@Obsolesce said in How M$ shakedown stupid corporations:
Azure Resource Manager
Oddly enough I can't find any azure documents that abbreviate it (They always use the full product name for this reason).
Still back to the origional post. Is OP Seriously expecting new features on his 10 year old car?
@scottalanmiller said in How M$ shakedown stupid corporations:
He may be correct. I've talked to companies while living in Italy and it was common to take great pride is overspending, losing money, not having good Internet, etc. It's a massive problem there that is at the very core of why their economy is struggling. They don't look at business as business like we do here or in the UK or Germany. Culturally business is always seen as a hobby, always about emotions and pride, not about profits.
It's kinda a vicious circle. Company gets behind on spending and run 10 year old out of support crap. Good people leave, and the only skills left in who remains is how to maintain old crap (so they are proud of it, and kinda get a Stockholm syndrome with it)
Expecting free product updates for life is... an interesting opinion...
@Emad-R said in How M$ shakedown stupid corporations:
Dude you neglect alot of company that uses network isolation as security, and DMZ and LAN based security. They invest and policies and change controls forms instead of upgrading
Network isolation (at a logical level rather than physical) is very much a part of defense in depth. I'm not going to run an iSCSI network that's hosting VMFS volumes on a subnet that you can route to from the guest WIFI.
Micro-segmentation (which is policy driven, but automated) is really just layer 4 filtering brought all the way to the edge (through VTEP bridges, VxLAN or GENEVE overlays, a managed Virtual Distributed Switch etc).
Just because you update doesn't mean that you abandon these technologies, you just adapt them. I'd argue a "DMZ" network that has multiple edge services on the same subnet is a bit dated (and a stupid idea) but don't knock on network segmentation. Not everything will support TLS through a reverse proxy with IDS inspection.... (My beautiful SCSI and NVMe packets!)
@Pete-S said in How M$ shakedown stupid corporations:
BTW, already back in the Windows 3.1 days you had something called Tardis that you would run for NTP sync. Windows own time service was only designed to keep time reasonably synced for kerberos and stuff like that. I think it appears first in Windows 2000 Server.
I ran Tardis and K9 (The client and server)! worked shockingly well.
@Emad-R said in How M$ shakedown stupid corporations:
You have not seen much of "real business" then, I cannot disclose info, but I think this corp is like multi-million revenue.
Multi-million in revenue? That's cute. I worked for a crappy 50 man call center and we could do that.
Mainstream Support End Date was 10/9/2018 for Server 2012. It's in extended support (security patches only, no bug fixes). Complaining about a feature improvement (ultra precise timing which is needed for distributed clustered systems that didn't exist in 2012) is a REALLY odd thing to complain about.
Generally I don't side with calling anyone's business a hobby, but I don't particularly consider 1 billion in revenue to be really that impressive (outside of maybe the software industry where margins are higher). If your company is that small, and can't read when end of general support is, I would correctly argue they are a small business and not a serious enterprise by anyone's definition.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/search?alpha=windows server 2012
@Obsolesce said in How M$ shakedown stupid corporations:
It runs on a highly-customized extremely hardened and stripped-down version of Hyper-V basically, but that is where all similarities end. The management layer on top of that is ARM.
ARM isn't a management layer, it's a processor architecture. They might use an ARM processor for an out of band controller (I suspect that is what most out of band controllers run with the exception of whatever the hell is the custom silicon used for AWS Nitro).
@Dashrender said in Remote management of employees personal cell phones ...:
Huh - I can't say i agree with you at all. Why do you need access to non company servers over SSH?
In any regulated industry preventing the efiltration of data is a hard requirement. allowing outbound SSH would make it trivial for people to sneak data out (or bad stuff in).
@Dashrender said in Remote management of employees personal cell phones ...:
What MDM are you using?
We "own" workspace one/AirWatch.
@scottalanmiller said in Remote management of employees personal cell phones ...:
And then they said "We want to get back the thing we just gave up."
Which do they want, to not pay for the phones, or to control the data? They have to choose.
Not really. Proper MAM/MDM systems can surgically handle company data on a personal device...
The app keeps only an encrypted cache. It validates the account is active every xxx minutes, days, hours. encypted cache auto purged at xxx hours without communication with corp network.
The app usage is Geo-fenced to specific areas.
When possible, data doesn't actually live on the phone. You have a SSO app on the phone that validates your access (and other criteria like network or location) and then brokers access to the other apps, or externally hosted SaaS assets.
This is how we do it. No need to brick my phone to take out company data, or turn anyone's smart phone dumb.
@scottalanmiller said in Never get between a man and his tax credits:
@dafyre Don't tempt me haha. I did claim my big move 5 years ago, that was a sweet sweet tax year.
Under the new tax code in the US, only military can claim relocation deductions.
Unless you.... "relocate out of the US"
US citizens are still on the hook for US Income tax. You can deduct foreign income tax (unlike SLAT that was capped). The issue is once it saves you enough locally your tax credit will drop below the US taxes and you'll just have to pay them (So this only helps if you are still net/net higher income tax locally).
Even worse, basic tax advantaged accounts that may exist somewhere like Canada may now trigger foreign grantor trust reporting as the US doesn't recognize them.
@MattSpeller said in Never get between a man and his tax credits:
@dafyre Don't tempt me haha. I did claim my big move 5 years ago, that was a sweet sweet tax year.
Under the new tax code in the US, only military can claim relocation deductions.
@scottalanmiller ehhh, this isn’t a university It’s a trade school (oddly one that certified people in CCNA, helicopter repair etc). It’s a decent trade school but I suspect like a lot of universities an schools in rural areas they count of low job competition for non-remote entry level work. For what it’s worth a large 4 year university on the Brazos was paying only 40K for The head of ResNet department.
Universities priorities are strange. From a compensation plan free student tuition, and free masters often mean they can treat a lot of salary positions line work study jobs from a comp basis.
For what it’s worth I’ll likely be (jetlagged) but back in Waco for the OU game (or any games after it). I’ve made it to only one game this season sadly.
I have friends who still live in Waco but they all work remote. There’s a decent work from home Wordpress community there. The job market isn’t great for IT infrastructure unless you have clearance but even then [Redacted] IT is so frustrating wild horses couldn’t drag me back into one of their offices.
Just move to Houston or Dallas or another market until you can skill up enough to work remote.
@Pete-S said in Does VMware have developer/trial licensing?:
I was wondering if VMware has some kind of developer licensing for ESXi, vSAN and vCenter or if they can be installed on some kind of time limited trial license for testing?
Thanks!
You can download almost anything for a free trial and get a time limited key. For a lab/testing enviroment VMUG advantage is cheap as chips. If you just want to kick the tires on something Hands on Labs are not terrible.
@jmoore said in How do you know what a fair salary is for the area you work?:
@StorageNinja Really interesting points because I'm looking for a change too. Thanks for the info!
The funniest conversation was one shop that only offered 1 week of vacation max. They also wanted staff working on-call and after late calls still coming in at 8 AM. Had to explain to the VP that either that policy needed to go, or he needed to hand out 30% raises across the board to stop his attrition problem. In places where IT staff engaged in criminal behavior (Deleted data when being fired, running rogue servers at work, planting listneing devices in the board meeting) it was ALWAYS in a place where they were "getting a hell of a deal" on the skills of the staff they had. Discount IT staff are... expensive. Between that and staff who were honest but just wayyy underskilled (and projects took months instead of hours or days). arguing about paying an extra 15 or 20K just isn't worth it in most larger shops to get the right people.
Why should you listen to the Ninja?
I was a hiring manager for an MSP/IT consultancy. Note, because of my role I also was privileged to what a lot of my customer's IT staff were making (They'd either tell me, or it would come up in discussions with management if they were getting good value from their staff). I now work in a global role for a major technology company and fly around and talk to IT admins and archiects all over the world.
@Jimmy9008 said in How do you know what a fair salary is for the area you work?:
Can... "Dave from the pub said..." really be evidence to justify the salary?
"I've spoken with colleagues with similar skill sets and the compensation benchmark I'm seeing is xxx"
It doesn't matter what the person your negotiating with thinks. If the benchmark TRUELY is xxx, you'll find someone else paying it and move on.
In the SMB space it's all over the place with similar skills and job titles. I've seen someone functionally useless paid 80K and someone who's an awesome resource paid 40K.
It's worth noting that some of us use the Radford system for establishing bands and trying to standardize salary. This is common as it helps prevent liabilities from inconsistency popping up.
https://radford.aon.com/insights/articles/2015/radford-global-job-leveling
@scottalanmiller said in How do you know what a fair salary is for the area you work?:
I've been asked a few times to show evidence of why a salary should be given for a position. They often require similar job postings with the target salary in question... aka, if other companies are paying it, we should.
Most companies don't post the salary they are hiring at. The best jobs also don't go through recruiters (We don't pay/work with outside recruiters) so our payscales would be invisible in this case.
@scottalanmiller said in How do you know what a fair salary is for the area you work?:
Payscale is obviously BS. But even their show nearly 150K
https://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Job=Chief_Information_Officer_(CIO)/Salary
And that's all businesses, all of the UK.
Sample compensation packages from some F500 CIO's.
@Jimmy9008 said in How do you know what a fair salary is for the area you work?:
Hi folks,
How do you decide what is a fair salary for an IT position?
As a hiring manager It was:
Look at the skills, identify skills that align with the job (IE it's cool if you were an oracle RAC admin but If I didn't need that I didn't care). If I see a good alignment (Your skills mostly are skills I saw value in) I'd assign $$ modifiers to the skills (Say someone who can do BGP/MPLS work was worth an extra 20K over another admin who couldn't), sum them up and if the value > the cost to hire you and you had the best value of any candidates at the time you got hired!
I am finding it to be quite difficult to get an idea as many job listings that require a similar skill set often say 'salary depending on experience'. So, you cannot really get any data.
Working for a large company there's stuff like GlassDoor to get an idea of what a company has previously paid a given title but even then that can get iffy, especially in consulting where everyone might get the same title but have wildly different skillsets and value. If it's a company who has H1B's you can look up the salary data on that (I think our average H1B makes 120K but you could align specific jobs to specific visa's and guess based on that). For software companies trying to figure out what the pay bands and level's corresponding between companies (Say for titles like MTS) https://www.levels.fyi/ isn't horrible. If you want to pseudo-anonymously ask people internally at a given company https://www.teamblind.com/articles/Topics works for larger companies.
There's also just go drinking with people and ask.
Salary != Compensation. Say it with me...
. Once you add up, RSU's ESPP, weird 401K benefits (Post tax rollover maximums and supporting reverse rollovers), HSA pre-paid match, health benefits, unlimited vacation, variable bonus tied to my MBOs, training and T&E costs It could be argued I've had years where 50% (or more) of my compensation wasn't my base salary.
https://thenicholson.com/thinking-taking-offer-need-know/
Plus, I have never quite trusted the data shown on sites like PayScale. Its probably quite skewed towards data being provided by those on lower salaries anyway.
It's just a data point. Just because you don't like that data point doesn't mean it's not data. it just might not be relevant data.
I also expect each area varies quite drastically in salary. It doesn't feel right to judge say a Sysadmin salary for somebody working from Kings Cross or Old Street to somebody in Greenwich...
Once you get above helpdesk fodder this shouldn't matter as work remote jobs (or jobs where you can office out of a remote office).
How do you begin to decide whats fair?
Who gives a @#%@ what's fair? It's about you trying to provide the most recognized value and extract the most value back in compensation as possible. Seriously, Rules of Acquisition should guide you in compensation negotiations.
@scottalanmiller said in VM replication vs vSAN on two hosts?:
Correct. Just replicating, whether async or sync, carries extremely little risk. But this stuff, automating VM management, is when things can go haywire.
Automatic HA with ASYNCHRONOUS replication is a terrible idea at a block or VM level. This is why Veeam doesn't support it (You would have to build your own scripts, and Gostev would likely say "this is a stupid idea"), as you are potentially automating dataloss.
Note Veeam Replication (TODAY) uses VADP. This requires snapshots and carries performance overhead. Alternatively, in the future they will support VAIO replication (which gets you down from a 15 minute RPO to a 15 second PRO). VAIO bassed replication is a resource heavy (as is any async near-realtime write split journal system).
@scottalanmiller said in VM replication vs vSAN on two hosts?:
DOn't know if VMware VSAN gives you that option
It does, but you will get a health alarm, as there isn't a real reason to disable it....