@JaredBusch said in Veeam Active Full or Synthetic Full?:

Because I sync Veeam’s backup target (a Synology NAS) to B2, I do not use the synthetic full that daily recreates the full backup. That would cause the entire vdk to need to be uploaded to B2 every day.

In my case I set up active full to run on Fridays. A different server each Friday. Stacking various serves on the same Friday to balance the load over the month.

Then daily incrementals.

This is also exactly why I don't do this.

@Jimmy9008 said in VMQ issues/Veeam/Windows Server 2019...:

@dafyre said in VMQ issues/Veeam/Windows Server 2019...:

@Jimmy9008 said in VMQ issues/Veeam/Windows Server 2019...:

@dafyre said in VMQ issues/Veeam/Windows Server 2019...:

@Jimmy9008 said in VMQ issues/Veeam/Windows Server 2019...:

@dafyre said in VMQ issues/Veeam/Windows Server 2019...:

@Jimmy9008 said in VMQ issues/Veeam/Windows Server 2019...:

Hi folks,

I am having VMQ issues on my 3 x Windows Server 2019 host. I am using a team of Intel X550 NIC (3 x 10 GbE interfaces to 3 x Stacked switch). The Team has been configured using Switch Independent mode.

Now, VMs are on the LAN perfectly and communicate. Rock solid.

Now to the issue. When I use Veeam with Application Aware turned on, the hosts get stuck creating checkpoints for VMs at 9%. The only option is to kill the host, restart and turn the VMs back on. It happens every time. (Strangely, checkpoints run fine native).

Veeam have looked at the logs and have said its an issue they have seen before, and to turn off VMQ initially on NICs and VMs as that often solves the issue. No worries. I do that, and the backups then run fine - perfect!

However, VMs over time then drop off of the network. I can connect to them in Hyper-V, but nothing I do will bring them back on the network. Initially they are on the network, just at some point in time many drop off, whilst others stay on.

The only resolution is to turn VMQ back on and reboot. I cant really keep testing this either as it causes much downtime! Not good. Of course, when VMQ is back on... Application Aware backups then fail and kill the host like I said at the start 😕

Any idea why some VMs drop off of the network with VMQ disabled on the VM and NIC? Host, fully patched. NIC, latest firmware. I thought you didnt have to use VMQ...

Best,
Jim

Is the the same VMs that drop off the network every time?

What OS are the VMs that get dropped off the network?

What kind of switches are you running?

Uncertain. I've noticed a few are the same, but I've had no time to really look in to it. Too many users. I'm trying to get ideas that could be the issue to do proper testing with downtime around Dec 20th when a lot are on holiday.

I think 2012 R2. Possibly 2016 too. Can't recall any 2019.

Dell N4064 Stack.

Try the ArpRetryCount trick. You'll have to reboot each VM or host after you make the change.

Ok, I can try that. So:

disable VMQ physical disable VMQ on all VM NIC change registry reboot

Sound about right?

change the registry on any machine that is down.

But yeah, that sounds about right.

Do I need to change the reg on the host too?

I would go ahead and do it, yeah.

My reasons for a low-end switch with SFP ports was also due to warranty. Most of the stand-alone media converters have a 1 year warranty. I can get Netgear, D-Link, etc with a Lifetime Warranty. Made sense in my application.

@Dashrender said in 2-in-1 laptop for a C-Level:

Around these parts you'll get no love for anything Lenovo - After SuperFish, that company is blacklisted - if not for life, for a long while yet.

I have used a few Surface Pros - they seem fine for the most part. My wife has an SP5 - she seems to like it. I just rolled out an SP6 to my boss 6 months ago - no issues so far.

I agree with sticking with the Latitude series on Dell - this is a company laptop, so go with business gear.

I know JB has an XPS, and as far as I know, he likes it.

No, mine is an Inspiron, bought at MicroCenter when my previous machine died a day before an international trip to a client.

I try to stick to the latitudes for clients.

It looks like it may be possible if I connect to the DB servers, which isnt what I wanted. The binary audit file is being written to s3. I want someone just to be able to review it like that.

@FATeknollogee hi, what model of sfp are u using. I'm getting the same error. Thanks!

It looks like you'd probably want ZRS

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-redundancy

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Offline files:

@black3dynamite said in Windows Offline files:

@wrx7m said in Windows Offline files:

@dbeato said in Windows Offline files:

I disable Windows Offline Files for that reason, it is a pain to deal with and causes more problems than anything else. But yeah, even if it was locked out and the computer went to sleep it will mark it as offline since the computer detected a change on the network connectivity.

^^This. I have been disabling offline files for 15+ years. It never works the way people expect. #chasingghosts

It’s been about two years for me too since moving away from Windows Offline Files to Nextcloud/OneDrive.

And no regrets, I bet.

I would expect a similar situation to still exist for the situation I put forth above.

same system before and after the fedora 31 upgrade.

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@Romo said in Forced Double Sided Printing:

@travisdh1 Thank you, the change there solved the issue.

You'll never guess who ran into that same issue just a few days before you posted. 😆

This is awesome. Thank you. I am energized now.

@Dashrender Yes. Yes it is.

@IRJ said in Microsoft Fail - SQL Server on Linux does not log successful logins:

@dafyre said in Microsoft Fail - SQL Server on Linux does not log successful logins:

@DustinB3403 said in Microsoft Fail - SQL Server on Linux does not log successful logins:

You'd SSH into your SQL server as a server user, and if you had to from there login to the SQL database as the admin (or another SQL user).

I don't argue that you could do this. However, tools like SSMS are great for syntax checking and providing other utility that, while could be done from a CLI session are more difficult.

This is especially true when altering stored procedures or running complex queries.

The cross platform CLI is still in beta. The Linux tool does alot, but not all the stuff you can do with SSMS or Azure Data Studio

Windows: SSMS does everything in GUI.
Windows/Linux/Mac: Azure Data Studio does everything via SQL, some limited bits via gui, but mostly just to create the SQL for you.

CLI is just raw SQL.

@DustinB3403 has no idea WTF he is talking about.

@marcinozga said in Firefox security issues:

@Emad-R and @Dashrender lol rookies, I've been using FF since it was called Phoenix. And Mozilla Suite before that.

We're showing our age 😞

@JaredBusch how did you setup your NIC for the workstation that had to remote into the AD via ZeroTier? I'm still trying to figure out exactly what was statically assigned as your post wasn't too clear for me (this is new to me).

@pmoncho said in How do you get your departments to quantify what they actually need for their jobs:

Your more than welcome to dive into https://issurvivor.com/ and search his archives

His only mention of MSP is from Nov, 2000 when he discovered the term. And he talks about ASPs as well. I had started my first of both, over a hear before he heard the terms 🙂

https://issurvivor.com/2000/11/20/trend-overload-first-appeared-in-infoworld/

It really was a new term at the time. But he acts like the concept was new. It was very tried and true in the 1990s. It's an ancient article, just funny that in late 2000 he was thinking that MSPs were some hot, new thing, lol.

@scottalanmiller ehhh, this isn’t a university It’s a trade school (oddly one that certified people in CCNA, helicopter repair etc). It’s a decent trade school but I suspect like a lot of universities an schools in rural areas they count of low job competition for non-remote entry level work. For what it’s worth a large 4 year university on the Brazos was paying only 40K for The head of ResNet department.

Universities priorities are strange. From a compensation plan free student tuition, and free masters often mean they can treat a lot of salary positions line work study jobs from a comp basis.

For what it’s worth I’ll likely be (jetlagged) but back in Waco for the OU game (or any games after it). I’ve made it to only one game this season sadly.

I have friends who still live in Waco but they all work remote. There’s a decent work from home Wordpress community there. The job market isn’t great for IT infrastructure unless you have clearance but even then [Redacted] IT is so frustrating wild horses couldn’t drag me back into one of their offices.

Just move to Houston or Dallas or another market until you can skill up enough to work remote.

Normally, I start with 2 vCPU and 4 GB RAM for GUI-enabled Windows guests and 2 vCPUs with 2 GB RAM if they're GUI-less. Lots of trivial AD workloads like DC, DHCP, DNS, NPS etc. run fine with 1 vCPU but I found assigning one extra virtual CPU does make updates running somewhat faster. In most cases in my experience where VM CPU usage jumped above 75%, the spinning rust was the culprit, especially if a SAN was in use, it had nothing to do with the actual host's CPU power.