v2 is murdering our tiny pipes at the smaller remote sites. We can basically be connected over iLO, or anyone on site can use the internet. iLO3 seems to do much better compression and doesn't choke out the link (or so I'm told).
Back to that whole "buy business class cable or DSL, FFS" thing I was venting about a while back.
Although... how much would shipping be on something like that? It is newer that some of our stuff.
Oh, nevermind... probably as much as it would cost to get one off eBay. All the red-tape around replacing our ancient boxes is really starting to wear on me.
@voretaq7 Awesome, thanks. That's actually the kind of answer I was hoping for. Also matches pretty well with what I thought reading the docs. I didn't expect my use case to be common, but I was hoping it might have been footnoted somewhere.
Love to. Know any upcoming weekends when the Navy recruits are on liberty? :D
Now I just need to get out there. But I think it might be considered unethical in some circles to destroy a piece of IT equipment just to get a flight out there on the company dime. :)
@PeterGrace I am of course expecting the cruel hand of fate to turn on my environment next. I believe I will run an unscheduled restore test to the virtual environment tomorrow to verify positive backups. It's not paranoia if the hardware really is out to get me!
Charles Stross, SF author, posted a talk he gave at TNG's Big Tech Day in June of this year. In the talk he postulated what one aspect of computing would look like that far in the future with Moore's and...
Objective:You have been hired by a company after a developer was fired for cause. Another developer looked at his stuff and found it seriously lacking. He failed to live up to his obligations and was let go. However, the project...
IPv6 is an up-and-coming topic on Server Fault, especially since IPv4 address space exhaustion finally occurred for some parts of the world.
Yet I can't help noticing that serverfault.com has no AAAA record. Are there any plans to support IPv6? If not yet on a permanent basis, then perhaps for W...
Our extensions internally don't match our DID's, so I just fired up an enum table in dns and now people from denver can transfer calls to people in new york without needing to know their full phone number
@PeterGrace Fucking life saver. One of the things on my todo list before I go on holidays today is to find out how to get someone to drop something int our dropbox
@PeterGrace my office is on a SIP trunk - 100% reliable with the exception of when our provider craps itself. If you have decent redundancy it should be fine
I'm more angry at what I have to do that requires me to mess with service accounts. Mounting S3 storage as a drive letter accessible to services running as LocalSystem. Need I say more?
@MarkHenderson Well the service in question runs as LocalSystem, and when I run a command prompt in the LocalSystem context, I can browse the drive. So theoretically data should be written to the drive. But it's not.
So I'm going to shim something even MOAR dreadful in place.
According to shadow:
C:\Users\mark.henderson>shadow /?
Monitor another Remote Desktop Services session.
SHADOW {sessionname | sessionid} [/SERVER:servername] [/V]
sessionname Identifies the session with name sessionname.
sessionid Identifies the session with ID session...
@MichaelHampton Well considering that shadow's only purpose is to entirely replace your session with someone elses session, I'm not quite sure why it would print anything as you can't see it
I'm really not a lover or hater of any vendor or technology. I don't care who uses what. I find the *nix fanbois to be obnoxiously clueless in their Microsoft bashing and the Microsoft Evangelists to be marketing droids and every other platform apologist in between or on the sidelines to be just as fanatical.
However...
...sometimes I really want to throttle some Redmonders.
@WesleyDavid I have to take my human ball and chain and my spawn away for a few days. It will be horrible. Except for the wicked awesome play equipment, that'll be good. But heated pools! Beaches! Sad face.
@JoelESalas There's a project called Appaloosa Templates which replicate (most of) the Percona Cacti templates for Zabbix. Just thought you might like to know.
I got a problem with a old exchange server, where a user tried to send a 750mb email with a lot of images in it.
After he did that, the server stops responding. A reboot helps for a short time, but then it begins to lock up again.
He cannot open Outlook to remove the email there, because as so...
Not really, I was just asked to set up a VM for someone. I had to drop to 11 from 12 bcause the install for 12 hangs on startup and now from a clean install it's pissing me about like a 10-year old Windows ME install.
@Iain I'd go with Hopeless. NARQ is something that either simply doesn't have a question, or it's far too vague. In this case, the question is pretty clear cut IMHO
My company runs a conference center and wants to install a WiFi network using Ruckus ap's pwered by 250MBPS. managed and monitored what can I suggest they charge for access to users
I had an esxi server installed on a 500GB drive. the system also had a 2TB drive. I had put vm's on both drives. The 500GB drive has failed. When i attempt to connect the 2TB SATA drive to either Windows 7 or Ubuntu they both show the drive as empty.
I have installed vmfs-tools. When i try t...
It's Friday and the client just apologised that the site was closing a couple of hours earlier today. I think I pulled off my best "Oh, right - well that's not ideal, but I'm sure we can stay on schedule" while thinking "Early Beer and curry, whoop whoop"
le sigh Boss has an interview at 10am with a guy who would be very "grate full" for an interview, and "defiantly" want to come in... I think it's pretty showing when people can't manage to spell their everyday communications correctly (considering the prevalence of spell check), but when you have screwed up every single interaction with a potential employer... that's bordering on impressive.
Anyone that does independent consulting work have a framework for a contract I could look at? <cough>@WesleyDavid</cough>
$OldJob just had their vSphere cluster blow up and since they haven't replaced me, they want to bring me on over the weekend to fix it, but I've never consulted before
So it's just underpaid. The benefits are really good, but the difference in salary for those skills basically anywhere else in the city makes up the difference
It's a Sr. Systems Admin position. In Philly, there are plenty of 6 figure jobs for people with those qualifications
the difference in raw pay makes up for the higher ed benefit
Because of that, they're willing to hire someone that can grow into it, but it takes a long time to find someone that you'd trust with your core infrastructure right off of the bat that you can also grow
When the tuition remission becomes really attractive is when you have multiple college age children, but typically you have to be there 5 years for spouse/kids to qualify for that
@MDMarra I took over the position of a guy who left for high ed, just for that reason. Two kids in school in this district, they'll be going to the uni where he works for nearly "free".
I still can't make up my mind if I'd ever go back out of consultancy - whenever I'm ons ite I spend half my time thinking "Man, if I had a couple of months to sort this place out..." :D
According to shadow:
C:\Users\mark.henderson>shadow /?
Monitor another Remote Desktop Services session.
SHADOW {sessionname | sessionid} [/SERVER:servername] [/V]
sessionname Identifies the session with name sessionname.
sessionid Identifies the session with ID session...
I got a problem with a old exchange server, where a user tried to send a 750mb email with a lot of images in it.
After he did that, the server stops responding. A reboot helps for a short time, but then it begins to lock up again.
He cannot open Outlook to remove the email there, because as so...
My company runs a conference center and wants to install a WiFi network using Ruckus ap's pwered by 250MBPS. managed and monitored what can I suggest they charge for access to users
I had an esxi server installed on a 500GB drive. the system also had a 2TB drive. I had put vm's on both drives. The 500GB drive has failed. When i attempt to connect the 2TB SATA drive to either Windows 7 or Ubuntu they both show the drive as empty.
I have installed vmfs-tools. When i try t...
Hi anyone know a way to convert a VMWare workstation vm to hyper-v for Windows 8 pro?
