This is basically a fresh install. I installed XenServer from DVD to USB Flash Drive. I also have a freshly created Raid 1 volume (which is my intended target) and Dell disk backup drive.

xe sr-create content-type=user device-config:device=/dev/sda host-uuid=30b317b1-01bc-4eaa-9eb1-a43f16ebdbd8 name-label="SSDR1" shared=false type=ext

The SR operation cannot be performed because a device underlying the SR is in use by the host.

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 239.4 GB, 239444426752 bytes, 467664896 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

WARNING: fdisk GPT support is currently new, and therefore in an experimental phase. Use at your own discretion.

pvscan
PV /dev/sda VG XSLocalEXT-4958af2e-9aa2-3032-c814-5e5c6e8c1ffd lvm2 [222.99 GiB / 0 free]
PV /dev/sdc VG XSLocalEXT-4958af2e-9aa2-3032-c814-5e5c6e8c1ffd lvm2 [465.75 GiB / 242.76 GiB free]
Total: 2 [688.73 GiB] / in use: 2 [688.73 GiB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ]

UPDATE
Nuked host, rebuilt it from scratch and got around the problem. However I'm just interested in figuring out how to do the low level drive management from the CLI. I was able to get through it on my own by the seat of my pants. Just want some clarity.

Scott I eventually just wiped it and started fresh but I learned a lot. At home I have been spending more time on the CLI with XenServer, no so much @ work as I only have 1 Raid array and normally don 't have to deal with CLI as much.

What I eventually did was nuked the raid, started fresh, changed it to a RAID 0 (for giggles), reinstalled XS. XS is installed to a 64 GB

@scottalanmiller I use to play with FreeBSD always was rock solid for me back in the day as a pure desktop system. I never had an issue with install or use. I wasn't advanced but I could get it up and running relatively easy.

@scottalanmiller you almost made me cry lol. I'm sick too needed something funny to laugh about.

@scottalanmiller im back in the office today. Good thing the power transformer appears to be successfully online from Alabama Power (it's ungodly huge). Hoping this week things will return to normal.

Scott so let's use me for an example, I almost roasted my assistant for opening up a financial server to RDP (since Teamviewer changed over their licensing model) but that was only due to it not having a strong user/pass combo. Also it was due to wanting to move to RDS /w a Gateway so we wouldn't have to spending too many hours trying to poke holes in the firewall.

But with this all in mind Scott am I wrong in thinking that couldn't we build a script in power shell to help automate some of the changes at least for the client end? As far as the Edge Router, I assume some scripting can be done too vs using the GUI. Going through the GUI isn't an issue per se, until you do more than 20+ which I can under the point of wanting a easier way to automate this.

In my case I plan on having 2 RDS farms, one for the financial side and one for the staff side and eventually a 3rd for our students. In theory it's almost cheaper for me to work on handful of servers and add our proper licensing than to even consider doing VDI which by the way thank you for your advice early on, it's crazy expensive even with non profit provisions!

If you want to keep it simple, if you head over to ninite.com they have:
Foxit Reader
Alternative PDF Reader 9.0.1.1049
LibreOffice
Free Office Suite 6.0.2 (JRE recommended)
SumatraPDF
Lightweight PDF Reader 3.1.2
CutePDF
Print Documents as PDF Files 3.2
PDFCreator
Print Documents as PDF Files 3.1.2.10844
OpenOffice

I have a side question, is this for the legal industry or just general use? I use to work in legal industry with a few leading firms with as a billed out MSP model to companies who didn't want to handle those types of services internally. I played with PDF's professionally at scale. We are talking 100K to 1M + in documents management. While I like how the pdf format is open per se to other vendors using it, there are sometimes quirks that happen with PDFs especially when someone is using a passworded version or a version done at a high level but someone with a low level version trying to use it and last but not least conversion issues especially when trying to convert from say a crazy windows doc / docx to pdf.

In my opinion, I prefer to working in Google then save to pdf which eliminates most of the issues (short of formatting) but for those few times I have to actually edit and manipulate them, Acrobat is tried at true but Sumatra PDF & PDF Nitro are also my go to.

For the most part the server is working fine! I'm actually gonna nuke it soon so I can re-attempt Hyper-V 2016 then KVM.

The SIP/ALG I forgot to turn off last night as I was too busy trying to test out my WDS server

If I stay late tonight and the office is clear, I'm disabling that ALG it seems to be the common cause of all issues and then as far as IPS getting disabled on the Edge Router I dunno how or even if I should!

@scotth very few if any tell you to turn it on. I could see maybe a scenario if the SIP provider provided you the equipment then sure if they want it turned on cool, since they may have certified it. But in general it I think the problem is whatever ALG is doing messes up with the firewall and I think basically the traffic is getting probed and flagged!

@jackcpickup Pingtest looks specifically at the quality of your ping to a destination. Speedtest shows throughput between two points.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD THANK YOU! I didn't know if I was the only one experiencing this!

@fateknollogee Agreed. Always good to layout what is available, let the people make a choice as to what is right for their situation.

I switched to the RDP Manager and I get more options exposed to help. Rarely having that issue anymore after patching.

Already been on TechSoup for years. No discount or offering from UBNT there, sorry. I went ahead and actually got the ER-6 and the mount kit

@pete-s said in Purchase options for a small non profit 25 staff:

uters and firewalls you'll find intel cpus with hardware accelerators doing the job. That way the cpu has the brute force to process a lot of packets but things that can be offloaded will be handed to the hardware accelerators.

True. If you want more power you'd have to get one of their two best routers. Which the top of the line infinity is decent. I've already considered moving to it

The cost of one ubiquiti router is faster and more secure than any home use router. It's also cheaper. If you wanted to pony up and pay for a crappy router for gaming you can pony up and pay for a proper router. I mean that's the whole point of UBNT. Low cost, enterprise grade equipment. Personally since they are tiny, I'd get the USG since performance isn't an issue and neither was their routing lol.

@scottalanmiller said in Router / AP / Switch for business:

mple, use the Cisco ASA for $5,000 as a comparison. Suddenly the Nighthawk seems brilliant. If we allow the bar to be shifted arbitrarily, we can justify anything.

That actually makes a lot of sense.

That's some good hardware! I got mine smelling the new box smell! Just waiting on the rack kit and the WAP then I can get to business.

See for me I don't understand when and where to apply QoS. As one minute your told it's useless the other it's useful. Like what's missing is the context behind the usage. I agree with Jared in that if your enabling it, by that alone it doesn't mean something magical is happening, something specific is.