@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

But my new GM (real Boss in the sense of my Manager thinks.. lol) said that it's my install and to do it my way, so .. here we are.
she wants to see what I can do.

Then purchase 2019 and cals for it, if you want to downgrade (for whatever requirement) then you can do that. But setup Hyper-V on the hardware (assuming it has to look like Windows) with a GUI and then create a VM to run the site.

Don't forget Dustin - these are restaurants... IF he sets up Hyper-V, he will likely have to do it from within a base Windows Server install so he has a console to work from.

It's unlikely that there will be an "admin" workstation for him to use to manage this server in the future.

You can opt to choose a GUI when you install server 2019 hyper-v. . .

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

That part is out of my hands- Cause this is what I was told to order..

But your real boss told you to do what was needed. Which would be purchasing 2019 with CALs, even if you install 2016

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Talking about a Linux OS serves no benefit at all here.

There are many benefits to using a Linux OS as the base for the Hypervisor. Fedora and KVM for example, or if @WrCombs really wanted XCP-ng on the metal with a Windows Guest and then an XO installation to back it all up.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

But my new GM (real Boss in the sense of my Manager thinks.. lol) said that it's my install and to do it my way, so .. here we are.
she wants to see what I can do.

Then purchase 2019 and cals for it, if you want to downgrade (for whatever requirement) then you can do that. But setup Hyper-V on the hardware (assuming it has to look like Windows) with a GUI and then create a VM to run the site.

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

"real Server" = Server OS to my Micro Manager (boss)

So RedHat isn't a real OS, or Fedora, or OpenSuse or FreeBSD or any other OS? lol

This is completely outside the topic of conversation - I'm guessing to his boss - those things simply don't exist.

Sure, but to say something isn't real would be comparable to saying that Trains don't exist because airplanes do exist.

@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Windows Server 2016

Why 2016? You'd want to get 2019 and if you really had a requirement, you'd install 2016.

This is what I was told to order by My micro manager

Good luck, you can't even buy CALs for Server 2016... Only the current version. (of course they are backwards compatible)

That's what I was getting at. . you can't purchase old, you get downgrade rights for sure, but they don't sell old stuff

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

"real Server" = Server OS to my Micro Manager (boss)

So RedHat isn't a real OS, or Fedora, or OpenSuse or FreeBSD or any other OS? lol

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Apparently - and this is what pissed me off yesterday - We only us "Real Servers" (as my boss calls them) when we have a site of 10 terminal...

What is a "Real server" to your boss? A physical installation? If so, setup Hyper-V and then build your installation on it. It's a real server, configured how it should be configured.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Windows Server 2016

Why 2016? You'd want to get 2019 and if you really had a requirement, you'd install 2016.

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Driving home from St. Louis and dealing with my 11yo causing drama.

Better than a 9 year old setting a house on fire and killing 5, being charged with murder.