@Pete-S said in VMware Community Homelabs:

Most IT people I know get their hardware for nothing where they work. So they have stuff like R710's at home.
So setting up a home lab isn't a cost thing, more a question of having the space.

The cost of power to run that 710 can likely make it more cost effective to run the VMs in a VPS. plus that gets rid of the noise pollution.

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Keeping an eye on the roads for work. Lots of closed roads due to flooding.

Should be ok if it doesn't rain much until the morning

My god Facebook doesn't make this easy. Looking at a group that's updates on road closures and accident etc but when I'm looking few posts are from 12hrs ago, the next 1hr ago then 15hrs ago, then 5 mins ago then back to 3hrs ago.......come on Facebook I need upto date info

yes I bloody hate that about FB!!!

@siringo said in What Are You Watching Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Watching Now:

anyone know when wsus downloads updates?
does it download then once they've been approved?

so if I approve them at 9:00am will it download them then?

if I have the auto approve rule ticked, do the updates get auto downloaded after a sync?

Depends on the download rule you setup. You can set it up to automatically download when available, or only after you approve it.

where do i set the download rules??

I'm to lazy to log into work tonight.. I can look tomorrow.

So @Obsolesce is talking about cloud - ASW/Asure, but what about other VPS providers like Vultr? Compared to owning your own hardware, unless you have some fairly large workloads, these are generally pretty cheap - and this isn't even considering power/cooling, etc.

Of course, if your goal is the learn ESXi or KVM, etc, yeah, you're going to need some hardware for that.

@siringo said in What Are You Watching Now:

anyone know when wsus downloads updates?
does it download then once they've been approved?

so if I approve them at 9:00am will it download them then?

if I have the auto approve rule ticked, do the updates get auto downloaded after a sync?

Depends on the download rule you setup. You can set it up to automatically download when available, or only after you approve it.

@G-I-Jones said in "Access Denied" RENAME.bat:

@JasGot Is this code still supposed to be prompting me the UAC?

yes, unless you disable UAC.

We use Paycomm and I can tell you, yes they have the ability to lock down clock punches to specific IPs, we instituted that on day one years ago. We have had zero issue with it. If someone needs to punch while offsite - they simply email their manager, who then updates the system.

@DustinB3403 said in Virtualization when there is only one VM?:

Even @scottalanmiller mentioned the reality of starting to use ARM systems to act as servers.

Things that produce and use nearly no resources or space, but offer tons of potential for extremely low budgets.

That doesn’t mean they will ever bow to your demands for a rack.

@DustinB3403 said in Virtualization when there is only one VM?:

@scottalanmiller said in Virtualization when there is only one VM?:

Literally no place to place a rack.

racks can be hung from a wall or ceiling if things are literally so desperate.

How are these places operating today if they have no where to place business infrastructure?

By putting it on a desk

@Pete-S said in Virtualization when there is only one VM?:

Stop running glorified desktops as servers. Buy real rack servers and put them in a rack. No sane person wants to use that as a workstation. Problem solved.

I don't consider this reasonable in most SMB setups. A desktop style server system is generally fine. Desktop servers are still huge compared to normal desktops (especially now with CD-RomLess systems, they are tiny.