actually hpe supports hyperv on their microSD. Just done this in february. let's see how much does it last... (fingercrossing)

@Francesco-Provino said in Going over SFF: what do you think of micro business-grade desktops?:

@travisdh1 Like this.

I buyed a couple but they had no ssd... they are really ok! better than sff for obvious space related resons, but with our specifications they either didn't fit the bill or didn't provide specs.

Nothing I end up making gym at music rythm rather than at the proper one...

@msff-amman-Itofficer said in Should I build it myself (iSCSI Storage) or use AS5008T ?:

Hello,

I have this product in my country, selling for 1000$ which due to my country have high taxes.

It supports the following:

Windows + Mac + Linux cross-platform file sharing
A multimedia hub for your photos, music and movies
Your complete backup solution
Support for RAID 0,1,5,6,10 and hard drive hot swapping
Equipped with 4 Ethernet ports that support failover and link aggregation
SMB 2/3 support increases Windows networking performance by 30%-50%

And while i am looking at its features and and even Vmware certifications for NFS I am pleasantly encouraged to by this product for my company. bu I cant help but wonder what stuff like SAM-SD does, I mean why cant I use a full fledged OS and good motherboard and fill it up with the same WD RED NAS HDD and create RAID 10 , and have the benefit of full fledged OS. I am certain Centos 7 can do this, Wondering what are your thoughts cause I reckon it would be alot cheaper for 1000$to get motherboard + CPU + case + Ram and it should do more and beyond than this device with its crammed linux, and my device can be updated faster and easier. Wondering what are the risks, or it all depends on how competent you're in doing this, if your competent enough going your own path and making your own server is better, right ?

Sorry for any typos writing this with the monitor turned off, due to recent Epi-LASIK

Whst kind of support is provided with the ptoduct?

@Ioann I've tested it for a couple of days, so really a short trial. It is a bit less streamlined wrt Altaro (my current choice) but, more important, I tested it because it offered file level recovery for linux. It actually failed on a basic ubuntu install. I gone short of time and I given up.

Not bad, just it didn't fit the expectations out of the box and I had no more time to dedicate to it.

IMPORTANT: I tested it w/ hyperv server 2016, installing it into a linux VM

EDITED A LOT OF TYPOS!

@syko24 said in XPENOLOGY - DIY Synology:

Could be installed on a SAM-SD possibly

no this will kill the SAM-SD idea, and @scottalanmiller will curse your dreams.

@Francesco-Provino said in What Are the Latest Virtualization Platform Recommendations:

Using XAPI would be cumbersome as @scottalanmiller said, but you can use the very mature and IMHO better libvirt framework, like KVM do! The support for Xen is very good, you should also be able to do almost anything virt-manager support with KVM. The XL toolstack for Xen is mature and is the de facto standard outside of XS.
Ma, dato il tipo di configurazione che stai cercando di metter su, ti consiglio di usare Fedora con KVM più che provare adattamenti: la sicurezza e le features di KVM (nonché le performance) sono ormai pari e volte superiori a Xen.

Actually I've migrated my KVM host to Hyper-V just for non tech reasons (I was happy with KVM). The idea about suse + xen came in mind considering the issues with XS. On the other hand XO features (like incremental backups) seem really interesting.

@black3dynamite said in What Are the Latest Virtualization Platform Recommendations:

Updates pretty minor when using Hyper-V Server instead.

Yes, but searching for the KB number always raises more issues than on any other platform! Once they had to ask Chuck Norris to stop KBs to create chaos!

Dynamic Memory works great as longs the hyperv-daemons for Linux is installed and also configure memory ballooning.

In my experience even win server 2012R2 VMs freezed. I think this is an issue with the HW/SW combination. Don't know. But it appens. And on a certified configuration.

I have experienced Manager freezing because of antivirus.

Yes, you are right , but hey they say I need an AV on windows

PowerShell does take awhile to get use. I've been forcing myself to use PowerShell exclusively. I understood it more than I did with vbscript.

I've coded in my life (for a few weeks up to a lot of years) in c, c++, python, java, matlab, js and even in bash or VBA! I've debugged a bit of VB and c#. It's almost 20 years since my first attempt with a programming language. No problem with new languages. But honestly my issue with Powershell is exactly this: it seems to me more of a scripting language than a real shell.

If you have used linux utils + shell you can understand what I mean: while PS is powerful, it is way more verbose and programmish than the linux counterpart.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are the Latest Virtualization Platform Recommendations:

@matteo-nunziati said in What Are the Latest Virtualization Platform Recommendations:

I've never used xen so I do not know if XO is able to deal with Xen over suse.

It's not Suse that's a factor. It's that XS has XAPI which is the extra API for management. To use XO, you need XAPI. So if you use Xen in any non-XS configuration, you have to add XAPI support yourself to get those kinds of things.

you mean build them from source?

@scottalanmiller I've recently looked at the SLES installer and it seems it is able to support Xen. Not sure about opensuse.
My idea was: why use XS if I can install it on a minimal suse leap? I've never used xen so I do not know if XO is able to deal with Xen over suse.
This would be a nice way to go out of the really strict/limited apporach of XS. And anyway it would be way more close to what one does with centos minimal install + libvirt/kvm.

Currently I'm using hyper-v + altaro. I've just setup a replica server using the build-in replica service and I'm going to test it (and write a little bit about the process). Altaro is great but hyper-v is really MS stuff:

• dynamic memory has frozed ALL of the VMs on my host (even win ones), leading me to go the static memory way.
• everytime I read about issues with a potential update a million of guys jump out of the blue with the wierds issues, scarrying me. I always pray when an update is to be installed.
• performance is not top notch (minor issue here)
• now and then the VM manager freezes...
• and honestly poweshell is way worst than unix-like apps + bash/sh

All in all it seems the classic lack of QA and NIH syndrome from MS. But for sure it does the job and the SW ecosystem is wide.

Youtube Video

8 bit and Star Wars together... wanna cry...

@stacksofplates said in Dell T20 with Intel Intel Rapid Storage Controller RAID is FakeRAID:

I didn't realize people still bought tower "servers"

There are some tower servers which really quakify as great imho. Noticeably from Dell

@NerdyDad said in Comparison of Salt vs AD:

I'm trying to clarify this statement from this post

By @scottalanmiller "I'll add a note for clarity given the title... SaltStack does not do authentication like AD does. AD does not do patching of any sort like Salt does. Salt is an alternative to common myths about AD functionality, but not to actual AD functionality. But you can use Salt to do distributed local authentication management, which does replace the need for AD, but is very different than what is being discussed here. In this case Salt is replacing GPO, not AD."

https://mangolassi.it/topic/13786/how-to-patch-wannacry-using-saltstack-ad-alternative/3

Please correct me if I am wrong, but I want to clarify if I am understanding this correctly.

We all know that AD is a collective, server/client, authentication system. Client computers connected to an AD system has to communicate with an AD server in order to authenticate users for resources.

Salt syncs local users to each other in a mesh-network so that all users are still capable of accessing all of the computers with the same credentials without having to authenticate to a central server.

Is this correct or am I reading too much into this?

a more strict analogous of AD authentication in linux is kerberos (on which AD is based). Using Salt is most of an hack, which, considering the apparent possibility to fire events in Salt, seems anyway a feasible one.

I've used WebVirtMgr for a while... not so useful but nice

@FATeknollogee said in KVM Virtual Machine Manager: no keyboard:

M, Virt Mach. Mgr, under Edit, Pref, Graphics type:
if Spice is selected, I get no keyboard functions in the vm
if VNC is selected, keyboard strokes are fine.
You KVM experts, why is this ?

while everyone likes spice I've never got it work fine for me. always used the vnc route.

@marcinozga said in ubiquiti indoor wifi receiver, any?:

I think every AP they have can work in bridge mode. I have 2 Nanostations M5 between 2 buildings, in bridge mode, but each can connect to any wifi in range.

I suppose M5 as overkill/worthless for my needs. Am I wrong?

@jrc said in Laptop Recommendations for Ubuntu 17 w/ Cinnamon UI.:

@black3dynamite

That maybe the ticket. The Onyx has everything I'd want, for about the same price as the lower price 15" MBP, it just lacks Thunderbolt, which would mean my docking station is not going to work.

Do they make any decent USB 3.0 docking stations that can drive 2 displays (one 2560x1140, the other at 1080p) give me a few standard USB ports and an ethernet port?

Last time I checked usb3 docks made use of a prorprietary driver unavailable to linux. Don't know if things have changed in last months.

@scottalanmiller in my experience wine has always been a PITA. I've given up with it long ago...

@Mike-Davis no db intensive task! just connect to the ERP to print some stickers for the packaging. yes they recall an order (some records) but it is really lightweight.