@scottalanmiller said in How Many HCI Nodes for the SMB:

This is to not convolute the other thread about HCI for @Jimmy9008 ...

In that thread he's asking about three node HCI setups. I often point out that two nodes is nearly always better. I wanted to kick off asking... for an SMB, does he really need to be looking at so many nodes?

Depends on if management forces them to use Microsoft products. The per core licensing model means the most efficient setup is only 16 cores per server, which is really nothing today. Could easily need 3-4 of these.

Get off the windows platform and you can scale so large in a single server there is no need for more than 1, at least at the size of an SMB. Thanks to AMD Epyc it's even a reasonable price point today.

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@nadnerb Me. Every. Single. Time.

lol, remember to quote when replying to a specific thing. I'm laughing because it looks like your reply was to the "Why not try....? Crime" picture.

@EddieJennings said in Script for Creating VMs from Template VM in KVM:

@Pete-S said in Script for Creating VMs from Template VM in KVM:

Not the exactly the same thing but you might want to look into how to create a VM from scratch.
Meaning a script that will set up a VM with vCPU, memory, storage, network etc and then boot it from iso and have it do an unattended install, create what users you want and install the packages you need.

That's one of the next things I'm looking into.

@EddieJennings Also remember about things like kickstart in RedHat based operating systems. In Fedora/CentOS/RHOS you can use a kickstart file to automatically select all the install time options for the OS. A short time later you've got a fresh server and all the time it took you to setup was running the creation script on your hypervisor.

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Ditto. But it still got stolen. I tried to use Google Pay and it was rejected, so I switched to credit card and used mine.

The local bank came up good for me though. I had the $$ back in my account a day later.

Ug bad website stealing cc info

Actually, it was a gas station here in town. Several other folks I know had something similar happen over a few days, so let's just say I won't be going back there, lol.

Someone has a skimmer on the pump you used

Except it was the inside card machine in this case, not the pump.

I just stopped in for a snack, lol.

Yuck

@StorageNinja said in How Many HCI Nodes for the SMB:

@scottalanmiller said in How Many HCI Nodes for the SMB:

The implication of two nodes is that it is still N+1. You just buy bigger nodes if necessary to keep it to two nodes.

If your licensing Oracle RAC for 40K per core (list, I know you'll pay less but still) or SAP HANA (where you pay per TB of RAM) then scaling out to a larger cluster has some advantages on N+1 math where 50% vs. 25% on 4 smaller nodes for HA protection comes to play.

How many SMBs actually use Oracle RAC or SAP HANA? Can't be many.

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

he county sheriff office had their main server break overnight. This has bad day written all over it

That's not fun

They're the ones that decided against any form of having a quick recovery available, doesn't mean it doesn't screw up our day.

@Doyler3000 said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

@scottalanmiller said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

@Doyler3000 said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

The method of creating a volume group on the thinpool and creating the qcow2 files in that works for me. Just wondered if anyone had thoughts on whether that's the right thing to do.

Nothing wrong with that at a technical level, but makes no sense to try to work around ProxMox' mechanisms if using ProxMox.

So I'm wondering what I've missed. You use qcow2 on lvm-thin but I don't seem to have that option unless I create directory storage on top of the lvm-thin volume.
I'll keep playing around.

Why do you even care about qcow2 or lvm-thin in the first place? Click on the button that creates a vm within Proxmox and just use the default settings.

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Started an on-premise to Microsoft 365 migration this morning. Only 1 file share to deal with getting into Sharepoint this time.

Sadly, they'll still have on-premise Quickbooks

Ug - I just learned I'm going to have to support Quickbooks again here soon.

So sorry for your lost time.

@EddieJennings said in ZOOM alternative:

Perhaps https://meet.jit.si

Or our own thread on public Jitsi servers: https://mangolassi.it/topic/21573/sangoma-opened-a-jitsi-meet-server-also/5

https://meet.jit.si
https://meet.vitalpbx.org
https://meet.sangoma.com

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

We are doing a big Thanksgiving down the road here in Nicaragua. An American expat and his GF are hosting a huge party. At least fifteen of us going. Going to be huge. Even getting a turkey.

Which is odd that everyone thinks that getting a turkey is going to be hard. When they are literally raised right in the village.

+ + =

Gun? that's to much work!

It's only a lot of work if you're a bad shot. My family bagged a wild turkey a few years back. Best bird we ever ate.

Edit: I didn't shoot it. I am not a good shot.

Well wild turkey is different - I was thinking raised turkeys, catch it, break it's neck.. etc..

Never done turkeys, but chickens are hella messy once the head is chopped off. Been years since I was around that.

I have an uncle that has worked most of his life cleaning at a chicken processing plant in the area..... not my idea of fun!

@DustinB3403 said in Trying to get metrics comparing two APs Cisco and Ubiquiti:

@travisdh1 So the question isn't do I really need those speeds, I'm trying to find comparable models for each use case. Which the use case for this one cisco model is supposed to be in a warehouse.

• Coverage area, lots of metal structures to deal with
• Two APs max
• limited user totals - not high density

I don't think the speed is the factor, more the range of coverage in that sort of area.

Have you ever done a proper site survey? I think that's where you need to start.

Ugh, Quickbooks lost a months worth of data at a client. Wish me luck, I'll need it.

@DustinB3403 said in Linux: GeoIP Blocking:

@VoIP_n00b said in Linux: GeoIP Blocking:

GeoIP blocking is completely useless. It’s trival to get around making it of no real value.

While this is true because anyone can use a vpn to appear to come from another country, I wouldn't say that GeoIP blocking is useless, but it isnt very effective against real threats.

@VoIP_n00b is leaving out how bad the databases are in the first place. Sure, you can say I'm in Ohio by looking up my IP address, but you'll have me pegged at the wrong end of the state. That's one of the less egregious examples off the top of my head.

@nadnerb said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

In the case of that picture, track down where the termination resistor disappeared to.

@IRJ said in Topics of Systems Administration:

@scottalanmiller said in Topics of Systems Administration:

As my employer said at the time "You can't bag groceries in Oregon", that was their policy. No job, of any sort, anywhere in the country. Their policy was that they were a "US business" and "all US business" was a competitor. Clearly that doesn't work in court, but the number of people who had won against them were.... very few. Famously, two just did a few months ago. But it's taken that long.

Wow that is totally illegal and would never even stand up in court. Hell you could probably represent yourself in such a scenario and still win.

1. I can almost guarantee they would not go after you if you went to another industry

2. No way that is holding up in court. No way that takes 10 years to win. Maybe 10 weeks?

You do know how slow the courts are to react to anything, right? Also most people could never hope to pay a lawyer that could take on a company of that size no matter how wrong the company is.

@nadnerb said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

The horror!

@hobbit666 said in Port scanning tools:

Zenmap is my normal tool

That's really just nmap. Nothing wrong with using it, it is the official GUI frontend for nmap.

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Place is kind of quiet today - everyone out at the Bars today?

Nope, just the Sherrif's office and fire department. Sheriff still refuses to keep me

inside joke I missed or are you serious? LOL

Nope, just a bad joke. I've gotten so many great reactions from people while I'm working at the jail and get a phone call tho. "Sorry, I'm at the jail right now and have to finish this up. Can I touch base with you latter?" So many people hear "I'm in the jail right now"

@scottalanmiller said in Port scanning tools:

@travisdh1 said in Port scanning tools:

@hobbit666 said in Port scanning tools:

Zenmap is my normal tool

That's really just nmap. Nothing wrong with using it, it is the official GUI frontend for nmap.

I had no idea that it had a GUI!

You've just never had to use nmap on Windows then, lucky!

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Looking into Level Pay plans for Utilities after putting out 5 fires in a row since 7:30. finally getting a hot cup of coffee. Is it Friday yet?

Coffee, that's what I need more of.