So @StorageNinja brings this up quite often, that you need paid support from the software developer. Especially for VMWare's ESXi.

He then states that third party support isn't sufficient for issues like and I quote "In all cases for us to support you, we required you have a support agreement with Citrix, or VMware as when we hit bugs (That required CPD engineering teams to write code) that was WAYYYY out of scope of what a MSP does or provides."

So my question is, why is VMWare's ESXi constantly recommended, if bugs are so prolific that end users and SMB's are finding bugs and needing patches to it directly from the developer; who hasn't yet discovered said bug.

Why is official support from Citrix or third party certified people not sufficient or frowned upon when using XenServer?

haha..

I got it sorted, computer math

2 means 2 from the directory its starting from (aka) 1 deeper than what I was thinking.

Set it to 1 deep and I get two folders.

Thanks!

@quixoticjeremy said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

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@dustinb3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@coliver said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@rojoloco said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

You could also substitute the Atlanta sunday paper for yellow pages. Their litter started showing up in my driveway a few weeks back... but I'm glad to have news print paper to light my charcoal grill.

Ugh. My local paper introduced a "free" Monday edition. The paper kid throws it on the porch every Monday morning. If were not there or don't notice it the wind picks it up and spreads it across our lawn. There was a reason I didn't sign up for your paper in the first place why would I want a free copy?

If you're quick enough, catch it and throw it back at him!

Or throw rocks at the little shite.

Be careful, all the paper boys might gang up on you and take you out the following day. Our papers will blot out the sun!

Then we'll read in the shade!

I don't have any membership services that I'd offer, so honestly I'm no help here.

For laughs you could probably use Snipe-IT and track "their" membership as a user license. See when it expires etc.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

That was a long walk.

Just wait until her wedding day

The free version is still a gimped product.

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

http://www.freepresshouston.com/joel-osteen-fails-at-christianity-keeps-lakewood-closed/

Pretty honest slamming of the Joel Osteen.

So skipping the one and only provider that I can think of off hand (@ScaleLegion no hard feelings, it's you) who is running KVM in production that you've built yourself and have everything humming along?

My lab is working fine, but I'm finding the backup options a bit tedious, at least from the hypervisor level. The perl script I found works, but it requires setting it up / making any config changes in vi.

Which isn't horrible, just tedious

Just trying to get a feel.

@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dustinb3403 Same here. That was the first thing I said, and I also gave a preemptive "I'm going on record as saying this is a profoundly bad idea". If something goes wrong, our single DC will be gone (before I worked here, someone thought it would be awesome to put DC, DNS, FTP, file server, etc on 1 server).

Create a CYA email before proceeding. . .

There are tools that will scan your network and create a map of sorts, but these are often less than useful.

This was actually my first ever health screening, it was optional.

So whatever and I get some benefit (money or reduced cost) honestly don't know. But being aware of my health stats can't hurt.

@coliver said in [Any recommendations for new backup solution? Client wants to take backup copies offsite.]

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

This would be a go to solution. Of course changing their backup appliance (Backup Exec) would likely be required. Running daily fulls is just a bit insane, what kind of retention is the client keeping the dailies around for?

@momurda said in I could be a mule! Another bad job posting.:

So, mule for Silk Road type sites?

Most of the packages I order from Silk Road can drive themselves. . .

@nerdydad said in Fake Wall or Wall Closet?:

We are wanting to cover the whole wall. Equipment, cables, everything.

haha.... Is your server room visible to the outside or something?

If so maybe you can have datacenter pictures printed up and put on the inside of the fish tank so it looks like Amazon's Datacenter.

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

User gem of the day:
"What does a network cable look like?"

This blue cord that is slowly being tighten around your neck!

Snipe-IT.

@bigbear said in Spec me a new desktop:

@dustinb3403 said in Spec me a new desktop:

Under a grand though is very very cheap. . . my last desktop (and I was scrimping) was $700, that's with reusing some parts, Power supply and GPU. . .

Was it with a big video card?

The biggest black video card you could imagine.

@dafyre said in Sizing a Server and Disks - SQL VM:

For the host, OBR10 almost always. If you have an exception to this rule of thumb you'd know it (somebody here would likely say it, ha ha).

I would also do one big VMDKfor the SQL server VM, and partition the disk.... Use a 2TB disk (just throwing a number out there)...

256 GB = C:\ -- OS / Applications
1024 GB = D:\ -- SQL Server Data
512 GB = E:\ -- SQL Translogs / BAK files
256GB = F:\ -- SQL TempDB

Why would you partition inside of the VM? That is adding complexity for no obvious gain. Simply create different drives, this way you can scale up each drive as needed.

@mattspeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I'm stuck in a meeting for the next hour with a whole leg of my boxers wedged firmly in my butt crack. There is no escape. There is no fixing it. There is only suffering.

Make others suffer with you and give everyone atomic wedgies.