@scottalanmiller namely?

@Kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Kids, I've been offline for just ~45 minutes or so ...

That isn't allowed.

Uh, erm, sorry.

@scottalanmiller said in iDrac me so horny me love you long time...:

If you've never used OOB Management, it does come as quite a surprise.

and 9 months later...

Kids, I've been offline for just ~45 minutes or so ...

@scottalanmiller said in This is new...:

@Breffni-Potter said in This is new...:

What was the topic on?

Just XenServer security, so no reason not to bring it back once we figure out how to sanitize it.

Could you just not delete a specific post?

@Carnival-Boy said in ESXi Evaluation Period:

@scottalanmiller said in ESXi Evaluation Period:

Outside of the open source space, what doesn't require a license key in the enterprise space?

Which Microsoft ones do? I use Visual Studio Community Edition, and that installed without a licence key. SQL Server Express doesn't require one IIRC. Erm, I don't think I use any other free Microsoft software. I'll have a think.

Other free software I use: Veeam B&R - that doesn't require a licence key.

That's because the key is embedded in these products

Yeah, there was quite some good content / discussion

@scottalanmiller said in The VSA is the Ugly Result of Legacy Vendor Lock-Out:

@thwr said in The VSA is the Ugly Result of Legacy Vendor Lock-Out:

Just curious: How exactly does your product differ from StarWind Virtual SAN in this context?

The really, really high level technical different is that VSA / VSAN approach is a layer on top of the hypervisor that has to run as a guest workload. The Scale system puts the storage layer at the same spot that a normal filesystem/LVM would be. It is part of the hypervisor natively and acts just like a filesystem or DRBD. It isn't that it has zero overhead, but it has extremely little as it's just part of the hypervisor itself.

Starwind will vary heavily from ESXi to Hyper-V as it requires a full VM on one and not on the other.

Ah ok, thx

@scottalanmiller said in ESXi Evaluation Period:

Outside of the open source space, what doesn't require a license key in the enterprise space?

SQL Server, embedded on every 2012 media I have seen

Got a couple of IBM System x3550 M3. I like them actually and discount for EDU is huge. But yes, quality has been better years ago

Sure, mentioned it only for completeness.

@Breffni-Potter said in Don't give the US any ideas!:

.....Too late.

way too late, it's the year 3 AS (After Snowden, not mentioning Miss Menning or Wikileaks here) and no one learned from that

@stacksofplates said in XenServer Disable Root:

I might end up switching to KVM if I can't get it to work. It will give me support through Red Hat and I can use our normal profile to kickstart with and just add the hypervisor role.

KVM is nice because I just add a user to the libvirt group and they can control the VMs but still have regular system permissions.

Keep in mind that there are not many backup options available with KVM. Even @KOOLER had to ask, and I bet he knows what he's doing: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1577463-kvm-vm-backup

@stacksofplates said in XenServer Disable Root:

@thwr said in XenServer Disable Root:

@DustinB3403 said in XenServer Disable Root:

Sudo is available.

Ok, so the rest is easy. Just allow your user to be a sudo'er (add them to the sudo grouip on most systems or check your sudoers config file)

Well with XenCenter it's not that simple. Any user created is added as a Pool Admin and has control over the VMs.

If you connect as a new user with XenCenter you now have root access through the console.

Sorry, only played once with XenServer many years ago. That's just a common Linux / BSD / *NIX approach and basically the same thing that Ubuntu does.

@DustinB3403 said in XenServer Disable Root:

Sudo is available.

Ok, so the rest is easy. Just allow your user to be a sudo'er (add them to the sudo grouip on most systems or check your sudoers config file)

@DustinB3403 said in XenServer Disable Root:

As for disabling root.... Hrm there is probably a way to do it, since you can login to the local console with another user name, assuming you have it configured.

Disabling SSH access for root is easy (PermitRootLogin no), password could be set to something random, just make sure your normal user is a sudoer. Erm, is sudo available on XenServer?

@travisdh1 said in ESXi Evaluation Period:

@thwr said in ESXi Evaluation Period:

@travisdh1 said in ESXi Evaluation Period:

@DustinB3403 Basically, no real world experience at all. Doesn't realize the evaluation license isn't the same thing as the free license (or a sales minion said it was the same thing and were taken at face value.)

Love that term... Sales minion

Aside from that... Newbee, low on budget, no experience, who knows. I'm getting a bit tired of telling people about free HV and XS

I just had the minion movie on in the background this weekend. I'm afraid that I'm insulting Minions with that phrase, but it's just so apropos.

I tend to call them marketing slaves, sales cutthroats or something like that

Got LetsEncrypt support where my blog is hosted, small but great company. Auto-renewal every 90 days or so

Oddly enough, 4 out of 5 answers from ML users... OK, @Garyw has not been seen here on ML for about 5 months, but anyway.

@travisdh1 said in ESXi Evaluation Period:

@DustinB3403 Basically, no real world experience at all. Doesn't realize the evaluation license isn't the same thing as the free license (or a sales minion said it was the same thing and were taken at face value.)

Love that term... Sales minion

Aside from that... Newbee, low on budget, no experience, who knows. I'm getting a bit tired of telling people about free HV and XS