@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@notverypunny said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Counting down to a ~550km drive in the new car

Nice, to where?

PEI, going back to the folks place to get the 9yo. He spent a week and a half getting spoiled

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@notverypunny said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Counting down to a ~550km drive in the new car

Road trip!

Exactly It'll give me some time to figure out all of the tech... Just took delivery on a 2019 Mazda 3 Sport GS 6MT yesterday

Counting down to a ~550km drive in the new car

@krisleslie said in Having sluggish performance on my Xen Server VM's, looking for suggestions to boost performance:

@notverypunny See I want to get on the latest and greatest release. I just want to avoid having to nuke everything.

I feel your pain, but in the interests of being able to sleep at night you might be better off moving your stuff and starting from scratch.

In your position I would have created a new virtual disk on the raid controller and added it as a new SR, mainly because I've never considered the option of expanding an existing volume, seems risky without any real benefit that I can see right off the bat.

Getting back into the swing of things after 2 wks vacation. Not enjoying this whole shoes and socks deal, Was really getting used to wearing sandals

@DustinB3403 said in Having sluggish performance on my Xen Server VM's, looking for suggestions to boost performance:

@notverypunny said in Having sluggish performance on my Xen Server VM's, looking for suggestions to boost performance:

The SPECTRE / MELTDOWN patches absolutely killed XS performance for some of our workloads. Ensure that your BIOS and other FW is up to date and consider trying XCP-ng.

Technically those patches killed performance for everyone, not just XenServer.

Fair point. If he's limited to 7.1 for whatever reason it'll be worse, they managed to claw back some of the performance in later releases, but the last patches on 7.1 were deadly. Seems to be worse depending on the specific CPUs from what I was testing on our gear a couple of months back. Our R720s weren't quite rendered useless but it's been a huge factor for new gear for our XenDesktop VDI hosts. The newer procs in the R730s at another site didn't seem to be hit as hard, but it was still significant.

The SPECTRE / MELTDOWN patches absolutely killed XS performance for some of our workloads. Ensure that your BIOS and other FW is up to date and consider trying XCP-ng.

Can you use RADIUS? Was able to get our firewalls to authenticate VPN users against Microsoft's RADIUS implementation and validate against specific security groups in AD.

Working through The Last Ship, currently on season 3

@Obsolesce said in BitTorrent/P2P technology for distributed file transfer of large files?:

@Pete-S said in BitTorrent/P2P technology for distributed file transfer of large files?:

Is it possible to use bittorrent or other P2P technology to transfer large files between a number of servers in different locations? Not file sharing for everyone but as a means of file distribution.

What software is needed? Can the files be secured from unauthorized access?

Dfsr would be easier. Secure and distributed, mesh by default.

I would add the caveat to test first... tried DFSR to sync our primary file-servers and it just wasn't up to the task...

Also have to consider the possibility that the OP isn't running Windows (lucky bugger if that's the case)