What Are You Doing Right Now
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@StuartJordan said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just signed up for this webinar, looks like an interesting one:
https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2019/03/07/full-vdi-stack-xcp-ng-xen-orchestra-uds-enterprise/Yeah, I just got that email too
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@StuartJordan said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just signed up for this webinar, looks like an interesting one:
https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2019/03/07/full-vdi-stack-xcp-ng-xen-orchestra-uds-enterprise/So, if I'm running a home lab, would I want to do something like this other than to learn how or even just for cool factor? Does it mean that I'd have to 'up the voltage' and get a mega video card or something else that would show my ignorance?
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Found some instructions on how to install Ansible AWX https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/centos-ansible-awx-installation/
Guess I know what I'm going to by checking out over the weekend.
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@scotth it's entirely up to you if you would want to do this or not. I have dedicated servers in a Datacenter and have my own lab server at home and look after a couple of rds environments so this subject matter is of interest to me. What equipment are you running in your lab?
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@StuartJordan said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scotth it's entirely up to you if you would want to do this or not. I have dedicated servers in a Datacenter and have my own lab server at home and look after a couple of rds environments so this subject matter is of interest to me. What equipment are you running in your lab?
Proliant ML150G6 Dual Xeon Quad Core E5540 48GB RAM P410 Array Controller (No Cache battery). I just haven't bought one yet. Old box, I know. I picked it up for $750 with 6 2TB drives
VDI is something that I've heard about for years and have never taken the time to learn about other than how to spell it.
I have a 2GB Asus NVidia based card in it and GPU passthrugh is available in the settings. I've just never had the time to play with it.
Running XCP-NG 7.4. I have XO from sources and XCP-NG Center running. Been trying to update it for weeks. Life interferes. FreeNAS backup target. Linksys 48 Port GB switch. Picked that up for 50 bucks from a phone guy friend that takes care of one of our offices. Plus he recycles electronics -- no charge. If anyone is in NE Ohio, I'll pass along a request. -
About to go to an evening meeting.
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Watching Mean Girls
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Still working on my Office 365 deployment script.
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Waiting for power to come back
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@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Waiting for power to come back
Panama lost power today, too.
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Just got in from a meeting that went from like 6PM till 2:30am
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Another late night of on boarding new systems.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Waiting for power to come back
Panama lost power today, too.
It used to be this way in the DR , now in my town is always an issue with substations.
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@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Waiting for power to come back
Panama lost power today, too.
It used to be this way in the DR , now in my town is always an issue with substations.
Out of the frying pan and into the fire!
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Doing some domain transfers to CloudFlare.
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Heading to bed here.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Heading to bed here.
I haven't gone to bed, so that might happen later!
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
... talking about email, on the call.
Heh, was talking about calls, on email.
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@scotth nothing wrong with the specs of that system, perfect for learning with to be honest.
Don't overthink VDI, it's really just a collection of VM's with management tools for automatically creating machines from base images, load balancing, gateway management etc.Microsoft have their solution built into windows server called Remote Desktop Services, Citrix have their solution which adds more functionality on top of this and use a different connection protocol called ICA which uses less resources than RDP. VMware have their solution called VMware Horizon View.
I don't use VDI per say, I use session based desktops (shared Desktop) and would recommend using this for most scenarios, VDI is expensive, needs fast storage and needs to be setup and planned correctly. I've seen a company use a VDI solution that was crap to use due to the SAN being flakey and the environment not being setup correctly. VDI is excellent if used in the correct manner and for the correct purpose though.
There are trials you can use, download windows server evaluation and start off with RDS and see how you get on, I believe Citrix and VMware have trials for their products as well.
