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Which company has the most complicated licensing to understand (and why is it Oracle)?
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How to set up a professional mail server?
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Email is probably top 3 in terms of how crucial it is to a business. Yea, don’t host it yourself unless you want some really angry users when shit hits the fan.
More buzzword salad from VMware by broadcom
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Broadcom:
Goodbye to our MSP
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Yea and I guess that one person also never takes vacation or gets sick lol
Experiences with Supermicro
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Supermicro has IPMI, which is similar to idrac/ilo
Experiences with Supermicro
Posted by HazmarKoolie@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 64 comments
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Support with SM will be bad and IPMI can’t even compare to something like idrac.
Refurbished (like new) Servers
Posted by Spiritj00@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 19 comments
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Ok so what’s wrong with refurbished equipment? Have you yourself been burned by refurbished equipment?
I've been too afraid to ask but fuck it. Why not a snapshot, why always a back up. What's the big difference?
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Why not both? They serve different purposes
Does full tunnel VPN make sense?
Posted by jpotrz@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 26 comments
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You should be doing something like virtualized apps for RDP instead of Full Tunnel VPN and killing their internet access, it’s not practical.
RDS, Citrix, Parallels, or AWS appstream would be perfect for this BYOD scenario.
Does full tunnel VPN make sense?
Posted by jpotrz@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 26 comments
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Yea he wasn’t too clear in his wording, but what he’s proposing also isn’t practical.
Does full tunnel VPN make sense?
Posted by jpotrz@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 26 comments
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What you’re trying to do isn’t practical. If you have the budget, doing something like a VDI solution and no VPN makes more sense.
Does full tunnel VPN make sense?
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Full tunnel VPN implies that all traffic including internet traffic goes through the tunnel. So if they’re watching youtube, netflix, or downloading some large file from a random site, it’ll go through your internet pipe.
Does full tunnel VPN make sense?
Posted by jpotrz@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 26 comments
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Do you even have a big enough internet pipe for full tunnel?
I just created my first Win Server 2016 for test a month ago. Out of blue I forgot my log in (admin) username. Where can I see it? or is it retrievable like ?
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Mount ISO of server 2016 and reset the password. Google for more details
Cloud solution for file share servers
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Look at Azure File Sync for the best of both worlds.
Nexus to vxrail
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Make sure all 4 links are actually in active and not just active/standby.
I may put Sophos Firewalls in the same league as HP - AVOID AVOID AVOID
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Stick to fortinet and palo
network solutions outage right now? none of our passwords work
Posted by heapsp@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 18 comments
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Network Solutions suck
Nutanix - Howa is it compared to VMware?
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Can confirm, maintenance and support is crazy expensive after the initial 3 years is up. Take how much you paid for your 4-node block and it’s about 28-30% for 1 year of maintenance and support.
Dell monitors with integrated docks mass deployment
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This is what I did for a previous company as well and didn’t have any issues
Just become the sole IT guy at a 300 person company.
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So you don’t take vacation or get sick? You have bandwidth to help all 300 users by yourself? Lol
Just become the sole IT guy at a 300 person company.
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I would be out there as soon as possible. It’s not humanly possible to run a 300 person company with just one IT guy.
Pretty simple, but what do you guys think of me expanding the network like so?
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Well, will you actually segment these networks? Just putting them on separate VLANs when they can all talk to each other won’t accomplish much aside from having separate broadcast domains.
How do you actually test a backup?
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Backup solutions like Veeam and Rubrik can actually power on the backup in a isolated network and can run scripts against the machine to verify everything is up and running
Had new type cold call today
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I agree, but there are times when you’re expecting an important call from say your doctor and these fuckers spoof their phone numbers to match your area code.
Had new type cold call today
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They call me at the worst times. I’m either taking a shit or on a Zoom call. Frustrating as hell when you’re expecting an important call.
How to manage ssh access?
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Also crazy expensive
What is your view on HPE acquiring Juniper Networks?
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HPE really loves buying overlapping products
Why do financials orgs have such restrictive password policies?
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A head scratcher for me is some websites not allowing you to use more than 10 characters and not allowing you to use special characters like ! @#+
Gre over IPsec Throughput performance
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If you want throughput performance, wouldn’t wireguard be better?
Will a MSP manage a firewall that is installed by us?
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Why not just go with Fortinet? They’re top 3 for firewalls and most MSP should have someone that has experience with it.
Up and coming virtualization/cloud architecture companies
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Nutanix isn’t cheap, even if you use AHV. Once the 3 years of support runs out, watch out for renewals cost.
Frustration about SentinelOne - Blocking without notification
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S1 Firewall blocked a couple of our applications from functioning correctly. Took a while to troubleshoot since well, it doesn’t log anywhere that it blocked anything.
People complaining about Proxmox having Poor enterprise support, what's your experience with Hyper-V Support?
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Does proxmox now have drs feature yet?
EPYC VM's Nightmare...
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Lol they’re going to point the finger at proxmox.
Job searching during the holidays is not for the weak.
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Well, that’s because most people are on vacation starting December 15th all the way to early January. Not sure why you would expect to by hired in that time frame.
Is anyone here actually considering ditching VMware?
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Once 3 year support ends and you go to renew Nutanix, it’s going to be expensive AF.
Is anyone here actually considering ditching VMware?
Posted by CosmicMixer2120@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 288 comments
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Ain’t my money. If the company can afford it, I’ll continue using VMware.
I'm tired of people (even people in IT) saying IT is super easy/chill
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Preach
Hosting a website on home machine, via a custom server
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Use Cloudflare Tunnels
Love working as a sysadmin
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OP, how long have you been a sysadmin? I felt the same as you when I started my career, but eventually you get jaded. At the end of the day, it’s still a job.
Which career pays you more in the long run?
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Sales Engineer
Hypothetical: The Ceo mandates that all desktop OS must now be Linux.
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If it’s unlimited budget, why not just switch to macOS?
Hypothetical: The Ceo mandates that all desktop OS must now be Linux.
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App Stream + Ubunto
Sleepy tuesday question - Replacing a shared drive with an Azure file share?
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There’s another option and that is to simply deploy a Windows File server for Azure File Server caching.
Rubrik or something else?
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I wouldn’t call it a huge security breach
“The attack on Rubrik's file systems occurred like all the other GoAnywhere-based attacks. The Clop gang leveraged a security vulnerability in the file transfer service GoAnywhere to get into internal systems at Rubrik. Fortunately for the company, the attacks only led to an internal testing environment with simple employee data rather than one of the servers holding customer data inside. This is good news for the company, and it makes the attack a more minor issue than it was for some of the more than 130 companies that were hit by the same security vulnerability”
RANT - Serious Eff Broadcom and the new Licensing.
Posted by rune87@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 281 comments
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Until they can provide 24/7 support, most will not be comfortable using them for production. You probably won’t ever need support, but management will say otherwise.
Just got hired as a small company’s second IT guy.
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Sounds like they never had an IT person before, so what you listed is expected. How is this fubar? You were hired to do IT.
Those who quit being a sys admin, what do you do now?
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I’m retiring as soon as I can. You shouldn’t be spending 30-40 years working.
Free AV for small student computer lab
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Is DeepFreeze still being used? We use to use this in our lab for students. It’s almost like reverting a snapshot on a VM, but on a desktop instead. We would schedule it to revert to the previous state every afternoon.