Posts made by Obsolesce

Let's see what everyone's biggest Hypervisor host is running... VMWare, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, KVM, Xen... whatever!

I'll start...

It's not even sweating!

Don't these larger home labs send the electricity bill through the roof?

@art_of_shred said in Remote office - Basic Wireless Needs:

https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-pro/

I'm pretty sure these are the ones that will run on standard POE voltage and don't require the proprietary POE switch (or injectors).

I've run with these and they are excellent. Definitely the way to go.

@scottalanmiller said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@Tim_G said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@scottalanmiller said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@JessWaterfordTech said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@JaredBusch Love this!!! I just got engaged to a Japanese Hawaiian man. His family is mainly Japanese speaking so I would like to learn and understand better.

I believe a picture like this is in my future since his mother has been hinting at it.

I married an Italian girl and here I am living in Italy

Hmm, for some reason I thought you were living on the east coast of the U.S. That explains your Italian progress on Duolingo.

Well, I moved here yesterday, lol. But I've not lived on the US East Coast since 2014. I've been primarily in Europe for over two years and was briefly in the US this summer due to family medical issues and then the holidays.

That makes sense now. Congratulations on escaping! I'm sure you'll enjoy Italy! I've never been there but would love to visit some time.

@scottalanmiller said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@JessWaterfordTech said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@JaredBusch Love this!!! I just got engaged to a Japanese Hawaiian man. His family is mainly Japanese speaking so I would like to learn and understand better.

I believe a picture like this is in my future since his mother has been hinting at it.

I married an Italian girl and here I am living in Italy

Hmm, for some reason I thought you were living on the east coast of the U.S. That explains your Italian progress on Duolingo.

@JaredBusch said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

This entire thread and the linked source material are just stupid.

The medium is not the issue. The issue is the stupid people.

Move along. Nothing to see here.

Hah! That's one good way to put it!

I haven't heard of it until a week or so ago either on here or SW.

Are there any reasons not to use it on your personal site? I'm thinking about it, but Hostgator still wants to charge a $10 fee to use your own SSL cert instead of buying it through them. So I figure if I gotta pay money anyways...

Just wondering if anyone has any reasons? Otherwise, all looks superb from what I can tell, and I'll get one for myself.

@JaredBusch said in Household reminders and tracking:

What does everyone use for household reminders and tracking of things such as bills and the trash holiday schedules, and such?

Currently our stuff is fractured over devices and methods. The wife and I and looking at a centralization point for this.

A calendar is simple, but does not lend itself to listing bill amounts. It is easy to make a recurring event for say the cellular, electric, or gas bill. But then what do we do about the amount? As that can vary from month to month.

We really like Mint (mint.com) for the financials, our Outlook.com calendars and Cortana for scheduling/planning/appointments/etc, and also we have a large dry-erase white-board hanging on the wall. 99% of all reoccurring bills are paid automagically, but Mint still alerts in advance which is always nice.

P.S. Our daughter likes the white-board too!

@scottalanmiller said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@Tim_G said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

I actually deleted my Facebook account a long time ago...

But then I couldn't log in to some websites and services that I had used Facebook login for, so I had to re-enable it just for that reason!!!

Also, as some others mentioned, my wife and I are completely separated from our families. Hers, across the ocean, mine, on the other side of the country. So Facebook helps staying close to them, sharing pictures, chatting, etc. Not as much for me, as I'd rather text, Skype, or call.

But a world without Facebook, I believe, would be a better world... and would make people better.

FB just connects people. So it's a bit like saying that a world without people would be better.

Yes, at it's core, it's what it was originally designed to do. I'm sure there are other examples of things that were designed for good and are at their core good, but aren't used that way.

Now, that is about 1% of what it does. The other 99% is all bad, which includes bad habits of the people using it, the advertising abuse, the drama that otherwise would not occur, the list goes on and on in addition with what was already said in many posts above. It's like a chain reaction.

...I don't know anything about the platform your company provides, but just saying.

@DustinB3403 said in Ripping the bandaid off of the Sunk Cost Fallacy Issue:

@Tim_G feels a lot like it.... what kills me about this is the employee uses every possible excuse of "well this changed" or "they used it".

Which people and the systems are going to change, that can't be the reasoning for it. The platform will update. We can't control that, the platform provider does.

Another point, is that what about when your own platform changes? Which of the two solutions are more likely to continue working through your platform change? Surely not the expensive one that barely works as it is and can't support it's own weight and changes.

Wow. Reminds me of this:

I actually deleted my Facebook account a long time ago...

But then I couldn't log in to some websites and services that I had used Facebook login for, so I had to re-enable it just for that reason!!!

Also, as some others mentioned, my wife and I are completely separated from our families. Hers, across the ocean, mine, on the other side of the country. So Facebook helps staying close to them, sharing pictures, chatting, etc. Not as much for me, as I'd rather text, Skype, or call.

But a world without Facebook, I believe, would be a better world... and would make people better.

@JaredBusch said in Hyper-V Guest - Unidentified Network:

Disabling VMQ is much simpler and should always be disabled with Broadcom NICs.

Get-NetAdapterVmq | Disable-NetAdapterVmq 

https://mangolassi.it/topic/8358/i-hate-vmq

Generally, you DO want to have VMQ enabled on your VM's Network Adapter, under Hardware Acceleration: "Enable virtual machine queue", and enabled on the HOST's network adapter. VMQ is not the issue. With VMQ enabled, you get even better performance (well, at least with 10gb speeds... probably not noticeable with 1gb). With VMQ disabled, the network load is on the Hosts CPU. VMQ off-loads it to the NIC, where it should be.

Where the problem lies, is with a select number of Broadcom NICs... specifically with the 57xx based chipsets. If you have one of the effected NICs, you should update the drivers, as it has now been resolved. If you can't update, then disable VMQ.

Here's the latest official Microsoft article regarding it:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2986895

Is it a Broadcom NIC? Is the firmware up to date? There are issues that are now resolved with Broadcom NICs if you update the firmware, if not, (on the host) you'll need to go in to the advanced properties of the NIC and disable Virtual Machine Queues:

Set-NetAdapterAdvancedProperty NIC1 -DisplayName “Virtual Machine Queues” -DisplayValue Disabled
Set-NetAdapterAdvancedProperty NIC2 -DisplayName “Virtual Machine Queues” -DisplayValue Disabled
Set-NetAdapterAdvancedProperty NIC3 -DisplayName “Virtual Machine Queues” -DisplayValue Disabled
Set-NetAdapterAdvancedProperty NIC4 -DisplayName “Virtual Machine Queues” -DisplayValue Disabled

If the above is all good or doesn't apply to you, have you:

1. Set up the 3-NIC team FIRST
2. Assign a static IP to the team
3. Create a vSwitch in Hyper-V Manager, select the team NIC, UN-CHECK "Allow management operating system to share this network adapter".
4. Assign above vSwitch (in #3 above) as the "Virtual Switch:" in your virtual machine's settings. You can reassign a VM's vNIC while it's running.

@Tim_G Ha, I completely missed these two lines:

"The host server is fine and has full connectivity.
These VMs are setup with static IPs and this particular LAN does not have a DHCP server."

Ignore my above post.

Would you happen to have your DHCP server on that same HOST? Is the HOST set to a static or dynamic ip?

@JaredBusch said in Data Backup solution for Linux servers:

You are implying multiple varying pieces of software and licensing schemes.

Yes, there are multiple (and too many) varying pieces of software and licensing schemes needed in a mixed environment when using Veeam.

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Veeam has exactly 2 products that we are concerned about here.

1. Veeam B&R for the Hypervisor
2. VEB for individual systems.

I wasn't referring to this specific case when mentioning Veeam's purpose. But here are what typical mixed environments need:

1. Veeam B&R for Hypervisors
2. VEB for individual systems (NOT SERVERS (and if you do, you shouldn't))
3. Veeam Agent for Linux
4. Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

For comparison, here's what you'd need with Unitrends:

1. Unitrends backup software (for all servers)

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Veeam also has exactly 2 licensing modes that matter.

1. Free
   1. B&R Free is limited in functionality to only full backups, but does work perfectly.
   2. VEB is free always
2. Purchased
   1. B&R Purchased gives you a lot of good options, but they are only for B&R and his non virtualized systems gain little benefit from this.

You will need 4 licensing models for a typical mixed environment:

1. Free - VEB (because a lot of people do tend to use it with servers, although that's not what it was designed for, and you shouldn't)
2. Paid - B&R (for hypervisors - enterprises typically need this in a standard mixed environment)
3. Paid - Veeam Agent for Linux (needed for physical Linux servers that are not hypervisors)
4. Paid - Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows (needed for physical windows servers that are not hypervisors)

For comparison, here's the licensing you'd need with Unitrends:

1. Free - Unitrends Backup (if you have less than 1 TB of data)
2. Paid - Unitrends Backup (if you have more than 1 TB of data)

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You have made multiple posts about Unitrends. Unitrends is a great product, but your bias is showing. Other solutions exist and depending on the specific details, may be or worse.

I'm not showing bias. I was presenting a possible solution based on assumptions that were missing from the OP's original post. That, if he did have a mixed environment, Unitrends comes to mind first as (one of many) good solutions worth considering. I only mentioned the Veeam thing because that seems to be the knee-jerk reaction when back up or replication is mentioned, typically without any thought going into it. I was just trying to prevent that.

Then the OP mentioned he was just looking for open sources backup for only his Linux machines. That flushes Unitrends down the toilet, where I then mentioned some backup software more specific to his needs.

@JaredBusch said in Data Backup solution for Linux servers:

@Tim_G said in Data Backup solution for Linux servers:

If you have a mix of a lot of servers, or even just a lot of physical servers, I prefer Unitrends over Veeam.

I did not see in your post if anything is physical or virtual, but...

Veeam was designed from the ground up for Virtualized environments (hypervisors and virtual machines). Due to this, you need multiple Veeam products and licenses to cover physical machines in a mixed environment, separate products for Windows physical machines, and another Linux physical machines.

Unitrends does it all from a single point, and supports 200+ OS/Applications/Hypervisors.

This is incorrect information. Veeam Backup and Recovery is for Hypervisors. Veeam Endopint Backup is for individual systems. VEB is also free.

What do you mean my information was incorrect? You just confirmed everything I said...

@sreekumarpg said in Data Backup solution for Linux servers:

@dafyre said in Data Backup solution for Linux servers:

Veeam for Linux agent yet?
Not yet as am looking for a file level backup solution and also if possible an opensource

Amanda?
Bacula?
FWBackups?