Getting a VM to start automatically is a common task and would be far easier to do from the command line shell than to take the time to log into the web GUI, hunt around, etc. So much faster. You just need the command...

qm set VMID_Here --onboot 1

Example usage, if the VM that we want to start is "101"...

# qm set 101 --onboot 1
update VM 101: -onboot 1

If you don't know how to quickly find the VMID of your VM, us...

qm list

@IRJ said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

What kind of marketing department is this? A movie firm? It seems insane to have video files average 10-20gb. Even high budget commercials are probably only that size.. Is this a bunch of templates or something?

Check your Olympus EM-1 MK2 for video, it'll produce that amount fast (but breaks up the files, but just imagine that it kept them as a single file like newer cameras do.)

If you are shooting with a Fuji XH2 or similar, you'll produce 20GB files every few minutes.

I'm just on a GoPro 11 and all my files are 10GB because that's its file limit. If the GoPro kept the files together, I'd routinely have 20GB - 40GB files. And that's low bit rate compared to serious cameras. Imagine if you shot on Panasonic GH6 or better, especially if you go to 6K or 8K! And I'm using H.265 which is tiny. If you shot on ProRes, which is what most do, the file sizes will explode quickly. 100GB or more would be nothing.

@BraswellJay I must be confused. Don't you just edit the file itself, it should be a text file containing the link.

@Jimmy9008 said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

This looks like another option, although, it does just look like a NAS to me, just through a specific 'media' vendor.

https://www.studionetworksolutions.com/

That's a scam. I use those guys about once a week as an example of "market vertical scams." I've had customers get seriously screwed over by them.

Never buy "industry" IT equipment, it's always a scam. IT is IT, anything industry specific is another way of saying "not good enough to pass IT muster, so we try to bypass IT by claiming it's specifically made for an industry."

They literally make the worst storage you could possibly imagine.

@Jimmy9008 said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

@Obsolesce said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

@Jimmy9008 said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

Originally, I was looking at proposing a 20 - 30 TB NAS populated with SSDs in the local office, with 10 Gbps NIC. This would provide high speed local access over the LAN to 6 marketing users.

If their PCs accessing a NAS at 1-10Gbps isn't good enough because their primary concern is speed, why would they push for way slower cloud storage, assuming no on-prem cache?

1 - 10 Gbps would be more than fine. That is what I proposed. But, the CIO is asking that the storage is Cloud only. Leading to this issue where the editing workstations are in office and the storage is remote.

I would connect the CIO with the users and ask if waiting hours or days to work on a file is good enough. Let the CIO take that up with users.

@Obsolesce said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

@Obsolesce said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

@Jimmy9008 said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

Originally, I was looking at proposing a 20 - 30 TB NAS populated with SSDs in the local office, with 10 Gbps NIC. This would provide high speed local access over the LAN to 6 marketing users.

If their PCs accessing a NAS at 1-10Gbps isn't good enough because their primary concern is speed, why would they push for way slower cloud storage, assuming no on-prem cache?

I archive my video in the cloud, but I would not want to work from it without a local cache.

Right, I can't imagine how that could work. No matter how fast the pipe is, the latency would be too high. I don't even want to work via a SAN in the same office. I don't even want to work on a normal SSD. I use 4x NVMe for editing when possible, you really feel the difference and I'm only on 5.3K files in H.265, not 8K HDR on ProRes!!

@Jimmy9008 said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

@scottalanmiller said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

@Jimmy9008 said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

This looks like another option, although, it does just look like a NAS to me, just through a specific 'media' vendor.

https://www.studionetworksolutions.com/

That's a scam. I use those guys about once a week as an example of "market vertical scams." I've had customers get seriously screwed over by them.

Never buy "industry" IT equipment, it's always a scam. IT is IT, anything industry specific is another way of saying "not good enough to pass IT muster, so we try to bypass IT by claiming it's specifically made for an industry."

They literally make the worst storage you could possibly imagine.

Could you tell me more about this? I am not sure I fully understand but would like to. Is the thought that because its a "NAS for Editors" and not just a "NAS" that its not good, otherwise it would be a NAS for everybody regardless of need?

That's how you know it isn't good... it's being marketed that way because if IT looked at it, they'd know it was bad. But if they say "for editors", that's a trick to get the editors to say "IT doesn't know, because this is special for editors." But nothing, anywhere, in the world is special like that, IT factors are always the same. Anything trying to scam someone to get past IT oversight is because it couldn't compete if IT evaluated it.

The issues we found with them in the past:

• Insanely high pricetag, about 500% the cost of assembling their devices yourself.
• Just cheap, consumer crap mounted in a colorful chassis.
• Misconfigured to be both slow and very risky.
• No IT level support, it's people who don't know storage or editing conning people, so when something goes wrong, what do you do?

Or reverse it... there is nothing, whatsoever, good about their products. Other than giving it a marketing name to trick people into thinking it is designed for editing, what does it have going for it? It doesn't have the engineering, support, market knowledge, standardization, honesty, intent, or price of appropriate equipment. What would make someone consider it in the first place? From what we found before... nothing. We were never able to identify a single factor that would make it viable, let alone put it on a list for consideration.

That's the entire trick. Just take any generic PC with several hard drives, slap "designed for editing" on the box and voila, people will short list it and never evaluate it against industry standards. A better option would be, for example, Synology, QNAP, ReadyNAS and other generic SAN units. And that's not saying that they are good options, only that they are similar, but vastly better options. Or just build a SAM-SD. Essentially it's a SAM-SD built by people without knowledge of computing basics.

@Jimmy9008 said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

@scottalanmiller said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

@Jimmy9008 said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

@Obsolesce said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

@Jimmy9008 said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

Originally, I was looking at proposing a 20 - 30 TB NAS populated with SSDs in the local office, with 10 Gbps NIC. This would provide high speed local access over the LAN to 6 marketing users.

If their PCs accessing a NAS at 1-10Gbps isn't good enough because their primary concern is speed, why would they push for way slower cloud storage, assuming no on-prem cache?

1 - 10 Gbps would be more than fine. That is what I proposed. But, the CIO is asking that the storage is Cloud only. Leading to this issue where the editing workstations are in office and the storage is remote.

I would connect the CIO with the users and ask if waiting hours or days to work on a file is good enough. Let the CIO take that up with users.

The CIO is pretty much of the opinion that the user should plan better and download files they need for editing whilst working on something else.

That's fine, make them have that discussion together.

Basically you have users saying "We need X." And the CIO is saying "No, you don't." Both are reasonable, so they need to hash it out.

BUT, let's say that they do what the CIO says... now... where do they store those files and share them? Oh wait, now they need the solution that they asked for in the first place again, right? So the CIO is actually proposing an additional solution, and ignoring the request. Cloud storage of the archives seems like it was always the obvious answer. And it in no way addresses the local cache.

That he is saying that they should "plan ahead and have a local cache" doesn't disagree with what they have requested. That's exactly what they are asking him to provide.

@BraswellJay said in Can the target of a One Drive link be changed ?:

@scottalanmiller said in Can the target of a One Drive link be changed ?:

@BraswellJay I must be confused. Don't you just edit the file itself, it should be a text file containing the link.

That's what I want to be able to edit. Unless I'm missing something you can't edit the url link file directly in the onedrive portal. If you try to edit from the portal you're taken to editing the target of the link and not the link itself.

I can download the link file and edit it and reupload. I just thought there would be a way to accomplish that directly from the portal without having to download, edit, and reupload, but maybe not.

Oh, no, you definitely have to download it and edit it. OneDrive doesn't give you a generic desktop to edit files from. It's just a storage solution itself. I don't know any platform like that that has built in editors to modify the files that are in the storage except for NextCloud. And it's always super limited because there are challenges to that.

Final Cut Pro in the latest 10.4 release added functionality for NFS and SMB shares, as well as clustered Xsan SAN. However, a key note for that, is that Windows SMB and Windows NFS are not supported. Windows file servers lack key functionalities for SMB and NFS that MacOS and Linux with Samba provide that are required for use.

This is the netdata load report from the underlying system...

@srsmith Sorry, I never saw this thread. In this case, the first thing that I'd do is consider ripping everything out and going with something better suited (we presume) that you can manage yourself. Cisco is a red flag product, generally sold by VARs pretending to be MSPs to lock you into high cost support needs, licensing contracts, and to sell scams like SD-WAN (generally all they are selling is a VPN that they brand as something else). Things you can generally do BETTER for next to nothing yourself, with less effort. If you DO need someone to do it for you, an ITSP will normally handle all of this for peanuts and provide the expertise your team needs to be able to ask networking and security questions, without being sales people pushing bad products to make you need more support.

Rip and replace is almost always the answer in this kind of scenario. In the end you don't want to end up with Cisco gear or an SD-WAN or some remotely managed network that can extort you. If you need management of your networking, have them manage YOUR networking. Don't make a vendor own part of your company network, that's a terrible idea.

@pmoncho said in Beelink PC issues:

@scottalanmiller said in Beelink PC issues:

@JaredBusch said in Beelink PC issues:

@stacksofplates said in Beelink PC issues:

I've bought a couple of the micro form factor Optiplex computers (9020) and have been happy with them. You couldn't have saved too much by buying something like this I can't imagine? I think I paid $250 for the last one and it came with 8GB RAM, an i7, and a 250GB SSD.

This? Yeah, it does not compare, except price.

Wow, that can't be worth $40 new, but $240 used? What the heck?

It should be worth $40 and my guess for the higher price is economics. It was built well and keep on chugging along. It seems they are continually in demand for a basic pc that needs just a web browser or to act as a kiosk.

Yes, but you can get brand new with much more performance for that price. Why get something that is a decade old, AND used when new and new is possible? Much less flexible. And can that unit even run current Windows?

@JaredBusch said in Is it legal? Windows 10 or 11 as a server:

I put client in quotes because they are acting as their own IT. Why are they bothering to hire you.

Right, in this example, this isn't an IT relationship. It's a store relationship. @CCWTech is a legal representative of Microsoft in this case and the client literally told @CCWTech (and asked them to repeat it on to Microsoft) that they wanted to not pay because they intended to pirate the software instead.

In this case, the theft is not only from Microsoft, but from @CCWTech as well. Both have financial damages to claim from the theft. And the "client" actually stated TO THE VENDOR their intent was to pirate the software.

So it's not actually about reporting to Microsoft, it's only about filling out the official and required documentation internally.

Not doing so would actually be actively covering up an act that the client themselves reported.

Yeah, overall they seem to be headed in a poor direction. I'm not doom and gloom, their new Dream Machine strategy is extremely foolish to me, taking something that worked so well and making it convoluted and fragile by comparison. It's not the worst thing, but there are benefits to the old, proven approach.

I'm not 100% against the Dream Machines now that they have the rack mount units. But they used to have a far better lineup of hardware and the software approach was better and now documentation has gotten even worse.

@Pete-S said in Allow Binaries on Linux to Run on Well Known Privileged Ports:

FYI
https://mangolassi.it/topic/25022/bind-linux-process-to-well-known-web-ports-when-not-root

I THOUGHT I had posted that, but I couldn't find it in a search. lol

The issue is that it is a VM file used by Hyper-V. If it was a normal VHDX file, used for say file installation (they are basically ISO files) then Defender does need to be scanning it. Ideally, Hyper-V would tell Defender where its resources are and at least default to not scanning them.

Some people want their VMs scanned from the base platform. Hosting companies sometimes, for example. But that should not be the default.

@jt1001001 said in Unifi cloud controller going the way of home office?:

@CCWTech The Omada products "mirror" Ubiquiti; so much so that I wonder if they stole Ubiquiti's interface? They use a model of hardware controller; self hosted software controller, or their cloud controller; that model requiring a license per device per year. I have some demo hardware at my office we're just getting set up to play with I'll let you know the results later this week. You can have super administrators with access to all sites and an admin per site.

Now that is honestly promising.

@gjacobse said in Unifi cloud controller going the way of home office?:

@jt1001001 said in Unifi cloud controller going the way of home office?:

One bad mark already (well,for me anyways) right off the bat; the software controller requires Java.

Ouch,.. but so does Ubnt controller Iirc.

Yeah, hence the suspicion that it was copied.