@openit said in SUSE Manager for managing CentOS and SUSE servers.:
Hi there,
Anyone of you ever came across SUSE Manager?
While it is saying open source and it is letting to download evaluation copy with subscription key on email?
I believe SUSE Manager kind product I'm looking, especially for patching CentOS and SUSE servers.
Any clue?
Why not use Ansible or Salt?
@scottalanmiller said in Eero Inquiry:
@stacksofplates said in Eero Inquiry:
@Dashrender said in Eero Inquiry:
@dbeato said in Eero Inquiry:
@WrCombs You cannot hide your SSIDs on Eero. You also have a limit of your Main SSID and Guest Network. It is geared for Home and really small environments.
https://support.eero.com/hc/en-us/articles/214588166-Why-can-t-I-hide-my-network-SSID-with-eero-
Why Eero over Ubiquiti? Business versus consumer. Does the pro version have APs with wired connections?
Prob because management is much easier. I ditched my APs and edgerouter for a single Amplifi which I can update and control from my phone. My mom has a Deco setup and it works very similarly and is great as well.
Easier if you do it yourself. But if you have a support company, I think the Unifi is easier. The Eeros always made for a lot of extra work when we had to deal with them.
At a former job, we had an Amplifi system that caused ~8 hours of un-needed billable time. If it would have been a UniFi system, we could have fixed it without the site visits.
I've heard of them, but never actually had hands on one. That said, I'd jump at the opportunity to use anything other than a NUC.
The NUCs are just a pain. Too many warranty claims (like 8-10% of new units out of the ~150 I deployed over 2 years). To make matters even harder, the OEM only warranties RAM/storage. So you have two different companies you have to deal with warranty repair/replace issues with.
@Pete-S said in Any Experience with BeeLink Mini PCs?:
@travisdh1 said in Any Experience with BeeLink Mini PCs?:
The NUCs are just a pain. Too many warranty claims (like 8-10% of new units out of the ~150 I deployed over 2 years). To make matters even harder, the OEM only warranties RAM/storage. So you have two different companies you have to deal with warranty repair/replace issues with.
That's a lot. Intel usually know what they're doing when designing PCs.
I've never had to RMA any of them but I've not deployed as many as you have.
Is it just one kind of failure or is it different?
All types. Some storage/ram, some motherboard/cpu. What makes it such a pain is that Intel doesn't actually sell a complete system, which means playing vendor roulette whenever something does go wrong.
@Sawyer said in Raspberry Pi Zero W Bought for Testing:
I ordered Raspberry Pi zero W from https://robu.in/product/raspberry-pi-zero-w-with-raspberry-pi-zero-w-accessories-kit/.
What exactly does the NOOBS Software do?
NOOBS sets up your choice of OS for you. It's not needed, but is handy if you don't have another computer to setup an OS.
Also, if you have these sorts of questions in the future, just make a new thread.
DBAN covers just about any data wiping requirement, and it's free.
@scottalanmiller said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:
@dafyre said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:
AFAIK, Even VNC doesn't work on Wayland yet.
Nor does MeshCentral
Really? Now I need to go try that when I have a minute.
@travisdh1 said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:
@scottalanmiller said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:
@dafyre said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:
AFAIK, Even VNC doesn't work on Wayland yet.
Nor does MeshCentral
Really? Now I need to go try that when I have a minute.
I just confirmed that mine is working on the default Fedora 37 desktop using both Firefox and Chromium.
@scottalanmiller said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:
@travisdh1 said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:
@travisdh1 said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:
@scottalanmiller said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:
@dafyre said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:
AFAIK, Even VNC doesn't work on Wayland yet.
Nor does MeshCentral
Really? Now I need to go try that when I have a minute.
I just confirmed that mine is working on the default Fedora 37 desktop using both Firefox and Chromium.
Wayland with MeshCentral?
You SURE you are on Wayland?
Isn't Wayland the default for Fedora now? I'm using the stock Fedora, so I'm thinking I am.
@Pete-S said in Manage domains and DNS for customers?:
Is there a good way to manage domain renewals and DNS settings on behalf of a customer?
Basically handle everything and then invoice the customer. But the customer should still legally own the domain(s).
Generally, have them purchase the domain and add you as an admin user. I've done this with Cloudflare a number of times.
@JasGot said in Slack? What is it?:
I am looking at Slack for a customer. I've never used or seen it. I hear about it all the time, and I know many people here use it regularly.
The sole purpose for looking at Slack for this customer is to send appointment reminder vis SMS using Skyetel's "Postcards for Slack" feature.
Has anyone done this? Is it a good option, or should I be looking at other options?
Do they want to start using a dedicated chat app?
If yes, have they evaluated options besides Slack? (RocketChat, etc.)
Slack IS NOT SMS. If they want to send reminders via SMS, just use Postcards. No reason to introduce more complexity than needed.
Edit: That all assumes you have input instead of being told to just do it.
@Pete-S said in XO-Lite beta:
@travisdh1 said in XO-Lite beta:
Link to original article: https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/4731/xen-orchestra-lite/5
Found this while watching Lawrence Systems Thursday live stream. Most areas of the interface still say (coming soon), but you can do basic tasks for VMs on the host.
I don't know what to think about this web ui feature. There is already a TUI interface for basic management - which you can operate from the console or ssh. Perfect when installaing hypervisors and basic things (like changing network settings, starting stopping VMs etc) because you can use it over IPMI.
And there is the xcp-ng center Windows desktop app, which has all the features that is part of the Xen and the hypervisor itself. Developed by Citrix but not part of Vates' (company behind XO and xcp-ng) business model though.
And there is Xen Orchestra (XO) web app from Free to Enterprise if you want support and the fully unlocked community edition if you don't need support. There you can do things that are not actually part of Xen and the hypervisor itself, like replication. Runs in a VM, not on the hypervisor itself. But there are options to deploy it with a click.
I think the big difference between what XO Lite will be and the web TUI is that you don't need console access, just hit the IP address via a web browser. With how so many other things are moving to the web browser to work or manage, I think it's a good thing for them to be doing.
I also think having XO Lite available will make XCP-NG more approachable for less experienced techs. I'll still use XO to manage my XCP-NG servers, but XO Lite will make that initial server rollout and XO install more approachable.
@Jimmy9008 said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:
@Dashrender said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:
Sounds like all the bases have been covered.
It's unrealistic to work with files of that size (even 10 GB files are unrealistic to work on from cloud).
As Pete said - show the owners the time it takes to move the data, then show them the cost of a potential VDI solution with hosted storage - your solution of a NAS will quickly be back on the table with backups to cloud.
I have been doing some research and am interested in this company, they seem to have both storage in cloud and editing via browser. Any thoughts on this, or better alternatives?
Does anybody know if Adobe has a similar entirely cloud solution for video editing? When I go to their site I find it a mess and confusing.
Frankly, that site has no real useful information after a very quick look. It's all marketing fluff and no pricing listed anywhere, which tells me the price is crazy high. It might make sense, but most likely not.
@scottalanmiller said in Windows 2022 Disk Defrag Freezing System:
@Obsolesce said in Windows 2022 Disk Defrag Freezing System:
You should never Defrag SSDs except for very specific reasons.
Which is why it is surprising that in the SSD era, Windows 2022 has it on by default.
Has Microsoft changed how they handle TRIM yet? I know years ago they only ran TRIM when defrag was run. Why? Because Microsoft is still that bad at managing storage.
This process was simpler than the official instructions make it. I'm using the unlicensed repository.
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_7_to_8
When you get to the section about updating repositories, only the first update is necessary.
@gjacobse said in Proxmox and USB support:
Not looked at ProxMox enough to remember or know this answer. And before I dive to deep into this personal project.
Can each VM attach to a specific USB device for use?
Specifics, a raspberry 3D printer replacement
I've only verified this with a USB thumb drive, but it's quite easy if you haven't found it yet.
In VM -> Hardware -> Add -> USB Device
@GUIn00b said in ProxMox Storage Configuration Question (idk how lol):
Quick update: I did this https://help.nodespace.com/knowledgebase.php?article=307 to all 4 drives, then created a 7.0 TB lvm-thin. Is that the right way to go about this? Here's console output:
root@pve:~# wipefs -a /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sda: 8 bytes were erased at offset 0x00000200 (gpt): 45 46 49 20 50 41 52 54 /dev/sda: 8 bytes were erased at offset 0x3a3817d5e00 (gpt): 45 46 49 20 50 41 52 54 /dev/sda: 2 bytes were erased at offset 0x000001fe (PMBR): 55 aa /dev/sdb: 8 bytes were erased at offset 0x00000200 (gpt): 45 46 49 20 50 41 52 54 /dev/sdb: 8 bytes were erased at offset 0x3a3817d5e00 (gpt): 45 46 49 20 50 41 52 54 /dev/sdb: 2 bytes were erased at offset 0x000001fe (PMBR): 55 aa /dev/sdc: 8 bytes were erased at offset 0x00000200 (gpt): 45 46 49 20 50 41 52 54 /dev/sdc: 8 bytes were erased at offset 0x3a3817d5e00 (gpt): 45 46 49 20 50 41 52 54 /dev/sdc: 2 bytes were erased at offset 0x000001fe (PMBR): 55 aa /dev/sdd: 8 bytes were erased at offset 0x00000200 (gpt): 45 46 49 20 50 41 52 54 /dev/sdd: 8 bytes were erased at offset 0x3a3817d5e00 (gpt): 45 46 49 20 50 41 52 54 /dev/sdd: 2 bytes were erased at offset 0x000001fe (PMBR): 55 aa /dev/sdd: calling ioctl to re-read partition table: Success /dev/sda: calling ioctl to re-read partition table: Success /dev/sdb: calling ioctl to re-read partition table: Success /dev/sdc: calling ioctl to re-read partition table: Success root@pve:~# pvcreate /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd Physical volume "/dev/sda" successfully created. Physical volume "/dev/sdb" successfully created. Physical volume "/dev/sdc" successfully created. Physical volume "/dev/sdd" successfully created. root@pve:~# vgcreate hdd-thin /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd Volume group "hdd-thin" successfully created root@pve:~# lvcreate -L 7T --thinpool hdd-thin hdd-thin Thin pool volume with chunk size 4.00 MiB can address at most <1016.02 TiB of data. WARNING: Pool zeroing and 4.00 MiB large chunk size slows down thin provisioning. WARNING: Consider disabling zeroing (-Zn) or using smaller chunk size (<512.00 KiB). Logical volume "hdd-thin" created. root@pve:~#
That looks correct to me. Convincing ProxMox to use it as an lvm-thin pool might be a bit tricky as it wants a blank block device in the gui....
ProxMox's aversion to the best RAID system available is mind blowing to me. They've completely bought into the cult of ZFS and the Windows world of "software RAID is bad".
@gjacobse said in TMUX: hype or function:
Scanning through my recent feed, I found mention of using TMUX in Linux. Has anyone been using this, is there benefit to using it?
tmux is a terminal multiplexer for Unix-based operating systems. Simply put, it acts as an add-on to an existing terminal.
Off the top of my head, tmux is like screen. It's a way to manage multiple terminal sessions.
I used to use them often, but today I ask myself why I feel it's necessary? What's failed that I need multiple terminal sessions at one time. Every time it's either "this should be a VM" or "this should be a container".
Obviously look for stored procedures in the database.
SHOW PROCEDURE STATUS;
You also might want to check for a php-cron somewhere in WordPress itself. It's been long enough since I've touched WordPress that I forget where to look for that.
