Linode is awesome. Been there for years and wouldn't switch away for
anything in the world.
And I get to have my servers outside the US borders, which is a nice perk.
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On 7/5/2016 10:14 PM, John Stoffel wrote:
> Guys,
> I've just gotten a new bill from my current hosting provider and they
> wa
My experience is thus:
The misbehavior of NTP on a VM will happen "when you care most". When
the host is under resource constraints, clock cycles will be stolen from
some guests so that other more demanding guests can have them.
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On 4/4/2016 12:18 PM, Jeremy Charles wrote:
>
> I’m seeing all so
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One more vote of confidence for NBU. It's been a while since I've used
it, but it was most definitely The Awesome.
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On 10/29/2015 12:26 PM, Adam Levin wrote:
> Thanks, Mike. We were a TSM shop until we switched to NBU 6 years
> ago. I don't thin
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On 10/29/2015 10:36 AM, Yves Dorfsman wrote:
> For people spending a lot of time in a terminal/shell (bash, csh
> etc...) do you work from the shell or from an editor?
>
> The joke goes that people using emacs live inside emacs, and I have
> indee
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I'm starting to think "lopsa-swapmeet@" is a good mailing list to create
.
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On 9/24/2015 7:55 AM, Michael Tiernan wrote:
> On 9/23/15 12:34 PM, john boris wrote:
>> they have a Teradata 2700 unit they are unloading.
> This actually is serendipito
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On 7/16/2015 10:19 AM, john boris wrote:
> I understand that I will have DNS issues since most of my users
> point to a DNS server in my building (across the VPN) but if we
> are not using a DNS call (using the IP address directly) there
> should
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On 2/25/2015 3:03 PM, Brodie, Kent wrote:
> I also believe that if you run into an issue and Cisco finds out
> they're non-branded SFP cables, you might run into support
> difficulty depending on the issue.
This is true. It's good to keep an inven
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We used to buy SFPs from OSI ( http://www.osihardware.com/ )
cheap, great to work with, responsive, knowledgeable.
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On 2/25/2015 2:49 PM, Roy McMorran wrote:
> Hi all, a network-slash-purchasing question for you.
>
> Does anyone have any exp
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On 1/30/2015 7:46 AM, Adam Levin wrote:
> I think this time around, I'm going to partition the new 2TB drive
> and dedicate one (probably 750GB) partition to Time Machine,
> leaving the default case-insensitive setting. That way, when it
> fills u
I've been a user of PMP for a while now and love it.
We call it "the pimp" :-)
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> On Jul 12, 2014, at 7:35 PM, Dhanasekaran Anbalagan
> wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> I am try to finding for Enterprise password management tool, Managing
> machines password and routers and
On Jul 2, 2012, at 5:44 PM, Brian J. Atkisson wrote:
> We are in-between CMDBs at the moment :) Pulling information out of
> Puppet with Foreman gets us most of what we need from a CMDB, except for
> rack placement.
HP's starting to ship these new "smart-racks" that communicate with the servers
On May 31, 2012, at 10:45 AM, Josh Smift wrote:
> Right, that's the thing: If it's May 31st, then what would you expect "one
> month ago" to mean? There is no April 31st, and April 30th is one month
> before May 30th, not May 31st. (But May 1st is one month before June 1st;
> so this seems like a
I would strongly discourage moving to RHEL5 32 bit unless it is absolutely
necessary.
RHEL5/32 is a Deprecated platform for Zimbra, meaning that you're only going to
have to migrate to a 64-bit OS to use anything higher than 7.x of ZCS, and
you're not going to want to do that. I would strongly
We solved this problem at a job many moons ago by simply restricting all tcp/80
traffic to use the Squid proxy. Which everyone then had to set in their browser
(or via auto-proxy-pac type thing) to visit any basic site. And since most
other apps will use the proxy settings of the browser/OS, net
On Jul 18, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Joshua Penix wrote:
> The biggest gotcha is that XenServer wants Linux guests to be
> paravirtualized, which means that you have to prepare a compatible kernel
> prior to the migration. Depending on your Linux distributions, this may
> already be in place or may ju
So, I'm sure most VMWare administrators have seen the hubbub with the new
vSphere 5 licensing. The royal screwup that THAT is would be a topic for a
different thread (probably in a different forum, since most VMware admins I
know can't talk about it for more than 10 seconds without spewing into
On Jun 28, 2011, at 6:15 PM, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
> I always figured the purpose of a VAR was to decode the vendor's pricing
> structure.
I feel lucky, I guess, in that most of the VARs we deal with really do
"add-value" in terms of helping determine the right product will suit our
needs, g
On Jun 15, 2011, at 2:20 PM, Ryan Dorman wrote:
> A vote for NetApp ... It just works,
So I came from a NetApp shop prior to my current gig, and I'm a little
curious...
When you want to upgrade your shelves because, y'know, they're old and slow and
running out of warranty, and newer faster b
On Jun 14, 2011, at 4:44 PM, John Stoffel wrote:
> This has made me look quiet closely at Isilon's (now EMC) product. It
> looks really good, but obviously it's not perfect. But having just a
> single volume image that you can grow on demand by just tossing new
> hardware into the mix and the un
On Apr 20, 2011, at 4:37 PM, John Stoffel wrote:
> So when our script updates the SOA serial number, it pulls the one out of the
> file, but that's invariably wrong because the SOA serial has been steadily
> incrementing due to DDNS updates. Fun.
I understand you don't want to update this scri
On Mar 30, 2011, at 3:11 PM, Dan Foster wrote:
> To summarize Derek's position: IPv4 NAT fails safe, IPv6 -- not so much.
Exactly.
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On Mar 30, 2011, at 2:49 PM, Tracy Reed wrote:
> Never, not once in my 17 year career managing firewalls, have I found
> that a misconfigured firewall was accidentally forwarding. Have you?
Yes. I've found places where someone fat-fingered an ALLOW rule and had
accidentally allowed MUCH larger s
On Mar 30, 2011, at 2:41 PM, Brian Mathis wrote:
> Also, you keep citing firewall misconfiguration as a reason to do
> other things the wrong way. Once you bring that up, your argument
> becomes invalid since you could say that about anything. "What do you
> mean I don't have backups, I was *def
On Mar 30, 2011, at 1:27 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>> I think plenty of people know the difference between NAT and a firewall.
>> The issue is that if you're in some hacker-hellhole in southeast asia
>> and my server's IP address is "192.168.1.14", and I haven't
>> *specifically* enabled som
On Mar 30, 2011, at 10:24 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>> about security. People have come to rely on their IPv4 NAT as a form
>> of inbound packet filter.
>
> Incorrectly, yes. Because they don't know the difference between NAT
> and a firewall.
I think plenty of people know the difference
On Mar 3, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Adam Levin wrote:
> Lefthand seems to be cool stuff and has a lot of functionality beyond a basic
> disk array, but we found it to be more expensive than average when we
> compared it to things like the IBM DS3400 and HP MSA2000 series, even when
> looking at the so
On Mar 2, 2011, at 5:20 PM, David E. Smith wrote:
> I need a SAN.
So, let me offer my recommendation for the HP/LeftHand iSCSI solution. We've
been using LeftHand gear for years (since before they were acquired by HP) and
it is seriously some of the most easy to use hardware I've ever played w
On Jan 24, 2011, at 6:07 PM, Brodie, Kent wrote:
> In my experience, the probability you'll get someone to actually send a
> part is totally random;
With HP that *used* to be the case for us, until we started paying for
carepacks on all our hardware. Then, no-joke, I've turned in a couple hund
On Jan 24, 2011, at 4:25 PM, Tracy Reed wrote:
> Whenever I run into something like this they always require me to run their
> DSET diag tool and send them the output. I've never been able to convince Dell
> to just send me a part based on my own analysis. I forget what our level of
> support is c
On Jan 23, 2011, at 5:15 PM, Luke S Crawford wrote:
> If you are using windows, or some other OS that requires such relics,
> I agree.
>
> However, on Linux, everything can be PXE-booted. Yes, even your dos
> firmware images can be PXE-booted.
Converting the standard ISOs distributed by hard
On Jan 15, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Luke S Crawford wrote:
> Of course,
> if you are running windows and need a KVM over IP, this doesn't help,
> but serial consoles are /vastly superior/ for linux use.
> external serial consoles, in my experience both personally and
> working on Yahoo's search cluster,
On Jan 14, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Tracy Reed wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 01:59:39PM -0500, Brian Mathis spake thusly:
>> There's a reason they are the big guys.
>
> Slick marketing which appeals to the kind of guys who like to buy cool looking
> servers that talk a good game and stick me with th
IronPort++
Seriously, I've never seen a mail appliance succeed that well at blocking spam
and viruses, and require that little actual care and feeding. Yeah, it's extra
coin, but it is SO SO worth it.
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We use AppRiver and I cannot stand them.
My pure unrefined hatred for them is largely based on their inability to
support tcp/587 (MSP), and their insistence that we use tcp/2525 for
mail-submission. That and they seem to have an inability to NOT rate-throttle
certain IP addresses (like our mon
On Nov 5, 2010, at 12:07 PM, Nick Silkey wrote:
> NFS-to-ESX NetApp heads replicating to cross-town filers via SnapMirror.
Well, that correlates to a question I've had : are people actually comfortable
putting their VMDKs on NFS? That just doesn't seem like something that would
perform well.
H
On Nov 3, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Jonathan wrote:
> Are any of you running the HP/Lefthand Virtual SAN Appliance with VMware
> VSphere and iSCSI?
We're using HP/LeftHand physical units (not the VSA) with vSphere and iSCSI
(although, pedantically, we're using LeftHand NSM2120s and NSM2120G2s, which
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