@nadnerb Thanks mate. I got impatient and just uninstalled the wsus & iis roles & reformatted the drive that held the wsus updates.
I then reinstalled wsus & found that my wsus config remained. This may not be a big problem, I'm hoping that wsus will see I have no updates and will just go looking for updates that match my selections in the 'Products & Classifications' listing.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just got out of weekly staff meeting.

Only staff paid by the week need attend

I had a job in which I was paid monthly, but weakly.

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.

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Browsing different Netflix profile icon.

Hahaha. Awesome.

I'm about 99% sure that after almost 30 years of supporting end users, I just have no more patience left. I find myself almost immediately going for my sidearm instead of a deep breath and friendly demeanor.

The other day I had an end user ............ . . . . . .. ... . . .... . .. . I can't talk about. That night I drank too much.

sizing up a nas. building a wsus server. ordering stuff. listening to some bloke play the saxamaphone.

belting the crap out of hyper-v for being such a mongrel and not letting my new gen 2 vms start up.

@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

eating chocolate biscuits!

TimTams?

No, Chocolate Teddies, an all time favourite.
Snags for tea I think.

eating chocolate biscuits!

Thanks everyone. Yes it is most likely an unneeded extra step.

I may have a business use for ZeroTier and I'm wondering if the service is secure enough, reliable enough & business ready?

From the reading I've done & what I understand of it, it does look very secure. I've had it running on 3 servers for at least a month & a bit with no problems, but suggesting it to a client is way different to using it to hook up a few servers in your lab.

The use case is very simple, just file transfer which I know it will handle without issue. I guess my greatest concern is security.

The client currently has an MPLS network and they have an extra site that doesn't justify the cost of the MPLS connection. This is why I'm considering ZeroTier.

What do others think?

hmmm, what's for breakfast this morning?

@obsolesce said in RAID what?:

@siringo said in RAID what?:

I'm rebuilding an old server with 4 x 146GB SAS drives.

About 12 months back I read all about why RAID 5 is no longer the preferred RAID of choice due to disks becoming so large and that is all good and fine, there's actually a mathematical equation that illustrates why RAID 5 is no good to use with large capacity drives, but I can't find that info any longer.

Are 146GB disks too big for RAID5?

146GB isn't large anymore so I'd like to retain as much useable space as possible.

What do others suggest?

146GB drives are perfectly fine as RAID5 in production. I'm sure they are 10k or 15k, yes?

Yeah 15K. I went with RAID 1+0.

@dbeato said in RAID what?:

@siringo said in RAID what?:

I'm rebuilding an old server with 4 x 146GB SAS drives.

About 12 months back I read all about why RAID 5 is no longer the preferred RAID of choice due to disks becoming so large and that is all good and fine, there's actually a mathematical equation that illustrates why RAID 5 is no good to use with large capacity drives, but I can't find that info any longer.

Are 146GB disks too big for RAID5?

146GB isn't large anymore so I'd like to retain as much useable space as possible.

What do others suggest?

If it is in production, set it up with RAID10.

Yep it'll be in production running 1 x WSUS Hyper-v VM & 1 x Hyper-V VM DC.
It also has 2 x 300GB SAS which I was just going to RAID 1.

I'm rebuilding an old server with 4 x 146GB SAS drives.

About 12 months back I read all about why RAID 5 is no longer the preferred RAID of choice due to disks becoming so large and that is all good and fine, there's actually a mathematical equation that illustrates why RAID 5 is no good to use with large capacity drives, but I can't find that info any longer.

Are 146GB disks too big for RAID5?

146GB isn't large anymore so I'd like to retain as much useable space as possible.

What do others suggest?

dodging rain drops & low temperatures.
watching a very interesting doco on the vietnam war by ken burns.

@matteo-nunziati said in Remote Rebuild. iLO Questions:

Also the ilo networking general info menu should show who is using a nic

OK, thanks for your help matteo.

@black3dynamite said in Easy and Quick Imaging Solution:

@siringo said in Easy and Quick Imaging Solution:

How about using one of the many free imaging programs around (I use Reflect) that let you create a bootable USB, boot up on that, image your master PC.

Copy the image to half a dozen USB drives.

Boot up on the imaging USB and restore the image to the new PCs, make changes as necessary.

Does it work well when creating a bootable Linux operating system?

Not sure never tried it, wouldn't be hard to find out I wouldn't think.

I have a remote HP ML110Gen9 2012R2 server that needs to be rebuilt.

Here's what I see of iLO within System Management Homepage:

There is a single cable going to the server into LOM1Port1.

I know newer HP servers share LOM1Port1 with iLO not sure if it does in this server???

I'm not an iLO expert but I think having the iLO management CPU allows you to access the host console pre OS boot, post reboot which would allow me to boot from a USB or DVD and allow me to rebuild the server.

I'm hoping someone with more iLO experience may be able to help me with getting this iLO an IP address???
Thanks for any help.

How about using one of the many free imaging programs around (I use Reflect) that let you create a bootable USB, boot up on that, image your master PC.

Copy the image to half a dozen USB drives.

Boot up on the imaging USB and restore the image to the new PCs, make changes as necessary.