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Umm, yeah. There is a lot better answer here. Install Hyper-V Server 2016 from ISO instead of wasting the license.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-hyper-v-server-2016

Once Hyper-V is installed on all 3 hosts, either run Veeam B&R by itself on a server or run it in conjunction with another server that isn't being fully utilized.

Also, why aren't you clustering your hosts together and load balancing your VMs across all 3 hosts? Can they not see the same storage or something?

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I got scheduled for a meeting today at precisely 3:07.

Who in the world schedules a meeting for a time so precise? Does this mean you need to start dialing your phone at 3:06:45 to start the phone call?

If they wanted it more precise, they could have said 20:06:45 -0500.

@travisdh1 Didn't know about that. Will have to keep that in the back pocket. I restored and overwrote the VM from yesterday's backups.

@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/watch-live-as-irma-nears-spacex-attempts-to-launch-a-us-spy-plane/

They made it. I don't think a rocket sitting on the launch pad would deal so well with a hurricane for some odd reason.

I say just shoot the rocket to the west coast and have a boat waiting for it over there, but I'm also not a rocket scientist either.

@DustinB3403 Yes, the physical device that would take the place of a full stack computer, but only provides the user with a physical monitor, keyboard, mouse to a VM operating somewhere else.

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Watching Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:

@fuznutz04 I have Plex Pass and IMO it's completely worth it

If I stick with Plex, the lifetime pass is 100% worth it.

I've considered just skipping the monthly and going right on to the lifetime pass. From everything that I've seen, its worth it.

@scottalanmiller said in Fedora Love:

@Emad-R said in Fedora Love:

https://ulauncher.io/

Noice !

What does this do that my normal desktop does not? Or is this for people not on Cinnamon who wish that they had chosen Cinnamon?

If they wish that they had chosen cinnamon, then just install cinnamon.

@scottalanmiller said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

Welcome @NHCSAdmin

A little behind? That person has posts from February of 2016. Or am I missing something?

Disclaimer: I've never implemented or used SaltStack at all.

But what I know of it, I would treat it similar to Group Policy. Not really meant to give information back. Just a state and configuration management system.

@quixoticjeremy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@minion-queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Watching the Apple Special Event. I just got the Apple Watch they better not release a new one.

One of these days I need to get myself a smart watch. Will need to look and see whats available for android.

I'm considering the FitBit ionic for Christmas

https://www.fitbit.com/ionic

Business Use Case

I have some users in my organization that does clerical work / data entry. All this user really needs is RDP to our ERP system and Outlook, maybe a printer, and a one-off app here or there, such as UltraVNC or Excel or something. Normally, we have been deploying Dell OptiPlex's SFF in place because they don't consume a lot of power, small desktop footprint, and still does the job. However, I have been thinking that it just may still be overkill and cost a lot at $1k/computer + internal support.

We recently purchased Chromebooks for a small quick project for the HR department that is about to be finished. I was considering either repurposing these Chromebooks for mobile users that still don't require anything really heavy (not doing Excel PivotTables, data analysis, or anything) but still needs a laptop of some kind.

I know that I can get the apps from the Google Play store to do what we need. I am looking at Chrome Enterprise Licensing to manage the security of the devices.

Question
With looking at deploying a few apps, how much resources do I really need (RAM, CPU, Storage)? I doubt I need 8 GB of RAM to run Outlook and RDP, plus printers and another app. 4 GB should do just fine, unless I'm overestimating the capabilities of the device. i3 or Celeron should do just fine. Doubt an i7 would be necessary. Stock 32 GB of storage as nothing should be stored on the devices and everything on the servers.

Is there really an ROI by going from a Windows box to a Chromebox? I doubt I would be spending any more of my time troubleshooting chromeboxes in comparison to windows boxes. I would just have some spare chromeboxes on hand that I could quickly replace troublesome boxes with and work on the troubled boxes in the server room. $1k/Windows box and may last 1-2 (maybe 3-5) years plus internal support versus $250-500/chromebox + $50 annual licensing fee to Google for managing the chromebox + internal support (maybe less than before with the Windows box, but support would still have to be there).

With this change, would we be reducing our security footprint and begin the slow movement to a LANless model? Not as many attack vectors for a Chromebox in comparison to a Windows box, as we all know, eventually could I migrate client devices in general to a DMZ/untrusted networkzone and treat it that way while keeping the servers in a trusted network zone?

@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41275614

Follow up...

I don't do politics. You threaten me, all bets are off. Are we waiting for NK to have an "accident" or to actually hit somebody before somebody actually responds? (Sorry, sanctions aren't going to do diddlly squat to somebody like Kim Jong.)

Small, crazy man is going to bring us into World War III

And now I have been given the green light to build a fedora 29 salt stack server. Testing only, not production yet.

Happy Birthday to the oversized search engine that is trying to invade our lives every minute of every day. The Google.com domain was registered 20 years ago today. Happy birthday Google.

https://www.whois.com/whois/google.com

@DustinB3403 said in Salt-Minion can't talk to Salt-Master:

@NerdyDad try restarting and seeing if the issue persists.

Oh, no issues. They're still communicating.

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Watching Now:

Currently on Season 3 of Stargate SG-1

Love Stargate. Can't wait for Stargate Origins to be released.

Youtube Video

@DustinB3403 said in Chromebox for Clerks and Data Entry:

@NerdyDad said in Chromebox for Clerks and Data Entry:

Was working on this and working in state files (SLS). I can remotely install Remmina on the minions, but is it possible to configure the RDP configurations within remmina? For example, some needs RDP to the ERP system, while others may need RDP to one-off servers once in a while. Is there a way for me to configure these RDP connections within the sls file?

You should be able to supply a config file into the reminna directory, yes.

@travisdh1 said in Chromebox for Clerks and Data Entry:

@NerdyDad said in Chromebox for Clerks and Data Entry:

Was working on this and working in state files (SLS). I can remotely install Remmina on the minions, but is it possible to configure the RDP configurations within remmina? For example, some needs RDP to the ERP system, while others may need RDP to one-off servers once in a while. Is there a way for me to configure these RDP connections within the sls file?

You can push files to minions, so save the config, and have that pushed out to the minions. Getting it in the right place is the hardest part.

According to Remmina's FAQ here, they store their configs in different places. Remmina's main configuration files are stored in $HOME/.config/remmina/ as remmina.pref. Connections are stored individually under $HOME/.local/share/remmina as XXXXXXXXXXXXX.remmina. If I can rename these files to be more SysAdmin friendly, then it would be easy to know who gets what connection.

After that, it is just a matter of setting up a local file server for IT to serve out config files and other stuff.

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@rojoloco said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

I don't even know where to start with this one....

Chinese sex doll rental service suspended amid controversy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-41303313

The words "sex" and "rental" should not be used together.

Nevada does not agree.

An entire industry would beg to differ. Its called...Prostitution!!

@DustinB3403 said in Chromebox for Clerks and Data Entry:

@DustinB3403 said in Chromebox for Clerks and Data Entry:

You can rename the files obviously, but you can't import them if you change the name it seems.

actually...maybe I cant import because it's already listed.

Copy it and change the name, then reload Remmina. You'll now see a copy of the same thing. Go back and delete the original in the file system and reload Remmina again. Original disappears.

Tells me that one should be able to simply dump the connection configs on the minions, tighten down the permission to read only for the user and let them operate.