@StorageNinja said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@pmoncho said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
I have not seen any M.2 on dell servers yet
All 14G servers AFAIK support adding in a "BOSS" card that has 2 M.2 slots.
https://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/Dell-PowerEdge-Boot-Optimized-Storage-Solution.pdf
My bad. Forgot about those. It is an additional card though and that is the stinky part.
@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
Wil Wheaton gave a perfect explanation of how to separate problematic artists from their art
In an era of debates over cancel culture and increased accountability for people with horrendous views and behaviors, the question of art vs. artist is a tricky one. When you find out an actor whose work you enjoy is blatantly racist and anti-semitic in real life, does that realization ruin every movie they've been a part of? What about an author who has expressed harmful opinions about a marginalized group? What about a smart, witty comedian who turns out to be a serial sexual assaulter? Where do you draw the line between a creator and their creation
I feel similar to Wil Wheaton. I have a distaste for more than a few individuals in Hollywood but movies such as "Casino," "The Godfather II" and many others will continually be in my re-watch list for the unseeable future.
@G-I-Jones said in Exchange 2016 Install Issue:
@DustinB3403 said in Exchange 2016 Install Issue:
@G-I-Jones said in Exchange 2016 Install Issue:
Since I've got you all here. What are your thoughts on Exchange server built in Esxi? I was told be someone with more experience than me recently that this is a bad idea, but wasn't given much insight into why or how.
The rule of thumb is to virtualize everything, and unless you have a really very good reason
I thought that to be the case. Thanks for that. Just got that PERC H730P installed. I'm going to try again with a VM I think.
I second @DustinB3403 - virtualize 99.999% of everything except for something super special or requires direct access to hardware (USB keys, specific internal PCI cards, etc.)
Good luck with the new PERC. You shouldn't see any issues. I've been messing with my R440 all runs fantastic (SMB and NFS shares).
Also, just in case as I don't remember at the moment, make sure to use the Dell OEM ESXi 6.7 U2 or U3 iso.
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Oh - you're using their whiteboard to write on... what's that like compared to writing on paper?
It's exactly like writing on paper. I have the RocketBook Core, which is basically 15 whiteboards in a smallish spiral bound notebook.
These are pretty sweet. Thinking about getting one. I go through a crap ton of Sticky notes. This is potentially a money saver.
What I really need is one as a magnetic grocery list to put on the fridge. Big time handy for us at home.
@IRJ said in Bash script to manage file directory by size:
I am housekeeping some directories by running a script to delete everything older than X days.
find /var/backups/app1* -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;That seems to be working ok, but size is varying among servers. I would rather delete oldest files once I threshold is met.
Example: I have a hard limit of
5GBthat I cannot exceed. After keeping 30 days worth of files on some servers I am only using 500MB and others 3GB. I would rather keep more days and just not exceed5GBso I can use all available space.So I am thinking something like this :
If directory exceeds 4GB, then delete the 5 oldest days of logs
You can use du -h to get directory usage and then eval it.
Edit: I believe du -hs will give you a summarized in human readable form
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Oh - you're using their whiteboard to write on... what's that like compared to writing on paper?
It's exactly like writing on paper. I have the RocketBook Core, which is basically 15 whiteboards in a smallish spiral bound notebook.
These are pretty sweet. Thinking about getting one. I go through a crap ton of Sticky notes. This is potentially a money saver.
What I really need is one as a magnetic grocery list to put on the fridge. Big time handy for us at home.
Yeah I use a ton of sticky notes too.. but the cost of this setup would still be years if not decades to over come.
I am like you with tons of notepads lying around everywhere and that drives me nuts. I think the cost will actually pay for itself after about 1.5 years (if it lasts that long). $40 doesn't go that far in the way of sticky notes and legal pads if I use them at work, home, and car.
@dave247 said in Looking to create a 20TB RAID5 volume with SSD drives in an R720:
@DustinB3403 said in Looking to create a 20TB RAID5 volume with SSD drives in an R720:
In terms of hardware vendors Xbyte is great and I would absolutely look at them for your chassis and or storage.
If you can't afford the enterprise storage you could look at the business class Samsung SSDs which'll likely come in under the dell branded drives etc.
Yeah I always look at xbyte if I can, I just don't know 100% if it really matters what drive I buy for what server - and what I mean by that is on xbyte if I select my server model (R720) for hard drives, there seems to be a limited selection and not very many high capacity SSDs. However, if I just search xbyte for "4TB or 3.4TB SSD", I come up with a lot of results.
You may want to shoot an email or call your Xbyte contact. I noticed that you can get different drives when ordering a R720 server vs their "Parts and Accessories" section.
If you only need 5000-15000 IOP's per drive and write less than 3.8 TB per day, then the 3.84TB RI 12GB SAS PM1633a should be more than enough for 5+ years.
@Dashrender said in 3rd party spam filter solution pricing:
@pmoncho said in 3rd party spam filter solution pricing:
@JaredBusch said in 3rd party spam filter solution pricing:
I need some generic pricing for spam filtering solutions. Assuming an on-premises exchange server.
I used to use Postini at $1/user/month, but they are long gone.
What other solutions do you all know about and at what price point?
I use Barracuda Email Security Service.
I don't have the exact pricing at the moment but it was like $1.2-$1.5 per user. If you do the three years you get roughly a 15% discount. I added the ATP on top so all attachments are pre-scanned.
The only issue is, I believe they have a 50 user minimum. I do like that they include encrypted email in the pricing.
Edit: - Encrypted email works like Zix mail.
That price seems impossible if it includes Zix. The last time I priced Zix it was $4/u/m just for Zix and nothing else - of course, bundles can do anything they want.
It works like Zix. Barracuda stores the email and then sends out email to recipient who creates an account on barracuda to read the email. That was all I meant.
It won't have many of the features but for basic encrypted email, it has worked perfectly for us.
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
We're relaxing and trying to recover after a day spent a Cedar Point. Back in the hotel and looked at my step counter, 18093. A normal day is ~5600.
Did you get hit by any of the storms yesterday?
Around 3:45 PM. We got into the park at 9:00 AM, so we still had a long day riding rides and roller coasters. Very few lines this time of year as it's the first week Cedar Point is actually open during the week.
Excellent. Got in before the storm! We bought summer passes last year when they were having a nice fire sale.
If you haven't been, Halloweekends is pretty sweet. It is my favorite time to go.
Interesting. I have had one 2012R2 and two 2019 DC's for a year now and have not had this issue at all. Will definitely keep an eye out for it now.
Since others here have seen it, what immediate resolution have others used to temporarily fix it?
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
We're relaxing and trying to recover after a day spent a Cedar Point. Back in the hotel and looked at my step counter, 18093. A normal day is ~5600.
Did you get hit by any of the storms yesterday?
Around 3:45 PM. We got into the park at 9:00 AM, so we still had a long day riding rides and roller coasters. Very few lines this time of year as it's the first week Cedar Point is actually open during the week.
Wow,
I haven't been there since I was in high school. I would like to get there again.
You definitely should. Halloweekends is a great time to go if it is still warm with no rain.
Halloweekends when we went was so busy as to make it not worth the trip (paying for the expensive fastpass would've helped, but we didn't know ahead of time).
We're fastpass fans. My oldest daughter just responded, nope. I'm working her over with my son-in-law's help. This is going to be fun.
Yeah, fastpass is a must if you're going when there are any crowds at all. We were just walking on most of the rides and coasters.
FastPass is dead - Genie Plus is the new thing, and it sucks in comparison, and it's not free.
I believe you are thinking of Disney. I chose no in March as I didn't think I would enjoy paying upwards of $15 per ride at a specific time or $20 per day. On vacation, my time is worth less than $15 per hour so I just picked specific rides to wait for and blew off the rest.
Cedar Point still has their Fast Pass. I just noticed that they have a Fast Pass Plus. Also the original Fast Pass no longer includes 4 of the top rides. Could have been there a while but I just noticed this year.
@wrx7m said in Group Policy - HKCU Registry Update (via GPP) For All Users, Only on RDP Server:
@pmoncho said in Group Policy - HKCU Registry Update (via GPP) For All Users, Only on RDP Server:
@wrx7m said in Group Policy - HKCU Registry Update (via GPP) For All Users, Only on RDP Server:
Still in the same boat. It only applies the setting when linked to the OU of the user and have a user or group specified in the security filtering, but it applies it to all systems, not just the RDS server.
Question, if you want to target users why is your item-level target a computer name. Why not a Security Group with specific users?
As a side note, normally, if I use loopback processing for specific settings, I put those servers in their own OU so as not to effect all servers.
I want to apply it only to users logging into a specific computer. In this case, it is RD00.
I would scrap the item level targeting and just put the RD00 in a new sub-OU of your servers OU and link the GPO their. Then you have no worries about it hitting other systems. Other than this, I don't have a clue what would be stopping it.
To me it means, someone has to fill the typical "Leave It To Beaver" roles to create order and peace.
Down to the basics, the roles are no different than Caveman. The nurturing, the hunter/gatherer, Educator/Wisdom, and disciplinarian roles. While possible, it is very difficult for one person to perform all these roles at the same capacity as two for their entire life.
In the words of Dennis Miller, "Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong."
@notverypunny said in Bandwidth Issues:
@Dashrender said in Bandwidth Issues:
Fortigate 101E (Tech was onsite yesterday and tested direct with their DEMARC, same results)
Do you have a bunch of services turned on? Based on the spec sheet it looks like basic throughput is fine with your 1Gbps connection. Once you turn on services, throughput seems to drop drastically.
@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Projects for new deployments of things, like a phone system or managed services needs to have a discovery phase where the vendor checks what they are deploying into.
I used to think that ^this^ was standard practice.
Apparently it's not, and I'd like to point out that a significant amount of the issues across a few projects that we've had over the last few years COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED.So much facedesk... That reminds me I need a new desk, this one has a head shaped hole that suddenly appeared.
Help reduce the pain of your next facedesk. It will also reduce wear and tear on your next desk.
Are those bult in speakers?
That's some pretty awesome meatware avoidance happening right there!May have to get a bunch for the team.
Those are for your hands. Google Ostrich Pillow. They have been around a while.
@Dashrender said in Outbound Email group terminology:
@pmoncho said in Outbound Email group terminology:
Thanks group.
At this time, we currently we use Kerio Connect for email (users use webmail function not Outlook connector). That will hopefully change in the future based on changes that are currently happening at work.
I will check into the shared mailbox scenario also. Nice to know that there are possible options out there. Armed with the search terms, it definitely helps when researching my current and future email apps.
What's wrong with kerio?
It was bought by GFI. That is the biggest issue. Large price increase and development prior to their purchase was much better. Support is not what it use to be either.
I'm being a little @scottalanmiller'ish as it has become more of a moral issue. 
Plus, I would like to eventually SasS.
EDIT: Prior to GFI, I really liked Kerio. Stable release updates and support was awesome. Felt they had a huge chip on their shoulder and wanted to kick MS Exchange A$$. That trait is now gone and it reflects in their product.
@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Upgrading Ubuntu on my pi-hole.
Missed the easy upgrade window because... well I forgot to check on it.
Did mine yesterday. I don't have to visit the pi-hole often and forget to upgrade to new OS version.
@scottalanmiller said in How may of you own your IT business and have more than a handful of employees?:
@pmoncho said in How may of you own your IT business and have more than a handful of employees?:
I 2nd what @JasGot is saying to all those business owners out there. From an employee stand point, not having/knowing a succession plan in SMB sucks. Fear in general and of becoming unemployed takes over. Individuals jockey for political position and it is possible a better choice of employee gets passed over.
Definitely lots of scared employees, no question there. We have a dual management chain with two partner companies. So a lot of diversity in revenue and the ability for other management stacks to step in while things stabilize. And our own team has five people in place, any of which could take over if need be.
I think our employees, especially those that have been around for a while, aren't too worried about their jobs. We always do things like pay early to let them get to the banks while they are open, or withhold paychecks till banks open, etc. During the civil uprising some went through, we had people ready to relocate staff to another country. We are an employee-first company, our mission is to be a great place to work, so the idea that our employees are at risk runs pretty counter to our core mission. Of course, nothing protects any of us 100%, but I think our team knows that they don't reasonably get any safer than they are here.
That is a pretty cool mission. I wish more companies would feel like "I am glad you decided to work here today" vs "You should be thankful I have a business to give you a job."
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@pmoncho said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Wow, thermostat locking in Colorado now...
https://www.theblaze.com/news/energy-company-locks-smart-thermostats
I don't see an issue, especially because the people voluntarily gave away access to the energy company for $.
Legally there is no issue. But 80 is pretty high. Not many Americans prepared for that! And just... wow the state of the infrastructure up there.
80 is way high. Although, if your in Nicaragua, 80 is pretty nice.
