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@dashrender said in Server upgrade advice for upgrade to ESXi 7.0 U3:

@jaredbusch said in Server upgrade advice for upgrade to ESXi 7.0 U3:

@dashrender said in Server upgrade advice for upgrade to ESXi 7.0 U3:

@pmoncho That seems like a complete overspend for the need. Although there might not be a better way

No, it keeps the boot off the data raid array.
You can do the same with something straight on the sata bus, but a minor expense gives you a dedicated boot raid array

I agree you want the boot/hypervisor not on the main array... but I'm assuming these BOSS setups aren't cheap.. definitely no where near as cheep as a USB stick or SD Card. Likely 100's of time more, if not 1000's more. that's all I am getting at.

BOSS card is just a card, it uses standard NVMe drives. So you are looking at $100 in drives retail for a pair of 250GB drives.
They don't have the issues of SD or USB with wear, thus removing an entire fail domain.

If you have a Dell server with SD boot, then you already had a BOSS card, so there is no difference in the expense.

@scottalanmiller said in WSUS Location:

@dave247 a common enough problem.

As is open mouth video images.

@eleceng said in GPO's for System Hardening:

Very common.

Sadly not.

If it does not work then yes just deal with clonezilla. It is not too hard to make ELI5 instructions.

@pete-s said in KDE/Plasma DVD Burning MKV Files:

@stuartjordan said in KDE/Plasma DVD Burning MKV Files:

Hi Does anyone know of any DVD burning software that will burn MKV files to DVD. I've tried dvdstyler which its good, but it comes up with config errors etc and burns blank dvd's.
havent used dvd's in a long time wondered if anyone had any ideas, I'm on debian/kde plasma.

DVDs use MPEG-2 so MKV has to be re-encoded.

If you re-encode the files first so they are DVD mpeg-2 compliant you can burn them easily with dvdstyler.

Well MKV is just a container and it is possible that the file is already MPEG-2. But yeah, not likely.

@travisdh1 said in RojoLoco needs your Linux brains!!!:

@jaredbusch said in RojoLoco needs your Linux brains!!!:

@rojoloco you install OS. Then you install Docker. Then you install the app inside docker.

That last step is basically a one line magic command if the developers created a proper docker install.

That's always a huge if in my experience.

Yes it is

@gjacobse said in Does a script imply Automation?:

@obsolesce said in Does a script imply Automation?:

@gjacobse said in Does a script imply Automation?:

@travisdh1 said in Does a script imply Automation?:

Where did that question even bubble up from?

This is from a Teams Chat with the other three Service Desk / IT people ....

Right. A script can be used as a means to carry out the automation of a task or a set of tasks.

That is the sole point - a script to perform the automation(al) task of creating a new user, defining; First, last, email manager, address and with additional questions - needed security groups.

That is not automation unless is is simply doing it without your input.

Also.

That is automation of your many manual steps into one manual step

@stuartjordan said in RojoLoco needs your Linux brains!!!:

I would personally use RHEL or Rocky Linux rather then Centos/Stream

I wouldn't... I prefer not to have ancient.

@pete-s said in What am I doing wrong with ffmpeg:

Can you have both ass and srt in the same container and have it working?

Yes, it works perfectly.

Edit: To be more precise, using the "working" multi-step process above, the mux that adds the ass files shows this. So it seems to be converting it. But I can also force it to srt, and various examples from search results show people mixing srt and ass with no issues.

@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

Plus even with things like openshift, kubevirt is doing any KVM work for you. You need 0 KVM expertise to let Kubernetes manage your hypervisor/VMs.

You also need 0 KVM experience to run Proxmox.

@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:

Also, Proxmox doesn't count as KVM expertise in case that's the angle you're trying to use here.

@scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:

While I never implied it, it absolutely does. That's like saying that working with vSphere doesn't count as VMware experience.
In fact, as Jared was saying, you always deploy with management suites.

You do as I say and deploy management suites because the SMB sector does not know jack shit about what they are doing. If they did, you would not have a job fixing their broke ass shit.

Most of the user posts you see about Proxmox never even mention KVM unless someone really fucked shit up.

@dashrender said in Laptops versus desktops and roaming users:

The question would be - why?

Because it is not more expensive unless you make it more expensive. It is typically cost neutral and adds flexibility. Pre-COVID I was already nearing 50% laptop vs desktop for new desks.

Post-COVID, I am close to 95% laptop for new desks.

@dashrender said in Laptops versus desktops and roaming users:

yeah, I suppose it can be close to cost neutral, but when you consider all of the extra parts - dual monitors (in a lot, but not all cases) second power supply, possible docking station, external keyboard.. all those things add up.

What extra parts?

You are falsely claiming a cost difference for something that is the same. Desktop or laptop, you have monitors. Keyboards? WTF? Power supply? Not with modern equipment. The dock comes with one and it powers the laptop while connected.

The only "extra" is the dock.

@jasgot said in Need to split this string in PHP:

@jaredbusch said in Need to split this string in PHP:
I don't know what you are working on,

This:
https://github.com/sorvani/freepbx-helper-scripts/commit/23ef9bd7aca3d791217aab86ddd53b30d7838563

@scottalanmiller said in Does Mesh Central support blanking remote screen:

1. Potentially showing private data on the screen and not knowing who can see it

What would you ever load on the remote instance that the user should not see?

(or who can grab the mouse and use the logged in session.)
2. Customers who won't stop interacting while you work (but we CAN disable their input, so that's covered.)

This is a different issue and not what was asked. Input blocking is completely understood.

3. Customers watching without understanding and complaining that they would do it better, differently, faster, blah blah blah, and interrupting instead of letting us work.

Not a concern. If they want to try and nickel and dime, I fire them. I don't want those kinds of customers. If it is Bob in sales, I don't care at all. If I am in the principal contact system, I am likely on the phone the entire time anyway. Also they trust us. I don't care about user bitching.

@pete-s said in Slow "internet" customer says...:

Thanks guys, that's good ideas to get started!

How many client devices can one AP handle as a rule of thumb?

Completely depends on the AP. The various UniFi devices are generally in the 200 to 300 device range. A few can do 500.

@obsolesce said in Who do you call for IT assistance:

@dashrender said in Who do you call for IT assistance:

I'm not looking for a direct answer to the topic title.

I just had my first review with my new boss.

She asked me a question that seemed odd, but after more information was less odd due to her position.

Question: is there a certifying authority you can get certified in that you can also reach out to to get help with problems you can't solve?

Her example was SUNA - Society of Urologic Nurses and Associates. They certify nurses and have personal you can contact to get help with your questions.

IT is very broad. But to answer your question, if there is an IT issue you can't solve, you go to the product or technology's support method. If a MS issue MS support, Dell issue, then Dell support, etc...

Which is a more detailed version of my "no" answer.

@jasgot I can’t see your text clear enough while I’m driving. But I think I had a similar issue and @dbeato gave me the answer.

It was an extra binding in IIS that did not get properly updated.

@jasgot I bought in $500 worth. Something like 28 point something stocks

@rjt said in Adding remote storage to Proxmox:

@jaredbusch nfs on top of ZFS.
ZFS should be the underlying block/fs for everything whether a single hard drive, block storage like iSCSi, file storage such as NFS or CIFS. I like TrueNAS for this purpose. As you can see, I love ZFS. My problem is I also love CentOS. Need to figure out easy ways to get ZFS on CentOS. We should all write a letter to Larry asking him to open up the license.

The correct answer is to not require a gimmick like ZFS for shit.

We run businesses not hobbies. I need things to be able to be blind swapped by a random Dell contracted support tech.

Using such a dumb ass gimmick is why I refused to even look at Proxmox for so long.

@wrcombs said in Certificate Authorization Error:

Any ideas?

Also, update windows and Chrome.