Looks like all I needed to do was mount the hard drive.

Mounted, and transferred the data over the network via smb://windows share

Was some additional steps than what I did previously, but it worked like a charm.

Thanks!

My manager (IT Manager) messaged me a screenshot of speedtest.net results from one of our DC's that showed there is 33 ms ping times, and that I should look into this. I login the DC, pull up command line, ran a continuous ping to 8.8.8.8 with solid 3ms ping times. I sent him a screenshot of the command prompt and said ping times look solid to me, and speedtest.net does not give accurate results of network latency from a computer as the built-in ping utility from windows.

This is basic troubleshooting, and is just sad.

I was 26 and working in a warehouse (been in different warehouse jobs since I was 18). My work computer's OS was corrupted and bogged down (XP) and I had to ship it to corp to get it reloaded. I was fascinated how it was completely restored. I spoke to the IT guy on the phone about what he did to fix it. I told him I wanted to learn how to do that. He gave me the fundamentals on what to study. I checked ITT tech out and gladly ditched them due to the cost. Took courses at a local community college (Paid by my company), started doing computer repair on the side, including anything my manager had me do internally. Our company was outsourcing our work to Germany and was soon to close down, and our IT guy said I should apply for an IT job. I said I can't, because I don't have experience. He said what you've been doing is experience, put it on your resume. I did, and got a help desk position in a fortune 500 company. I've been in my company for 3 years and have advanced my tech and communication skills tremendously. So glad I didn't go to ITT tech!

I currently have a lot of my notes from issues I've come across and fixed saved in notepad, which is organized with different folders. Ex: Folder c:\notes\Networks\routers\watchguard\sslvpn.txt. What is a better solution where I could so a search and find what I need? Ex: search ssl vpn and find that documentation. I've been looking into One Note, but want to see what else is out there.

Thanks everyone. I was able to console into the device with the console cable I bought from Microcenter. I did have to install some drivers since Windows was not recognizing the device. After that, it recognized it as Com3. One of my coworkers was able to remote in my laptop and help me configure the AP.

Appreciate everyone's help. I may be posting more often, because I'm getting exposed to a lot of technology I'm not familiar with. LOL

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Billy Graham just died at 99.

A great servant who made a huge impact to the world.

I may have an opportunity for a support engineer position at MS. My career goal is to eventually be a system admin. I'm currently doing junior system admin tasks in a break/fix type of environment and this position would be more experience with MS products in the ADDS/GPO/DNS/Etc role. I would appreciate some feedback.

I've got a client who has about 1.2TB of data and is currently using Backup Exec as their backup solution. They run full backups every night and take each backup tape (yes tapes!) offsite once backup is complete. It's time to change their backup solution since the business has grown and it now takes like 21 hours to run their backup. I was thinking of some sort of NAS, but they still want to take their backups offsite like they do with their tapes. Any suggestions?

@scottalanmiller I've been drinking the NEIPA's (New England Style IPA) lately. It's very good and doesn't have extreme bitterness like most traditional IPA's do.

Yea, that makes sense. I wasn't sure if it would give an impression that I wasn't interested if I didn't follow up.

Also, after I interviewed with operations managers/etc I immediately interviewed with the HR manager. HR did tell me she's sure that I'm actively applying for other companies and to have patience as it's a long process for their hiring. I'm still going to actively apply at other places though. If I've already been eliminated I would really like to know if there was anything wrong I did so it can help me with future interviews.

@JaredBusch said in I can't even:

For anything ping/traceroute related, the tool you want is mtr not ping. It provides a much better picture of what you need to know if you use the right --order options.

Nice. I never knew about that tool. I will have to check it out

@scottalanmiller

I've always used the ping command to troubleshoot latency, and view active spikes, and packet loss. The only time I really use Speedtest is when testing bandwidth. Tracert is another command I use for troubleshooting latency as I can easily show the ISP the issue is on their end, which most of the time it is.

I would unjoin and rejoin to the domain. Be sure to reset the the password for local administrator before unjoining. I would also make sure the NIC is only looking at an internal DNS server for DNS. Not sure what happened with the computer account, but possibly it was deleted at some point.

In a Windows world, it seems it would be better to create a Storage Space, because it gives you the flexibility to extend the storage instead of having to add/mount another virtual drive if you were to run out of space.

@Pete-S said in Who's making the move to vSphere 8:

@Fredtx said in Who's making the move to vSphere 8:

I also read that vmware no longer recommends booting from sd cards.

According to vmware you need 128 TBW (over 5 years). Industrial SD cards for example can have that. SD cards that goes into phones and cameras don't.

For Dell servers, it looks like the BOSS card is a good replacement.

“BOSS-S1 utilizes one or two read-intensive (Boot Class) 80mm M.2 SATA Solid State Devices (SSDs) which can be used in “pass-thru” or two devices in Hardware RAID 1 (mirroring).”

https://vinfrastructure.it/2018/12/installing-esxi-on-a-dell-emc-boss-card/

@dafyre said in Who's making the move to vSphere 8:

We are. Currently, my day job is heavily invested in the VMware ecosystem, and there's no likelihood that will change any time soon... So we are already at the point of testing it, though that probably wont' happen until after the New Year.

I haven’t looked at the vmware hcl, but I heard a lot of hardware is no longer supported. I also read that vmware no longer recommends booting from sd cards.

@scottalanmiller

Ok. I wasn't sure if having 1 large disk would cause performance problems with the large amounts of files/folders. Also, this is a Windows server if it makes any difference.

I'm creating a new file server, which will be a VM. The source (original file server) has 1.7TB of used storage. 641GB of that is Marketing (mainly videos), and the rest is Engineering (cad files), User folders (docs,etc), and miscellaneous folders.

Would it be better for me to create 2 virtual disks on the target (new file server), and give the Marketing team their own disk? Or should I just move everything over to 1 big virtual disk?

@scottalanmiller

And that job was fake. I even checked on their linked to see if that role was fulled afterwards out of curiosity. I actually had quite a bit of those at the end of 2021, and some in 2022.

I’m learning how to filter through some of that bs, and after the interview, I just move on. Like the saying goes, “If something doesn’t feel right, it most likely isn’t.” I haven’t got to the point where I’ve ended the interview, although I would think it would be fun to do once I catch their bs. Like this one job interview I had, they couldn’t list the responsibilities I would be handling and just gave me bs answers without actually answering the question.

I was going to mention dental applications as an example of certain applications that need to be backed up a certain way from my previous thread, but decided to just not say anything. Lol. Apps like Eaglesoft and Dentrix have their own backup process. Dentrix also has a built-in backup utility to ensure the database is being backed up correctly.