Posts made by travisdh1

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.

@Obsolesce said in Remove Windows 10 & Windows 11 "No Internet" Message:

Doesn't that prevent Windows from probing a Microsoft server to check if the network connection has internet access? I imagine that would only not work as designed on user devices if they are on some kind of highly secure network that blocks that connection.

That would be the logical behavior, but I see this reported as offline while actively using streaming services and such. It's just flat out broken, so disabling it makes sense for many end users.

@pattonb I know it's a pain, but I never use aliases, especially in crantab since crontab gets executed in a different shell environment.

If your command is to long without the alias, perhaps it would be better to put it in a shell script to use in cron instead of the command directly?

@scottalanmiller said in Meta Down: Facebook and Instagram Offline:

@travisdh1 said in Meta Down: Facebook and Instagram Offline:

@scottalanmiller said in Meta Down: Facebook and Instagram Offline:

@DustinB3403 said in Meta Down: Facebook and Instagram Offline:

@scottalanmiller They aren't down here in the states as far as I can tell.

Downdetector shows everything in the US down. I just heard that AT&T is under attack. It's the US backbone having issues, apparently.

This is the 2nd time in the past few weeks that AT&T has had major issues of some kind in the US. First the cellular service issues, and now their backbone.

Shows how dependent Facebook / Meta is on that one ISP.

Also shows how poorly Meta's infrastructure is setup. We do BGP all the time where I'm working right now, and once setup correctly it's plug as many WAN connections in as you want, the public IP always exits from the same core router. No large company like that should have issues from a single ISP that develops a network problem!

@scottalanmiller said in Meta Down: Facebook and Instagram Offline:

@DustinB3403 said in Meta Down: Facebook and Instagram Offline:

@scottalanmiller They aren't down here in the states as far as I can tell.

Downdetector shows everything in the US down. I just heard that AT&T is under attack. It's the US backbone having issues, apparently.

This is the 2nd time in the past few weeks that AT&T has had major issues of some kind in the US. First the cellular service issues, and now their backbone.

@gjacobse said in Proxmox: UPS:

In all the Proxmox discussions, I can't say that I have heard or seen anything regarding the use of the UPS,.. Tripplite or APC or other.

I have only done a little searching regarding this and having seen much as of yet, but sometimes it's about the keyword order of the search.

Is there any pointed documentation on how to establish UPS support / power down on a Proxmox node. While mine isn't 'production' grade or priority, it would be nice to know that my node will power down properly over just shutting down with the battery is depleted.

I have an APC for my home lab server that's running Proxmox currently. This is the 1 thing I've found that XCP-NG does better than Proxmox, a UPS "just works".

For my Proxmox server, I have the UPS assigned to a VM. However, I haven't found a solution to shutdown the server from the VM that I like yet. All the online documentation I've seen says to use apcupsd or nut, and I'd rather not have to have anything non-standard running on it.

That's my long, whiny way of saying I just need to write a 1 liner script to do it. Come on man, it's not that hard!

@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Wyze

The next company to add to your blacklist due to poor security incident handling and response.

Wyze says camera breach let 13,000 customers briefly see into other people’s homes

I used to have a couple of their Wyze Pan cameras, but I've switched to cameras I'm able to run locally only. I've lost trust in most large companies keeping things properly secured.

It's now 2/15/2024 with Fedora 39, and this is still working.

Just setup a new reverse proxy.