@dustinb3403 said in Installing Hyper-V 2016:

@jaredbusch said in Installing Hyper-V 2016:

@dustinb3403 said in Installing Hyper-V 2016:

@jaredbusch said in Installing Hyper-V 2016:

Why did you not check the virtualization settings in BIOS prior to doing anything else?

@jaredbusch said in Installing Hyper-V 2016:

Also, just joining to a domain and attempting to manage will not work. You still need to enable a few things int he host system firewall.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/12296/my-experiences-with-hyper-v-server-2016/10

@jaredbusch said in Installing Hyper-V 2016:

Also, you need to setup your network team and such all before you go playing with Hyper-V Manager.

@jaredbusch said in Installing Hyper-V 2016:

Then you open Hyper-V manager and setup your vSwitch and your default locations and such.

So many steps to go through to get Hyper-V setup. My god.

@jaredbusch said in Installing Hyper-V 2016:

Thyen you can finally worry about creating a VM.

Not much different than KVM.

I know, it's just a quip.

Hypervisor devs need to streamline the process a bit.

ESXi largely consists of mashing enter if it's an embedded install. (I think there's a F11 in there somewhere). The VCSA wizard that auto builds out vSAN is pretty nice too.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just gave my morning "What did you do yesterday" report. Most of the lines were:

-Worked ticket #: User claimed X, but [the opposite of X] was happening.

You got to do that every day? That must be exhausting.

We did that weekly at IBM. Wasted SO much time.

Daily SCRUM isn't terrible (3 questions, only committed talked). Daily status meetings are hell.

@nerdydad said in VMware on Azure?:

Kind of interesting in concept. Charges has to be outrageous though because one would be paying for both Azure and VMware licenses at the same time. Suppose Azure annually would be comparable to physical hardware on-prem throughout its lifetime.

Recently I discovered that I can restore a VM from Veeam on a VMware workload to Azure. I thought that was a twist.

The issue with doing a restore like that is it's typically a one way trip as...

1. Transit costs OUT of azure suck.
2. You would have to switch to doing agent-based backups to get data out.

In the case of this announcement, it's unilateral (With VMware saying they were not consulted). Considering VMware licensing for hosting providers is a special program and Microsoft is not in it this leads to speculation that...

1. Are they trying to get another partner to deploy/manage it? This would likely breach the EULA on the hosting program as it prevented co-marketing/white label stuff like this the last time I read it.

2. Microsoft thinks it can offer vSphere as a service without joining the VMware Cloud Provider Program (This will likely be met with legal).

3. Azure is known to run on custom hardware servers. Unless they've got DL380's or something certified this will not be supported.


@storageninja

ARM also attacking HPC.

@scottalanmiller There are ARM servers that can do 240Gbps of network throughput for NFV. Don't think the mobile stuff is all that exists....

@mike-davis said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:

@jaredbusch said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:

Because I will not, ever, use a company that has such shit software, that I have to fork over sales info to watc( a 3 minute demo video.

Someone watched a video on the sales funnel and decided to add a filter right at the top.

Youtube Video

@dbeato said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:

The only thing I would not run over wifi is VoIP phones, not because of security but stability on the network.

I've been doing this all week (and I'm in India) without issues....

@scottalanmiller said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:

@storageninja said in To Cable, or Not to Cable:

I'm pretty sure I got cancer (Wirelessly) reading that article and the responses.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/post/7386903

I would never had even read it if you had not mentioned how bad it was earlier this morning.

It did make me realize that a LOT of people don't understand the OSI layer model, and how security at a higher level can completely mitigate any breach at a lower level.

I'm pretty sure I got cancer (Wirelessly) reading that article and the responses.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/post/7386903

@r3dpand4 said in Amazon AWS Leaving Xen for KVM:

not if you read SW, you'd think no SMB knows to patch and those that do can never get downtime for them.

That's because they don't want to work nights or weekends.

If only there was a way to schedule updates to run outside of business hours.....

When you have to manufacture in Asia, and trucks back up if they can't print labels at 3AM US time you stop having "outside of business hours". An increasing amount of (even Small business's) don't have clear gaps, and you need someone to be ready to "fix" things if that patching fails, or brings something down.

You can have monitoring systems that will trigger a TAS to page the on-call, but if that fails there is nothing worse than waking up at 7AM and discovering the entire office is dead in the water. Follow the sun operations are bleeding into more and more companies.

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I wonder whether or not I'm simply kidding myself or if there truly are positions in IT that aren't primarily focused on supporting users' efforts for using Microsoft Outlook.

I've essentially never had to support that.

You win!

I do. Starting my IT career on Solaris meant that nearly all of the BS that Windows people tend to face, I had zero of. I had smart users, a great OS, stable systems, big time RISC hardware with loads of resources, etc.

Thus, my current efforts.

For the 2 years I did user support we used Thunderbird mostly.

@scottalanmiller said in Amazon AWS Leaving Xen for KVM:

@dashrender said in Amazon AWS Leaving Xen for KVM:

@scottalanmiller said in Amazon AWS Leaving Xen for KVM:

@tim_g said in Amazon AWS Leaving Xen for KVM:

Patching is never a problem in SMB because patching is done automatically and you have scheduled down time for that.

not if you read SW, you'd think no SMB knows to patch and those that do can never get downtime for them.

That's because they don't want to Hire Indians to do it for you at night.

FTFY

FTFY.

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@storageninja said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

yum, lassi

What drink is that? It looks like an Indian tea/milk thing I've had before

He is in India.

Bangalore this week, and I've had quite a few Lassi's.

 yum, lassi

@scottalanmiller said in Amazon AWS Leaving Xen for KVM:

@tim_g said in Amazon AWS Leaving Xen for KVM:

@matteo-nunziati

Yeah I can't imagine an SMB who cares about >30gb for a hypervisor.

Do you mean <30GB? Because at some point larger than 30GB, everyone cares. What point, I don't know, but at some point, for sure.

It matters from a secondary standpoint of..

1. That's a lot of damn code. There are security implications of having that much to keep patched (more patch windows, more attack points).
2. If you do PXE/AutoDeploy scenarios it slows down your provisioning/boot time. (Can you even run Hyper-V in a supported, stateless PXE config?)
3. Lack of optimizations for embedded installs. It's also a symptom of Hyper-V not being really designed for an embedded install (I know some Nutanix guys tried it but kept burning out SATA DOMs). This is slightly less of a concern with stuff like BOSS modules now an option on 14Gen servers (still that's ~$250 extra per host).

You can get KVM pretty lean, and the ESXi 6.5 ISO weighs in at 324MB (of that the hypervisor is a little less than 1/2 of, the rest being tools images).

@dashrender said in Amazon AWS Leaving Xen for KVM:

@scottalanmiller said in Amazon AWS Leaving Xen for KVM:

If Hyper-V was Windows, it wouldn't need Windows in the Dom0. It's specifically that it isn't that that is required.

Now I'm lost - Hyper-V still has a Dom0 even when installed as pure Hyper-V?

You never question why for a Hyper-V Core required so much damn install space? The Management VM (DOM0) just runs headless.

@scottalanmiller said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:

Hey look, as soon as we say AD is easy, someone posts on SW that they screwed up their little AD install, again. We get these like once a week, maybe every two weeks. For SMBs, even what should be a trivially easy single server AD install is regularly a major problem. Just picking a domain name is beyond the common skill level. People don't get tripped up by advanced AD techniques, they are regularly stumped by just the most basic install process.

If you can't figure out that you should use a domain you own, you shouldn't be setting up a cloud SSO deployment either...

@scottalanmiller said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:

Central authentication, while it does have value, in the SMB seems to be primarily deployed out of confusion, rather than out of solving a problem

The general issue I've seen is a lot of (idM) systems have weird quirks when working with things other than AD. Yes on paper LDAP will work with quite a few I suspect didn't get a lot of QE testing...

I do think (idM) systems and SSO brokers are breaking the final biggest tie of AD (Authentication). Setting up federated services was always a pain in the ass and turnkey SAML integrations for common web apps are a lot nicer to manage.

@scottalanmiller said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:

Yeah, but you can outsource that stuff to qualified people for a fraction of the cost of AD.

Qualified people cost money

You ever see a rate sheet for Continuums outsourced India desk?
Good luck finding SALT talents that's cheap (even in Bangalore).

@scottalanmiller said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:

. let's look at a ten person business:

Server: $1,000
Windows License: $700
CALs: $500
Windows Pro Upgrades: $1,500
Admin Time to Set Up: 2-5 days

With 10 users you could use essentials or foundation edition. I can buy a Dell T130 with that ~$700.