@MattSpeller https://www.google.de/maps/dir/Hamburg/Wacken/@53.7206389,9.030247,8.75z/data=!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x47b161837e1813b9:0x4263df27bd63aa0!2m2!1d9.9936818!2d53.5510846!1m5!1m1!1s0x47b3ea7e0a920bb1:0x4248963c6586900!2m2!1d9.3799516!2d54.0226106?hl=en
Hamburg is where I live.
Well, I'm literally around the corner: 2 hours by taking the train, approx. 3h by car. But chances are good that we won't be in the country during that time due to holidays.
@Aconboy said in The VSA is the Ugly Result of Legacy Vendor Lock-Out:
@thwr sure thing
the 1150 ships with a baseline of 8 broadwell cores per node with the E5-2620v4 upgradable to the e5-2640v4 with 10 cores per node. It ships with 64 GB RAM upgradable to 256 GB per node. It ships with either a 480 GB, 960 GB, or 1.92 TB eMLC ssd per node and 3 1,2, or 4 TB NL-SAS drives per node. Each node has quad gigabit or quad 10gig nics. All features and functionalities are included (HA, DR, multi-site replication, up to 5982 snapshots per-vm, auto tiering with HEAT staging and destaging and automatic prioritization of workload IO to name a few). All 1150 nodes can be joined with all other scale node families and generations both forward and back, so upgrade paths are not artificially limited.
Sounds good, what about deduplication / compression? For example, I've got a small 3 node Hyper-V cluster right now with roughly 15TB of (more or less hot) storage. 70% of the VMs are 2008R2 (will be upgraded to 2016 next year), rest is Linux and BSD.
@travisdh1 let me know pls. I'm playing around a lot with odroids, cubox, pandaboards, bananapi's, beagleboards and others, depending on requirements. My preferred generic platform is the Raspberry Pi 2/3 at moment.
@StrongBad said in You're all invited to the Nextcloud Conference 2017 in Berlin 
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@thwr two hours is around the corner?
Sure, why not? A joke compared to the US when you need to travel from the west to the east coast for example.
@aaron said in How to make a techie buy your brand/product/service.:
@thwr One of my best experiences was when I was demoing hardware with a salesperson and I asked some questions that he didn't know how to answer. So he texted/emailed his technical staff and I had the answers to the questions before the end of our demo. He admitted he didn't know, or possibly understand my question, and immediately sought assistance. Not making something up and not misleading me was very cool.
perfectly ok
On the flip side I've had vendors have make stuff up until weeks later when more technical people are involved and it ends up being a waste of time for everyone in the discussion. That's not cool.
exactly
@MattSpeller PIC too. Can't talk about the project due to NDA. Was something in civil avionics.
I don't like PICs anyway, bugs here and there and the design is a bit ugly, IMHO. I think Atmel's are generally better.
Renesas (former Mitsubishi Electronics)
R8C/M16C/M32C's on the other hand are great uC's. But you can't compare uC 's to Linux on ARM, they serve different purposes.
@nadnerB said in What's your favorite brand for network gear?:
I don't have a favourite brand as I haven't used enough to have a well rounded opinion but I sure do appreciate:
- No Java in the GUI
- neat and tidy interface
- Good warranty (EnterraSys Lifetime warranty
)
- Reliable
- Not cloud based (On ya bike, Meraki)
- High thermal resilience
- Well priced support (Hint: NOT Cisco)
No Java - good point. Got an old ProCurve still serving as an access switch which is running Java applets. PITA. Same for Adobe Flash in VMware vSphere (that's going to be replaced with a HTML5 frontend AFAIK).
@popester said in Cisco: we're not competent.:
sco starts to look silly.
Can i get a model number of that one? I need to take a serious l
EdgeRouter X with or without SFP
If you need something faster, EdgeRouter 4/6. Need more? EdgeRouter Infinity
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Playing with Raspberry Pi's, video streaming and software defined radio (SDR)
Curious to know more about the arrangement... and what SDR you chose / why.
Ah, that's no magic at all. RTL-SDR with adrbox (dump1090 before) and a cheap DVB-T USB receiver. Pi-A (behind the touchscreen) is decoding ADS-B. Additionally, it acts as HTTP and VNC server. Pi-B grabs the VNC stream and does a little upscaling.
VNC is in use for a simple reason: I can catch any disconnects and restart the VNC client. That's way harder to accomplish with a browser. At least in the short amount of time I had to build this (roughly two days)
I'll post some instructions on my blog next week.
@Jason said in What's your favorite brand for network gear?:
@Dashrender said in What's your favorite brand for network gear?:
@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite brand for network gear?:
@Dashrender said in What's your favorite brand for network gear?:
Huawei could solve this by making their platform completely open. Basically only sell hardware and allow others to make their own firmware/software that runs on it.
Who would buy it then? Useless hardware without vertical support? What business would use that? That's the DD-WRT model. Great for hobbyists, but that's not what they are going for. They want business usage.
Well the hope would be that the FOSS environment would make awesome firmware for it, than you could KNOW didn't have a back doors.
Hardware itself can have backdoors
Heard the story where the NSA intercepted shipments of switches and routers from well-known brands just to open the package, install a custom firmware and repackage it and finally sent it to the customer?
We're living in an odd world, even Orwell wouldn't believe that I guess. Hardware can have backdoors, same for software. But even the NSA or the big red dragon need to use IP I guess, so we can at least place a firewall in front of everything.
As for FOSS, well, I had a look at this:. There are quite some Linux based OS's for switches out there, like Cumulus or OpenSwitch (http://mangolassi.it/topic/9388/openswitch-moves-under-linux-foundation-umbrella). This on some open switch (bare metal or SDN) like the ones from Quanta (http://www.qct.io/-c77c75c159) or SuperMicro (https://www.supermicro.nl/products/accessories/Networking/SSE-G3648B.cfm for example) would at least increase the situations about software backdoors, but won't solve the hardware backdoor problem. But having software and hardware separated, both can be more easily tested for backdoors. And THIS could in fact improve the situation.
Sadly, we are just not there yet: Bare metal and Linux/BSD in core networking is coming, but it will take many years to reach the average SMB. Right now, the whole open switch story is all about SDN in the datacenter, as far as I know.
@coliver said in Cisco: we're not competent.:
@travisdh1 said in Cisco: we're not competent.:
@popester said in Cisco: we're not competent.:
@travisdh1 said in Cisco: we're not competent.:
@coliver said in Cisco: we're not competent.:
@net-runner said in Cisco: we're not competent.:
Well, true. But Cisco is a kind of standard for networking equipment nowadays and been those for pretty long time already. What would you recommend as an alternative?
Dell, HP, Ubiquiti, Mikrotik, even Netgear. There are dozens of switch and router manufacturers in this space that are on par with Cisco's performance and have the same support system for significantly less price.
Ubiquiti especially, as their $45 router will outperform a Cisco ASA device that start around $3500.
Cisco devices do have their place, but it's one of those things where if you don't know beyond a shadow of doubt that you need a certain Cisco device, you probably don't. Add on the cost difference, and Cisco starts to look silly.
Can i get a model number of that one? I need to take a serious look at this stuff.
I agree with @scottalanmiller, just because it's better than Cisco doesn't make it the right choice. ERL and EdgeRouter 4 are on my short list.
The ER-4 is on my list to get. That thing has some decent specs. A decent upgrade from the ERL from the looks of it.
I'll get one in a few days :grinning_face:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Playing with Raspberry Pi's, video streaming and software defined radio (SDR)
Curious to know more about the arrangement... and what SDR you chose / why.
Ah, that's no magic at all. RTL-SDR with adrbox (dump1090 before) and a cheap DVB-T USB receiver. Pi-A (behind the touchscreen) is decoding ADS-B. Additionally, it acts as HTTP and VNC server. Pi-B grabs the VNC stream and does a little upscaling.
VNC is in use for a simple reason: I can catch any disconnects and restart the VNC client. That's way harder to accomplish with a browser. At least in the short amount of time I had to build this (roughly two days)
I'll post some instructions on my blog next week.
Awesome - look forward to it. Now,.. back to ripping the truck apart (there are only four more screws....
We need pictures
@Jason said in Vmware Audit:
Not sure yet, but they want a lot of stuff and we have thousands of Vmware servers. It's due within 7 days.
TLDR, but if it were me who had bought thousands of VMware licenses and some guy shows up and wants an audit in 7 days I would just ask him if he knows the current pricing of Xen or Hyper-V with MS System Center in such a scale.
@reid-cooper said in Seagate Shows Off World's Fastest Hard Drive:
It's interesting that Seagate feels that continuing to invest in spinning drive technology continues to make sense today. That has to be really expensive research that they are doing. Great that they are squeezing more performance from the technology, but will that additional performance and additional sales that it generates, offset the research cost versus investing more into solid state technologies?
Maybe if this was a 200% increas
^ this + Nimbus Data's announcment of a 100TB SSD in a standard 3.5" case... We reached the point where even capacity isn't an argument anymore. It's just $/TB and I guess that Seagate's Mach 2 drive isn't meant for capacity but "performance".
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Playing with Raspberry Pi's, video streaming and software defined radio (SDR)
Curious to know more about the arrangement... and what SDR you chose / why.
Ah, that's no magic at all. RTL-SDR with adrbox (dump1090 before) and a cheap DVB-T USB receiver. Pi-A (behind the touchscreen) is decoding ADS-B. Additionally, it acts as HTTP and VNC server. Pi-B grabs the VNC stream and does a little upscaling.
VNC is in use for a simple reason: I can catch any disconnects and restart the VNC client. That's way harder to accomplish with a browser. At least in the short amount of time I had to build this (roughly two days)
I'll post some instructions on my blog next week.
Awesome - look forward to it. Now,.. back to ripping the truck apart (there are only four more screws....
A few more pics, also showing the new Frontend. Sorry about the quality, just shot them with my mobile.
Pi behind touchscreen
Adsbox on Pi
Stream on TV
@scottalanmiller said in Vmware Audit:
@thwr said in Vmware Audit:
Sure, but wouldn't it be fun to see an auditor explaining to his boss why an audit resulted in the loss of a big customer?
Often, at least with MS, they use external audit firms who are so far removed from wanting the customer to be happy that there is almost no way that things will go well. No idea how VMware does it.
I know, and that's the problem. Anyway, there's a company selling something, there's a customer who spends a reasonable amount of money and I would do virtually anything to keep that customer happy. It's not just about the money, but also about reputation.
Some of you may remember this discussion https://twitter.com/justinschuh/status/802491391121260544 and this blog post https://medium.com/@justin.schuh/stop-buying-bad-security-prescriptions-f18e4f61ba9e
@MattSpeller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@mlnews said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
That just.... but........ I can't even
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