In this case, I would suggest doing some performance tests on your existing ERP server to see how many iops you have currently, then see what you will get with various disks in RAID10

@scottalanmiller said in RAID recommendation for Hyper-V host:

@wrx7m said in RAID recommendation for Hyper-V host:

I don't see the need to separate the drives into different arrays for this.

Other than the vendor demanding it.

Ah, but they only "recommended" it

What server are you going to use as your host?

I don't see the need to separate the drives into different arrays for this.

@Dashrender I did not imply on puprose. You threw that out there -

@Dashrender said in Offline files nightmare:

@scottalanmiller said in Offline files nightmare:

@wrx7m said in Offline files nightmare:

Patches aren't done in a vacuum so it is what it is. We will have to see how MS handles it. The O365 clients updating has mostly been OK since 2013. Windows 10 has been hit and miss.

I just don't see them seeing it as the serious business tool that it used to be.

Holy cow - crazy thought - What if MS is doing this on purpose to drive people away from Windows on the desktop? If they consider Windows on the desktop as a money loss, or even if it's just a money break even, it's probably not worth keeping around. Nadella has been pushing like mad to have everything in the cloud.

I had a freezing issue where the system would just stop responding for like 30 seconds at a time. It wasn't the well-documented one because I have a single partition for the OS and data. There was also another issue with the way that it was handling multiple networks being connected. After reverting, it worked fine. I tried installing it several weeks later with all patches and it seems good to go for now.

@hobbit666 said in Udemy:

I signed up for a CCNA course but never looked over it tbh, keep thinking I should but cba!

Urban dictionary to the rescue. Is that a UK thing?

@Dashrender I have a problem with it too. There was a time when a bad patch Tuesday was news. Now it seems that we have moved toward the opposite of that. I never said they were purposely sabotaging patches or compatibility.

I have used it for a web design class. It was good and super cheap on some sort of promotion.

@scottalanmiller LOL - The rest of us are still playing catch-up.

Curious as to which spam filter service this is...

@scottalanmiller said in Offline files nightmare:

@wrx7m said in Offline files nightmare:

@scottalanmiller I think you are right. If they did see it as a serious business tool, they would adjust their focus and resources to make sure that the quality of initial release and subsequent patches is as close to perfect as it can be. Now, it seems it is best guess. Does it patch the vulnerability? Yes? OK release it. Whoops, it broke something else. Hmmm...

Yes, I'm not defending that they are doing a good job. Only that they are doing the job at the level that they are and using them requires an acceptance of that. My solution was to stop using Windows

In a perfect world, we wouldn't have Windows.

@scottalanmiller I guess that makes sense. All the jerks out there are jumping in after there has been a known exploit trying to get theirs before the system is patched.

@scottalanmiller I think you are right. If they did see it as a serious business tool, they would adjust their focus and resources to make sure that the quality of initial release and subsequent patches is as close to perfect as it can be. Now, it seems it is best guess. Does it patch the vulnerability? Yes? OK release it. Whoops, it broke something else. Hmmm...

@scottalanmiller said in Offline files nightmare:

@wrx7m said in Offline files nightmare:

@scottalanmiller Again, I agree. We are in the lesser of two evils argument, as there is no way I can budget the cost to switch away from windows. At this point I don't want to. Maybe in a couple years after the newer method of all or nothing updating has screwed me.

You don't want to switch, yet you distrust the vendor on which you depend 100% for patching.

The method here is the same as everyone else, Windows is just catching up with the rest of the world. Constant rolling updates are generally considered to be the way forward. NO real escaping that any more.

I also have multi-layered security and AV to help with this. Just because there is a patch, doesn't mean there isn't another flaw somewhere else that hasn't been discovered.

Patches aren't done in a vacuum so it is what it is. We will have to see how MS handles it. The O365 clients updating has mostly been OK since 2013. Windows 10 has been hit and miss.

@scottalanmiller Again, I agree. We are in the lesser of two evils argument, as there is no way I can budget the cost to switch away from windows. At this point I don't want to. Maybe in a couple years after the newer method of all or nothing updating has screwed me.

@scottalanmiller My users have Windows 7, so that isn't really an issue. I installed AU and had to revert on my laptop for awhile.

@scottalanmiller I see your point. Critical security issues are indeed more serious. A googling of the KB article a couple days later either yields very bland results are a ton of headlines/thread titles on how a particular update screwed their systems/network. That one gets put on hold.

@scottalanmiller said in Offline files nightmare:

@JaredBusch said in Offline files nightmare:

@wrx7m said in Offline files nightmare:

@JaredBusch AU= Anniversary Update and not auto update.

I would not stop that either. It is not a new version.

It's just a larger than normal patch.

Either way, MS botched it and I was resting easy.