I'm using it to connect my laptop to various jump hosts. Other than that, I'm testing it against openvpn to connect a remote office to an ERP. I use the free plan, it's enough for now and works very well.
Best posts made by Francesco Provino
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RE: ZeroTier - are you using it in production?
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RE: I moved to Linux!
@scottalanmiller said in I moved to Linux!:
@Francesco-Provino said in I moved to Linux!:
@stacksofplates I don't think anything you wrote about KVM is true, and it never was true also. I don't think I'm biased towards KVM in any way, I use more vSphere and XS hosts than KVM ones as of today, but… KVM and the standard toolstack has everything. At least, anything apart from some very new and particular GPU or latency-related stuff that only ESXi and customized (AWS!) Xen have. But of course, the basic and advanced stuff are absolutely covered. Every single thing.
He's talking about Boxes, not KVM.
Oh, ok, now it makes sense! Never heard about Boxes… libvirt is really anything you need for KVM. Maybe virt-manager, if you are used to XenCenter-like administration…
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RE: Linux File Server. Which One Would You Pick?
@stacksofplates said in Linux File Server. Which One Would You Pick?:
@scottalanmiller said in Linux File Server. Which One Would You Pick?:
@travisdh1 said in Linux File Server. Which One Would You Pick?:
@Dashrender said in Linux File Server. Which One Would You Pick?:
@scottalanmiller said in Linux File Server. Which One Would You Pick?:
CentOS is also the Dom0 of XenServer. So you get great overlap there for people using that.
yet the XO guys are using Ubuntu instead of CentOS
Ubuntu's kool-aid is hard to resist.
It's marketed to non-IT and/or non-Linux people heavily, which is part of what makes it bad for Linux people.... so much of how it is used and why people use it is bad.
It's marketed heavily to them but a lot of devs use it too.
They do a lot of interesting things. Juju, MaaS, LXD, Landscape, etc. Things that are really useful that no one else has.
I agree with you, LXD is a big big thing. There are valid alternatives to Juju. With LXD and Juju I can do an LXD-based full OpenStack deployment on my LAPTOP. 13 Containers and 16 Gb of ram… it works and is decently fast.
CentOS is the gold standard, but Ubuntu has gained really A LOT of traction in the last year. I was one of the anti-ubuntu guy before the 16.04.
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RE: Fedora Block Device Full How - Extend Partition
@DustinB3403 said in Fedora Block Device Full How - Extend Partition:
Dumb question, would it be easier for me to simply add a separate drive, and then extend the root drive into the new drive?
Maybe.
You can skip the fdisk stuff and add a whole new block device to LVM if you add another virtual disk. -
RE: Fedora Block Device Full How - Extend Partition
@DustinB3403 pvcreate /dev/xvdb and proceed with vgextend…
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RE: PV or HVM for new VMs in XS?
@scottalanmiller said in PV or HVM for new VMs in XS?:
HVM is the current recommendation. This is going to change again soon when some new PV driver advances from the HVM side get back ported to the pure PV side. So eventually we expect PV to take the lead again as it is a more solid design. The biggest thing is that the HVM side uses hardware assist but PV is pure software. PV is getting hardware assist added to it and when it does it is expected to be basically container level speeds.
Agree, PV/containerization is going to be the next BIG thing: http://thenewstack.io/hypervisors-container-era/ .
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RE: Buying vs Saving Economic Theory
@wirestyle22 said in Buying vs Saving Economic Theory:
@scottalanmiller That's why they don't have a space program
That's hilarious, at least. ESA is probably the more active space company in the world, as of today.
We landed on a COMET two years ago, maybe you miss it…
I say "we" because I'm also a physicist :D.Oh, and many of the Chandra instruments were calibrated by my professor of astronomy in a facility that is 100mt away from our physics department… Chandra was a joint venture between NASA and ESA, maybe the biggest leap in the space knowledge in the last 30 years.
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RE: Buying vs Saving Economic Theory
@DustinB3403 said in Buying vs Saving Economic Theory:
@scottalanmiller said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
@DustinB3403 said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
If you're never replacing things with newer better solutions there is an underlying issue.
That's a very American sentiment. They don't replace their houses for hundreds of years... because they build them to last the first time.
I did say better solutions. If the house they built is the best solution then fine. But don't complain about WEP and say things like "they don't replace things as they expect them to last decades" and then be snarky when someone comments on the economy of a country based on what you've said of the same country.
Buying new goods on a regular basis, creates a healthy economy. Not doing so contributes to the financial collapse that Italy just had.
Collapse? Maybe you are referring to the Greek's crisis!
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RE: Buying vs Saving Economic Theory
Ok, I don't think the other post are talking about anything related to Sicily or Italy.
Maybe we haven't the shiny IT of the US, but it's still the second in UE (behind the UK), and we are the 8th economy in the world.
Maybe you're painting a situation that's away from reality…
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RE: Buying vs Saving Economic Theory
@Dashrender said in Buying vs Saving Economic Theory:
I have no clue what that state of the economy of Italy is, but I do recall hearing about how poor the internet infrastructure is there.
Not that I (as a US citizen) can say much.. in non cities, it's pretty horrible too.
In the little cities of Sicily is not that good (7-20Mbit ADSL), but we're going to get FTTC (50Mbit and up) this year in almost every city with >10k peoples. The big cities (>200k) are all already covered with FTTC, an the biggest one are already on full FTTH with connectivity up to 1Gbps.
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RE: Buying vs Saving Economic Theory
@scottalanmiller said in Buying vs Saving Economic Theory:
@Francesco-Provino said in Buying vs Saving Economic Theory:
@Dashrender said in Buying vs Saving Economic Theory:
I have no clue what that state of the economy of Italy is, but I do recall hearing about how poor the internet infrastructure is there.
Not that I (as a US citizen) can say much.. in non cities, it's pretty horrible too.
In the little cities of Sicily is not that good (7-20Mbit ADSL), but we're going to get FTTC (50Mbit and up) this year in almost every city with >10k peoples. The big cities (>200k) are all already covered with FTTC, an the biggest one are already on full FTTH with connectivity up to 1Gbps.
It's comea long way quickly. Italy was terrible a few years ago.
Maybe it was just… not cheap. You can have HDSL 8/8Mbit everywhere in Italy from ~2006. As of today, you can pay the telco to do an FTTH link to any site in the whole country, up to at least 10Mbit. 100Mbit for the 99% of the country, I think. 80% can get 1Gbit, for sure. Price are very high, but of course is technically possible. I'm following a project of connectivity upgrade to a custom 10Mbit FTTH. Of course band is totally guaranteed, so is packet loss (< 10^-4), latency (<30ms), jitter (<40ms). Real value are something like 4ms of latency at max.
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RE: ZeroTier on XenServer 7.0 host
@FATeknollogee said in ZeroTier on XenServer 7.0 host:
@Francesco-Provino said in ZeroTier on XenServer 7.0 host:
I do, no problem at all.
Can you share how you installed it?
What version?I installed it with the usual script on the zerotier page. There's a little caveat, you have to download the script and change the $releasever to "7", as with everything with XS7 centos dom0.
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RE: ZeroTier on XenServer 7.0 host
@Dashrender said in ZeroTier on XenServer 7.0 host:
@scottalanmiller said in ZeroTier on XenServer 7.0 host:
@FATeknollogee said in ZeroTier on XenServer 7.0 host:
I'm getting a 404 for failed repo
Which repo? It is known that XS' repos don't work and you have to fix them before doing any software installs. If you have not fixed the repos, then it is the base repos, not ZeroTier, that is the issue. They need to be fixed before you proceed or ZT can't pull in its dependencies.
how wise it that really? to reinstate the repos?
No problem with that, you aren't gonna install XS updates through the centos package management system anyway. Just change $releaseversion with "7" in the repos files.
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RE: CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?
@openit said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
Hi All,
I required to run a file server to have IT stuff, ISO files repository for XenServer and few other requirements.
So, I was thinking of FreeNAS vs CentOS Samba server, I believe IT pros around here will suggest CentOS option, so I have shortlisted to CentOS.
This CentOS server is going to be run on XS 7.
Now, I am for GUI package to setup on CentOS 7 to manage easily, do you know one which is easier and stable ? I am not willing to play with Terminal as of now.
I know Webmin, not used much, I know it have Samba things to manage, but I was thinking of only File Server manager.
Thanks for suggestions
Don't get me wrong, but the thing really is… if can't understand an smb.conf file, maybe is better if you don't use SAMBA at all, because you won't be able to deal with any problem with that like reading the logs etc.
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Searching advices for an attendance software
Hi everybody, one of the company in which I work asked me for an attendance/time clock piece of software to track the work hours of their employees. Other than be reasonably simple and priced, the main requirement is that it can be work in conjunction with SAP B1; they want SAP to report about working hours etc.
Does any of you has ever used/needed a system like that? Thanks in advance for your answers!
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RE: CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?
@RojoLoco said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
@Dashrender said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
@scottalanmiller said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
Why do you want a GUI? What's the end goal?
I'm guessing his goal is to not have to learn CLI commands.
I'm the captain of that vessel... it's the 21st century, why in the hell would I restrict myself to needing to type letters at a computing system to make it go? Are we cavemen, dragging our knuckles toward the black screen with archaic green letters to type cryptic text commands when GUIs have existed for a couple of decades now? I thought we lived in the future.
No, you are still living in the past.
The future is not even staring at the screen, the future is write a piece of software-procedure once and being able to rebuild a system/correct errors/etc in a completely non-interactive way forever.
The future is being architect drinking mojito in a beach, not click-slaves in a cold rack room.
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RE: CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?
@RojoLoco said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
@Francesco-Provino said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
@RojoLoco said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
@Dashrender said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
@scottalanmiller said in CentOS 7 File Server (samba). Do you know easy GUI to manage ?:
Why do you want a GUI? What's the end goal?
I'm guessing his goal is to not have to learn CLI commands.
I'm the captain of that vessel... it's the 21st century, why in the hell would I restrict myself to needing to type letters at a computing system to make it go? Are we cavemen, dragging our knuckles toward the black screen with archaic green letters to type cryptic text commands when GUIs have existed for a couple of decades now? I thought we lived in the future.
No, you are still living in the past.
The future is not even staring at the screen, the future is write a piece of software-procedure once and being able to rebuild a system/correct errors/etc in a completely non-interactive way forever.
The future is being architect drinking mojito in a beach, not click-slaves in a cold rack room.
Actually, if I had to script / CLI everything, I would have zero free time because all my time would be spent poring over scripts and commands to find where the typo is that is fucking the whole thing up. Besides, I have almost no tasks that I do so often that I feel the need to have some script to run it. So speak only for yourself in that regard, not everyone does things like you do, not everyone's job is like yours. I have lots of free time, despite using GUIs.... hmmm, your idea of impossible came true!!!
The future is retirement, drinking a mojito on a beach, with no office to call or report to. Your dream of still working in the future saddens me. What fun would travel be if you had systems to think about? (none, it would be zero fun).
In Italy (I don't know if that apply to US also), we study Aesop's fables at college; one of the most famous, is about an ant and a grasshopper https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ant_and_the_Grasshopper …
Regarding the time to script manual work, some days ago I wrote a very basic saltstack recipe aimed to create a stateless self-resetting SMB server in a CentOS machine… here is the code (not well organized, not beautiful of course, but it works): https://github.com/theinfiltrated/my-saltStack . I wrote it mainly to learn SaltStack, but the week after I deploy two instances of this stateless SAMBA in two companies just because they were that easy to bring up and they solved two different problems very quickly.
In my work, I do 95+% remotely and sometimes I even spend some of my working day in the beach or other funny places because I can do almost everything remotely with very little bandwidth thanks to the fact I can use CLI. Probably I'm younger than you, but I see many years of work im my future, of course .
Regarding your job: setup a SMB server is something SUPREMELY repetitive and scriptable, as you can see in my github repo.
Othe task I'm pretty sure are parts of your job should be reset a password, install software, update a machine, reboot a vm… but ok, is your job, you can do it in any way you find confortable. But saying that GUI administration is the future, just seems, ehm… weird. Take a look at saltstack or ansible, and think about why the buzzword "devops" is so popular today . -
RE: My experiences with Hyper-V Server 2016
@jt1001001 yeah, I got one of those unicomp 7 years ago… it works great, still my main keyboard. Big import taxes US -> Italy, but great feelings!
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RE: Where to buy Ubiquiti in Italy
@scottalanmiller said in Where to buy Ubiquiti in Italy:
Pretty simple, need some minor UBNT gear in Italy. ER-X would do, USG might be better. And an entry level AP. No idea where to find them or if you can.
Tagging @Dominica @Francesco-Provino
I took ER and unifi on Amazon, the price was good. There are also resellers on ebay.it, of course, sometimes even cheaper.
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RE: Benefits of Zmanda / Bacula vs XYZ
@Tim_G If you need a truly enterprise and FLOSS backup software, just try Bacula or BareOS.