Has anyone here ever actually had a nightmare-free vSphere upgrade?
From 5.0 to 5.1 I have had: - It doesn't recognise the FQDN even though it's valid - First installation failed so it rolled back the install, but left the database upgraded, so I had to restore the database - It failed because you can't use trusted certificates, you can only use their self-signed ones - This is clearly an un-tested bug because **everyone** with trusted certs for their vSphere has had this problem - The solution is to delete the SSL store and let it re-create it - Installation failed again due to another component
From 3.5 to 4 was much the same
4 to 5 was at least a bit easier
That ontop of my hatred of their website and the fact that random peoples keys are showing up in my account has put VMWare firmly on my shitlist at the moment
Dammit, I tried, but I can't resist the urge to point out that my laptop has multiple processors, >192GB RAM (RAM disks count as RAM, right?), doesn't go into a lower power mode, has multiple Ethernet ports, mirror RAID for the boot disk, hot swappable disks, upgradable RAM and CPU, OOB, a 4hr service contact, huge disk capacity and great support from Microsoft [for Windows 7]. :p (It's still not good for use as a server... though might make a better server than some of the circa 2006 servers we do actually use as servers...) — HopelessN00b2 hours ago
@MarkHenderson This has generally been my experience with women in IT - they had to deal with so many fucktarded 14 year old fratboys going ZOMG ITS GOT BREASTS that they became excellent at their job.
(Makes me wonder about the ones who didn't stick it out and if they'd at least be good/mediocre if they weren't run out of the profession by jackasses)
@voretaq7 Have you ever seen a female SysAdmin/NetAdmin? DBAs do not count. I've never been around a female SysAdmin in person. I only know of a few on my Twitter feed. I really do feel bad that they have to deal with the dipshits that they do.
@MarkHenderson I wonder if there's money to be made if someone was vastly wealthy enough to drop a fiber bundle between Australia and the Asian continent.
@WesleyDavid I suspect you might be over-estimating how much bandwidth costs :P but in 10 or so years yes I suspect it could pay for itself, but you need that last-mile bandwidth increased first
No good having a 10Tbps pipe when everyone is chugging it down at 3Mbps
Not my call, I wanted a light laptop and a beefy desktop, but this company is weird, so they ordered me the craziest laptop I've ever seen, overpaid by at least $2500, and pissed me off a little, since I gotta carry around a ~20 pound (?) hunk of metal everywhere I go. >:/
@HopelessN00b Ping only tells you if the kernel's IP stack is partially functional. It says nothing about the actual services you care about that are running on the machine.
Consider the real world example of a Linux box with a runaway process eating up so much RAM that it's thrashing around in swap space. Such a box will still respond perfectly well to ping as if nothing were wrong. Obviously something else is required to detect this sort of problem.
@MichaelHampton I know. It's not like I'm complete fucktard. "Our monitoring system is ping traces" would be the whole reason I turned down that job offer, actually. :p
Oh, and before you disconnect their port, push Windows Games back out to their workstation "by accident". Solitaire and Minesweeper still require no network access, and it will keep them not noticing anything wrong for hours.
@voretaq7 Maybe have been a better idea, in retrospect, but this was back in the day, during trying to extract myself from first "real" SA job at $[corporation], and I hadn't figured out just how easy being an SA is at that point.
@MichaelHampton Use of crypto means one of two things: you're hiding terrorism-related activities, or child pornography. You seem like a nice enough guy, so I gave you the benefit of the doubt when I reported you to the FBI, and said "terrorist."
@MichaelHampton Report them to homeland security. They're obviously Al-Kie-Duh and need to be invaded. I would not be surprised if they had WMDs or even New-Cue-Lure weapons. Because if you fool us once, shame on you, but if you fool us twice... well you just can't fool us again!
@MichaelHampton Oh, you're confused. No, no, when DHS gets my report of your terrorist-related, freedom-hating whatevers, they will launch the cruise missile at you.
And besides, DHS is so stupid that when there's a hurricane in Louisiana, they send emergency relief supplies to Maine. If they launched a cruise missile at me, it would land in the middle of the Mojave Desert.
Earlier this year my company started receiving repeat phone calls from a company claiming to be "calling on behalf of Microsoft." Most of them have come in to our customer service line and they have transferred them over to me. They keep wanting to know what CRM software we are using. When I ask ...
@MichaelHampton When you flag crap as NAA give them the Welcome To Serve Fault - The Ask Question link is over there -->" speech for me - I'm sick of cutting and pasting it :P
Might not last. I've noticed an irritating trend of people upvoting my 0-score accepted answers after the fact, which seems to keep them from counting towards that badge.
Funny thing is, I have a very similar TP-LINK box right on my desk here, and spent much of Saturday screwing around with it. DD-WRT on it kind of sucks, so I got rid of it and put on OpenWrt.
It also runs in client mode. Hell, in fact his network diagram looks very similar to mine.
@MichaelHampton Your network diagrams look like that? Nice. Can I get you to do some for $[current_job]? they don't even have to be accurate, as long as they look pretty, and I can say I'm working on them whenever someone drops by my desk.
@MichaelHampton Jah, what of it? There's something on Meta about it, being better than having to dig up a thread to ID the canonical questions we have.
yea. its somewhat like running a marathon and breaking your jaw on the finishing line. How can you be that good at coding, and that bad at deploying it?
A client have a couple of racks in a shared server room facility. The racks have wheels on them and they are worried anyone could simply access the server room, unplug all cables and roll out the racks within few minutes.
Does anyone know of any standard security practices one could take in secu...
@KennyRasschaert Agreed. I'm actually working one of those up right now, on how to pick a colo-facility... in part because this is apparently not as straight-forward, common-knowledge as I thought it was.
@HopelessN00b that was a recent and incorrect initiative but I'm fairly sure Kyle Brant wrote one a while ago. That it's not in the meta thread suggests that we don't get sufficient questions to warrant a cannonical answer though
@HopelessN00b I don't think it was resolved
It had previously been suggested and it died when as Mark says it was pointed out it would e a meta tag
Oh, meh, well, can't say I care much if it's canonical or not, but I'm still doing one of those self-answered Q&A things about it, along the lines of this one I did not too long ago. Seems like a good idea, and basic shit every SA should know, even if they don't for some reason.
Especially with the option to install Server Core in Server 2008 and above, connecting to Windows servers over a CLI is increasingly useful ability, if not one that's very widespread amongst Windows administrators.
Practically every Windows GUI management tool has an option to connect to a remot...
Here is a list of questions I made for myself last time I went datacenter shopping:
Explain what it would take for sprinklers to go off on our equipment.
What will remote hands be willing to do? For example, install hard drives, rotate tapes…
Are your remote hands available 24/7/365, average w...
Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is about eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried. ~ Robert A. Heinlein
That quote pretty much sums up the way I feel about SO moderation.
Yeah, but you let that slide, and before you know it, I'll be re-tagging posts with other meta-tags, like luser and nuke-from-orbit and error-code-id-10t and so on.
@Chopper3 the low has been sat over the NW so we've had 3 days where it's just pissed down continuously - it stopped for a bit earlier but it's started again now
@SmallClanger Over a gigabit line? Good luck with that. It would take a year just to download all the porn I've gotten off the internet over a pipe that small.
@SmallClanger I don't think we're talking about the same thing here. I'm talking about the internet, that worldwide network of porn servers. What are you talking about?
@tombull89 "As the new IT manager I've inherited this infrastructure from previous outside contractors that have come in to help maintain our company network."
Translation:
I work for cheap asshats who were finally forced to hire an FTE IT guy.
I’m slightly irked that OpenNMS’s discovery daemon relies on ping replies to determine what node to stop and scan deeper. One way to explicitly scan an interface is to use the send-event.pl tool provided by OpenNMS. So, I scripted the automated scan of each IP address on my subnet: #! /usr/bin/perl -w use strict; foreach ( (1 .. 254) ) { …
Bollocks, had planned on spending all day tomorrow doing hand-over for while I'm away but I'd just been told I have to go into hospital for a few hours, they need to inject me with some more radioactive shit to be scanned - I'd better get some fucking super-powers out of all this
I call bullshit on this one, he's a programmer who can't answer this question, who would trust that big a spend on someone like that? serverfault.com/q/432146/1435
In what units are the numbers given by w command in? If the load average is 45, is it 45%?
root@host [~]# w
09:15:30 up 16 days, 16:49, 1 user, load average: 45.31, 39.31, 32.86
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
root pts/0 66.31.20.103 09:06 0.0...
This came across Twitter this morning: You know, that works suspiciously well. Certain Forces are most definitely pursuing correct behavior the same way they still tell kids to "just wait, it's better if you do. Trust us."...
@ChrisS 10.4.7 was the first release where chunks of the main OS started using 64-bit'ness if available, 10.5.0 made this much more widespread and allowed you to work in 64-by-default mode, 10.6 automatically put you in 64-bit mode if you could and 10.7 onwards only worked on 64-bit machines
This is a somewhat theoretical question about ZFS and RAID-Z. I'll use a three disk single-parity array as an example for clarity, but the problem can be extended to any number of disks and any parity.
Suppose we have disks A, B, and C in the pool, and that it is clean.
Suppose now that we phy...
@ewwhite Eh, I'm tempted to downvote your answer.. While I really don't care which side of the R5/R10 holy war you're on, the question can be answered quite easily and you didn't even attempt to do so. Also you seem to implicate that the RAIDZ would be resilvering during a replace operation which is not true.
@tombull89 Neither of them are too bad, unfortunately, I spent too much time thinking and the money has been spent on exciting things like a cat flap and garden storage.
@Dan Living the dream, then :P Only just noicetd the ML115's are in Bristol - while I could probably get away with 1 or 2U rackmountable they're a bit too big.
Is the a way I can have Apache return a 500 status when it receives a request from a particular (malicious) user agent?
In what units are the numbers given by w command in? If the load average is 45, is it 45%?
root@host [~]# w
09:15:30 up 16 days, 16:49, 1 user, load average: 45.31, 39.31, 32.86
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
root pts/0 66.31.20.103 09:06 0.0...
This is a somewhat theoretical question about ZFS and RAID-Z. I'll use a three disk single-parity array as an example for clarity, but the problem can be extended to any number of disks and any parity.
Suppose we have disks A, B, and C in the pool, and that it is clean.
Suppose now that we phy...
