@HopelessN00b Probably. The majority of my tickets are for approvals. Yes...Yes...Yes...install updates first...yes...more information...MOAR INFORMATION...
@pauska Honestly... it's something I can without a change management meeting, a flurry of ignorant, dumbassed objections and 3 layers of red tape. Most infuriating thing about this job. All the damned paperwork, no productivity.
Hey ya'll... quick poll on KVM switches and preferences (what do you prefer?). We have a belkin OnmiView Pro3 that has caused nothing but problems. Trying to find something more reliable.
@JoelESalas this guy had his headphones in and the Director called him 6 times and he wasn't paying attention to his phone. Director came over and stood in his cube door, and the guy turned around all "what?"
@ScottPack Yeah, but I doubt you can call him on it. One thing I've noticed is that the amount of explosive rage someone exhibits over being told to knock the sand out his vagina is exponentially proportional to the amount of sand in there.
Like calling someone an asshat. The more asshatted they are, the worse they react to being informed of what everyone else knows.
Never use e-mail when it's time sensitive. Never use a phone when you can just walk over and talk to the person. Don't use technology as a crutch, or a way to avoid people/human contact.
@pauska Yeah, that could work. Arrange it like a RAID5 array. Just, instead of disks that will ultimately fail if you ever need the redundancy, you'll have VMs that will ultimately not failover if they ever need to.
@pauska Yeah, like how RAID5's rebuild kicks in on a hot spare and saves your array auto-magically if a disk fails. Works better in theory than practice. (Though I will admit that VMWare's DRS works a lot more often than a RAID5 rebuild.)
"I’d like to put some protection policies in place in reagards to our esx farm. Sunday we lost an esx node that had too many vm’s on it and had pairs of vm’s that shouldn’t have been on the same esx node."
In my opinion, we shouldn't have lost an ESXi node...
@HopelessN00b I'm sorry man, but you're way off right now.. You're talking about fault tolerance. I don't think ewwhite's porn site can afford that backend :)
And when they ask what GrASS is (because I've made it up) I'll answer with "Grass. You know, the green stuff in a field? Jesus, you should get out more".
@cole I can see it from his POV aswell.. getting a fancy syslog server up with web interface and what not is something all sysadmins would love to have, but never have the time to set up
is there a way to stream/monitor/log bash history to prevent the ability of someone hiding stuff?
would like to monitor and know every little thing that happens so that the list of commands and edited files can be checked and watched.
Would rsync be an ideal way or is there an actual program th...
Are you looking for long-term archival? Then you want tapes. Are you after something quick to access so you can restore the secretaries FY13 budget? Then you're probably better of with disk
@MarkHenderson 14 day retention on all data.. not talking about a specific product mostly asking if having a separate storage is sufficient enough or do people still do daily tape backups?
Wife just got approval for new computer. She has a 6 year-old 20" iMac. She sees the 27" iMac online, but it's not available anywhere. There's a 21.5" iMac out there that has limited availability. Would it just make sense to get a Mac Mini and a 27" Thunderbolt display?
@JoelESalas I tell people what it will cost. I don't alter my rate.
@MarkHenderson sorry im being too vague. What i meant is that user files and server database will be backed up daily with a 14 day retention. Also on this same storage unit, it will hold monthly images of the server
@NickM. Because if you're looking to protect from a building explosion, then you want a remote, off-site backup. Whether that means you use a "cloud" backup, or ship tapes off-site, or even ship a 2TB external drive offsite, it makes your Mean Time to Recovery very large
@NickM. you probably want a combination of both. Some fast, disk-based backups locally to keep your local backups, and then once a month ship some full backups off-site. You can either ship them using cloud storage, an external hard drive, whatever
@MarkHenderson The problem with tapes is that it requires having someone on-site. We do not have a tech on-site at that location to collect the daily tape backups and the users are as computer literate as a monkey
@NickM. Well that's not just a reason to ignore tapes. thats also a reason to ignore all removable storage, and thus your only options for disater recovery are internet-based backups
Whether you have a VPN to another office, or a service like backblaze, you're limited for choice
is there a way to stream/monitor/log bash history to prevent the ability of someone hiding stuff?
would like to monitor and know every little thing that happens so that the list of commands and edited files can be checked and watched.
Would rsync be an ideal way or is there an actual program th...
