How much money did you guys pay to get in there?

@dafyre said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

There's also this:

Like lemming off a hill... or into traffic.

No more @Minion-Queen will @art_of_shred now be @Minion-King?

@PRPL said in Converting to a virtual environment:

@KOOLER said in Converting to a virtual environment:

@dafyre said in Converting to a virtual environment:

Their Endoint Recovery Free would work for backups in this scenario as well. And with that one, you do get file-level restores.

Unfortunately, it'd have to be loaded per VM, and is Windows only at the moment (Linux version just hit beta).

They are improving greatly and we'll get releases and fully commercially supported versions soon. VERY soon

Hi,

So, before rolling-out this project, I wanted to get a confirmation from all the vendors, on how their application would perform/react in a Virtualized environment, including vSANs (such as StarWind)... None , except one vendor (Apogee PrePress), seemed to have any issues... The surprising response we received from Apogee is that they've never tested their system with vSAN, nor do they have any customer references for the same... Hence, they would not be supporting it ... Major bummer !! :slight_frown:

Also, how are databases affected, when stored on a vSAN ?

How does that make sense. To the application the server is no different then a physical box. Literally the application can't tell the difference between a VM and a physical machine.

vSAN is just block storage. It is presented no differently then iSCSI or Fibrechannel.

@MattSpeller said:

@DustinB3403 said:

@JaredBusch I'm not twisting it into a mistake.

I'm just pointing out that even providing the information to your users (being users) is likely a poor decision choice.

Obfuscating the information of the number along would have been more then enough to stop them from making a poor choice.

Oh jeez, when someone actually is that stupid I'll send @JaredBusch a 6 pack and my trusty customer service baseball bat

FTFY

There is no primary or secondary anymore for AD.

@johnhooks said:

@coliver said:

@johnhooks said:

So if you're holding Bentley and you ask her if you can have a hug, she will lean her head in under your chin. Hits you right in the feel box.

Did we determine if this was your daughter or butler?

Ha it's my daughter. I don't think I could hold a butler.

And it is that negative attitude that will ensure that you never do.

@thwr said in Google renames Google Apps to G Suite:

@gjacobse said in Google renames Google Apps to G Suite:

@JaredBusch said in Google renames Google Apps to G Suite:

I just received this email.

Not sure what their point is in rebranding.

I could... but I'm not.

Confusion?

Strange new branding... At least they didn't name it "G Spot".

Yep, no proof G Suite exists either.

@NattNatt said:

Yep that's exactly how that works... A guy on Reddit told me so.

Man.... here I was getting really excited about a ML DnD game.

Good-bye expensive drone.

This is basically the security through obscurity argument. If knowing the CMS you are running is a security issue you should probably be using a different CMS that doesn't have the easy to access vulnerabilities.

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@dafyre said:

No more squid for me... ever.

That just means that it is really fresh.

I like my food fresh... but also don't want it trying to escape while I am eating it, lol.

I feel like there is a cannibalism joke in here somewhere.

@eddiejennings said in Food for thought: Fixing an over-engineered environment:

@coliver said in Food for thought: Fixing an over-engineered environment:

@eddiejennings said in Food for thought: Fixing an over-engineered environment:

Right now, I'm planning on one host with multiple VMs. So if I had this separate, internal network, methinks performance would be better on a virtual private switch, rather than using virtual external switches bound to a physical NIC that is a part of a separate VLAN on the physical switch.

Probably not. But you're talking yourself out of it now so I don't need to say anything else.

Yeah, during this thought process, I'll likely be talking myself out of most things that would be just a virtualized version of current architecture.

So green field it. Ignore current infrastructure for a bit. How would you make this work in an ideal environment. Then look at where what you have now differs from that ideal. Are those differences necessary? Would moving them toward ideal adversely effect users?

@dbeato said in What is cheapest way to get a house phone?:

Why do you need to be available when you are off? i did it once this year and I said I would not do it again. Which Inhave not done and told Evernote in staff and then administration.

I can understand being on call... Providing he is compensated for it.

@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller is talking to himself online...

No more then normal though.

From my reading most SEO "experts" are indeed con artists.

I really dislike sales people...

Them: I'm giving you the best deal I can
Me: Ok then we're going with this other solution that does the exact same thing for 1/3 the price
Them: Well let me see what I can do

15 Minutes later

Them: Ok here is the new price, you'll find it matches the competition's price exactly.
Me: Why didn't you give me this price to begin with?

@fredtx said in Any recommendations for new backup solution? Client wants to take backup copies offsite.:

I've got a client who has about 1.2TB of data and is currently using Backup Exec as their backup solution. They run full backups every night and take each backup tape (yes tapes!) offsite once backup is complete. It's time to change their backup solution since the business has grown and it now takes like 21 hours to run their backup. I was thinking of some sort of NAS, but they still want to take their backups offsite like they do with their tapes. Any suggestions?

Have you mentioned a cloud backup solution BackBlaze's B2 solution may be good for them?