Posts made by bnrstnr

@dashrender We have around 2TB of CAD data. We also have a nasty habit of hoarding old drawings.

@DustinB3403 Unitrends has always had a free option, whether it be through a SW promotion or other means.

@Dashrender It definitely seems like a ploy to get people to linger for another year until the next bump in pricing. Why take the product off the website if they truly have any intention of keeping it around long term.

We paid for it and it was totally worth the $350 at the time I did it (managing HV 2012R2 w/ win10 wasn't working very well). I have no regrets whatsoever switching to XSXO though, which also saved me a Unitrends subscription. Everything is easier (IMO) on XS, even using XC before I tried XO.

So after reading this thread, I logged into our old 5nine account to just check the pricing for myself... then magically, 30 minutes later, I get a call from a 5nine salesperson that wanted to inform me that the $400 option is definitely still available, it's just not on their website. So if you want to give them a call, that may be worth pursuing if you want to hold off changing your entire setup.

@wirestyle22 said in I can't even:

Can you use USB over IP for USB security keys? Can't think of why not

We do with zero problems. He's making excuses. The fact that he's the sole IT person for 13 sites is even more reason for him to be going virtual, his excuses literally make no sense.

The time alone that he has wasted on SW trying to figure out why his physical install isn't working, he could have installed a hypervisor and already had this thing up and running. Especially if he's already got other virtualization infrastructure in place and a preferred hypervisor.

@dbeato said in Cable Management - Methods to the Madness and what happens when you need to replace:

@Grey Yeah, if they bought those cables

If they bought those cables they must have money to burn... $120 for (10) 3 ft. cables. ouch.

@coliver said in Feedback on Resume:

Hence why looking at a title means literally nothing. Look at work experience and skills. Those will tell you more about someone then a title ever could.

This is kind of what I was getting at with my original comment, title means nothing to some people and everything to others

@wirestyle22 Exactly why I said you should consider your audience. I don't know where you work now and I don't know what companies your applying at. I'm just saying if we're looking at a resume that said "senior petroleum logistics engineer" it's probably somebody that doesn't fit our culture.

If somebody puts an outlandish title it likely means that they're coming from an environment we cant relate with or looking for a fluffer position that we aren't offering, that's why it could be seen as a negative. We work a lot in the automotive field, and it's pretty easy to spot somebody that just likes to progress through the ranks and may not actually bring much to the table.

I think a lot of the title stuff depends on your audience. In my experience, giant corporations love the ridiculous titles, where in small business, a title could easily land your resume directly in the garbage can. This is what we look at every day sifting through resumes, but then again, we are essentially a mom and pop shop.

@aaronstuder I believe an update script from FreePBX is in the works

Semi off-topic here, but we still run Elastix 2.4, should there be any urgency to upgrade to the new(er/est) FreePBX?
We rarely change/add anything and Elastix is still working fine for us. On-premise install with no remote extensions or anything.

We had one of these for years, until we just recently grew out of it. We've never had to punch any new lines or anything so that wasn't an issue.

Love the replies, I have nothing to contribute because the discussion has transcended far beyond my lack of expertise lol

Definitely appears to be a small space where it's beneficial, but for 99% of us the free ones are preferred and most will never see a scenario where it's truly needed

I can see where @Jimmy9008 is coming from, vMotion is literally the only specific feature that has been brought up so far in this thread

@DustinB3403 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:

"I absolutely need vMotion to ensure my systems are up 100% of the time, I have a server infrastructure of 3 or more hosts."

I interpreted this as something somebody might say to justify using VMware, though it may be the incorrect decision... Maybe that's not what @DustinB3403 meant by it at all

@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:

Agree. I think Dustin missed my point. vMotion offers little more than the standard move feature in the free hyper-v.

From the whitepaper, there needs to be shared storage for this... which makes sense.
"First, the entire state of a virtual machine is encapsulated by a set
of files stored on shared storage such as Fibre Channel or iSCSI
Storage Area Network (SAN) or Network Attached Storage (NAS).
VMware’s clustered Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) allows
multiple installations of ESX Server to access the same virtual
machine files concurrently."

vMotion appears to copy the state of a VM from host A to host B, while keeping the VM "live", if host A crashed while running 5 VMs, as stated above, how could it fail over to host B instantaneously in the same exact state?

Everything I've read about vMotion (though never used it) makes it sounds like Host A would have to be up to do a live migration (hence the "Live Migration"), if host A crashed, the state would already have to be present on Host B to fail over to... no?

That's what I thought... I was just reading SW - Options in virtualization Setup and the last reply was recommending Hyper-V or VMWare (which is obviously bad advice). It amazes me how frequently it's recommended, when upon any research it's a no-brainer that the free ones are the way to go.

Though I only have extremely limited IT experience, so I didn't know if there were ever cases where it becomes the correct choice.

When is VMWare ever the recommended option for a new setup?? Is it ever?

I'm not considering it or anything, I'm just curious.