Posts made by travisdh1

@anonymous My default is XenServer now that it's gone to a free to use, pay for support, model. Linux performance wise, it is among the best you'll find.

From what I've heard it does certain things very, very well, but is not a fully fleshed out system yet. Amazing environment for development or transaction processing from what I know of it so far.

@DustinB3403 I agree. Docker wasn't really meant for this. You can use it to do this, but it's very early stages currently. I give it another year before it even becomes useful for tinkering with in a lab.

In the mean time, most of those services don't require many resources at all. Depending on the hypervisor being used you may not be using more than a single kernel. My personal VPS is on that type of system, I can do anything with it but update the kernel, because the kernel is shared between all instances running on the server.

I went ahead and got a Debian ova made for anyone who wants the easy way out. http://mangolassi.it/topic/7371/xen-orchestra-v4-11-ova/7

@scottalanmiller said:

@wrx7m said:

@scottalanmiller Thanks. I was hoping there might be a pre-configured virtual appliance.

That would be nice. Sounds like a good ML Community project for someone to undertake. Likely that would be perfect for an LXC container.

How long does this take to get setup? Haven't done more than look at their home page so far.

I've got a Debian base I use for this sort of thing ready to go, bet I could get something up and running quick.

@Dashrender said:

@coliver said:

A 20 minute drive this morning took me all of 45 minutes. There was probably 1-2 inches of slush on the roads. I even have a 4 wheel drive car with snow tires... Hopefully it will melt off before going home tonight.

A little bit less here. and no hope of it melting off. Teens for temps the rest of this week.

Meanwhile, in Ohio, we're in the 50's today. I have to admit it's a nice change from last years -30 (for a HIGH!)

Funniest thing I saw this summer was someone complaining that the ice cap at the north pole is smaller than normal. Give you one guess where the arctic air spent last winter instead of at the pole.

@nadnerB said:

Internet explorer on WP 8.1 sucks. Editing text here on ML is nearly impossible.
I realm wish a better browser was available. According to my investigation, the "top rated" "alternative" browsers are just re skinned IE.

What are you doing, running a search exclusively through bing?

@Dashrender said:

the problem with moving it is that the APs only want to talk to the device that activated them. At least by DNS name if not by IP. So if you restore to a new machine with a different IP, you'll have to change DNS at least, if not manually reset all APs and import them again.

Where can I down vote the controller upgrade process? Geesh.

@Dashrender said:

UG - updating the service based install of the Unifi Controller - what a pain in the ass!

When upgrading the service first run "java -jar lib\ace.jar uninstallsvc" (may vary depending on where you run command from) to remove the old the service. Update the UniFI controller. After the update is complete, run "java -jar lib\ace.jar installsvc" to install the service for the updated controller instance.

Basically you have to stop the service, uninstall the service, update the directory location, then reinstall the service, then restart the service, ALL MANUALLY!

I can't wait until the new controller stick is here!

Sounds like it'd be easier to have a base os image you could fire up and import the config to the new one than actually upgrade? Ick, glad for the heads up.

@Dashrender said:

@hubtechagain said:

I dont have one of these...yet.... I had a dropcam....but paying for the wan-recording and inability to link it to a local nas or whatever killed it for me. also...it was a bandwidth whore I've looked at ring. it seems kewl.

Why would ring be any less of a bandwidth whore ?

Ring only uploads when the motion sensor is set off, dropcam is a constant stream.

I had an uncommonly good month. No malware, and only one person clicked the phishing test this month. Course when you're talking less that 20 total people that 1 person is a huge percentage!

Are we ALL kicking the tires on Xen Orchestra now?

I have one main server host. The guy I used to work with decided to call it Zuess. I see no reason to change the name of the ruler of them all.

Just for a quick reference, this is my latest iperf run between my workstation and the server. Network is 1GB with 2x1GB LAGs between each switch.

Server listening on TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default)

[ 4] local 192.168.0.20 port 5001 connected with 192.168.0.45 port 60691
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 683 MBytes 572 Mbits/sec
[ 5] local 192.168.0.20 port 5001 connected with 192.168.0.45 port 60715
[ 5] 0.0-10.0 sec 680 MBytes 569 Mbits/sec

It's a little slower than I'd like to see, but that's really not terrible for an in-use network. When everybody else is gone it does go up to the 800Mbits/sec transfer. This of course is not going to give any sort of real bearing on drive speed, just how fast the network can go.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

Scott - what tool would you use to create a 120 GB file to keep a 1 Gb link saturated for 20 mins (assuming 800 Mb/s transfer)?

dd will do that, if you are on the NAS CLI.

dd in=/dev/zero of=zero.txt bs=4k count=400000

Pay attention to the output when it finished. It will also give you some information on how fast it wrote zeros to the drives. You can then use zero.txt to transfer to different points on the network.

Don't forget to delete that file when you're finished, it's literally 1GB of zeros.

@scottalanmiller said:

@DustinB3403 said:

Thank you!

The community will greatly appreciate it.

As long as you thin provision, it's all the same.

Yep, it is thin provisioned currently, just didn't mention that in my initial notes.

@DustinB3403

@DustinB3403 said:

40GB .....

the base install ask for an 8GB partition unless you have more than 5000 VM's you're managing...

Can you scale it down and re-upload it?

I can make it somewhat smaller, it currently uses 6.12 GB so I suppose I could tone it down to say 12GB. It'll take 2 days to upload again, so be patient please!

Yep, I let it upload over the weekend, and I've now got an ova publicly available for anyone who wants to try it out. I made the ova file with VirtualBox, but you should be able to import it to your favorite platform. Now, onto the important bits.

Download Size: 2.7 GB
Hard Drive: SATA 40GB VMDK
Network: NAT/DHCP
RAM: 2GB (You could drop this to 1GB, needed the extra for compiling everything.)
Server Port: 8080
Normal User: tech (tech types on gui login page)
Pass: default
Root: changeme

A quick usage note. To start the server open a command prompt. Running it as a service didn't work the first time, so I just added it to the tech accounts .bashrc (I was doing this over an evening of my own time, give me a break!)

Edit: The hard drive IS thin provisioned, and only uses 6.12 GB currently.

Steam spent the holiday weekend failing programming 101. https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/3eltkl/whats_happening_was_there_a_security_breach/

Hope you all already had 2nd factor turned on as well!

If you've got Xen working, why still have a second boot option instead of running it in a VM?

I mean, I can understand wanting to experiment, but that's just odd.