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Quick punch the screen, there's a Jared on it!

@pmoncho said in Printing from a Raspberry Pi to a Printer Shared from Windows:

@Dashrender said in Printing from a Raspberry Pi to a Printer Shared from Windows:

Well sure - but how often are you sharing a USB printer (he asks then looks around his office at the 10 USB Dymo labelers he has around the office that are shared using Dymo's USB to network print server). LOL

When you say network print server, do you mean a windows server sharing the printer? Are many of those Dymo's on local user machines?

Dymo makes a print server software that offers network printing, which IIRC needs to be installed on the local computer where the printer is connected via USB.

Otherwise sharing through the windows menu doesn't get you access to the printer functionality (ie margins, labels etc don't print properly).

@travisdh1 said in What makes a system HCI?:

@Jimmy9008 said in What makes a system HCI?:

@travisdh1 said in What makes a system HCI?:

@Jimmy9008 said in What makes a system HCI?:

That does make total sense. One discussion staff keep having internally is that HCAs from vendors have 1 x NIC only. Therefore, if a server has 2 x NIC, or more, it cannot be HCI... which I think is total bull.

What sort of illogic led to the number of anything, let alone # of NICs, in a server being HCI or not?

Simply, when they are looking at HCA from vendors, say Nutanix, Dell, VMWare, Scale, the manual appears to have 1 x NIC in each node, which has virtualized storage network, VM network, heartbeats and other such networks on top of the one NIC using different vLANs. I disagree with them entirely, but its at a point where any architecture using more than one NIC in their mind cannot be HCI.

Wow, just wow.

Scale systems come with 4 NICs by default. A base config was 2x10Gb for the storage layer and 2x1Gb for eveything else.

If VXRail is only using a single NIC for everything, no wonder their base configuration is so bad!

Hey they need a way to upsell

@dafyre said in What makes a system HCI?:

@Jimmy9008 said in What makes a system HCI?:

Oh, missed the second part. By magic I mean the vendor talk where I keep hearing you just plug in another HCA unit to expand resources.

The last time I did this with @scale , it worked just like that. Plug the new server in, tell the other systems where to find the new server, and off to the races you go.

Yeah, that's a part of the tooling they've built to make "Scale". Could someone else maybe build the same thing, sure but at what cost?

@Jimmy9008 said in What makes a system HCI?:

if the system does not do the above, does that mean the system is not HCI?

No, one does not mean that the other HCI solutions aren't HCI. It just means that the tooling isn't there / included.

Different HCI solutions can have different features.

@Jimmy9008 said in What makes a system HCI?:

So HCI can only be obtained by purchasing a solution from vendors like Dell, Scale, Nutanix, VMWare?
Simply then, if the solution is not some proprietary tech from a company like that it will never be HCI, as it does not have the tooling?

What? No.

Of course not, the linux community could (and likely are working on) an HCI solution right now. HCI != Proprietary

Its about having the tooling, not the provider of the tooling.

@scottalanmiller said in What makes a system HCI?:

@Jimmy9008 said in What makes a system HCI?:

Ok, I can take that on board.

In what insane universe does a board...

1. Talk about IT
2. Know what HCI is.
3. Have any ability to discuss this.
4. Get into the weeds of understanding really, really technical IT underpinnings that no normal IT department knows?

I didn't notice this or maybe I just read past it. But @Jimmy9008 are you being asked to present to a "board" what HCI is?

@Jimmy9008 said in What makes a system HCI?:

Maybe crappy HCI, but far better than three servers, connected to two switches, to one physical SAN which is what many here want.

I don't think anyone wants this, they are simply having the wool pulled over their eyes as someone steals their money.

This is all lab work I'm doing and I'm having a hell of a time sorting out how I'm supposed to install proxmox on my hosts.

Each host is an HP DL380 Gen9 with 2 drives in each host.

When I perform the proxmox installation, the installer sees /dev/sda for the total space of what those drives would offer in a RAID1.

Now I'm sure the answer is "add more drives to each" but that is counter-initive since I see no option at all.

Paging @scottalanmiller since I know you've been using this for a bit.

I believe this was the setting I had to change to get the RDS links to work with these (I have a few different things I had to test for this customer).

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2008-R2-and-2008/gg607271(v=ws.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN

Speaking of Youtube, does anyone recall the IBM advertisement for the server they shot with a rifle (I think) and it just kept working?

nmap is something of a standard for this and would be my recommendation.

@VoIP_n00b said in Topics of Systems Administration:

@scottalanmiller just post your resume.

And SSN, Birthdate and mothers maiden name.

Zabbix is quite possible the best "cheatsheet" you could ask for

Training, I can't say for certain but you can learn a lot about zabbix from their community.

Apple OSX is notorious for pre-emptive locking all files on a share, even if a client has only 1 file open.

Any apple users?

@scottalanmiller said in Trouble with open files/folders on Windows file server?:

@Pete-S said in Trouble with open files/folders on Windows file server?:

@dave247 said in Trouble with open files/folders on Windows file server?:

There are no other network issues and this problem just seems to occur every so often. Sometimes its multiple times a day for a few days, then its all good for a week. I just wanted to know if there is some good solution I'm not aware of.

Reboot the server every night. Or force a restart of the file server service on it (aka server). It will release all locks. And people can still save their work if they have something open.

Kind of a good idea anyway

No it's really not, that's like rebooting a server because VSS Writers are getting hung daily, find and fix the problem rather than covering up the symptoms.

@CCWTech said in Tools to de-crapify Windows 10?:

Tronscript has some of this, I'm not exactly sure what it will/will not remove.

It annoys me so much that Candy Crush is actually part of Windows on a default install. Then add in Teams, etc...

But how else would you know you're on a business ready operating system if you didn't have Candy Crush out of the box?

I think you need to be in Congress to get Mark Zuckerberg's attention to any sort of issue.

At the moment, I use a personal keyboard and mouse, with a company provided laptop. I'm thinking im going to purchase a monitor though as looking at the laptop screen has been causing some eye strain and me to lean forward to see the screen.

Plus I'd like to just have my monitor more eye level.