I am trying to create some simple hyper-V machines on my windows 10 laptop. So far, very unimpressed. Using windows admin center, I cannot even get a console to see what is going on in the VM. If I use hyper v manager, it's a little better, but the whole experience is not nearly what I was expecting.

I am going to try fedora for the first time (to run zoneminder). What do you guys normally use, workstation or server?

Well, I got approval today to start with 4 or 5 at one of our locations.

I might try Zoneminder. It's at least open source.

@scottalanmiller said in House wiring - CAT and Speaker wire:

@Donahue said in House wiring - CAT and Speaker wire:

@black3dynamite said in House wiring - CAT and Speaker wire:

home warranty

haha, thats funny...warranty

They are super common in some parts of the country, like Texas. In NY, we'd never heard of it.

I've heard of builder's warranties on new construction. But it's like pulling teeth to get them to actually honor them, at least around here.

@black3dynamite said in House wiring - CAT and Speaker wire:

home warranty

haha, thats funny...warranty

QS in my thread was meant to be Intel's feature, Quick Sync. I generally only use acronyms in the context of that thread, or if they are used industry wide. If there is doubt, I tend to stay away and just spell it out.

@DustinB3403 said in Looking into IP cameras:

@Donahue said in Looking into IP cameras:

@DustinB3403 said in Looking into IP cameras:

@Donahue said in Looking into IP cameras:

None of my existing hosts have QS that I know of, but I knew that already. From what I can tell, its possible under very specific circumstances to pass QS along to a windows 10 VM using ESXi 6.5. I have not determined if I could do the same under hyper v.

Why are you using Windows 10 as the DVR server?

Where did I say I was? I dont even run this software yet.

It was a safe assumption based on the topic that you demo'd this solution and just now mentioned windows 10.

You know what they say about assumptions. They make an ass out of you

I did demo it on my windows 10 laptop a year ago, but it was only a trial. My mention of windows 10 though was about a way the pass through the QS feature to a windows 10 VM running under ESXi 6.5. But I am moving away from ESXi to hyper V, and so that doesnt really help me.

My suspicion is that this software would be considered "high end consumer" level stuff. I think their target customers are mostly good home systems or SOHO. If we were to use it, we might be asking a little too much from it. This is why I was asking ML, because there might be a better business level solution available.

@DustinB3403 said in Looking into IP cameras:

@Donahue said in Looking into IP cameras:

None of my existing hosts have QS that I know of, but I knew that already. From what I can tell, its possible under very specific circumstances to pass QS along to a windows 10 VM using ESXi 6.5. I have not determined if I could do the same under hyper v.

Why are you using Windows 10 as the DVR server?

Where did I say I was? I dont even run this software yet.

None of my existing hosts have QS that I know of, but I knew that already. From what I can tell, its possible under very specific circumstances to pass QS along to a windows 10 VM using ESXi 6.5. I have not determined if I could do the same under hyper v.

It's using Intel Quicksync, not a dedicated GPU

I would tend to agree, which is why I have that reservation against it. It can run in a VM, it just causes a higher CPU load because it cannot offload it to hardware acceleration.

A while back I had been requested to do some initial testing and workup details for rolling out IP cameras to our two locations. I tested two setups, one was Unifi video with their G3 camera, and the other was a Dahua Starlight model and Blue Iris as the NVR software. I worked up some numbers for space requirements using various encoding codecs and whatnot, but then the urgency faded and I haven't done anything with it in about a year. I have been asked to refresh all this because it has renewed interest.

Do any of you guys run IP camera systems, and what do you guys use? I am looking at 20-30 cameras per location, probably as two isolated systems. The software that I liked the function of (Blue Iris) really doesn't run well when virtualized because it is designed to take advantage of hardware acceleration. This means I would likely buy a standalone computer and run it all as physical if we proceeded with our original plan.

@Reid-Cooper said in House wiring - CAT and Speaker wire:

CAT6 is better, but if you already own the 5e, I'd use that.

you'd have to define "better" for that statement to be true.

The two main differences between cat 5e and newer standards are bandwidth potential and possible shielding. For the content delivery you mentioned, 5e will provide all the capacity you need. I would only consider a higher standard if you needed a fast internal network for something you were doing on your home network. If all you are doing is primarily accessing the internet for streaming or the like, then 5e will be more than enough, because you internet speed will likely be far below the 1gbps standard for 5e. Going to cat 6 and above is something that should considered only when you have specific needs that those other cables satisfy. It is not a simple case of cat 7 > cat 6 > cat 5e. Each standard has specific uses, most of the differences have to do with things like shielding, twisting, termination style, and bandwidth potential. IMO, if this is a simple home network, stick with 5e.

I cannot comment on running next to speaker wire, I dont know. But I would personally probably run them together.

@JaredBusch said in Domain Time off for some members:

@Donahue said in Domain Time off for some members:

found it. It was the individual time for that ESXi member. It was running on it's own time, neither host time or any NTP. It was off by the 6 minutes. So for some reason, VMWare was syncing this setting with the host's ESXi clock, not the hardware clock, even though the settings disallow that.

How do you know the VMware tools was doing the sync?. As I said in my earlier post if windows goes and tries to get the hardware clock no matter what your tool says for heartbeat or times are pretty station it’s going to get the Clock from the host.

look at the picture I posted above. It was vmtoolsd.exe that was causing it to jump forward and svchost.exe that was correcting it. I found this under event 4616

found it. It was the individual time for that ESXi member. It was running on it's own time, neither host time or any NTP. It was off by the 6 minutes. So for some reason, VMWare was syncing this setting with the host's ESXi clock, not the hardware clock, even though the settings disallow that.

I think I may have found the cause. I looked into event 4616 under the security log. I can see a consistent pattern of three records repeating over and over again. The first thing is that VMWare tools was setting the clock ahead 6 minutes. Then a little later, svchost was setting it back, and then resetting it again. Then a little later VMWare tools would set it ahead again and the pattern repeats.

@JaredBusch said in Amplifi Home router:

Pictures on my phone are dated Dec 6, 2018. Did a more advanced search here and no luck.

you took those photos in the future?

does anyone know a better tool that I can use to find out what is triggering this to happen?