Interview tomorrow. Getting everything ready.

@stacksofplates said in What is New in OpenStack Ocata Release:

@mlnews said in What is New in OpenStack Ocata Release:

OpenStack Ocata has been out for a month or so and has some great new features for you to look forward to.

• Auto-healing: Work was done in Heat to make it easier to recover from a service failure. When an outage is detected, you can have Heat automatically spin up a replacement service, and swap it out without any intervention on the part of the operator.

• Composability: Composable roles are a feature whereby you can specify details of how things are deployed, rather than allowing OpenStack to choose. You can, for example, specify that a particular hardware configuration be used for particular services. This is termed Composable Roles. Work was done in Ocata to expand this to composable upgrades, so that these roles are respected across upgrades as well.

• Multi-factor authentication in Keystone: Work was done in Keystone to improve support of MFA, including OTP (One Time Password) support, and per-user token expiration rules.

• NFV: Network Function Virtualization continues to be an area where we're seeing a lot of activity, and so a lot of the work in Nova, Neutron, and various other projects focus on these developments. NFV has become more stable in this release and is more fully integrated into TripleO for ease of deployment. This effort is happening under the Apex project.

• Upgrades: Upgrades were a common theme across all projects, with the emphasis being the ability to upgrade from one release to the next with as close to zero downtime as possible. Much of this work centers around TripleO, Heat, and Mistral, for orchestration and automation of the process.

• Containers: While centered around the Kolla project, containerization was a theme in many of the projects this cycle. The eventual goal, at least according to some, is that OpenStack services will be deployed in containers by default by the Pike release. This, of course, poses a real challenge for the Ocata -> Pike upgrade path (migrating from non-container to container in the course of the upgrade), and that's something that the TripleO people are working hard on.

• Security: TLS-everywhere made strides forward in Ocata, with connections between services moving to TLS. This involves changes to Barbican as well, for key management for the shared keys between services, to ensure that your traffic is secure between components of your cloud, which may be located in different data centers around the world.

• Collaboration: Something I heard more this year than in previous years was talk of collaboration between projects. This has, of course, always been happening. However, at the PTG in Atlanta, it was a major focus, with time set aside for cross-project meetings focusing on the interface between one service and another. I also heard from several people that the PTG allowed a focus, and a camaraderie, that was not possible when the design summit was part of OpenStack Summit. This resulted in fewer interpersonal tensions, and a lot more work getting done.

I really wish I had a reason to set this up.

Right!?

@scottalanmiller said:

It's common knowledge that nVidia has made a lot of FakeRAID systems over the years (software RAID masquerading as hardware for the purpose of fooling customers.) But has nVidia ever made any hardware RAID or are all nVidia RAID systems always FakeRAID? That's my real question. I've never heard of nVidia making hardware RAID controllers, but I want to be certain that the term "nVidia RAID" can be assumed to be synonymous with FakeRAID or do you have to look it up on a case by case basis?

I've never heard of nVidia RAID as a hardware option. Always software/bios related.

@Minion-Queen said:

I am horrible with the name picking thing....

Better then me... I though MangoBunches would be appropriate. MangoFun is much better.

@Minion-Queen said:

But how did they know my shoe size even @art_of_shred wasn't sure about that one when I asked him!

Sounds like it was an inside job. Or Amazon is alpha testing their pre-emptive sales on you.

@JaredBusch said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:

@coliver said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/to-kill-net-neutrality-rules-fcc-says-broadband-isnt-telecommunications/#p3

Pai says that ISPs aren't a pipe to the internet by describing a pipe to the internet...

There are not enough foxes on the planet for the sheer level of FFS this shit needs.

Seriously. It amazes me that someone who is obviously so incompetent as to not understand what the internet is and where it came from can regulate it.

Do you have an Android or iOS device handy? I have the Wifi Analyzer app on my Android phone that works really well for this.https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farproc.wifi.analyzer&hl=en. Meraki has a similar too called Wifi Stumbler that works fairly well, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.meraki.wifistumbler&hl=en

@stacksofplates said in Senior IT Administrator in Gladstone, NJ:

Knowledge of server platforms such as: Windows Server 2010.

Uh?

The Alternate Universe is seeping through again. Get the amber ready.

9:30 meeting with @Minion-Queen. Hope she had a good drive down.

@nerdydad said in ReactOS 0.4.6 Coming:

@mlnews said in ReactOS 0.4.6 Coming:

ReactOS, the open source recreation of Windows NT

Why? If you haven't moved passed NT by now, its about time to just wipe the slate clean and start all over because the time and money you're going to spend trying to upgrade everything to the latest and greatest is going to be absurd.

All modern Windows systems are built on top of Windows NT. Windows 10 is on NT version 10.

@JaredBusch said:

I had a client buy an accounting package named Dysel that is based on NAV. The vendor attempted to tell me that i had to do that. I simply ignored them.

I installed the guest VM and created 3 VHDX and attached them. They logged in via RDP and installed from there. To this day I have no idea if they know it is virtualized or not.

I was told by our SAP vendor that they can't guarantee performance if it wasn't on a physical box. When I asked how they ran their ERP suite they said it was virtualized with VMWare, still didn't seem to understand the point I was trying to make.

@RojoLoco said:

I'm so in.... I'm guessing they have food along these trails? Besides cheese plates, of course. Gotta have nice cheese with wine tastings.

Some of the best restaurants in the Finger Lakes are actually the wineries. You won't go hungry.

Got our first hops harvest ever out of the family farm last night. This is just one row of 1st year plants. Next year we should have ~30lbs of hops per plant.

@rojoloco said in IBM and Sony Team Up for 330TB Tape Technology:

My last experience with tapes was the utterly useless LTO 4 or 5. Took days to back up, then restores didn't work at all. And 3/5 backup jobs failed, usually some sort of tape error. I've never had success with tape and I'm pretty sure my company would not invest any more $$$ is tape systems, even "modern" ones.

Were you using using backupexec by chance?

@Lakshmana said:

@thanksajdotcom OK My client is not interested to replace but he want to identify the component and he wants as to Solder the board

Holy crap... that is such a bad idea, do you or anyone on your team have experience soldering integrated components? The majority of the time those solders are done by a precise machine at the manufacturer. Buy a replacement board.

Oh man, I love Wegmans.

@johnhooks said:

I'm not sure what everyone else has done with their day so far, but I've programmed two printers.

I spent most of the day crawling around on top of and a bit under the raised floor in our data center.

@scottalanmiller said in Notorious Short-seller labels Ubiquiti Networks $UBNT as FRAUD:

They sound like Donald Trump writing Facebook ad copy

I may have laughed a bit too hard at this.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Panel is down again.

Same. Access to the instances is still working though. Maybe they are upgrading it but an announcement would be nice either way.

I think this is one of the bigger issues with C@C, they don't announce or communicate outages/upgrades very well.

If you want to do Finger Lakes wine, go to Watkins Glen and work your way around the lake. You'll be unable to stand before you get to the top.