Next my SIP provider will try to tell me 'It's on your end'

I thought they were connected to ::: 3COM? was it?

Is Global Crossing still a thing?

I still had to restart my firewalls & a few devices local to each remote site that depend on our HQ for services.
Restarts worked.

Western Pa -- Comcast, Armstrong, Spectrum, Windstream aren't getting along. At least here.
UPDATE: Dit, dit, dit, dit, dit....
It appears to have cleared

@storageninja said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:

I honestly spend more time on Slack these days than forums.

Slack?

@kelly said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

@scotth said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

@kelly said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

@scotth said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

I just started into the Honor Harrington series by David Weber.
Pretty good, actually.

It is very good at the beginning of the series, one of my favorites. Now Weber is Jordaning it.

I started it because I saw 10 books. Hopefully, it stays interesting for a while.

You can download most of David Weber's books (and a few other Baen authors) for free, and legally at http://ebooks.thefifthimperium.com/. Up until a few years ago he included all of his Baen published works on a CD that came with the hardcovers.

Sweet.....Thanks!

@kelly said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

@scotth said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

I just started into the Honor Harrington series by David Weber.
Pretty good, actually.

It is very good at the beginning of the series, one of my favorites. Now Weber is Jordaning it.

I started it because I saw 10 books. Hopefully, it stays interesting for a while.

I just started into the Honor Harrington series by David Weber.
Pretty good, actually.

I found this cruising /r/sysadmin.
Device42 IT Coloring Book

IP Office.

I had to tag this. It's called AD Nauseum. I wonder if it'll take off. LOL
Reddit link
GitHub

@matteo-nunziati said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

@scotth compression?! What compression?!

Sorry. I saw lz4 compression on the volumes in FreeNAS. Thought it was kinda everywhere.
I'll pay attention.

@matteo-nunziati So, CentOS 7 , EXT4, LVM with compression turned on.
After all, I'm using consumer / smb desktop hardware. From what I've read, ZFS would require more resources than I have available if I wanted dedupe. My storage box will only have 8 GB RAM.

@scottalanmiller said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

@scotth said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

I've been out of the 'hands on' Linux game for so long that I don't know what distro has the tools that will help me out.

No tools needed or beneficial for a straight NFS file server.

Lots of good info.
I'm going to go with CentOS 7 and pound on it.
Thanks. I really appreciate it.
EDIT: One more thing tangentially related -- Since I have XenServer running nicely, what's to stop me from firing up a VM for LDAP services, tying it to my new storage box and using my old storage box as a backup LDAP server?
I think it's nice practice. If I work it through to it's logical conclusion, I can marry up to AWS as well? At least for critical backups.

XFS==eXtensible File System, correct?
LVM== Logical Volume Manager?
If that's correct, I'm aware of those terms from the NAS's that I've played around with.

@scottalanmiller I have a CentOS 7 VM ready to play with now. I also have Ubuntu 16.04 VM as well. I don't have a RAID card and am leary of using on board but I may try it anyway. I can always backup my shares to an external USB anyway.
Also, since it's playing around in my home lab, I can break quite a lot and get it back as long as my external backups are healthy.
I've been out of the 'hands on' Linux game for so long that I don't know what distro has the tools that will help me out. I've played around with it a bit in the last year. We'll see what comes.
Wish me luck.
Thanks for the advise.
Scott

@travisdh1 I have some reading to do.
md + LVM + XFS. What's md?
XFS and btrfs. What's btrfs?
I should be able to fire up a VM (CentOS?) and experiment with this before I move to a physical box?
Any favorite distros?
EDIT: To clarify, this is for my home lab. I won't do this at work until I can break it and fix it. I haven't had a Linux box under my fingers for years, - many years.
I don't count appliances & preconfigured, vendor supplied VMs and boxes. Those I have in spades.
Thanks

@scotth I should talk to my kids. I think there's a point me spell in Harry Potter.

I'm running XenServer 7.2, Xen Orchestra Community (nice script, btw - I used Jarli01) and am fine with it so far. I played around tossing in a few distros and with a little more futzing around, I'm going to move my storage to a Linux distro, at least I'm leaning that way.
My default SR is local and I want to create reliable storage for a backup target. I have a decent box here, two 4T drives and have run Linux on it before.
Any faves, honorable mentions, quirks, hazards?
TIA
Scott