@scottalanmiller said in RAID - Two Arrays for Server? Array 1 for Windows Host and Array 2 for VMs and Data?:

@Pete-S said in RAID - Two Arrays for Server? Array 1 for Windows Host and Array 2 for VMs and Data?:

This is what we do.

Option 3.
Hypervisor on satadom or small SSD drive.
Performance storage array with SSDs. Raid 1 or 10.
Capacity storage array with 3.5" HDDs. Raid 1 or 10.

Each VMs gets the kind of storage it needs. RAID1 is default for the arrays. RAID10 is only used when the capacity is needed (always as few drives as possible).

Right now I'm prepping a RAID 1 array 2x16TB that will go into one of our hosts.

md4 : active raid1 sdm[1] sdl[0] 15625748288 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] [>....................] resync = 0.6% (99811008/15625748288) finish=1322.2min speed=195699K/sec

We'll see how long it takes. Supposedly around 23 hours.

Same here.

So you've moved to SSD with RAID 1 or RAID 10, no more RAID 5?

Works on Debian 10.

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@BraswellJay said in Email phishing attempt against one of our vendors was successful ...:

Enough to sting but not crippling to us or the vendor involved.

Thankfully!

@Dashrender said in Window server standard edition on Hyper V- means two Wins VMs ?:

the cost of SSD is still massive compared to that of HDD MB for MB

not that bad, mostly just people buying what they are used to, it seems.

Thanks for adding more technical content!

I've used both MEmu and Bluestacks. MEmu was a bit faster and was less pushy about advertising. Bluestacks is more widely recognized and supported though. I didn't play much with keymaps and other features when I was using MEmu more heavily, but Bluestacks seems to have more of that.

Update: Sorry about it being so late. Meraki/Cisco does and will not support this format in client VPN. Which translates to, ended up being a little over 9000 in sales revenue for them. Oh well..... Big fish feed on the little fish. Disgustipated.

Thanks for all the input. Helped a bunch.

If the above is your problem, then you should look at a different solution. @scottalanmiller's current favorite is MeshCentral.

It is not as good as ConnectWise Control yet, IMO, but close.

@JasGot said in Need help for argument with Comcast:

Comcast says they will provide a one time credit for the charge IF the customer does a full reset of their VoIP setup from Comcast, and the end Customer's IT must do it.

How do they do this, given that they didn't even offer this previously?

Yes, email providers will send you reports when they get emails from your domain.

You do not necessarily have to ever go from quarantine to reject, some mail providers, like O365, treat them the same. But you would want to wait for reports to come in to see if there might be stuff that might be failing the the business would want to go through.

@biggen said in Add 2.5" U.2 (NVMe) SSDs to custom build?:

@Pete-S said in Add 2.5" U.2 (NVMe) SSDs to custom build?:

Intel P4510

Yup that would work. Wish I could figure out a way to at least mount the U.2 drives in the 3.5" external drive bay since I don't need a 3.5" bay for anything else. ICY DOCK makes a twin 2.5" SATA drive bay that fits in a 3.5" bay, but they don't make a twin 2.5" U.2 NVMe drive bay that fits in the 3.5". I'm guessing the 2.5" U.2 needs either more spacing or better cooling than a standard 2.5" SATA SSD.

You don't want them in an external bay. Remember that these are PCIe bus connections so it makes sense to have short cables. The cables in the adapter above are probably 1.5 feet at the most.

U.2 drives are thicker than standard SSDs, usually 15mm (a little more than 1/2 inch). They get hotter than normal SSDs but nothing extreme. P4510 for instance is rated at 16W power consumption. Which is about twice as much as a 3.5" spinner. In a high powered rack server the drives stays cool but they're usually designed to have a generous amount of airflow through the case and over the drives.

PS. If it wasn't clear - U.2 drives have the same mechanical mount as 2.5" drives. So you can mount them in a 2.5" internal drive bay or in a 3.5" internal drive bay with adapters. You just can't put them in a hotswap drive bay or any drive bay that has an SATA or SAS backplane because it's electrically not the same.

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@black3dynamite said in Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade / Usage Experience:

@IRJ Did you choose a normal or minimal installation?

Normal because I'm lazy