@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I had someone recently tell me that their CIO wanted to use Vmware over KVM because, and you can't make this stuff up, they liked "working with the biggest vendor."

Literally, they didn't care if it made sense for the purpose, they didn't care if it was reliable or cost effective, they didn't care if it was secure. They literally only wanted to know which product was made by the largest company. No IT factor considered.

And then, as incompetent as that is, with only a single thing to research; with no need to check on features, cost, licensing, support, price, or other complicated factors; they got the ONLY thing that they were considering wrong.

KVM is made by IBM at about $63bn USD. VMware is made by Broadcom at about $21bn USD. IBM is roughly three times the size. And IBM is the KIND of company that should make hypervisors, Broadcom really isn't. But that aside, no matter how insane it would be to consider market cap or revenue of a vendor as the determination of product applicability to a company, they got that one, insanely simple task, ass backwards.

When you are THAT dumb, it is pervasive. If you are dumb enough to thing company size matters in some significant way, you are also so clueless as not to be able to determine company size.

I've run into that attitude a LOT.

@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?

https://www.blackbird.video/

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.

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Reading through income tax return.

We ended up having to pay a little for Fed, and got very little back from state. All around close to even, but still enough to annoy the wife.

what is her goal?

Refund.... she's used to getting a large refund.

Of course I think we came out real close to right.

@IRJ said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

What kind of marketing department is this? A movie firm? It seems insane to have video files average 10-20gb. Even high budget commercials are probably only that size.. Is this a bunch of templates or something?

I would be interested in understanding their work flow, as it seems very extravagant to have such large files and so many of them?

Raw video is easily that large. It's not final cut and transcode that it becomes manageable.

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Reading through income tax return.

We ended up having to pay a little for Fed, and got very little back from state. All around close to even, but still enough to annoy the wife.

@CCWTech said in Resume work:

@travisdh1 I've been searching on Indeed, Monster, Linkedin, and DICE. But so far I have only had 2 interviews. One went well, made it to final rounds. The other went really well, and they said they thought I deserved more money than the job offered and wanted to see if I was interested in other higher paying jobs with the company...I said yes, but not to count me out for this one. Then I got the "you haven't been selected" letter.

This was from a fortune 500 company so it wasn't "Jimbo's or Pat's". I'm really trying nearly anything really.

I get called by 'recruiters' in India who can barely speak english but not much else. I guess it's a tough market right now.

It's funny, I'm not used to applying for a job and not getting it. In the past if I applied for 3 places I usually had offers from 2.

All job listing sites are going to have more jobs that either aren't real jobs or have already been filled. If you pay attention, you'll find the same job listed on every single one. It's just a mess, without any way to weed out what are actual active listings.

@Obsolesce said in Resume work:

@travisdh1 said in Resume work:

@IRJ said in Resume work:

@travisdh1 said in Resume work:

@CCWTech said in Resume work:

@travisdh1 What is 'better paying' what range?

And how do you know Spillman?

Pay range depends a LOT on location of the job offering. A couple examples from my life.

1. Cleveland, OH ~$40,000/year. Basically poverty wage.
2. Wooster, OH ~$40,000/year. Living well.
3. Fairlawn, OH ~$60,000/year. Around the same as Wooster at 40k
   Those values get to be hugely different depending on the area of the country, and I'd expect them to be around the lowest in the country because of the cost of living in Ohio compared to most of the rest of the U.S.

I have my CJIS cert and supported Spillman for multiple police departments and a county sheriff at my previous job.

Ii don't know where you are getting this info from, but a quick search on LinkedIn for Cleveland, Ohio Jobs shows this is not the case.

Also, I get contacted for remote jobs on daily basis for well over $100k

I hear that from a much larger amount of people here than any other groups I've ever interacted with. Good for you, but that's far from the norm.

Jimbo's Corner Manufacturing or Pat's Consulting isn't going to pay anyone in IT more than $45k-$85k base a year. Ignore all of those jobs, and search for remote jobs and jobs in cities. Tailor your resume for those and push for remote. Look for more specialized roles and sys admin/eng or product owner types. Those are the ones paying $120k-$220k base.

It's because of advice from everyone here that I finally broke the 40k salary range. It'll be because of advice like yours @Obsolesce that I'm confident I'll continue to imporive when it's time to move on.

@IRJ said in Resume work:

@travisdh1 said in Resume work:

@CCWTech said in Resume work:

@travisdh1 What is 'better paying' what range?

And how do you know Spillman?

Pay range depends a LOT on location of the job offering. A couple examples from my life.

1. Cleveland, OH ~$40,000/year. Basically poverty wage.
2. Wooster, OH ~$40,000/year. Living well.
3. Fairlawn, OH ~$60,000/year. Around the same as Wooster at 40k
   Those values get to be hugely different depending on the area of the country, and I'd expect them to be around the lowest in the country because of the cost of living in Ohio compared to most of the rest of the U.S.

I have my CJIS cert and supported Spillman for multiple police departments and a county sheriff at my previous job.

Ii don't know where you are getting this info from, but a quick search on LinkedIn for Cleveland, Ohio Jobs shows this is not the case.

Also, I get contacted for remote jobs on daily basis for well over $100k

I hear that from a much larger amount of people here than any other groups I've ever interacted with. Good for you, but that's far from the norm.

@CCWTech said in Resume work:

@travisdh1 What is 'better paying' what range?

And how do you know Spillman?

Pay range depends a LOT on location of the job offering. A couple examples from my life.

1. Cleveland, OH ~$40,000/year. Basically poverty wage.
2. Wooster, OH ~$40,000/year. Living well.
3. Fairlawn, OH ~$60,000/year. Around the same as Wooster at 40k
   Those values get to be hugely different depending on the area of the country, and I'd expect them to be around the lowest in the country because of the cost of living in Ohio compared to most of the rest of the U.S.

I have my CJIS cert and supported Spillman for multiple police departments and a county sheriff at my previous job.

@CCWTech said in Resume work:

What pay range should I be looking at? So many ranges out there it's hard to know what's real.

Most job postings won't be serious ones, so just accept that now.

With your experience, you for sure should be looking at better paying positions.

Spillman still sucks, if you haven't stayed current on that.

@CCWTech said in Resume work:

Types of jobs I am applying to are Windows System Administrator, Help Desk Manager, etc...

Watch out for those "Help Desk Manager" positions. More often than not, they end up being tier-1 support positions, if it's even a real job.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Of course it’s just a ten minute job,..

Of course doing all that will only take 10 minutes.....

In who's wildest dreams?

@stacksofplates said in XO-Lite beta:

@Pete-S said in XO-Lite beta:

@travisdh1 said in XO-Lite beta:

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.

I feel that the world is moving towards automation and away from pretty web UI. And also away from self-hosting and towards services that someone else will be responsible for.

Having automation doesn’t preclude having a web ui. A lot of times (most of the time) the web ui uses the same API as the automation.

There are a lot of cases where you will have people interacting with the ui instead of automation so it’s still a valid option. And having a lighter weight version of the old xen orchestra stuff would be nice.

That's exactly what they're doing. XO-Lite is using their API to manage XCP-NG.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Dealing with AT&T and Voice Mail issues. For the last few years I seem to have some delivery issues with voicemails being received in a timely manner.

It's sometimes fifteen to thirty minutes to get a voicemail notification on my phone. The kicker was on the 30th taking twenty-five hours before I received the notification.... UN-REAL.

So, reset the network settings, they reset the voicemail completely... I went from a four digit pin to a seven digit pin.. annoying!

And since... I've not received one single voicemail notification. The little message indicator showed nothing. Manually dial voicemail... THIRTEEN MESSAGES!

WH- The- Actual F

So,.. back to the Support calls I go.

Good luck!

Trying to get Brightpseed info to put a new modem into transparent bridging mode. First person had no idea what I was talking about.

@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.

@travisdh1 Installation note from Oliver

olivierlambertolivierlambert VATES 🪐 FOUNDER & CEO 🦸 Jun 30, 2021, 12:27 PM
@gskger To answer about the availability: in fact, it's already working, but very very very basic for now. I'd like to have something "not ugly" to start, even with not a lot of features, so let's say end of this summer

But if you can't hold until then, it's pretty easy to test:

Create a /opt/xensource/www/xolite.html file
Put that inside:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" class="no-js">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta
name="viewport"
content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no"
/>
<meta name="theme-color" content="#cc584c" />
<title>XoLite</title>
</head>
<body>
<noscript>You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.</noscript>
<div id="root">The application is loading…</div>
<script src="https://lite.xen-orchestra.com/dist/index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Go in your host IP address <host address>/xolite.html
That's it!

edit: until the XAPI fix is in 8.2 or 8.3, consoles only work with Chrome.

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.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

need more coffee. lol

I think it's about time for a coffee run.

Doing a full backup of the home lab server. Got new SSD drives to double the storage in it. 4x Patriot Burst Elite, not suitable for a production server, but good enough to let me do more things in a lab environment.