hz. Whether anyone likes it or not and TVs running at 120Hz or 240Hz do suffer from less motion blur.

If you don't watch sports or play games, probably not something you'll ever really complain about but with this crowd, I'm betting you're interested in at least one of those.

Do yourself a favour and google "motion blur on led tv" and decide for yourself whether you believe it will be an issue for you or not. Don't just rely on what I or others say and make your mind up about what the truth is.

@scottalanmiller Hey Scott. When you've actually seen the visual artifacts introduced by objects on screen on a 60Hz tv then come back and tell me. Everyone who's ever owned one of these at 60Hz will tell you about it.

Btw has nothing to do with the human eye seeing at 60Hz lol. Don't remember saying that in my post.

60Hz refresh rate. That you will notice if you're a sports fan. There will be a blur that follows any fast moving object. Gets annoying real fast.

Can't find any information about its color depth. If it's 8 bit you'll really notice it in 4k where color banding is evident (because it can't reproduce enough colors to make up the gradients). Look for a 12 bit capable TV. It's HDR which is a better color reproducing engine but HDR with low bit depth isn't good at all.

I also can't find any info on whether it is edge lit or if it has multi zoned LED. The multi zoned LEDs will give you much truer blacks and you won't have that washed out effect from light bleeding.

This looks like a nice entry level TV at this size, but emphasize entry level.

I'm running the same version on Ubuntu and mostly idle CPU utilization and disk usage here.

@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.

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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.

@scottalanmiller said in CP - Dell vs HP server quotes:

@Kelly said in CP - Dell vs HP server quotes:

What is the point of duplicating the discussion here? I understand that there were some objections to the moderation approach, but since the OP is not part of the discussion, is this anything more than an academic exercise?

The OP said that he wanted and appreciated the broader information so the inability to have an open professional discussion where this originated requires either that the OP be left without the information that he feels is valid (this case) or is needed for completeness (many cases.) So in the interest of a professional level discussion (meaning as professionals we have obligations to honesty, transparency, growth, education, etc.) rather than a Q&A post (the storage and virtualization arenas on SW are not Q&A only like ServerFault) the discussion has to move elsewhere. The decision to remove the open discussion for storage and Virtualization topics on SW was confirmed with SW officially, so those topic groups have nowhere to have those discussions there, and people posting on SW think that they are posting for discussion and professional guidance, which is not allowed there. So even just in the interest of letting the OPs know that we still care and are still trying to help regardless of the mod's decisions to not allow that assistance in that community. Otherwise, it looks like those of us who want to help have abandoned that community, and it's important that posters on SW know that we are still around, still trying to help them.

And in many ways, this is better. Now SW can maintain the "here is the answer to what you asked, no need to dig deeper if you don't want your boss to see" or whatever. But if the OP wants a deep discussion into what they need, rather than what they asked, they can come here. It does make it easy for them to opt in, or opt out of the deeper discussion. Sadly, it leaves casual passers-by on SW not aware that there are potential issues, but casual readers on SW are caveat emptor as far as understanding that what they are seeing is intentionally filtered "advice."

Just wow! I knew I had seen the SW community begin to be less and less helpful but when I see moderators asking to sticking to the original question at hand, that's the most blatant example of total uselessness!

OP: "So folks, should I shoot myself in the left foot or the right foot. Which foot do you think would be best"
RESPONSE: "Sorry, I'd ask why you need to shoot yourself in the foot at all but since that wasn't really your question, I'll have to wait for someone else to recommend a foot."
MIND = Blown

Actual download speed from a real file transfer at home. Not a speed test.

@DustinB3403 said in 9 Year Old Linux Bug Found and Quickly Resolved:

@scottalanmiller said in 9 Year Old Linux Bug Found and Quickly Resolved:

Shows how well the open source system works.

Sadly it took 9 years to find the bug in the kernel. . .

Yeah not sure how 9 years would be considered quickly but, glad it was found.

@Dashrender said in Look at Cloud at Cost - what a scam :

https://i.imgur.com/4WK5vWG.png

Yeah, got the same email. Lmao And yes, I was one of those gullible people who bought in (head down in shame). While the service is crap, they appear to have a crack marketing team

So...any thoughts on best practice for Plex setup but with >30TB of content?

@donaldlandru Sorry about the radio silence, had a couple emergencies to deal with.

This is clearly my best option. Thanks for pointing that out, I was just reading up on it and will have to give it a try.

@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu Server 2 Network Interfaces whith 1 that is public + 1 that VPNs back home:

@NashBrydges said in Ubuntu Server 2 Network Interfaces whith 1 that is public + 1 that VPNs back home:

And if I'm using a single network interface, I'm assuming this will require some sort of split dns setup?

What does the interface have to do with it? DNS is not dependent on interface.

To be clear about my intended use, I want to have HTTPS traffic from the internet continue to route to the server via its public IP address. The site-to-site VPN is to allow all other traffic. If I setup a simple site-to-site VPN, then ALL traffic will route through the VPN. This is not what I want to do since I have a dyamic IP and the server needs to be reachable via the domain name. My public DNS records can't point to my dynamic IP without having to be changed whenever my IP changes.

@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu Server 2 Network Interfaces whith 1 that is public + 1 that VPNs back home:

@NashBrydges said in Ubuntu Server 2 Network Interfaces whith 1 that is public + 1 that VPNs back home:

@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu Server 2 Network Interfaces whith 1 that is public + 1 that VPNs back home:

What VPN are you planning to use?

Good question. I'm interested in recommendations since Linux is still so new. I'm essentially looking to create a site-to-site VPN between Ubuntu and Sophos UTM. And if I'm using a single network interface, I'm assuming this will require some sort of split dns setup?

So it is the Sophos that is the limiting factor here. What does Sophos support? It does not support ZeroTier, Pertino or Hamachi so those are ruled out. Does it support OpenVPN or IPSec?

Sophos does dupport IPSec.