@dashrender said in Server upgrade advice for upgrade to ESXi 7.0 U3:

@jaredbusch said in Server upgrade advice for upgrade to ESXi 7.0 U3:

@dashrender said in Server upgrade advice for upgrade to ESXi 7.0 U3:

@pmoncho That seems like a complete overspend for the need. Although there might not be a better way

No, it keeps the boot off the data raid array.
You can do the same with something straight on the sata bus, but a minor expense gives you a dedicated boot raid array

I agree you want the boot/hypervisor not on the main array... but I'm assuming these BOSS setups aren't cheap.. definitely no where near as cheep as a USB stick or SD Card. Likely 100's of time more, if not 1000's more. that's all I am getting at.

A BOSS card is just a PCIe to dual M.2 converter, lots of them available at not much cost. I have no idea how much BOSS cards sell for.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

What at the changes he could attach a skimmer on an in store reader and you not notice? Unless they make them super tiny nowdays...

Skimmer fit inside anything. They put them inside ATMs. If they can put them there, anything in a store is way easier.

Krebs found the slot style skimmers in 2014! https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/08/stealthy-razor-thin-atm-insert-skimmers/
All the gore: https://krebsonsecurity.com/all-about-skimmers/

@adamf said in Backblaze B2 VS Wasabi:

Who has experience with both of these? Which one is better and why? Who has the better API?

Thanks!

I use both for personal stuff. Just the S3 compatible connector, so I don't know about the respective API.

As to which one is better, they're both about the same. Only big difference is the lack of egress cost on Wasabi.

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@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

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@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Ditto. But it still got stolen. I tried to use Google Pay and it was rejected, so I switched to credit card and used mine.

The local bank came up good for me though. I had the $$ back in my account a day later.

Ug bad website stealing cc info

Actually, it was a gas station here in town. Several other folks I know had something similar happen over a few days, so let's just say I won't be going back there, lol.

Someone has a skimmer on the pump you used

Except it was the inside card machine in this case, not the pump.

I just stopped in for a snack, lol.

Sounds like an inside job.

I... handn't thought about that. It very well could be.

Did you use the magnetic stripe on your card?

In this type of situation I only see the cashier as potentially being guilty if he was able to swipe the card without you seeing.

What at the changes he could attach a skimmer on an in store reader and you not notice? Unless they make them super tiny nowdays...

They make them to fit inside the card slot of a gas pump, I guarantee they can make a shell for card readers inside a gas station that look legit.

@hobbit666 said in zabbix5.4 https redirect:

Need some help (simple help for you experts)
Installed Zabbix5.4 on Ubuntu 20.04.

Got it working fine on http://zabbix and separately on https://zabbix with Letsencrypt.

But i can't get the http to redirect to https?

Do you have an nginx proxy in front of it? I don't have my configs handy at the moment to look, but it's simple to do @JaredBusch has lots of guides here with examples.

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Ditto. But it still got stolen. I tried to use Google Pay and it was rejected, so I switched to credit card and used mine.

The local bank came up good for me though. I had the $$ back in my account a day later.

Ug bad website stealing cc info

Actually, it was a gas station here in town. Several other folks I know had something similar happen over a few days, so let's just say I won't be going back there, lol.

Someone has a skimmer on the pump you used

Except it was the inside card machine in this case, not the pump.

I just stopped in for a snack, lol.

Yuck

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Ditto. But it still got stolen. I tried to use Google Pay and it was rejected, so I switched to credit card and used mine.

The local bank came up good for me though. I had the $$ back in my account a day later.

Ug bad website stealing cc info

Actually, it was a gas station here in town. Several other folks I know had something similar happen over a few days, so let's just say I won't be going back there, lol.

Someone has a skimmer on the pump you used

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Dynamics, do not use:

@travisdh1 said in Microsoft Dynamics, do not use:

@carnival-boy said in Microsoft Dynamics, do not use:

The product is great, if you have problems it's likely to be because of a poor partner, of which there are many. Microsoft made it too easy to be become a partner.

Yep, this was our issue. They use the same partner that the CEO has used for years. To say I'm not impressed is an understatement.

.... with the CEO.

Both

@carnival-boy said in Microsoft Dynamics, do not use:

The product is great, if you have problems it's likely to be because of a poor partner, of which there are many. Microsoft made it too easy to be become a partner.

Yep, this was our issue. They use the same partner that the CEO has used for years. To say I'm not impressed is an understatement.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings Clearpass is a Aurba/HPE product that does some wizard stuff to stop unauthorized stuff just plugging into the network at any of our sites

But yeah i agree, if i have it use it

Why not use an LE cert?

ROFL! I'm still laughing at random Root certs expiring and breaking all the things.

As @Dashrender said, it's only things that haven't been updated. It's been at least a couple of years now that the new cert chain has been in place and the timeline for the old one to expire announced.

The company we merged with has a bunch of firewalls that never got that update. Talk about looking bad, that's at least 2 years with no updates!

@pete-s said in LTO-9 Tape Drives:

@travisdh1 said in LTO-9 Tape Drives:

@pete-s said in LTO-9 Tape Drives:

@travisdh1 said in LTO-9 Tape Drives:

@pete-s said in LTO-9 Tape Drives:

@eleceng said in LTO-9 Tape Drives:

Noticed that the LTO 9 tapes have just been released (been waiting a while) and I need to purchase some and a stand-alone LTO-9 drive (not a whole library setup or magazine) but not having any luck finding one online to purchase.

i have a small office customer that has a huge amount of data to backup. We currently replicate to a Synology offsite (in the same town) but they want the tape to store out of state.

Has anyone seen any single stand-alone LTO-9 tape drives I can order or anywhere I should be looking?

Didn't know LTO-9 was out...good to know!

I'll question the use of a single standalone tape drive versus a tape library. Tape library is much more flexible.

Sure, tape libraries are much more flexible, but they still don't make sense if you can get by with a single backup tape. Which I'm assuming is why @ElecEng is looking for a single LTO-9 drive.

I don't really agree because the tape library is a tape drive AND a robot that can switch tapes, keep track of them and store them.

It will do it's job regardless if the human is there or not. Which mean the backup will always run, regardless if the person doing it gets sick, is on vacation or if it's a holiday. That makes sense even when everything fits on one tape.

And a tape library is a scalable solution. Meaning you can run more backups more often if you need and if your data grows and overflows into two or more tapes, it's no big deal.

While true, there is also a huge added expense. Just because something is better doesn't excuse not doing proper business planning.

I don't know how much added expense you can expect. I've always been under the impression that the actual tape drive is the most expensive part in a smaller tape library.

Had a look at Dells site and the difference between a tape loader with the tape drive and a tape drive is about $2K.

A Dell TL1000 1U tape library with a LTO-8 drive is roughly $7K and a Dell 114x rack mounted LTO-8 tape drive is roughly $5K.

Then you need to add tapes. 10 tapes is a just over $2K.

So we're talking at minimum of $7K regardless. And LTO-9 is going to be more expensive, both the drive and the tapes. New generation always are.

@travisdh1 I wouldn't call $2K a huge added expense. But maybe the client does. Who knows.

$2k is a huge added expense, when it's not needed.

@pete-s said in LTO-9 Tape Drives:

@travisdh1 said in LTO-9 Tape Drives:

@pete-s said in LTO-9 Tape Drives:

@eleceng said in LTO-9 Tape Drives:

Noticed that the LTO 9 tapes have just been released (been waiting a while) and I need to purchase some and a stand-alone LTO-9 drive (not a whole library setup or magazine) but not having any luck finding one online to purchase.

i have a small office customer that has a huge amount of data to backup. We currently replicate to a Synology offsite (in the same town) but they want the tape to store out of state.

Has anyone seen any single stand-alone LTO-9 tape drives I can order or anywhere I should be looking?

Didn't know LTO-9 was out...good to know!

I'll question the use of a single standalone tape drive versus a tape library. Tape library is much more flexible.

Sure, tape libraries are much more flexible, but they still don't make sense if you can get by with a single backup tape. Which I'm assuming is why @ElecEng is looking for a single LTO-9 drive.

I don't really agree because the tape library is a tape drive AND a robot that can switch tapes, keep track of them and store them.

It will do it's job regardless if the human is there or not. Which mean the backup will always run, regardless if the person doing it gets sick, is on vacation or if it's a holiday. That makes sense even when everything fits on one tape.

And a tape library is a scalable solution. Meaning you can run more backups more often if you need and if your data grows and overflows into two or more tapes, it's no big deal.

While true, there is also a huge added expense. Just because something is better doesn't excuse not doing proper business planning.

@pete-s said in LTO-9 Tape Drives:

@eleceng said in LTO-9 Tape Drives:

Noticed that the LTO 9 tapes have just been released (been waiting a while) and I need to purchase some and a stand-alone LTO-9 drive (not a whole library setup or magazine) but not having any luck finding one online to purchase.

i have a small office customer that has a huge amount of data to backup. We currently replicate to a Synology offsite (in the same town) but they want the tape to store out of state.

Has anyone seen any single stand-alone LTO-9 tape drives I can order or anywhere I should be looking?

Didn't know LTO-9 was out...good to know!

I'll question the use of a single standalone tape drive versus a tape library. Tape library is much more flexible.

Sure, tape libraries are much more flexible, but they still don't make sense if you can get by with a single backup tape. Which I'm assuming is why @ElecEng is looking for a single LTO-9 drive.

@eleceng said in LTO-9 Tape Drives:

Noticed that the LTO 9 tapes have just been released (been waiting a while) and I need to purchase some and a stand-alone LTO-9 drive (not a whole library setup or magazine) but not having any luck finding one online to purchase.

i have a small office customer that has a huge amount of data to backup. We currently replicate to a Synology offsite (in the same town) but they want the tape to store out of state.

Has anyone seen any single stand-alone LTO-9 tape drives I can order or anywhere I should be looking?

I haven't seen any LTO-9 drives at a distributor yet, but I did see a story that they're available now. I'm guessing they'll take a bit yet to be generally available.

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@nadnerb Me. Every. Single. Time.

lol, remember to quote when replying to a specific thing. I'm laughing because it looks like your reply was to the "Why not try....? Crime" picture.

@dashrender said in hot potato workers:

@pete-s said in hot potato workers:

@dashrender said in hot potato workers:

I have a front desk area of 10 workstations that I need to allow these 10 workers and about 20 others to randomly log into any of these 10 stations and have full function.

Each station has an insurance card scanner - software will only load for one profile at a time. I.e. if person 1 is logged in, then person 2 logs in while suspending (not logging off) person 1, the scanner won't work.

The printers are based on front desk location, so it's workstation based, regardless of who logs in.

Lastpass needs to be installed into Chrome and ready to go regardless of who logs into the PC.

As already mentioned - as backup to sick front desk staff, a group of 20 or so can be assigned to fill in as needed, and they need the ability to do all functions from these computers as well.

Because it's a medical shop - my users need the ability to lock their computers when they go to the bathroom - so I'm thinking a shared account likely isn't going to work.

Just an idea but why not use scanners that support network scanning and don't need a PC?

Having USB scanners is like having USB printers. Not great in a workgroup situation.

Our EMR only supports USB based scanning today. We've begged them to enable network based TWAIN - but they currently intentionally disable it.

@dashrender said in Microsoft Dynamics, do not use:

Why aren't there super flexible completely online solutions available for this? Do those two things cancel each other out? super flexible - online (think SAAS).

Microsoft Dynamics is endlessly flexible, and that's part of what creates it's problems. The number of spreadsheets management creates with it is mind numbing.

@dashrender said in Microsoft Dynamics, do not use:

@jaredbusch said in Microsoft Dynamics, do not use:

@dashrender said in Microsoft Dynamics, do not use:

why isn't there a M365 version of this

There is

is it as flexible as on prem? and if it is - then why is the OP having this problem? I'd be curious to see the justification of not using SAAS.

If I had any say in it, they would be. Nobody asks me when they're in the planning process tho, I'm just the "do this" man in this case.

Our Microsoft Dynamics vendor had to call in a 4th party (they are a 3rd party already) support company to finish our update, which is only 2018.

I have no idea how much the licensing costs, but the support cost to roll out last years version is off the charts. Our client was told that everything was ready to go, but the day we had 3 tech scheduled to roll out the upgrade, it was all broken.

Took us all day just to fix the software issues, we're doing the actual roll-out today.

I wouldn't complain, but this is the 5th time I've been involved in a roll out or update to Microsoft's accounting software (they keep changing the name), and all of them have been a complete disaster like this.

Do yourselves a favor and shoot it down as soon as it gets brought up by management.

We are talking about this in our weekly meeting right now. Basically printing is broken, GPO and .bat printer installs no longer work in a secured environment.

References:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5005652-manage-new-point-and-print-default-driver-installation-behavior-cve-2021-34481-873642bf-2634-49c5-a23b-6d8e9a302872

https://candid.technology/printnighmare-patch-windows-issue/