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    Burned by Eschewing Best Practices

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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @brianlittlejohn
      last edited by

      @brianlittlejohn said:

      @scottalanmiller Hopefully he has an actual RAID card.

      Not looking likely.

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      • brianlittlejohnB
        brianlittlejohn @scottalanmiller
        last edited by

        @scottalanmiller Thats a shame.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
          last edited by

          It's a Lenovo Thinkserver TD350

          td350.png

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller
            last edited by

            And... it's FakeRAID.

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            • RomoR
              Romo
              last edited by

              He could still use software raid, couldn't he?

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              • RomoR
                Romo
                last edited by

                I use mdadm with our kvm vm hosts, I haven't used xenserver but I would think mdadm would also be a possibility for him

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @Romo
                  last edited by

                  @Romo said:

                  He could still use software raid, couldn't he?

                  That's what we are preparing to walk him through now. With XenServer that's a bit of a learning curve, though. Not going to be run.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller
                    last edited by

                    https://blog.trendelkamp.net/2015/02/configure-software-raid-xenserver-6-5/

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @Romo
                      last edited by

                      @Romo said:

                      I use mdadm with our kvm vm hosts, I haven't used xenserver but I would think mdadm would also be a possibility for him

                      Yes, works the same. But for someone who is new to Linux this will be a shock to his system.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        This guy is in for a tough time. No AD for 40 machines..

                        http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1274733-40-workgroup-pc-s

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                        • RojoLocoR
                          RojoLoco @scottalanmiller
                          last edited by

                          @scottalanmiller said:

                          This guy is in for a tough time. No AD for 40 machines..

                          http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1274733-40-workgroup-pc-s

                          ...and all are home versions, some Vista.... ewwwww

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller
                            last edited by

                            Yeah, it is going to be tough. No AD with forty machines. Not fun. But I've seen way bigger without AD, it's not that bad. I'd rather AD, of course. But you can do a lot without it.

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                            • StrongBadS
                              StrongBad
                              last edited by

                              That's a lot of PCs to have no Active Directory. Going to need to do ridiculous things like having common admin passwords or using Keepass and storing tons of passwords.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller
                                last edited by

                                Not a bad approach.

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                                • DustinB3403D
                                  DustinB3403
                                  last edited by DustinB3403

                                  Here is another topic of it, where an IT Department virtualized, but failed to develop and deploy a proper backup solution. Now the IT person is stuck manually restoring files and ActiveDirectory from a Snapshot created in January!

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                                  • brianlittlejohnB
                                    brianlittlejohn @DustinB3403
                                    last edited by

                                    @DustinB3403 I wonder if that snapshot from January is part of what messed his system up when it lost power. You shouldn't keep snapshots hanging around that long. Nothing but trouble.

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                                    • DustinB3403D
                                      DustinB3403
                                      last edited by

                                      Well the story appears to thicken, as he was panicked (not having a recovery strategy) and simply restored with what he saw...

                                      So likely it did.

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                                      • brianlittlejohnB
                                        brianlittlejohn @DustinB3403
                                        last edited by

                                        @DustinB3403 Panicking leads to bad choices.

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @brianlittlejohn
                                          last edited by

                                          @brianlittlejohn said:

                                          @DustinB3403 Panicking leads to bad choices.

                                          And bad choices lead to panicking.

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                                          • DustinB3403D
                                            DustinB3403
                                            last edited by

                                            And the plot thickens even more.

                                            he has separate DC's, that are for an Old DC.

                                            So only having 1 DC. More of that eschewing practice...

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