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i don't know why the majority of engineers that are willing to help others and share their precious knowledge are USA engineers,

@Dashrender said:

Any reason you can't increase the amount of RAM? The cost should be minimal.

sure i'm planning to do that, i will add another 2 GB, i hope the CPU work fine because there is no way to increase !

@scottalanmiller said:

You mean for their hosted solution? You could buy any VoIP SIP phones for your own PBX.

yes i know for my own PBX i can register any sip device, i'm talking about the hosted PBX that our ISP host, we cannot register or do anything except by their permission and we pay monthly per extension and on top of that the ip phone should be cisco, these are the requirement of our monopoly government ISP, all of these expenses because the company don't trust me to do the telephony system for it .

they only trust me to do telephony for a non crucial office like a garage lol

they are generous to pay anything to the ISP but no chance to pay even the necessary to me to do my job efficiently, all the time i have to manage myself to work with opensource and free solution,

finally i solve the problem, thanks to this article : http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2037891

i had to change the MAC address in ifcfg-eth0 because it retained the old one (issued by vmware), when i move the VM to XenServer, the MAC address changed in the VNIC but was not changed in the config file, i changed and it work fine, now i can ping and everything

but the weird thing is still i have unknown on the ip address in the networking tab in XenCenter even if i restart the host and the guest more than one time ?!!?!?!?

yes you are right
thank you

in this case i will keep using XenServer since having no PV will not affect that much my VMs

so sad i planned to meet you there,

thank you guys for your help

i don't have the mood to try anything now cuz really this problem makes me tired and it is 1:16 PM now,
so i have to sleep now and tomorrow i will try what you told me

see you guys tomorrow

have a great night

@Dashrender said:

@IT-ADMIN said:

the problem is that the SQL service doesn't want to run, it gives an error

that should be easy to fix
go to services and double click SQL and look what account it's using.
then create account on your domain give it a GOOD password

then go back to the service and put the domainname\user for the username and type in your password.. and you should be good to go for starting SQL.

thank you very much dude, you really saved me, the problem was due to SQL service not running because it was set to run using a local account, off course after this account was deleted the service cannot run, as soon as i changed the service logon account to domain administrator the service start successfully and the connection was successful

ouuuf it was a terrible nightmare but also a lesson

thank you @dashrender and thank you guys

@scottalanmiller said:

Glad to hear that everything is back up and working. Did anyone notice very much?

hhhhh, no, the problem was solved silently

i didn't contacted the technical support, otherwise the issue will spread out
fortunately i was able to solve it by your advises

@PSX_Defector said:

@IT-ADMIN said:

@Dashrender said:

You had an entire day of downtime on this and no one noticed?

only the one who was working on the payroll software was having a connection error, i told him that we have a problem in the server, so he stop working on it until this morning when things come back to life
fortunately the issue occur at about 6 PM and we finish the shift at 7 PM therefor the employee didn't complain because he was about to finish his shift

People who know me know I'm a gambler. I go to Vegas all the time, I blow money at various casinos throughout the country.

You just rolled a quick point on the craps table, you hit a blackjack on your first hand, you laid down $5USD on 21 red and it came up. You got seriously lucky. By pure chance you got out without anyone being the wiser.

One of the things I tell lots of people is not to rely on luck to get you through a gambling session. But this situation, as a gambler, you need to know how to hedge your bets. Your gonna reach another problem and go head strong into it, like laying down $100 on a table without knowing what the game is. You need to think through the entire scenario, what will happen if you do this, what is your fallback position, what is your backout procedure, how do you know it's done and satisfactory.

Remember, the worst thing you can do as a gambler is go and do things without thinking. When I sit down and play blackjack, I have a good idea about the cards, the odds, where we are in the deck, what is available, what is not available. I calculate the risks, rewards, and make my decisions on that. As one should do when working on anyone else's machines.

yeah it was a good lesson for me, next time before doing any major change like this i will post it in ML to discuss with you the consequences, once it is approved then i will be ready to go
for the approval of the management (because Scott emphasize on this) they don't understand what active directory mean or what an additional domain controller mean, they are really far away from IT, so they told me do what should be done as long as it is free hhhhhh
for this reason i'm playing around with the servers and enjoy my time because no one understand what i'm doing (they understand only one thing : is the system down or not) so basically they know 0 or 1,

thank you Dear @scottalanmiller

Hi everybody

i plan to to use the free spicework network monitoring tool but i get annoyed by those ads in the right side of the dashboard, from those who use this free tool in ML, how do you experience those annoying ads especially if you have a non IT manager who consider those ads as malwares and know nothing about spicework, how i can persuade him that those ads has nothing to do with affecting our corporate network.

best regard

can you precise which version you have ?? because ISA is not TMG, there is a difference