@ewwhite The Highline and one of the food places. Very nice.
Definite risk that I'm going to spend all my free time trying to find a good sysadmin job and decent place out in NYC I can afford, so I can kiss the Midwest good bye after I finish the current 18-24 month project I'm on.
The linux version of vCenter was already present. I dislike it as well, and have already downloaded the windows version... Just isn't the priority at the moment
I complained about ILO not being setup.
I have iLO enabled on the new server I just installed, and when we move to the new datacenter I am going to be enabling iLO on all the Vmware hosts
One of the hosts is missing an entire 4-port NIC...
Host 3 only has one network connection for now. Need to see how many open ports we have left. (on the switch)
@MichaelHampton Its always rough coming into a network that someone else has done, because they always do things differently to how you think it should be done. So it's tough to make a call between incompetant and just 'not the way I would have done it'
But having your iLO/DRAC unconfigured? That's either incompetent, or incompetent
@ewwhite That one about the free ports on the switch made me lol; I installed a new VMWare server in a doctors office a few months ago, just to find out that they had a 6-port 10/100Mb switch running the entire office. Which was of course full
So I sent the secretary out to buy me a proper switch from the local electronics store. I told her to make sure it was a 16-port gigabit switch. I even wrote it down. She came back with an 8-port 10/100Mb switch.
Its only a small office, with no rack, so I wasn't worried about unmanaged. But that's one of the reasons why I try to stay away from really small networks
(but there's a lot of money in doing doctors. They don't even blink at $120/hour)
I realise I'm not in the league of people like Womble and Evan Anderson, but shit, anyone who can piss int he toilet without mucking up the floor is better than a lot of the people I see around now
@ewwhite Speaking of, if you have a buttload of servers manageable over IPMI/RMCP+(?), what do you use to manage them? Some free or paid management tool for monitoring and remote KVM?
@MikeyB Ok, 10k is about 9.5k more than I could expect to manage in a single location
Are they all the same brand/vendor?
I've seen some pretty big Dell OpenManage installations
I'm sure that HP have something similar. Don't know about other brands; I know that SuperMicro have got some 10,000+ server installations so they should have something as well (and hopefully its better than their internal OOB interface, it sucks)
@ewwhite Same with the DRAC. It does expose some features, like PSU status and fan speed (yay?), and some interesting yet not critical things like power consumption. But it won't tell you about important things, like disk failures.
But you need an NMS that supports discreet IPMI sensors, which it turns out quite a few don't
In fact I'm still searching for a good method of monitoring disk failures on ESXi hosts
Mannnn every time I read something like this in a thread: Please don't dig up 12 month old postings where the "OWNER" said a suggestion "works great!" (support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/694465) I just want to scream
Especially as the 2nd answer after the "works great" answer is actually a better answer for what I want to do
If everyone did what they wanted, I wouldn't have found the right answer. I almost want to post anothdr answer telling him to shove it, just to bump that thread to their front page
Especially when the "great" answer has this on its linked page: This add-on has been disabled by an administrator.
Does anyone have anice little tool that will take (and write) images to a USB drive. Don't need any special features, it's just I need a couple of bootable USB sticks which aren't all straight forward to create, but not
enough sticks for what I need. So I want to take an image, reuse the pen drive and then put the image back when I'm done.
(and reading that back barely makes sense even to me, so sorry about that! I'm rushing :D)
@ColdT Because I didn't have tickets, though I would have loved to have gone. Went to see the Synchronised Swimming on Friday and spent the day in the park - thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing
Yeah, was quite tempted to hang around London for Sunday but had to be home for a reasonable time
I also wish I'd have had a tripod for when it went dark, but there was no way I was going to cart one round all day. In fact, I'm not even sure you can take them into venues anyway
This morning's "PLZ GIVEZ ME TEH CODEZ" help ticket: Chris, we can get a Windows VPN in to $CLIENT, but the RDP connection won't connect from here at the office. It does work elsewhere. Please help.
MySQL Wowkbench is the best free DB design tool I've ever used. And there are plugins available for exporting various scripts (create DB, modify this or that) that are compatible with other DBMSs (SQLite springs to mind immediately)
@lsiunsuex I meant: 3 glasses of wine later, suddenly you had had two bottles? (i.e. the sudden realization you've drunk that much without realizing it)
last time i drank 2 bottles of wine in 1 sitting was my 21st birthday. and that did not end well (before i knew the difference between good wine and shit wine)
Here's a question, does having more memory than Windows supports (From a licensing perspective, not a physical limit) impact performance or is that a myth. Makes sense to me that it can, as it's managing something it can't utilise but does it, and if so, is it noticeable?
I thought about asking as a proper SF question, but it seems a bit too open to debate
what a moron. $sysadmin[3] imported a users email from another pc, but instead of putting it in a pst, imported it into their ost. now the user has 500mb+ of email on the server. a BIG no no in our company
Yep. I quote our clients the same. And if they balk, I say "well try one and see if you like it"....What they do with their one code is not my business.
If HP ever changes the keys so that it's specific per machine or something where you can't use them on multiple, I could get a budget approved for our internal use... They're plenty useful enough.
It's pretty rare that I use iLO's advanced functionality. It's usually someone calling me when I'm on vacation asking "Why isn't this server turning on?"
I know it something that either supplements or replaced iLO with an integrated control "server" (runs on Windows and Linux)... I've got that much out of the marking BS.
I'm sorry - you were expecting it to do something for YOU, weren't you? Um... It depletes your excess capital budget so you can get more next year? :-)
I spent the past weekend creating a VirtualBox instance with the perfect setup. Once I was finished I tried to tar+gzipi the virtualbox for sharing with others, and I accidentally ran the following:
kamilski81:~/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized:ruby-1.9.3:$ ll
total 18450696
-rw-r--r--@ 1 ...
@jscott Haha. To top it off, I've just had a half hour 'debate' about how the internet and routing works which basically boiled down to someone using the phrase "hosting company" instead of "ISP". Ar fucking argh
@84104 Windows file sharing for a local network. It's completely open, no login requirements at all. But at least it's all encrypted so while anyone can get to anything, nobody could eavesdrop on what each other is looking at.
I am building a personal server. I want to be able to access this server from anywhere, and I don't want this server to get blocked. It is my understanding that HTTPS encrypts my traffic, but I also heard that it doesn't completely encrypt it. I heard that if you go to a website with a domain, a ...
@Iain well I'm assuming you've had enough booze (or pot, or pills, or something) to be very mellow, otherwise you'd shove the IP protocol up their ass sideways...
Some days I want to become a consultant who charges 6 figures plus expenses to come in and fix whatever some previous idiot did to people's environments
@ewwhite that's not a concern -- I have no faith in the skills of other engineers. If IT monkeys designed bridges we'd be replacing them every 3 years because they collapsed into the river :P
@voretaq7 I have ~30... and things range from recurring hosting/backup services, a retainer for some places (to ensure I pick up the phone) and traditional hourly billable work at ~$180-$200.
It gets confusing sometimes, but I've worked with most for 8-10 years.
But I didn't want to grow into a full-on consultancy.
Because I can't compete on non-specialized technologies like Windows and Cisco, where there are a ton of good consultants available.
Is it good to have partition of 800GB on RAID1?
I am planning to install a server with
/boot - 500 MB
/ - 50 GB
/opt - 800 GB
SWAP - 8 GB
All the partition with RAID 1 on two WD enterprise HDD.
Please suggest your valuable views.
this may be very off topic, but I need to know when the was the first time the term "help desk" to describe IT support activities and who coined it. I read somewhere that it was IBM in the late 70s, but I could not find confirmation. Its for school work.
is there any expert service desk manager...
I have a RedHat 7.2 server that was set up by someone else long ago as an e-commerce server. It is still in use for that purpose and I dare not make significant changes to it as my Linux-fu is weak.
But now I want to set up a virtual machine to run under redhat and can't find a source of inform...
I'm trying to run my first "process" program, but I get the following error :
./fork.c: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `('
./fork.c: line 4: `int main()'
I'm pretty sure that the code is correct:
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
pid_t pid;...
@lsiunsuex I think if you have it powered through USB it'll stay running
I'm certain where they're supporting streaming directly, it'll also behave
Just keep in mind that the "fancier" supported one is via the newer Pro2 model. The Pro can probably stream through computer, but I don't know the details
Not really/kinda. More like I've decided that moving to midtown Manhattan is going on the 5 year pipedream plan. I mean, even though I'm easily worth it, and salaries are higher in NYC, I'm not sure there are a lot of job postings for sysadmins at 200k/yr and up. :(
Ya, no doubt. :( looks like I may need to heavily supplement any in-career salary with a healthy dose of electronic theft and fraud. Or actually, may have to supplement my electroni theft and fraud with a high paying sysadmin job.
@ewwhite a lot of everything - heavy on virtualization and high optimzation for high performance/high speed computing in a big DC environment, with enough of everything else to keep it together, and avoid being dangerous. Still, not gonna be enough to live in Midtow, so it's just a pipedream.
I spent the past weekend creating a VirtualBox instance with the perfect setup. Once I was finished I tried to tar+gzipi the virtualbox for sharing with others, and I accidentally ran the following:
kamilski81:~/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized:ruby-1.9.3:$ ll
total 18450696
-rw-r--r--@ 1 ...
Is it good to have partition of 800GB on RAID1?
I am planning to install a server with
/boot - 500 MB
/ - 50 GB
/opt - 800 GB
SWAP - 8 GB
All the partition with RAID 1 on two WD enterprise HDD.
Please suggest your valuable views.
I have a RedHat 7.2 server that was set up by someone else long ago as an e-commerce server. It is still in use for that purpose and I dare not make significant changes to it as my Linux-fu is weak.
But now I want to set up a virtual machine to run under redhat and can't find a source of inform...
I'm trying to run my first "process" program, but I get the following error :
./fork.c: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `('
./fork.c: line 4: `int main()'
I'm pretty sure that the code is correct:
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
pid_t pid;...
