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    • DustinB3403D
      DustinB3403
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      @RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      Trying to remember (or find) the PSK for my L2TP tunnel so I don't have to reset it a dozen devices... because 1 a-hole decided to factory reset his phone and then whine about "I haven't gotten my work email in over a week, wtf?" Well, you erased the f@cking connection, so of course you can't get work email....

      That's pretty extreme security for email... TLS not good enough?

      Our email server is not exposed to the outside, and now Crapple doesn't like the PPTP tunnel we already had, so I had to make an L2TP tunnel. It's for all purpose remote access, email RDP, everything. And now 1 guy ruins it for everyone (mostly me) by forcing the whole thing to get reset, and he can't understand why it isn't "pa55word". Yay, I love being forced to manually reconfigure every ipad and iphone here... again.

      I take it you didn't record the PSK somewhere you can find? Sadly I've done that before too. it sucks 😞

      I've looked everywhere I might have written it down, but I was "smart" and didn't write it down...

      I just remembered this thing the boss came up with, gonna try that (typing exercise as a password)

      Burned by not keeping clean and concise records, in a known location. Also for being "smart". . .

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        Built an IPOD because he sales guy told him too. Then was told to split his RAID array in two, buy Starwind and use Starwind to combine the two RAID arrays (on the same controller) back again.

        https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1980293-splitting-up-a-dell-scv2020-and-making-it-ha-with-starwind-vsan

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        • coliverC
          coliver @scottalanmiller
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          @scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

          Built an IPOD because he sales guy told him too. Then was told to split his RAID array in two, buy Starwind and use Starwind to combine the two RAID arrays (on the same controller) back again.

          https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1980293-splitting-up-a-dell-scv2020-and-making-it-ha-with-starwind-vsan

          None of that makes sense.

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          • travisdh1T
            travisdh1 @scottalanmiller
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            @scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

            Built an IPOD because he sales guy told him too. Then was told to split his RAID array in two, buy Starwind and use Starwind to combine the two RAID arrays (on the same controller) back again.

            https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1980293-splitting-up-a-dell-scv2020-and-making-it-ha-with-starwind-vsan

            I need a minion saying "Whaaa?"

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller
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              And... he wanted to put his backups on it, too.

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              • DustinB3403D
                DustinB3403
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                I can't see how that is at all logical. How did it come across to him that any of it made any sense at all?

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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                  @DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                  I can't see how that is at all logical. How did it come across to him that any of it made any sense at all?

                  I think "Because Dell said so."

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                  • DustinB3403D
                    DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
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                    @scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                    @DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                    I can't see how that is at all logical. How did it come across to him that any of it made any sense at all?

                    I think "Because Dell said so."

                    Oh well in that case, Dell also told me to cut off my left foot, because left feet stink more than right feet. Better do as they tell me...

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                    • JaredBuschJ
                      JaredBusch @DustinB3403
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                      @DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                      @scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                      @DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                      I can't see how that is at all logical. How did it come across to him that any of it made any sense at all?

                      I think "Because Dell said so."

                      Oh well in that case, Dell also told me to cut off my left foot, because left feet stink more than right feet. Better do as they tell me...

                      You have more than one left foot and right foot?

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
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                        Backups from another site. That part ended up being okay.

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                        • DustinB3403D
                          DustinB3403 @JaredBusch
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                          @JaredBusch said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                          @DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                          @scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                          @DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                          I can't see how that is at all logical. How did it come across to him that any of it made any sense at all?

                          I think "Because Dell said so."

                          Oh well in that case, Dell also told me to cut off my left foot, because left feet stink more than right feet. Better do as they tell me...

                          You have more than one left foot and right foot?

                          You'd think with the arguments some of these sales guys make...

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                          • nadnerBN
                            nadnerB @scottalanmiller
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                            @scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                            Built an IPOD because he sales guy told him too. Then was told to split his RAID array in two, buy Starwind and use Starwind to combine the two RAID arrays (on the same controller) back again.

                            https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1980293-splitting-up-a-dell-scv2020-and-making-it-ha-with-starwind-vsan

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                            • DustinB3403D
                              DustinB3403
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                              Whoo nice and shiny Fujitsu IPOD being built.

                              FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS DX60 S3

                              FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY RX2540 M2

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                              • travisdh1T
                                travisdh1 @DustinB3403
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                                @DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

                                Whoo nice and shiny Fujitsu IPOD being built.

                                FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS DX60 S3

                                FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY RX2540 M2

                                Not only did they order an IPOD, they don't have anyone to set it up or maintain it.

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                                • DustinB3403D
                                  DustinB3403
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                                  And uninformed management wants to be IT. great, I'm stepping out of the conversation.

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller
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                                    Skipped virtualization... https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1984445-installing-windows-server-2008-r2-on-poweredge-r630

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller
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                                      Here is one...

                                      https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1984445-installing-windows-server-2008-r2-on-poweredge-r630

                                      Lots of reasons not to go virtual, none are real of course. And it's pretty clear that their admin and decision maker aren't even sure what virtualization is!

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller
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                                        And another... went inverted pyramid and their performance can't handle a PBX!

                                        https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1984585-have-you-ever-virtualised-a-pbx-system-latency-headaches

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller
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                                          So glad that I didn't have to say it.

                                          @momurda

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                                          • coliverC
                                            coliver @scottalanmiller
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                                            @scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

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                                            So glad that I didn't have to say it.

                                            @momurda

                                            I don't mean to be a dick... but he's been "studying" virtualization for 5 years! He never once came across KVM, Xen, Hyper-V, or Esxi Free? That doesn't compute.

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