Posts made by openit

@Dashrender Not technically, but mentally maybe I prefer to be local than cloud.

@Danp said in Free bare metal virtualization, HyperV free or VMware ESXi 6 free or else ?:

@openit According to the docs here, the correct username / password combination is now xoa/xoa.

This worked, logged in just now

@Dashrender said in Free bare metal virtualization, HyperV free or VMware ESXi 6 free or else ?:

@Danp said in Free bare metal virtualization, HyperV free or VMware ESXi 6 free or else ?:

@openit said in Free bare metal virtualization, HyperV free or VMware ESXi 6 free or else ?:

@openit I imported XOA successfully.

You can trial XOA. If you want to use all of it's features, you will need to either purchase a license or build from source.

To reiterate this, you can use XOA during the trial period, then buy a license or you can build a new VM and then install XO using Dustin's script into that VM. The XO guys don't provide an importable VM template for the free version.

I see.

How can I prepare XO free one ? (any article)

Wwhat vm I need to build ? are you saying to setup some CentOS VM on XS7 and setup XO ?
and how about script (from where I can get it) ?

@Dashrender said in Free bare metal virtualization, HyperV free or VMware ESXi 6 free or else ?:

@openit said in Free bare metal virtualization, HyperV free or VMware ESXi 6 free or else ?:

@openit I imported XOA successfully. And trying to login to Console from XenCenter, but not sure what is the root password ? Googled for it and found, root/root or root/xoa but those are not working, do you have any idea ?

FYI, XOA is not free. This is the paid version. You'll have to install a Linux VM, then install the XO files into that to get a free version of XO running.

Also about network adapter for XenServer VM, how can we make it to get ip from real dhcp server, as it is nested VM ( ESXi -> XenServer7 (as VM) -> XOA) , so I want this XOA to get ip from dhcp ip to access and test it how it works before I move ?

If your XS7 install is getting a DHCP address from the real network, then VMs within XS7 should also be able to get DHCP from the same source.

Yes, it got ip from DHCP server from real network. Somethings seems wrong with network things ...

@Danp said in Free bare metal virtualization, HyperV free or VMware ESXi 6 free or else ?:

@openit said in Free bare metal virtualization, HyperV free or VMware ESXi 6 free or else ?:

@openit I imported XOA successfully.

You can trial XOA. If you want to use all of it's features, you will need to either purchase a license or build from source.

As I remember I downloaded free version, which is coming with Basic features.

Is that mean, I going to get full features for 30 days and free one after that ?

or

Downloaded wrong one (paid) instead of free ?

@openit said in Free bare metal virtualization, HyperV free or VMware ESXi 6 free or else ?:

@Danp said in Free bare metal virtualization, HyperV free or VMware ESXi 6 free or else ?:

@openit https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/faq

XO default credentials

After its first start, XO creates automatically one admin account. The account name is [email protected] and the password is admin.

I am talking about accessing from Console on XenCenter not from Web.

Even I tried root/root, root/xoa and the one you mentioned, but no luck.

@Danp said in Free bare metal virtualization, HyperV free or VMware ESXi 6 free or else ?:

@openit https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/faq

XO default credentials

After its first start, XO creates automatically one admin account. The account name is [email protected] and the password is admin.

I am talking about accessing from Console on XenCenter not from Web.

Even I tried root/root, root/xoa and the one you mentioned, but no luck.

@openit I imported XOA successfully. And trying to login to Console from XenCenter, but not sure what is the root password ? Googled for it and found, root/root or root/xoa but those are not working, do you have any idea ?

Also about network adapter for XenServer VM, how can we make it to get ip from real dhcp server, as it is nested VM ( ESXi -> XenServer7 (as VM) -> XOA) , so I want this XOA to get ip from dhcp ip to access and test it how it works before I move ?

@Danp said in Free bare metal virtualization, HyperV free or VMware ESXi 6 free or else ?:

@openit said in Free bare metal virtualization, HyperV free or VMware ESXi 6 free or else ?:

How about physical RAID with XenServer 7, no issues/complex I guess ?

No issues as long as your hardware is on the HCL.

Okay, I will check in that list.

@Mike-Davis said in Moving to Domain from Workgroup. How to be prepared ?:

Most of your applications will be just fine. I have only had problems with a few applications that had some issues with permissions on registry keys, but that was probably like 1 out of 200 apps.

Okay, hope to move fine.

@Mike-Davis said in Moving to Domain from Workgroup. How to be prepared ?:

You didn't mention the client OS, except for that some have home versions. Depending on what OS that is, there are ways to move their profile from local to domain. There is also the Microsoft easy transfer wizard that will let you back up and copy profiles from one account to another. This does more than a simple copy of the my documents folder, etc, because it also backs up some of the registry keys that hold application settings.

All are Windows, with combination of 7/8/8.1/10.

Noted about easy transfer wizard, I will check it.

@Mike-Davis said in Moving to Domain from Workgroup. How to be prepared ?:

How many computers total are you joining to the domain? You might want to have someone help you at the onset to line things up properly before you start joining computers. Or you can just start joining a few a week like you suggested and learn as you go. As long as your users are patient with you, that approach works too.

Around 100. Yeah, got few fellows to help and yes, I prefer to few people every week to make things easier.

But the issue will be with end-user, about Enabling Password (as few users do have password till now) and entering password every time pc got locked due to inactivity.

@scottalanmiller said in Moving to Domain from Workgroup. How to be prepared ?:

@openit said in Moving to Domain from Workgroup. How to be prepared ?:

2. Of course, I do not want to use main administrator account at client PCs while setting up applications, or any admin tasks, so what kind of account should I create (limited) ?

Every admin should have their own admin account that they use, not shared accounts.

Okay not shared accounts. Whether every IT person should have admin account with full rights ? isn't there any limited permission group for setting up applications etc. ?

@scottalanmiller said in Moving to Domain from Workgroup. How to be prepared ?:

@openit said in Moving to Domain from Workgroup. How to be prepared ?:

1. I do not have hands-on experience with Domain network, and I learned AD things more than 3 years ago, so not much good at anything related to AD DC and GPOs. Any advise here ?

Start just with AD authentication, keep it simple. No need to use GP until you are ready. When you are, do it just a little at a time.

Okay, noted.

@brianlittlejohn said in Moving to Domain from Workgroup. How to be prepared ?:

Look at Microsoft Virtual Academy:

https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/training-courses/understanding-active-directory-8233?l=mD2wPRJy_8204984382

Yeah, it is in my list, thank you.

Hi all,

Currently our network is in Workgroup, while we already have Windows Server with DC, that's due to some computers are with Home Edition.

Decided to move the Pro Version computers and buy Pro versions which are with Home Edition.

So my main concern is about getting ready before we move.

1. Server is ready.
2. Got virtual setup to test for any requirements.
3. Will join to domain only few PCs weekly to make sure all are not affected at the same time.

My queries:

1. I do not have hands-on experience with Domain network, and I learned AD things more than 3 years ago, so not much good at anything related to AD DC and GPOs. Any advise here ?
2. Of course, I do not want to use main administrator account at client PCs while setting up applications, or any admin tasks, so what kind of account should I create (limited) ?
3. What should I keep in my mind or checklist as a newbie for Domain network ?
4. I guess, I need to copy all desktop, downloads, docs, pics for user from local account to new Domain account (local, not roaming) ?
5. How about applications ? I guess, all applications available for local account will be available for new domain account, but just need to import any custom setting for any application ?

Looking forward for suggestions !!

@openit I may go with PDQ Deploy, specifically because my concern is about On-premises, whereas Comodo is only cloud.

@StrongBad said in Comodo One Free-Feedback, specially abt Patch Management vs PDQ Deploy Free.:

Does Comodo patch applications?

Yup.

@scottalanmiller said in Free bare metal virtualization, HyperV free or VMware ESXi 6 free or else ?:

@Dashrender said in Free bare metal virtualization, HyperV free or VMware ESXi 6 free or else ?:

I agree. If you can admin a Windows server, you can probably admin a Hyper-v. But unless you know Linux, you'll have a hard time with this.

You should not need to do that. That's what I'm talking about. XenServer under normal circumstances should be run completely without going to the command line. XenServer doesn't even require you to know Linux at all - you install as designed, then admin from a GUI. If you try to do things outside of the supported activities, of course it is hard.

Hyper-V is very hard and super confusing even for experienced Windows admins. I've seen few things so much cause Windows admins to get lost. If anything, I'd say that knowing Windows seems to make Hyper-V harder from what I've seen on SW. Linux admins don't have issues with it, but Windows Admins almost always do. Hyper-V isn't bad if you know extensive Windows administration the Microsoft way with remote tools and command line commands and you *have an existing Windows support infrastructure. Whereas XenServer is platform agnostic and uses a simple web GUI (XO) or Windows client (XC.) Both of which are missing from Hyper-V.

I agree that, XenCenter seems bit easier than Hyper-V Manager even, because no need to nail into XenServer to configure unlike Hyper-V Manager (where you will nail into CMD to allow admin computer, configure firewall etc.)

Good part for me with XenServer is, I understand it is built on CentOS, which I am bit familiar, just in case if require to nail into. But of course, once I setup the XenServer, only thing I may do is setting up Static IP and that's it, and play on XenCenter but not directly on XenServer.

@scottalanmiller said in Free bare metal virtualization, HyperV free or VMware ESXi 6 free or else ?:

@thwr said in Free bare metal virtualization, HyperV free or VMware ESXi 6 free or else ?:

Wouldn't subscribe this. We got quite a few threads here with users struggling with XS for some reason or another. But Hyper-V is also complex enough on its own

But none doing a simple install. All doing something advanced, abnormal or officially unsupported. Using XS as it is meant to be used is super simple. If you want to do SD card installs (sadly we had to learn that that was too hard), software RAID and other outside of the standard box installs, it gets hard. Hyper-V is hard and confusing even for "by the book" installs. XenServer's software RAID is hard, for example, but on ESXi it is impossible (impossible is infinitely hard.) So you can't compare in that way. And Hyper-V's software RAID is unsafe, so essentially impossibly hard.

How about physical RAID with XenServer 7, no issues/complex I guess ?