@scottalanmiller said in Pfsense:
@scottalanmiller said in Pfsense:
I actually made a video on LAN sizes just the other day. I'm waiting on it to be edited.
I'm finally going through and watching all your videos.
Remember to like and subscribe
Yeah I subscribed. Be prepared for me to come to you with questions and things..
@reid-cooper said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:
@dave247 said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:
@reid-cooper said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:
@dave247 said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:
@reid-cooper said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:
Is there a reason that you want hardware RAID for home use?
Because I want whatever I install for an OS or Hypervisor to only see the volume presented by the RAID controller rather than multiple drives. I don't really want to use the fakeRAID on my motherboard like I currently am.
And software RAID is not available with your chosen hypervisor?
It doesn't seem that my motherboard will work with ESXi but I haven't finished looking into it. Regardless, I'd rather use a hardware RAID card this time.
ESXi requires hardware RAID, it is as simple as that. Hyper-V is acceptable to use software RAID in a lab or home use. KVM or Xen have enterprise software RAID, so you have no need for a RAID card at all for them, business or home use.
FakeRAID is never the right answer and is part of the software RAID family, not hardware RAID family, so as ESXi must have hardware RAID, FakeRAID can't work there.
Yep... that's why I asked about a hardware RAID controller in my OP 
@reid-cooper said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:
@dave247 said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:
@reid-cooper said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:
Is there a reason that you want hardware RAID for home use?
Because I want whatever I install for an OS or Hypervisor to only see the volume presented by the RAID controller rather than multiple drives. I don't really want to use the fakeRAID on my motherboard like I currently am.
And software RAID is not available with your chosen hypervisor?
It doesn't seem that my motherboard will work with ESXi but I haven't finished looking into it (I'll probably have to build a custom image with the drivers). Regardless, I'd rather use a hardware RAID card this time.
@scottalanmiller said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:
@dave247 said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:
.... haven't had the chance to dig in as I am a freaking "IT generalist" where I work.
I have a video for everything these days.
yep I just watched that one.. guess I can't call myself a Systems Administrator anymore 
(jk I totally am)
@reid-cooper said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:
Is there a reason that you want hardware RAID for home use?
Because I want whatever I install for an OS or Hypervisor to only see the volume presented by the RAID controller rather than multiple drives. I don't really want to use the fakeRAID on my motherboard like I currently am.
@scottalanmiller said in Pfsense:
I actually made a video on LAN sizes just the other day. I'm waiting on it to be edited.
I'm finally going through and watching all your videos. I'm also trying to read through all your posts on SMBjournal
@scottalanmiller said in Pfsense:
A huge number of people think that /23 is weird because they don't realize that it is post 1993 and that class based networks haven't existed in 24 years. Their "what is normal" is based on 1970-1993 "standards" of class based networking and non-switched networks. The amount of insanely outdated information forming the foundation of myths like this are often totally crazy.
So I've noticed. I spent a good deal of time studying subnetting (when I was trying to wrap my head around it) and now that I get it, I realize that a lot of people don't.
@bigbear said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:
@dave247 said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:
@bigbear said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:
@dave247 said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:
@scottalanmiller said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:
@black3dynamite said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:
All these best practices seems to be carried over from the days of physical servers.
The need for two didn't exist then, either. It's never been a best practice, always a complete misunderstanding of HA at best, a sales tactic at worst.
And besides... RDSH in the cloud or bust
I don't understand what you mean here..
I am a big fan of Remote Desktop Session Host on Server 2016, Microsoft officially supports DC on the same box. For $80/month on Vultr plus $16/month for Server 2016 license, and about $100/user one time license fee... you can support 15 to 20 users.
The "or bust" part is that I really wouldnt be interested in doing IT any other way.
oh you mean you have a hosted 2016 RDS server/DC? That's pretty cool... I currently have on-site terminal servers but they are 2008 R2 Enterprise and I have a separate server for the connection broker (I hate this setup). I have been meaning to take a look at going to a 2016 RDS setup but haven't had the chance to dig in as I am a freaking "IT generalist" where I work.
@scottalanmiller said in Pfsense:
@scottalanmiller said in Pfsense:
a /23 (the smallest recommended these days)
Really? I never heard of that.. Where is this recommended? (truly curious)
Pretty much anywhere it’s discussed
It’s been the standard in the enterprise since the rise of switching.
Right.. well I feel like you're from a different world or something as you're always saying things that seem very different than what's commonly heard of. That being said, we actually have a /23 network where I work but I've had numerous people comment on it as being a "weird setup". I just assumed they had little knowledge of networking and are used to the very common /24 setups on a lot of home routers and things.
@scottalanmiller said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:
Basically the only enterprise hardware RAID makers are Adaptec and LSI. I've found Adaptec to be much better than LSI IMHO.
Oh that made me remember that I do have another system at work with a LSI 9300-8i card in it. Seems pretty good but no battery. I'm looking at Adaptec cards now. They look nice but a bit pricey.
@bigbear said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:
@dave247 said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:
@scottalanmiller said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:
@black3dynamite said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:
All these best practices seems to be carried over from the days of physical servers.
The need for two didn't exist then, either. It's never been a best practice, always a complete misunderstanding of HA at best, a sales tactic at worst.
And besides... RDSH in the cloud or bust
I don't understand what you mean here..
@scottalanmiller said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:
@black3dynamite said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:
All these best practices seems to be carried over from the days of physical servers.
The need for two didn't exist then, either. It's never been a best practice, always a complete misunderstanding of HA at best, a sales tactic at worst.
I haven't watched your video yet but I've heard a lot of people (non-sales) say having only one DC is a good way to get fired.
@scottalanmiller said in Pfsense:
a /23 (the smallest recommended these days)
Really? I never heard of that.. Where is this recommended? (truly curious)
I built a server a while back with a SuperMicro X10SRL-F board which I believe has fakeRAID... I've been searching around for a true hardware RAID card with battery pack but I haven't really found much.
I usually deal with Dell PowerEdge servers for this sort of thing but I wanted something that would work for a home server setup.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a simple-to-use company Intranet? The one we have right now again is passageways which totally sucks and really all we use it for is posting bulletins and adding links. I suppose it'd be nice if it could be integrated with the helpdesk tool...
@scottalanmiller said in any help desk software suggestions?:
@Sodium has a mostly working helpdesk that is coming along pretty quickly. Might be worth playing with and getting a feel for where it will be soon before diving into something else. Fully free, even hosted.
Spiceworks is free and hosted as well.
osTicket you host yourself, but is free and runs on Linux. We've had good luck with that.
Awesome, this is what I'm looking for. Thanks Scott
We're switching from Passageways (absolutely horrible) and my boss wants us to go with something called Track-IT, but is open to suggestions. I was wondering if you guys had any suggestions for a good help desk, maybe something free even.
We basically just need it so users can create support requests for the various departments. Integration with AD for SSO would be ideal.
I replaced the S300 with the H700 (with battery) but I'm pretty sure I broke the hard drive backplane because the fricking B SAS cable was stuck in there so hard it took me forever to pull it out. H700 let me put all 8 drives in RAID10 and install Hyper-V.. but then in the middle of it started yelling about the bad SAS cable.. I'm getting a lot of hardware experience though 
@dashrender said in Enterprise 15K SAS drives vs consumer grade SSD in a Dell server?:
@dave247 said in Enterprise 15K SAS drives vs consumer grade SSD in a Dell server?:
Perc S300
Looks like someone found a work around for that controller - but then others really recommend replacing it.
http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/servers/f/906/t/19997714
You can probably get an older RAID card on ebay pretty cheap.
lmao, I figured as much. I do think I'm just going to replace the card as it is a hunk of crap.
@net-runner said in Enterprise 15K SAS drives vs consumer grade SSD in a Dell server?:
I would also recommend you not to waste two drive slots for RAID1 OS partition especially if it's a hypervisor host. USB Flash/SD Card/SATADOM/whatever will do the job leaving you with 8 free bays for OBR10 or OBR5/6. Speed all the things up with StarWind (as mentioned above) and you are good to go.
I was told that USB Flash and SD were no longer supported by MS and not to do it that way.
Anyway, I ended up just using 4x 1TB drives in RAID10 but I can't even install Hyper-V 2016 because that OS does not support the Perc S300 RAID card I have in m R510. Looks like I have to use 2012 R2 instead.