@scottalanmiller said:
Testing IOPS is completely dependent on the platform that you are testing from. And what you want to test matters too, IOPS at the hardware or IOPS as a resultant to some application, for example.
I think most people care to test the IOPS you actually see in your system in use.. that is unless you think something is bottlenecking it and need to find out.
@aaronstuder said:
@scottalanmiller I want to know what the hardware can do.
more important, I need to know what a "good" number of IOPS is.
It's not what's "good" it's what IOPS you need.. It will depend on what you are doing with it.
@coliver said:
@RojoLoco said:
Sumatra PDF has none of Adobe's BS. Clean installer and everything.
My preferred reader. Although I wish there was a way to add bookmarks to the pdfs.
Or lots of form fills and many other things that the PDF standard allows but Sumatra doesn't support. The reality is as much as Adobe sucks, if you use anything other than acrobat you will likely have some missing features
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Be warned, testing IOPS requires overwriting the drives. So any test that tests your IOPS has to blow away your storage. If it doesn't, it's not even remotely a useful test. So think carefully before doing this on anything that isn't a fresh build.
But you can run it inside the OS that's on those drives without concern that that data already there will be damaged.
That's not testing Max IOPS though, that's testing what IOPS you use.
@aaronstuder said:
Where do I find super short cables? Any suggestion on length?
Various lengths.. and Cables to go is where we get them
@aaronstuder said:
@Jason Shouldn't they all be the same?
Here is my layout:
Punch
Switch
Punch
Punch
Switch
Punch.I should never going going more then 1U away?
Your still going to different sides of the switches, if you route through a cable manamgnet tray it will need to be different lengths.
@aaronstuder said:
@Jason It such a short run, do I really need something to manage the cables?
It looks so much cleaner if you put a trey in between the switches
If you have STP enabled on your switches you need to enable portfast or PXE boot will fail.
spanning-tree portfast (for Cisco IOS)
@scottalanmiller said:
Hmmm.... if you search on this error, ClearOS comes up right away. That's not proof or anything, but that such an uncommon OS comes up with this error twice (and CentOS not at all) points to this likely being something about ClearOS that is the problem.
ClearOS also has a huge Attack surface, lots of extras for no reason.
@Dashrender said:
I guess I don't understand what the VAR has to do with anything here?
I see you have a educational account - I wonder what is different in your compared to mine. I've never see a screen like that in my VLSC console.
No, I don't have an educational account. We have an EA. Campus & School is the default selection for adding an agreement.
You can Add users to the agreement but there is always still the primary email named on the agreement which is the main user, you cannot change this yourself. The agreement is not just between you and Microsoft. It's between all three parties.
@JaredBusch said:
Just pry the cover up with a screw driver. not really all that hard.
Yep, Very easy. Westell makes these Sonet/TDM boxes, the locks are more for looks than anything. Some of them even use plexiglass fronts so you can see the cards.
Can the VPN not advertise the routes, so you don't have to do it statically on each client?
@LAH3385 said:
@Dashrender said:
Well Scott beat me to it.. why do you want to us vLAN?
Just hype thingy. Thought it might be better or improve something.
What is it going to improve if you have no need for it?
@BRRABill said:
@Dashrender said:
what kind of connectivity needs to exist between the two groups of computers?
Let's say none.
Perhaps you had a division the dealt with PHI and you wanted to keep that traffic away from the rest of the network.
You still need a firewall to properly separate them if you are sharing the same internet.
@Dashrender said:
PFSense is a good free option, but it requires you provide your own PC class hardware, and the power bill will probably be 10X or more than an ERX.
Cost of hardware isn't the biggest factor.. the power is what will get you.
I'm using the Edge Router Lite.
@Breffni-Potter said:
@Jason said:
Intel Xeon E5-xxx Quad with 8GB of ram and quad on board nic. NO SSD but that's not going to affect a router.
Something very very wrong was happening then...maybe the quad NIC? If I get a decent outbound line, I'll try sticking the same box on it and test it. See what the performance is like.
Nope wasn't the NIC.. Worked fine on Pfsense too. They were Intel NIC which are the best for firewalls. The CPU was just pegged out when trying to saturate 150mb, too much overhead with those UTM packages
It's normal.. I've never seen GPO drive maps not do it. It just show an X unless there's an active session open with the SMB share to that user.
@travisdh1 said:
Even ServerMonkey? I ask because I haven't actually used them myself yet.
I've heard there not so good. Never used them myself.
Seems the rep wasn't used to the Deloitte audit. Microsoft is suppose to pay Deloitte. But yes they will still be doing onsite visits and we will be required to either give them access to everything or login ourselves to show them.
@scottalanmiller said:
@Jason said:
Seems the rep wasn't used to the Deloitte audit. Microsoft is suppose to pay Deloitte. But yes they will still be doing onsite visits and we will be required to either give them access to everything or login ourselves to show them.
Um yeah, Microsoft is supposed to pay Deloitte.
Yeah I've done them many times before. Never had one with onsite visits to each location and take 6 months though