@Jimmy9008 said in How to manage remote work with little to no resources, and venting?:

I feel its time to move on.

This was my thought even before I read the post, and still is afterwards.

@jt1001001 said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

I don't' have any specific product but Atto Technologies comes to mind to look at for something like this.

They make pieces for building a serious enterprise scale media workflow like HBAs and iSCSI options for MacOS. Their focus is specialty high performance Mac hardware. I don't think that they offer any solutions, but they have nice components and some software.

@dashrender said in VDI Options - Modernization:

@scottalanmiller said in VDI Options - Modernization:

@pete-s said in VDI Options - Modernization:

@scottalanmiller said in VDI Options - Modernization:

@pete-s said in VDI Options - Modernization:

I'm not talking cached files here but client side databases and local storage as defined in html5. Another reason you might insert VDI into the chain.

Worth pointing out that this "should be" a configuration thing and not something you need heavy VDI to work around. But here in the real world, it isn't always configurable and VDI can be used to deal with that.

Yeah, it depends entirely on what the html/javascript code looks like. Which in most cases depends on what framework was used.

It was easier to keep track of the data when a html browser was as dumb as a vt100 terminal.

Wanna take bets that a new "HTML-lite" protocol surfaces that has modern GUI and graphical components, but none of the heavy data-handling components so that people can be confident that no data leaks beyond what is seen on the screen?

why did some move away from that model in the first place? to put the processing power onus on the end user?

Oh it makes TONS of sense. If you saw every day apps built both ways side by side you'd chose this "every" time. First, it saves the hosts and the ISPs tons of money because it shifts lots of processing power out to the end units where typically there is loads of excess power. Why do something in an expensive way when there is a free way waiting to be utilized?

Second, it makes websites a lot faster. I mean a LOT faster. It means you can do lightning fast calculations without waiting for long internet round trips, you can cache data, etc.

Third, you can work offline. People always complained that apps were unable to work offline. This is what allows things like email or document editing when you still lose your Internet connection, and what allows many things to keep working when your Internet might be flaky.

Was wondering if anything like NGINX or HAProxy have a suitable solution we could use. Maybe we could point the public DNS entry to HAProxy hosted somewhere in a datacenter and if the traffic is 80/443 protect with WAF, and if any other suitable port allow through.

The paid HAProxy seems to have a WAF. Not sure on the cost though. As long as we keep citrix/back end patched, and keep it behind our MDR platform, and only allow traffic from the proxy, maybe that will be ok.

This is how he should be deploying.

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/taliesins/hyperv/latest/docs/resources/hyperv_machine_instance

@notverypunny said in Deploying firmware updates on servers and testing...:

Yeah, this sounds like a case of the bean-counters having unreasonable expectations.

That's even worse if it isn't management but accountants who don't understand math. That implies that they can't do accounting, either.

Looks like upper limit is 100k in those areas then. Cheers folks

Also, while I think of it, Comscenter is also worth a look at

One of the reasons that you don't see many good options for this is because the place where the industry has decided that this should go, when hosting like you want, is on the app itself because of the performance and latency aspects of it. So tools tend to be like this one...

https://shieldon.io/en

And they tend to be platform specific to do a good job. This is something your developers would be doing, not IT, generally. Sure IT can buy third party hosted solutions or hardware, but software is going to be rare because it's an additional reverse proxy that hurts app performance.

So any app big enough to need this is generally happy to pay for Amazon or CloudFlare because the cost is nominal (less than having your own IT research and set it up.) And those that want to host themselves do so closer to the app.

There are multiple options, but by far the most likely is what they are saying - that there is something whether a traffic shaping rule, a bad packet size setting, a VPN config, or a proxy / web handler that is mangling things.

If you know that none of those things exist, then TeamCity must have some weird configuration that interacts poorly with the settings of the VPN tunnel that another proxy does not. But that's very, very unlikely.

Can you try moving the IP address of TeamCity to match that of the proxy that works? That's a quick test that, if it gets suddenly fast answers some questions, but if it remains the same tells us nothing.

@IRJ said in Career Management/Recruiters/Headhunters - potential scam?:

@scottalanmiller said in Career Management/Recruiters/Headhunters - potential scam?:

@Jimmy9008 said in Career Management/Recruiters/Headhunters - potential scam?:

This company however says they do not charge the company but charge the candidate due to the service they provide and managing/promoting the candidate. The cost seems pretty expensive too at just below £1000, which is $1,400 USD.

That's an itty, bitty fraction of the cost that the companies pay. So this means that the math alone doesn't make sense. How could these guys make money. Sure, good headhunters do really, really well. But that's because they place something like 90% of the executive level staff out there. These guys are claiming to only be going after some tiny sliver of a percentage of the market, while doing so at a tiny percentage of the pay? Doesn't add up. If they were legit, they'd hardly make a penny.

Yeah placement fees can be $50k or more easily

Yeah, for sure. Good headhunters can place no more than one person a quarter and be doing pretty well. It's not like normal recruiting where they make at most a few thousand dollars and have to do big volumes. This is very diligent service with huge amounts of time going into every placement.

@scottalanmiller said in What makes a system HCI?:

@DustinB3403 said in What makes a system HCI?:

@scottalanmiller Where in that quote do you see that Hyper-V 2019 is being used?

That's why I stated it, to make sure that it was.

Oh

@JaredBusch said in Veeam Replication to Azure:

@Jimmy9008 said in Veeam Replication to Azure:

The replicas would be offline, so I would expect to only pay storage costs and data inbound costs but no other costs until in a DR situation.

That is not how anything works.
You have a replica sitting there. A replica is a full VM sitting there. You have to have the CPU and memory "reserved"... You have to pay for that privilege.

Right, it only works that way when you use storage (aka backups) as we were trying to answer. We assumed that the "don't pay for running capacity" portion meant that we were all on the same page.

If we approach backups / DR in the way that I've been describing, then absolutely you don't pay for that VM capacity while the data is stored there, even when it's ready to fire up.

I would do it, it never hurts. Hey it might be positive and negative. Someone can learn how great a job someone did or how poorly a job was done. The point is to make sure it is documented.

@dbeato said in Deduplication on CSV storage:

@scottalanmiller said in Deduplication on CSV storage:

@dbeato said in Deduplication on CSV storage:

For example SQL Servers or Exchange cannot have deduplication on them

Microsoft lists SQL Server as their prime example of "might be good for it, but you need to evaluate your use case" ...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/data-deduplication/install-enable

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Well, I would say this is the part with Hyper-V that is so ambiguous
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It's not, it can't be. VDI has massive overlap and can use more aggressive deduplication, but that's all. Dedupe by definition is either always safe, or never safe. There cannot be an inbetween. Not when it runs below the filesystem.

Hyper-V support and safety is never in question. Only Hyper-V for VDI has a specialized tuning option.

@Jimmy9008 said in Windows Failover Clustering... what are your views and why?:

The point of the CSV was that as we increase our proprietary tool over the next few years, there is room to do so. If that space is full of data that doesn't need HA, we have lost the opportunity to use it.

I'm in camp 2 on this.

It is a waste to use the space when it is not needed. It was not engineered to be used any other way Just because you can do something (option 1) does not mean you should. People wanting option 1 are just being lazy. Fuck that.

Do as @scottalanmiller suggested and get the stakeholders to officially sign off on changing the budget expansion cost to be used now instead.

Do not let this just be a conversation. Put it in writing. The lazy people will back down.

@magicmarker said in File transfer drop:

Server 2019 enables by default some Hyper-v feature called RSC. I wonder if this is your issue. Someone had this same issue as me and turned it off and my Read speed went up to the 900Mbps limited by switch speed now.

https://serverfault.com/questions/976324/very-poor-network-performance-with-server-2019

@Jimmy9008 Looks like this might be your silver bullet

New version uploaded. Link in the original post will take you to the new document. How are those changes?

I have tried to remove all the terminology like DR/BCP. I have put the promotions together so hopefully that will make more sense too...

@scottalanmiller said in Windows 10 Enterprise licensing...:

@Dashrender said in Windows 10 Enterprise licensing...:

Then they added Enterprise as part of E3 and better O365 licenses,

I think you mean M365, not O365. Do they really offer it now in the regular Office levels?

You're right - M365, O365 never includes the Windows OS, that I know of.

@Jimmy9008 said in New IT Position UK, any advice/feedback?:

@IRJ said in New IT Position UK, any advice/feedback?:

You're asking for a cloud expert in competencies, but are saying it's entry level infrastructure. Which one is it?

Maybe its terminology? I use the term 'competent' to mean acceptable/satisfactory. Not expert. After 5 years of being a professional in IT with interests in technology, I would like somebody that knows a little bit about most of those items. 'Competent', not 'Expert'.

For example, if they have been doing support for 5 years for a range of companies, but does not have any competency at all with Office 365, then they would not be a good match.

Maybe like @Obsolesce mentioned, create a few different categories of skills/qualifications.

We all understand that the applicant may touch all areas during the course of a month but what is 80% of their daily duties? You mentioned certain %'s in your post but will they do mostly support calls, setup/config O365, Azure AD setup/support and login to a hypervisor host?

If they are only going to touch the SAN/NAS, support Oracle and do network security only for 10 hours a month, that could go under a "Limited skills" segment.

You stated you are willing to train the individual, so items in the competency category should cover most of their required daily duties. They can learn the rest through training, working in a team and further education.