Posts made by travisdh1

As one of my co-workers quipped "They're not getting any malware now!"

@garak0410 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

How's everyone doing out there in Mango Land?

Sitting at work bored out of my mind. They dangled that 5% of billable hours logged when I was considering the job. Found out after I started that they really don't have the business to make any billable hours.

I've had to deal with the same sort of buildings before. The key will be to have a good site survey done ahead of time. If you end up needing an AP in every room, it's probably not worth it.

Just an educated guess here, but 2.4GHz will probably get halfway acceptable coverage without acceptable speed for the end users while 5GHz will likely not cover enough area to make it worth moving to entirely.

Just got done removing a cage section in the datacenter for an equipment move this morning.

Next up, new circuit turnups for customers.

That looks like a real pain to have tracked down!

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@GUIn00b said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@GUIn00b said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Contemplating how to leverage 2 ISP's for supplemental bandwidth when needed using 2 separate routers that are both servicing the same LAN.

......So I'm gonna go post a new topic!

Saw the post. It's not a fun thing. What I did when I had this was I just separated things by machine. Some machines used one connection and some the other based on their workloads. It was "static" but let me use both.

You described basically what I want to do. For general user media consumption (YouTube, Facebook, Amazon shopping etc.) it can just be shipped out the Spectrum cable connection. But for my servers I more or less want those bound to the WAN with static IP. However, my static WAN has slower download speeds than the Spectrum cable. (Static WAN is 50Mbps up and down, Spectrum is 300Mbps down). So when it's time to do a giant update or download new ISOs or whatever, the 300Mbps makes a big difference in time spent waiting.

Separating things at each machine that needs the static WAN by giving them static DGW's is worthwhile for me, but it would be nice to have some load balancing intelligence happening so that large downloads come in through the fast pipe no matter the machine.

I've set up a LANcache for my Steam library which helps a lot for 130gig games and whatever. But when there's a 3-4gig update that isn't cached, the request is sent out the client machine's DGW. I think there's a way to do "Split Horizon" or something so I can setup a couple lists of domains that get allocated to one Gateway or another. Like one list of domain/hosts would be like the known Linux repo hosts would definitely be piped over to the fast download cable. But any requests for say some Linode hosted VPS's I'd want trafficked out the slower static pipe.

Yeah, I still haven't made a decision one way or the other and still have them operating with separate LAN's lol! Full disclosure, I enjoy the relationship between my a** and my couch way too much to be bothered. Potato chips not required but quite frequently present. That's just truly my happy place. So the idea of having to bend over to move a cable or something to get all this setup like I want is just a total buzzkill 99% of the time. But that's the key. 99% of the time. Not 100%. So.... someday. Someday....

Realistically for what you want to do you need a router that understands the traffic and is dividing it up. DNS or split horizon can't do the job. Dividing traffic along paths is actually quite difficult. Especially once you add encryption on the traffic.

That is the one and only reason VMWare bought Velocloud, and also the only reason to use their SD-WAN device. They can route traffic to different WAN connections based on pre-defined rules. You can have latency dependent streams (Zoom, SIP, etc) routed differently than "bulk" streams (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc).

Just hope you never have to contact support.

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Accepted a job offer this morning, so I'm back to work tomorrow.

Slight raise to base pay, but I'll also get 5% of my billable hours. So if I keep my billable hours up, a big raise.

Only downside is that it's on-site in downtown Cleveland.

Ohio? But, why, though?

I've lived here for 99% of my life, we're kind of stuck with the "golden handcuffs" of a 3% mortgage, but mostly because the wife doesn't want to leave the area.

Edit: Other conversations reminded me that I should mention one other aspect. I applied to many remote positions as well, but none of them made a job offer.

Accepted a job offer this morning, so I'm back to work tomorrow.

Slight raise to base pay, but I'll also get 5% of my billable hours. So if I keep my billable hours up, a big raise.

Only downside is that it's on-site in downtown Cleveland.

@CCWTech said in Proxmox 8.2 is out:

@IThomeboy80 You are welcome. I keep falling more and more in love with Proxmox every day. It's just a great product!

I feel the same way.

Looking forward to the possibility of doing some migrations off of ESXi.

@Grey said in Windows/vmware server licensing:

@travisdh1 Does that imply that each guest needs a minimum number of cores assigned?

No, you just need to cover the cores on the host.

@Grey said in Windows server licensing:

I'm looking to upgrade a pair of end-of-life home lab Windows servers and want it to double check on the current licensing since I haven't relicensed since Technet closed up. From what I can tell it looks like data center covers up to five windows servers? There also appear to be maybe a minimum number of cores per server? Is that accurate?

Unless the license has drastically changed in the past 2 years since I've had to deal with Windows Server licensing.

1. Data center covers unlimited amounts of Windows Servers for a single host.
2. Minimum of 16 cpu core licenses per host.

If you want multiple systems in a cluster that you can freely move VMs between, you'll need a separate data center license for each host.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Starting to juggle job offers. This is before my severance ends, so things are looking up.

That can be a challenge. If they are close enough in details it could come down to the expected environment, and future challenges.

Best of luck.

Thanks. I'm waiting on final details for a couple, but don't expect one back till next week.

Glad I'm not worrying about finding work this time around!

Starting to juggle job offers. This is before my severance ends, so things are looking up.

First thought: Proxmox is a type-1 hypervisor, it IS NOT a desktop replacement. If you want to try replacing a desktop, stick with Fedora/Ubuntu.

If you're using Windows as your base OS, stick with Hyper-V. Adding Proxmox in nested mode (weather on Hyper-V or WSL) just means Proxmox will run without hardware acceleration.

My advice, find an old system to run Proxmox on if you want to experiment with Proxmox.

Q1: No, you can't. Debian desktop you can, but you should not!
Q2: With Proxmox, you'll want to manage it with another system with a gui. So, again, not a good use-case.
Q3: Hyper-V (because Windows)

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1

Are you the interviewer or the interviewee?

Interviewee in these cases.

Prepping for interviews already scheduled for every day through the end of next week.

@gjacobse said in ReadyNAS314: likely failing:

This is to document for myself and should anyone else need.

Unable to access my storage shares the last bit, rebooting does not resolve. Rebooting takes upwards of four hours to complete.

While had been able to access, now cannot. GUI does respond, but none of the user accounts seem to work. Am able to sign in local as root.

While no errors were on the status page when I was able to access, suspect the system is reaching end of life. End of product life happened some time ago.

Am able to interact with SYSLINUX from the unit directly, it has HDMI and USB ports.
However I ‘lose’ response when I plug in any USB drive.

Am able to ssh, so the system isn’t totaled just yet. I can view the shares, and can ping.

While not ready to build a Nextcloud instance on the Proxmox system yet, I am thinking I should be able to recover the data.

Next step:
Create share
Mount share to NAS
Cli copy data from NAS to another computer as backup

That would be the preferred way to move things off.

If ALL ELSE FAILS, you can likely mount the bare drives in another system and restore the array using md (mdadm). It's been a long time, but I have successfully recovered arrays removed from NAS devices by doing this in the past. Still, very very risky, last resort only deal for sure.