Posts made by bnrstnr

What does this company do if there's a fire and they lose everything? Are they hoping the owners took the servers home with them? The whole conversation is ridiculous.

@luismc said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:

They get 1TB in SharePoint and can upgrade (by paying), the item limit is 5k per library and 20k overall so I think they're okay.

Be careful here, cad part files can add up extremely quickly. I'm not in architecture, but our average job folder has 2k+ files. You'd burn through 20k files pretty quick if that's the case there too.

You didn't mention how much data you're backing up, but Unitrends is free for up to 1TB. Full product, including scheduling, only limitation is 1TB of data.

edit: comment deleted... didn't read OP link. no more renewal. derp

https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/consumer/nextsteps/
"We will honor your existing CrashPlan for Home subscription, keeping your data safe, as always."

How much were you paying for the home plan? It's only like $10 a month, per computer, for an unlimited business plan.

AirDrop for contacts only is key here

Also, in the followup post on the blog they actually do another interesting lab that requires this first bit.

Ok, so 11 phones. you already have a server to host the PBX, you're nowhere near $3000 including a new switch with POE if that's what you really wanted to do

How many phones do you have/need?

Put together a solid plan showing cost savings switching to VOIP and ditching the POTS lines, and show how quick the ROI is. If you're paying anything close to what we were paying for our POTS lines, your ROI should be less than 1 year with all new hardware. It'll be hard for them to not go with the new system.

EDIT: the reply to Jared was coming in form of elaborating a little on your comment about putting phones in line. If he wasn't aware of that option, you can get phones with a passthrough switch port so you plug your existing ethernet connection to the phone then plug the workstation into the switch port on the phone. No need to rewire anything so long as every user already has a computer...

@dashrender it's faster to install core because the entire objective of the guide was an SMB server, not a hyper-v server.

Licensing isn't the issue either as they state this is for testing purposes, and that it is, in fact, against TOS. So use the 180 day free trial for testing purposes and spin up a VM of server core for your SMB server.

The whole hyper-v thing makes zero sense whatsoever.

Is there ever a reason to go with one of the other security policies for centOS?

It may have made sense to spin up Hyper-V in the past because a full standard server install takes much longer, but with the 2016 core server option, I'm sure that's just as fast, if not faster, to install.

@matteo-nunziati said in Creating a free SMB 3.0 file server on Hyper-V 2016. Part 1: Installation and configuration:

Just adding "for test" or similar in the title would benefit.

You can test Microsoft server operating systems for 180 days if I remember correctly. No need to test SMB shares with Hyper-V

How is your internet going to serve up all this RAID0 SSD awesomeness?? Do you really have the bandwidth to allow the hardware to be the bottleneck?

@dustinb3403 said in Meraki MS2** series vs Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch:

Oh thank god, I just hadn't gotten that far down yet.

lmao hadn't gotten down to the very next line

@dustinb3403 said in Meraki MS2** series vs Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch:

Compared to Ubiquiti which is 70Gbps Switching

Model: ES-48-750W
(48) Gigabit RJ45 Ports
(2) SFP+ Ports
(2) SFP Ports
(1) Serial Console Port
Non-Blocking Throughput: 70 Gbps
Switching Capacity: 140 Gbps
Forwarding Rate: 104.16 Mpps
Maximum Power Consumption: 750W
Supports POE+ IEEE 802.3at/af and 24V Passive PoE
Rackmountable

@brianlittlejohn said in VOIP Phone Suppliers:

I just ordered a bunch of phones from Balticnetworks.com

Baltic is the cheapest I've seen. We used voipsupply when we bought all of our phones and didn't have any problems at all. Only used them because I didn't know about Baltic.

@dashrender There isn't, I thought that was determined in the first part too...

No doubt I did. I think it had something to do with The hostname.