@DarienA said in going with 3rd party Dell support vs Dell ProSupport?:

Interesting I hadn't heard good things about park place before and they have reached out to me over the years I'll have to keep this in mind.

So you had heard bad things or what?

@DustinB3403 said in RAID5 on SSD in 2019?:

With SSD, essentially zero as the math shows.

Genuinely curious, where is this math that shows this?

@scottalanmiller said in going with 3rd party Dell support vs Dell ProSupport?:

@dave247 said in going with 3rd party Dell support vs Dell ProSupport?:

@scottalanmiller said in going with 3rd party Dell support vs Dell ProSupport?:

Conceptually it could be good. Depends on the specific vendor, of course. What is Park Place's ability to get replacement parts for the Compellant? That's the biggest worry.

I'm fairly certain they will have no issue. They supported our previous Dell MD array for a while after Dell support expired and they provided us with drives and controllers. But that was a few years ago.

MD isn't the same. MD units are basically base servers with special software. Compellant have a bit more special sauce in them. More challenging for third party support. Not that they can't, just it's a bigger challenge to rise to.

hmm I didn't know that. I mean, I assumed they were different since they are different kinds of models rolled out at different times. Not sure how I can verify other than taking the words of the salesperson that they do in fact service Compellants.

@scottalanmiller said in going with 3rd party Dell support vs Dell ProSupport?:

Conceptually it could be good. Depends on the specific vendor, of course. What is Park Place's ability to get replacement parts for the Compellant? That's the biggest worry.

I'm fairly certain they will have no issue. They supported our previous Dell MD array for a while after Dell support expired and they provided us with drives and controllers. But that was a few years ago.

Small Dell shop here with 10 or so PowerEdge servers and some Dell switches and a Dell storage controller. I got a quote for ProSupport renewal on one of our units, specifically our Compellant storage controller and 3 years support is around $13k and 4 years is around $18k. I just got a call from 3rd party vendor called Park Place that specialized in Dell support and we used to have support on one of our systems with them but we've since switched back to getting only ProSupport through Dell themselves.

I remember a while back reading/hearing about how 3rd party support is usually the better alternative, kinda like buying Dell servers from xbyte.com instead of through a Dell VAR or something.

Any thoughts on that? Should a company be getting 3rd party support for a Dell server or storage controller that's nearing it's current 3-year support cycle?

I know my Dell VAR would try so hard to talk me out of going with Park Place support for obvious reasons lol

delete I guess

scratch all this.. it was either firewall rules or some wmi issue, etc... I ran the dcdiag command from PowerShell on my PC the first time.. ran it directly on the DC and everything passes fine there.

@Dashrender said in Need some help with dcdiag - DNS issues:

Contoso.com??

was this setup by someone following a Microsoft training manual?

I swapped out my domain name with the generic example domain name...

EDIT: I am an idiot. Firewall rules.

I was a complete idiot and incorrectly typed "172.0.0.1" instead of "127.0.0.1" which would explain all my errors over the weekend.

smacks head

I finally found this https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2008-R2-and-2008/ff807362(v=ws.10) which pretty much answers it.

I'm just trying to figure out the "right way" to do this. I have looked this up before but now that I'm upgrading my DC's from 2008 R2 to 2019, I figured I would double check. I see a lot of people adamantly saying that the DC should look to another DC first, then to itself/the loopback, but then I see others adamantly claiming the exact opposite.

Here is how I have set mine up in the past and how I am currently setting the new DC's up:

IP Addresses:
DC1: 192.168.0.10
DC2: 192.168.0.11

TCP/IP DNS Settings:
DC1:
192.168.0.11
127.0.0.1
DC2:
192.168.0.10
127.0.0.1

Or should we be using the DC's own IP address instead of the loopback address?

@Obsolesce said in Foreign B1 Visa employee scam?:

@dave247 said in Foreign B1 Visa employee scam?:

@scottalanmiller said in Foreign B1 Visa employee scam?:

Yup. Its decently well known. Happens in the US too.

What's the scam called so I can learn more?

You going to start selling interview services to people to help them get hired?

Yes yes that's the ticket

@scottalanmiller said in Foreign B1 Visa employee scam?:

Yup. Its decently well known. Happens in the US too.

What's the scam called so I can learn more?

I was recently talking to another IT guy at a kid's birthday party and he was telling me something weird/interesting about some stuff that's apparently going on with foreign workers coming to the US on B1 Visas. The guy works in IT for a retail chain and he said he interviews candidates over Skype who are over in places like India. He said a lot of times while he is interviewing them, the video is intentionally low quality and a lot of people on screen move their mouths but someone else is talking behind the camera to answer IT questions or whatever. Then, if/when they are hired and they make it over to the US to start the job, it ends up being someone completely different than in the video interview. He also said a lot of times they end up not having the skills/knowledge they claimed to have. I only got to talk to him for a few minutes so I didn't get any more details than this.

Has anyone else heard of this?

@DustinB3403 said in Does anyone here work in the banking industry? I'm looking for Anti-Money Laundering Compliance software:

@dave247 I wasn't attacking you or thinking you were being sarcastic. Just providing some more context.

At an old job I worked at we had a software called JobBOSS, and while the OOB worked for a large portion of businesses we spent over $130K customizing it for the way our business needed to operate.

That didn't include all of my time, creating reports that were required for the day to day operations.

No worries. I didn't mean to come off defensive either. Thanks for the input!

@DustinB3403 said in Does anyone here work in the banking industry? I'm looking for Anti-Money Laundering Compliance software:

@dave247 said in Does anyone here work in the banking industry? I'm looking for Anti-Money Laundering Compliance software:

I also asked on reddit and got this amazing response:

"Someone in your position isn't to be looking for software for that purpose. It's not a job for discrete software, for one thing.

Also, "industry vertical" software is niche, low-volume, and typically poor quality. When buying off the shelf, you're rather likely to have as many problems with a new package as you did with the old one, unless you're extremely thorough in your evaluation."

I know they are correct so I may just forget about it..

That response isn't unrealistic. You're looking for software, that very few companies in the world are producing. So finding something that is "off the shelf acceptable" is going to be damn near impossible.

Whereas building your own (or more realistically paying someone to build it exactly how you want it) would be better, but still really expensive, like 3-6 times as much as purchasing something that exists today, but sucks because of <reasons>.

I wasn't being sarcastic. I agreed with that person 100%. Though on the other hand, it looks like there are several options out there (ours is on this list): https://www.capterra.com/aml-software/

I also asked on reddit and got this amazing response:

"Someone in your position isn't to be looking for software for that purpose. It's not a job for discrete software, for one thing.

Also, "industry vertical" software is niche, low-volume, and typically poor quality. When buying off the shelf, you're rather likely to have as many problems with a new package as you did with the old one, unless you're extremely thorough in your evaluation."

I know they are correct so I may just forget about it..

@DustinB3403 said in Does anyone here work in the banking industry? I'm looking for Anti-Money Laundering Compliance software:

@dave247 said in Does anyone here work in the banking industry? I'm looking for Anti-Money Laundering Compliance software:

I wanted to see if anyone else here works in banking and if you have any input on BSA/AML solutions. I'm looking to explore other options as our current software is poorly maintained and quite expensive extremely profitable for the asshats who make/sell it.

FTFY.

Yes yes, that goes without saying. I freaking hate that aspect of all this...

I wanted to see if anyone else here works in banking and if you have any input on BSA/AML solutions. I'm looking to explore other options as our current software is poorly maintained and quite expensive.