Posts made by Reid Cooper

@Dashrender said in I can't even:

@Reid-Cooper said in I can't even:

Talked to a customer today....

"No, we want nothing to do with the 'complication' of virtualization." What we want is simply 13 physical servers all in a single blade enclosure, all six years old, deployed new and set up on bare metal.

This is what happens when you let developers pretend to be IT people. New purchases of six year old systems, thirteen of them when two would do just fine, blades instead of normal servers. So much cost, so much risk, and they were angry that we thought that they should consider virtualization. They were even considering not doing RAID!

And IT reported that to the CFO/CEO and they signed off on it? wow.

They have no IT. Owner was on the call. I think this might be one of those hobby situations.

@travisdh1 said in I can't even:

@Reid-Cooper said in I can't even:

Talked to a customer today....

"No, we want nothing to do with the 'complication' of virtualization." What we want is simply 13 physical servers all in a single blade enclosure, all six years old, deployed new and set up on bare metal.

This is what happens when you let developers pretend to be IT people. New purchases of six year old systems, thirteen of them when two would do just fine, blades instead of normal servers. So much cost, so much risk, and they were angry that we thought that they should consider virtualization. They were even considering not doing RAID!

So, are they still a customer?

Money is money.

@garak0410 said in Server Monitoring:

So, I'm looking for something to scan my entire network, similar to SpiceWorks help desk and just keep my to-do list separate.

Not sure anything is really all that similar. Zabbix and Zenoss are powerful, but very different. Some RMM tools are similar, but don't have the same coverage for networking gear.

Are you trying to elevate on the Windows side, or on the Linux side?

Talked to a customer today....

"No, we want nothing to do with the 'complication' of virtualization." What we want is simply 13 physical servers all in a single blade enclosure, all six years old, deployed new and set up on bare metal.

This is what happens when you let developers pretend to be IT people. New purchases of six year old systems, thirteen of them when two would do just fine, blades instead of normal servers. So much cost, so much risk, and they were angry that we thought that they should consider virtualization. They were even considering not doing RAID!

@matteo-nunziati said in Testing oVirt...:

@dyasny said in Testing oVirt...:

@matteo-nunziati frankly, I'm surprised SuSE still exists

They where quite strong in Europe a few years ago. But the company has been sold so many times...

That is a sure way to kill a product. Everyone starts to feel uncertain and then people give up while waiting for the dust to settle and the more that people wait, the more that the dust doesn't settle and soon everyone just gives up on it.

@dafyre said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

Reading "Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes" with my kid, lol.

I'm so sorry.

@black3dynamite said in Nginx VM:

@Pete-S said in Nginx VM:

@Dashrender said in Nginx VM:

@Pete-S said in Nginx VM:

I think 20GB is outrageously large. 8GB or preferably 4GB.

Thin provision though - so what does it really matter?

Not much but it increases the risk of starving other VMs if one or several VMs goes crazy since storage is overcommitted on thin provisioning.

A VM with ngnix reverse proxy and ssh goes in under 1 GB (on debian) so with 4GB storage there are already several GBs worth of unused space. What more do you possibly need?

That's why I think going to 20GB is just too much without any benefit. We are not running a desktop or windows are we?

If you want to do something completely different with the VM that requires more space you can just make a new one.

So with a 4GB vDisk and no swap?

I would keep swap space. Swap's main purpose today is to protect against a crash. If something starts using memory that you don't expect, it will slow down before it dies and give you way more time to catch it and fix it.

Today's issue: I gave everyone in the company my personal email address. Now they email me there instead of the company email address. Can IT make them stop?

Cheers! Happy Anniversary.

@pmoncho said in Secure Meshcentral server on Vultr:

UFW
--Allow SSH port 22 from Home and Work IP only
--Allow 80 and 443 from anywhere

Is port 80 needed?

@pmoncho said in Secure Meshcentral server on Vultr:

Vultr Firewall setup (I don't believe I need this as UFW is setup on Ubuntu)

Less portable that way. Why not do it the normal way?

@pmoncho said in Secure Meshcentral server on Vultr:

Ubuntu 18.04.2 (I know others like Fedora and Ubuntu current)

Why the older release? Likely to be faster and more stable on the newer release and MeshCentral is being used there.

@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Looking into Wireless links between buildings using Ubiquiti stuff, but getting confused with the range of products and what to use

It's basically the Main building that houses the office and main network stuff.
Then we have two building about 100m from the Main office.

The other building are only going to have 1 PC and 1-2 AP's in there.

I'm a couple days behind from being out of town, but have you checked https://link.ui.com/

That's cool.

Have you checked into Blissfully?

It is back now, seems okay.

Anyone able to see Spiceworks? Any link I go to is giving this.

@dafyre said in I have $500 spare!:

I agree with @Reid-Cooper -- You could do it for $500, but it ain't a lot at all. That will get you to the "Be a Business" level, but you'd have to operate out of your house and such.

But anything he was considering is also from a home, right?

Greetings @dimforest

Have you considered starting your own business of some sort, fresh? $500 isn't a lot, but it's a good start on doing something of your own.