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@jaredbusch said in VM host: dual CPU vs single CPU - same CPU performance rating:

@scottalanmiller said in VM host: dual CPU vs single CPU - same CPU performance rating:

@pete-s said in VM host: dual CPU vs single CPU - same CPU performance rating:

But for instance in my case 2 x E5-2630V2 (2x6 cores @ 2.5GHz) shows up as having about the same benchmark performance (single thread and multi thread) as 1 x E5-2670V2 (10 cores @ 2.5Ghz).

Comparing typical TDP: 2x6 cores is 2x80W=160W while 1x10 core is 115W.

This is partly why I push companies so hard to move to single proc servers. Often makes far more sense. There is way less overhead.

But in this case tool six scores versus Single Tencor you might as well get the dual processor advantages since you’re going to have to pay for the licensing anyway if he runs any Microsoft products at all

It seems to me, in these situations, software dictates hardware configuration negatively. That is frustrating if one wants to continue to use MS products. Choices, choices, choices!!

@momurda said in Who's a good Veeam Cloud Connect Backup Service Provider?:

@dustinb3403 Yea it wasnt like that a few years ago at last job with VmWare and Veeam.
Wtf is the huge list of companies on that page? Cloud storage providers? No Backblaze, no Vultr listed. I even clicked Show More at least ten times.

I believe Vultr and such are not on the list because it needs to talk to Veeam software on the Cloud Repository also. Veeam does have some documentation on using AWS storage in the form of a tape library (read that somewhere, just don't know where).

@obsolesce said in Who's a good Veeam Cloud Connect Backup Service Provider?:

I'm seeing that it's just so expensive.

Tape still seems to be the best way to go when you're talking tens of TBs to get your data off-site. It seems like a tape library is way cheaper.

It can seem that way depending upon how you look at it. Not having to pull off a tape is nice.

I did discover in the past, you can purchase the Veeam software and use a cloud provider for just a repository. The pricing seem ok @ $180-$200 per month per TB. As with all things, it is relative.

@obsolesce

I use Data Harbor Company as they are local and friend of our owner.

You get a V B&R VM and all the tools. Then create backup jobs on local storage and then upload to repository.

They have more services they offer also but I just use them for backup.

@mattspeller said in WSUS Help:

WSUS is a pain in the ass

I agree. Without derailing the off-topic to far, I'm wondering what do others use as an alternative? PDQ Deploy?

@lj said in Windows servers- move files from old to new:

@pmoncho
This is what I have from the MS site.
/copyall Copies all file information
/SEC Copies files with security
/E Copies subdirectories includes empty directories
/R:1 Specifies the number of retries on failed copies (1 in this example)
/W:1 Specifies the wait time between retries, in seconds (1 in this example)
/Z Copies files in restartable mode
/MT:6 Creates multi-threaded copies with N threads (6 in this case)
/NP Specifies that the progress of the copying operation (the number of files or directories copied so far) will not be displayed
/log Writes the status output to the log file (overwrites the existing log file).

Since this is copying and NOT moving or mirroring I can't go wrong. Right? Ha!

I am going to set it up as a scheduled task to run late one night.First I have to read about the share and file permissions.

SET SORC=YourSourceDrive:
SET DEST=YourDestDrive:
SET LOG=SomeDrive:\robo.log
should Source, destination and log all be drive letters and folders? If the share is setup on the destination folder with permissions for all domain users (intially) I guess robocopy doesn't have to know anything about shares? Thanks again.

If at all possible, I am a copy and delete kinda guy (with backups on top of that)

This gives you the ability to make sure all is well before actually moving the data. There is also a /MIR switch which creates a mirror. Check that out too.

I used this script to move data from E to Z and back to E drives but you can use share paths too.

robocopy \\Yoursource\Path \\YourDest\Path

Setup your share permissions and the robocopy script will take care of the NTFS permissions. If you want them the same.

@jaredbusch said in WSUS Help:

@pmoncho said in WSUS Help:

@siringo said in WSUS Help:

Finally setup wsus on a 2016 server. All went well except I told it I wanted updates for Windows 7, which I've decided I don't want.

I told it I want updates for Windows 10 and it's downloading updates for all flavours of Windows 10, we only run Pro. So far it's filled up the 200GBs I set aside for it only 3 days ago.

I can uninstall wsus and start again, that's not a problem, is that the quickest and easiest way to get some of my 200GBs back and start over?

And, how can I tell it I only want updates for W10 Pro?

And, if anyone has a link to a 'I don't want to think too much' guide for setting up wsus, I'd be keen to take a look.

Thanks for any help.

You may want to check out for Clean-WSUS. Excellent script to help clean up WSUS.

Except it is no longer available.

Well Shit! I see that now. UGH!

@dustinb3403 said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

@pmoncho said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

@dustinb3403 said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

On 6.5 I can find the option for boot delay, but I'm not seeing a boot order. I'm probably just looking in the wrong place but I thought I've seen it before as well.

If you mean VMware 6.5, Select Host -> Configure -> Virtual Machines. Put your selected VM's in Automatic in the order you want them to start up and the delay between each startup.

I don't see that anywhere in my installation, probably because we're using the free version of ESXi. . . (yes I know)

My bad. I assumed you had vCenter. I should have asked. I don't see any way on the free edition.

@siringo said in WSUS Help:

Finally setup wsus on a 2016 server. All went well except I told it I wanted updates for Windows 7, which I've decided I don't want.

I told it I want updates for Windows 10 and it's downloading updates for all flavours of Windows 10, we only run Pro. So far it's filled up the 200GBs I set aside for it only 3 days ago.

I can uninstall wsus and start again, that's not a problem, is that the quickest and easiest way to get some of my 200GBs back and start over?

And, how can I tell it I only want updates for W10 Pro?

And, if anyone has a link to a 'I don't want to think too much' guide for setting up wsus, I'd be keen to take a look.

Thanks for any help.

You may want to check out for Clean-WSUS. Excellent script to help clean up WSUS.

@lj said in Windows servers- move files from old to new:

Thanks again. Can you give me some details about "I use GPO's to set the users home dir and shared file folders"? That's another area I need help with.

If homedir means redirected folders then I would use MS documentation

For shared folders, I put a shortcut on their desktop to the share they need using a Group Policy Preferences. Also, my users are in groups so I assign GPO's and GPP's to groups not specific or all users.

@lj said in Windows servers- move files from old to new:

I'm looking up robocopy switches right now but at this point I'm not sure what all of the above does.

It will copy ALL files, system and hidden, along with all subfolders (including empties) and the permissions. It will also be multi-threaded to move a little faster.

@lj said in Windows servers- move files from old to new:

Thanks! My first question. I assume this runs on the server with the existing set of files.
2nd question: With as few users as I have do you recommend just manually editing the login script to change the home directory and shared files? Is there a easier/better way?

1. I did it from the source server just to reduce any possible mistakes (Don't need those )

2. I use GPO's to set the users home dir and shared file folders. A login script will work too.

You can run the script to copy over all the files first, check out the file perms to make sure they all are the same. You may have to set the Share permissions (there was a post here that talked about copying the Share permissions from the registry a while ago).

Here is the script I with Robocopy for one server about 4 months ago.

SET SORC=YourSourceDrive:\
SET DEST=YourDestDrive:\
SET LOG=SomeDrive:\robo.log

ROBOCOPY %SORC% %DEST% /COPYALL /SEC /E /R:1 /W:1 /Z /MT:6 /NP /LOG:%LOG%
@if errorlevel 16 echo ***ERROR*** & goto END
@if errorlevel 8 echo **FAILED COPY*** & goto END
@if errorlevel 1 echo --Copy Successful-- & goto END
@if errorlevel 0 echo --Copy Successful-- & goto END
goto END

:END

pause

@wls-itguy said in VMWare 6.5 to 6.7...:

Getting ready to update all my stuff before school starts in about a month so I go to VMWare.com and log into my portal and I see this:

HUWAH!!!! So how do I upgrade if I can't go from ESXi 6.5.0 U2 to 6.7.0. ?

From my understanding, U2 has some of 6.7 tech mixed in and that is why the upgrade is not supported. Need to wait for 6.7 ?? unfortunately.

@dustinb3403 said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

On 6.5 I can find the option for boot delay, but I'm not seeing a boot order. I'm probably just looking in the wrong place but I thought I've seen it before as well.

If you mean VMware 6.5, Select Host -> Configure -> Virtual Machines. Put your selected VM's in Automatic in the order you want them to start up and the delay between each startup.

@fuznutz04 said in Backup server - Software layout:

@pmoncho said in Backup server - Software layout:

@jt1001001 said in Backup server - Software layout:

Watching this thread as I just acquired a Dell R510 loaded with 2TB spinning rust drives, perfect for a backup target

I would watch out if you are planning on using Hyper-V 2016 on older Dell's. My R310 will not run VM's in Hyper-V 2016.

Good point. It all depends on what processor you have. The proc MUST support SLAT (or extended page tables. If it does, then you should be good to go. (at least that's what I found)

I found the same info.

@jt1001001 said in Backup server - Software layout:

Watching this thread as I just acquired a Dell R510 loaded with 2TB spinning rust drives, perfect for a backup target

I would watch out if you are planning on using Hyper-V 2016 on older Dell's. My R310 will not run VM's in Hyper-V 2016.

@flaxking said in Is RD Gateway useful?:

Let me bring my question back at a different angle. If you were paying for a hosted, fully managed terminal server, what would be your expectations for how it would be secured?

Personally, I would sleep fine at night with RDP exposed, but with 2-step authentication, and good log monitoring (and enforcing the security built into RDP and Windows authentication). However, maybe that is not enough for a professional solution.

You can add RDPGuard to the RDS server too.

Although, like @travisdh1 stated, put HTTPS in front and your all good. I use an SSL-VPN myself.

@jt1001001 said in Weekend Plans:

Out-of-town friends and relatives coming in for the week-end meaning we get to do all the touristy stuff up at Niagara falls. Maid of the Mist, Cave of the Winds, etc. Kids should find it blast they've never done any of that yet

Fiance and I just go for the wine!

Being frustrated with Fedora and thinking about a famous quote, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then give up. No point in being a darn fool about it." W.C. Fields

I just keep being the darn fool apparently.....