Yeup, you got two disks on the OS, so easy enough.

I always grab all the good stuff, logs are always useful. All you would need to do after you drop it into the new datastore, just import it into the vCenter.

http://www.crucial.com.au/blog/2009/11/21/how-to-import-virtual-machines-into-esxi-using-the-vsphere-client/

@Dominica said:

It's also, completely untrue,

Enabling. It's what's for dinner.

Scott's wrong on this subject, using a narcissistic justification and is showing serious dependency issues with regards to working. That's my amateur psychological opinion of the issue at hand. You want a professional one, you picked the wrong member of the family. I calls it like I sees it.

This goes beyond "bossy" or "confident". It's drifting into the "I'm right, I'm always right, because I know everything about everything and you are always wrong" mentality that Scott exhibits at times. RAID5 anyone?

@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I see the SBC Global link has started responding again, sounds like that is the start of repairs getting done.

With this much wide spread outage I'm wondering if it was an attack on the backbones rather than someone cutting fiber

Probably what happened was that the BGP route to C@C was dropped, hence the rest of the network gave up on trying to get it to the destination. This happens when a published route path goes down, e.g. fiber cut into the locale. That's why we were seeing it drop within our own ISP's network, because there was no published route to them. Once the circuit was back up, the BGP routing was fixed and it sent the traffic onto the backbones.

Although I'm seeing the same thing right now on TWC, haven't checked AT&T.

@scottalanmiller said:

So here is the RAID 5 question.... Are you saying that I'm wrong and that you've been screwing people over by holding back info that we don't have? Or that I'm right and that you call it narcissistic to be right and stick to your guns while people who know they are wrong try to brow beat others into accepted the wrong things that they say?

No, it's because you have become a serious [moderated] about it. It's not what you say, it's how you say it. Like "Not letting people get away with being idiots isn't the same as needing to be right", but it's actually both. You have to be right, come hell or high water, and you have to stop people from being idiots in your perception. So your line about conceding the argument? Once again, you can claim you are right, bask in that righteousness, and feel better about it. This is exhibited in other topics as well.

You can be wrong, dead wrong. And it's not possible to shape the world the way you want it. If people want to use RAID5, like we do on thousands of servers and SANs, let them. If they want to buy a SAN, let them. Don't expect everyone to bend to your will at any time just because you said so, using whatever "facts" you bring forth. Because some of it is fact, some of it is "fact". You are not that convincing.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Carnival-Boy said:

I've planned on only one vdisk. I hadn't considered creating more than one.

Both approaches are completely valid. I like keeping the partitions separate, but I only like it a little. So I lean that way, but keeping them all in one is perfectly fine too.

One reason and one reason only to do it as a separate partitions for data/logs/install.

If it fills up the disk, it wouldn't take down the OS in the process. Ive seen it happen, although Windows is usually resilient on that. But the only thing that would happen if you have separate partitions would be that the DBs couldn't write, halting the instance but recoverable by logging in and fixing it.

If you never expect to fill up a disk, make it huge and put it on one. But since it only takes a few minutes, and it's a real bitch to move data once in place to another drive, it's just easier to do this ahead of time to expect it.

@scottalanmiller

See, this is what I'm talking about. You are being a [moderated] posting hundreds of times for RAID5 because "reasons". And you have to be "right" by posting hundreds of posts backing up your [moderated].

Woo, count me in for a freebie.

Maybe I can gets me a Big Dog without having to pay for it.

@JaredBusch said:

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Capital N, little y, BIG F[moderated]ing Q!

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@thecreativeone91 said:

What is being done to prevent another outage like yesterday? And what exactly caused yesterdays outage?

I would hope someone is on the horn with Bell getting a pipe into the DC for a failover. Should be dirt cheap, well, relatively dirt cheap. Some quick changes in the BGP routes, should have redundancy, failover, and load balancing without much work. Because if a fiber cut by Rogers was the problem, having a connection to Bell would at least allow things to stay online, albeit slower. Our DCs have connections to three different locations and providers, it takes some serious destruction to kill our stuff.

@StrongBad said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller Same I was like, Adobe still makes that...

Adobe made Flash I had no idea that they were making CF too. How did I miss that?

It came about when they bought Macromedia. Along with Dreamweaver and Flash.

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

@PSX_Defector said:

Damn it, it doesn't work for a dedicated cloud environment.

But I can spin me up a Big Dog.

One thing I've noticed, everything is presented to the world without restriction. Any chance we can get a firewall option, hide our boxes behind that? Would make me feel a lot better if I can present only port 23/80/443 instead of all the ports on my boxes. One dev box as a SSH proxy to get into them, also use it as the RDP gateway to manage Windows as well.

Don't need a license for something like the ASA, just a blank VM to load pfSense on and some VLAN setups on the backend. Don't know if the API supports such a method.

Should be fairly simple, just their web interface needs to support more advanced and cloud like options. at this point it's really just VPS packages.

API was added this morning. Have you looked at it yet?

Looks as though it's basic stuff. No creation of vSwitches, no route metrics. Just power and various status stuff, like current templates and redeployment.

@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksaj said:

With the Indian workers, we still have a massive shortfall, but in terms of skill and not body count. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of competent and skilled Indian people in IT. But I have only met one or two.

I would guess that I have worked with over a thousand. Hard to guess when the numbers get large. I've lived right in the middle of the Indian cultural centers in both NJ and Dallas (the areas where Netflix "local recommendations" are all in Hindi!!) I've worked with an awful lot of people in general, so all of my numbers are large.

The problem with that particular subcontinent is cultural.

They are taught to not think, follow the directions or else. It's deeply engrained in their society, they have a caste system for f [moderated] sake. This results in most of the lower level goons not knowing jack s [moderated] beyond their tiny part of the picture. Improvisation is not their strong suit. We interviewed a few guys who were supposed to be our "peers" over the phone. One put in his resume he was an "Active Directory Architect". He couldn't even name ONE of the FSMO roles.

Then there is the blatenly false thought that they are somehow more educated and are equivalent to Western education. Sure, if they pay attention. But most just buy their way out of it. I can't seem to find it, but there was a article on the WSJ a while back about how the education system in India is hugely corrupted, in that 3/4 of all students pay professors for passing grades. A degree from Calcutta Technical Institute (CalTech) isn't worth even a degree in Underwater Basket Weaving from UC-Davis. What we see in the for-profit sector of our education system pales in comparison against their pay for play system.

Until companies figure out that these guys are not worth even considering, we will be stuck with them. I would take me an Eastern European resource before I consider anything in that subcontinent.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@PSX_Defector said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Because the can garnish your wages for life, it's still very worth it to them.

Not in Texas. Or Pennsylvania or North/South Carolina.

And not for life, because all it takes is a nice simple Chapter 7 to blow it all away. Even filing 13 would get rid of it.

Filling for bankruptcy will get you turned down for almost any job that does any kind of background or credit check. which all mine have. But after you file the judge will later hold a court case to determine whether you still have to pay or not.

Considering it drops off the ol' credit report after 10 years, not a big problem there. And if a company is that crazed that they will never consider anyone who had a BK ever, then maybe that's not a place to work. Other than financial companies, never heard of a BK being a barrier of entry for most F500 companies.

If you are insolvent, you can't get blood from a rock. Chapter 7 blows it away. 13, which most would be steered towards, would take the judgement into consideration and determine if they deserve more than other unsecured creditors. But it would most certainly be less than the full judgement. It's sometimes in their interest to get one hundred bucks today because they are gonna have a problem getting $100K in the next ten years.

@Joyfano said:

Reading post here on ML.

Funny, that's what I'm doing too.

Damn night guy, taking the week off. Now I have to fill in and deal with the nonsense.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@PSX_Defector said:

Considering it drops off the ol' credit report after 10 years, not a big problem there. And if a company is that crazed that they will never consider anyone who had a BK ever, then maybe that's not a place to work. Other than financial companies, never heard of a BK being a barrier of entry for most F500 companies.

Every IT job I know of consider it an issue. Since we could easily get to the companies money as we have access to everything. Maybe for very small SMBs they don't care or for non IT. Even for sales folks it usually matters as they need company credit cards to buy meals for clients. And IT guys usually need Credit Cards as well to buy things.

That right there is grade A crack.

I've worked with plenty of folks in IT who had BKs, big companies too. I know plenty of sales drones who have had BKs. If you work for people who are so paranoid that they are afraid that they are gonna get taken by someone who had most likely medical bills, they are in for a sad awaking when they do get swindled. All because they thought they hired safe folks they instead didn't follow proper procedures and such, allowing a sales drone to have free reign over the Amex account.

Again, if they are that nuts, it's not a place I would want to work.

@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksaj said:

Accents. And I could hear other accents in the background. I suppose it could have been somewhere else, but that was unlikely.

I get this a lot from people. Remember that call centers in both NJ and Dallas, as examples, are often nearly all staffed with people with accents. I've gotten tons of people making assumptions when calling NJ. While there are many call centers in India, there are many in the US and you have no way to tell them apart. That's an assumption you can never make. You are just as likely to be upset with US labour as offshore labour.

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, no. You can tell the difference of a foreign worker versus one onshore.

One phrase, do the needful.

Another way, the ones onshore done sound like they have marbles in their mouth. Native speakers don't have this. Remember that call centers only hire goons at the beginning of their careers, so many of them have "fluency" in English but still have noticeable cadence of how they use it. English syntax is quite different. And they can't make the sounds properly. I am a cunning linguist, I hear it all.

And I don't know where you find your call center goons, but I've worked for some of the largest ones in Dallas. None of them only hire H1Bs. And the one that did, good old Software Spectrum, promptly lost big contracts because of it. There is a smattering of foreign workers, but vast majority of them are local. That includes Stream, Frontier, AT&T, TelVista, T-Mobile, State Farm and Cisco. The reason they hire onshore is because the vast majority of offshore goons suck serious ass. Can't even follow a script. I call it dot logic, somehow they twist and turn anything into thinking that it's no longer their problem.

@thecreativeone91 said:

It is stealing. It's not subject to opinion. It is a fact!

At worst it's stealing. But misuse of a license would be better construed as breach of contract. You don't go to jail for breaching a contract, not in this country.

@thanksaj said:

Eating lunch. Got KFC today. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand, insert comments from @PSX_Defector as to "this is why you're fat"

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

big red V

Who is that?

Not to be confused with the big pink V.

It's only the big red V a few days of the month.

Time to lose some weight, fatty.