@MikeyB depends on your environment too. We had multiple 32 host clusters, fuck if I want to be rebuilding ESXi if things go sideways. (i.e. older IBM blades that would shit themselves occasionally) For us, it was just easier to manage a large environment.
@MikeyB Easy enough to pop in a new server and point the new server to the boot location, and now you don't have a single point of failure. (Unless your SAN dies, I suppose- in that case - Shame on you for not doing backups!)
@MDMarra - actually reminds me (funny now) of when I had a contract to migrate a company from Netware to Windows (with very little Netware experience). Was trying to figure out the broadcast command syntax. Apparently typing "SEND HELP" and "SEND ?" only ended up causing about 3,000 machines to show up with message boxes showing a question mark and then a HELP box. Had multiple calls immediately to my cell phone on that one.
Just got back from a customer who called us up to diagnose some weird Xsan filesystem related issues. Found an (arguable) bug in the way that OS X resolves ACLs. That's not the story. We sold them a new shelf for their storage subsystem a few weeks ago. They didn't take the installation services offered. Used their usual contractor to do it. He came in, said "Oh, we should rebuild your xsan luns for (whatever reason)." That's not the story. He backed up all the Xsan data (with rsync to an iSCSI LUN, how pro) and then nuked the Xsan luns.
I was told a similar story. At my last job, about 12 years ago when they were doing a server 2000 AD, he was trying to do net send to his wife as a joke and sent "Baby, I looooooove you" to the whole company.
Oh right! As a followup to that story, I checked back in later with them. Turns out, yes it was their corporate accounting info, test systems, non-Xsan file shares, etc. Kerboom.
Hey @ewwhite - just had my "cloud provider" crash 2 of my ERP system VMs 20 minutes ago. Apparently they were upgrading the host's A/V and somehow didn't vmotion off 2 of my servers. They aren't sure what happened but their excuse for doing this during peak hours was "I thought we sent out an email about this?" ...nope didn't get your email, not too thrilled.
@NathanC - my guess is that it uses API hooks to do a sort of remote scan from the host into the VM. As far as real-time scanning goes, not sure. It's voodoo.
Course, as bad as it was to here them say "we're using Trend" it could have been worse, they could have been using this place: hypertection.com lol...that screams "dude...I've got an idea!"
"Hypertection solution uses MS Essentials for Hyper-V hosts and free ClamAV engine for VMware ESX(i) hosts. Manage only hypervisor-based antivirus, do not think about client mashine software - and do not pay for it."
Essentially, you install a lightweight agent on each VM that gives visibility into the guest, then you have either a single AV client w/ defs and all that per host, or one in a VM per cluster that's responsible for the whole cluster
It's been around for a while, but it's not very popular
Perhaps you've seen this error: Version mismatch with VMCI driver: expecting 11, got 10. I get this every time I upgrade a kernel, and this is how I fix it....
@Cole Nope. I logged in as a non-root and it worked instantly
When I typed "root" at the prompt it actually sat and thought about it for a good 5 seconds. Like it was contemplating my demise for attempting to log in as root.
@MDMarra @ewwhite - is VMware Protect a recent product? I don't remember seeing it before now, but maybe it's been out for a while. Seems worthy enough if you really did want to go agentless.
Alright so I have a poker gathering tonight...and while I've played around on Pokerstars back in the day and know the basics...strategy for me is "ALL IN" most of the time. Anybody got a site that will get me semi-prepped for tonight's games?
@TheCleaner don't call a raise unless you have a good pocket hand. Raise pre-flop if you're one of the last betters and you've got suited connectors or a couple of face cards. Always raise at least 3x the big blind pre-flop. Always raise enough to scare people away. If you raise 5 and the big blind is 5, everyone's going to play because its cheap and you can't guage who's got what. If you raise 20, you know anyone in has playable hands
@MDMarra - so...based on your comments, if I'm the last better and nobody has bet pre-flop...and big blind is 10. If I have QD,KH, I should raise 30 and see who calls or raises again? What if they raise? Do I call them or bail? --- or worse scenario (for me at least), say I have QD,KD, and I raise 100 pre-flop and someone else goes all in...do I call or bail?
@TheCleaner if you're the last to bet, it means you're big blind. Depending on how many people are in you could either check (and see the flop for free) or raise and try and force weak hands out and not let them see a free flop.
It depends on how you want to play. Generally if you raise and the flop comes down 2 5 9 or something like that, it's a safe bet anyone that called a raise didn't hit any of that, but if you checked and a biunch of people got in for cheap, someone may have paired 9s or something and then you're in a pickle. But you also didn't put any extra money out
My problem on pokerstars was I could never figure out who might have what. I couldn't look at a flop and people's bets and go "yeah, he's got a pair now", etc.
@TheCleaner and if you're playing tournament style (like 20 bucks buys 1000 chips, play till you're knocked out) then as soon as you have less than 10 big blinds worth of chips left, you should go all-in as soon as you have anything that looks remotely nice
10 big blinds is where you start shoving all in with decent cards
@TheCleaner Yeah, raising effectively pre-flop helps. Sure sometimes people will call a big pre-flop raise with 88 or AJ or something like that. But generally it cuts down on people with like 45 suited and shit
So if an ugly flop comes down, like 367, you know no one hit a straight on it (most likely)
Of course, sometimes, in home games anything goes. Some people will call any raise just because they like action. So it's part personality, part forcing out junk hands before they can bite you
I have a Dell Poweredge 2900 that I'm upgrading from 4x SATA 250GB Drives in a RAID 5 situation to 2x SATA 1TB Drives in a RAID 1 situation. The box is running Windows Server 2003, with a PERC5/i controller card. As far as I can tell without too much prodding, the server is running RAID 5 with th...
At best try to screw around, the more weird faces you make the more confused everyone else will be by them.
Drunk doesn't work on me. I can be three sheets to the wind, if I was trying to look serious (like Poker Stars) everyone would know what I was holding.
@ewwhite they make good gear...if that's the question. But my guess would be the VAR/techs know their gear and/or have a partnership with them so they are recommending it.
I'm migrating a Rails project onto an Apache server. I've followed the steps similarly to this link (installed passenger as ruby gem, added some lines to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf, set Vitual Host to rails app ~/public directory.)
When I visit the site, I only see content of dispatch.fcgi. That ...
Does anyone know of a way that this is possible? I have a project that requires me doing this to about ~70 computers for a planned product revision to our testing group. Doing this manually will suck horribly.
In the past I've used registry keys to do a lot of my more menial tasks, but it seems ...
@Travis - for us O365 is cheaper than our other hosted solution. On-premise licensing is cheaper true, but we didn't want to mess with a datacenter, redundant Exchange server VMs, vmware, SANs...etc.
@TheCleaner Oh. I guess that makes sense then since you don't want the infrastructure. I got a demo of Lync web app and tried to use the Lync attendee to join it and can't get it to work.
CPU 10 BANK 9
TIME 1371055960 Wed Jun 12 12:52:40 2013
MCG status:
MCi status:
Corrected error
Error enabled
MCA: MEMORY CONTROLLER GEN_CHANNELunspecified_ERR
Transaction: Generic undefined request
STATUS 900000400012008f MCGSTATUS 0
MCGCAP 1000c18 APICID 40 SOCKETID 1
CPUID Vendor Intel Family 6 Model 47
Hardware event. This is not a software error.
"Microsoft has identified an issue with the Lync Online audio call feature. While calls performed from Lync to Lync are not impacted, and users are dialing calls without issue, some users served from the North American region may experience intermittent call failures when receiving calls. The available workaround is to try the call again, as subsequent attempts can be successful. The next update will be provided by June 14th at 6:00 PM UTC."
@TheCleaner I could join the meeting through the online page but the attendee client I thought was supposed to pick the client install and use it for the video/audio
