@wrcombs said in First Time Server Buy . . . Build. . .:

@scottalanmiller said in First Time Server Buy . . . Build. . .:

@wrcombs said in First Time Server Buy . . . Build. . .:

Thinking about building my own server, strictly for home use, backups and external storage (if i sound like an idiot, bear with me.)
What would everyone recommend ?

Whats a good place to start?

I want to try new things and expand as much as possible in IT.

Thanks.

Edit I want to be able to manage a server for my house just to use the experience.

So think about what experience you want....

Do you want "real server experience" so that you can tell a potential employer about it? Then you want that experience to be on a real server like Dell PowerEdge or HPE Proliant.

Main goal is to be able to tell an employer about what I did on my own at home just to learn it.

Then what you do at home has to be relevant to or the same as the work you'll be doing for the job you're applying for.

Use a real server, set up the same environment you'll find in an SMB or Enterprise.

oVirt Testing hub.

It's looking like a true Hyper-V replacement.

When I get more server hardware, I'm going to redo it with GlusterFS and three hosts.

I'm doing some cpu stress testing on a Win10 VM. Not really effecting the host. The host is a Dell R420.

Just got done at sea world

I want one of these:

https://fit-iot.com/web/products/mintbox-mini2/mintbox-mini2-specifications/

I'm bringing this up as a discussion. I want other people's input in any aspect. Is it wrong, is it right? Why or why not? What else can be done? How can it be done better?

I've always seen it as generally a good practice to have your fileserver VM host your files on as big of a VHDX as you need. I mean, they support up to 64TB...

I've been limiting my VHDX disks for fileservers to 5TB, mostly due to physical Tape limitations that we use, and physical disk accessibility at that time. Also, by general function and/or share. Now, 8 - 10 TB tapes and disks are more affordable and available. Tapes because it's easier to have a single ~5TB share on it's own tape, or to move it physical via a physical disk. Still, 5TB is a little arbitrary, but that's what I chose.

This (single) fileserver VM has multiple 5TB VHDX disks attached to it (about 7).
(Note: I have other file servers as well, not just this one. I'm just singling out this one for this topic)

Not a problem, until maintenance needs to be done. Such as VHDX compacting that needed done tonight. I had to bring down the whole VM to do it.

I've been thinking that it would be easier to work with multiple fileserver VMs with divi'd up data, rather than a single fileserver VM holding all the data for a number of reasons:

• Maintenance: you then won't need to down so much of your data accessibility
• Replication: easier to divide it up
• Backups: more flexibility
• Changes: big file changes... such as enabling or disabling a type of auditing, or adding/removing a new permission that isn't done via AD group
• etc... as I'm thinking about this, there's a lot more, but this is enough to get the point across.

So what I'm thinking of doing is taking this single fileserver VM, and creating several additional fileserver VMs to server the data. I could just simply remove the disk from FileserverA, and attach it to a new one. Easy peasy.

What do you think? At worst, it may create another 100GB of VM operating system data, perhaps a tiny bit more CPU usage. With dynamic memory, it won't require that much more. IOPS wise, I don't see there being a difference. It's all on the same hardware RAID anyways. Running on a beefy R730xd.

@black3dynamite said in Health benefits of drinking coffee:

So I found this article written by Kris Gunnars, with a list of 13 health benefits of drinking coffee:

1. Coffee Can Improve Energy Levels and Make You Smarter
2. Coffee Can Help You Burn Fat
3. The Caffeine Can Drastically Improve Physical Performance
4. There Are Essential Nutrients in Coffee
5. Coffee May Lower Your Risk of Type II Diabetes
6. Coffee May Protect You From Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia
7. Caffeine May Lower The Risk of Parkinson's
8. Coffee Appears to Have Protective Effects on The Liver
9. Coffee Can Fight Depression and Make You Happier
10. Coffee Drinkers Have a Lower Risk of Some Types of Cancer
11. Coffee Does Not Cause Heart Disease and May Lower The Risk of Stroke
12. Coffee May Help You Live Longer
13. Coffee is The Biggest Source of Antioxidants in The Western Diet

Do you agree or disagree with the list of benefits of drinking coffee?

I mostly agree in that they are all either true, or have been shown to some degree to support a statement. Do note that most of those statements use "can" and "may", never "does".

#13, there are foods and drinks that contain much more anti-oxidants than coffee... be careful how you read that statement.

Also, due to the roasting process, a chemical called acrylamide is formed. This chemical has been shown to increase the risk of cancer.

But, toasted bread has like 5x the amount that coffee does... so take it as you wish. I'm not going to stop drinking coffee.

@scottalanmiller said in What Exactly Is a VPN, Is HTTPS a VPN SAMIT Video:

A lot of them get posted on SW first as a response post because someone will do something that warrants a video so I make it and post as a response, but then dole them out on an even pace over here with a spot to discuss them.

How do you know you're an idiot? SAM replies to you with a video :clapping_hands:

@dustinb3403 said in Fake Wall or Wall Closet?:

Or maybe print this if you prefer the blue lighting.

Lol wtf is in those racks?

@dafyre said in What is your perspective on the overall tone of interactions here on ML?:

take it out side and duel with roman candles.

@wirestyle22 said in Fake Wall or Wall Closet?:

@tim_g It's the engineering bay of the Starship Enterprise

Oh lol that explains it.

@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Brace yourself for many threads on how to move Hyper-V workloads to KVM.

Oh yeah? What makes you think that?

Because I'm going to post them.

Oh it's really easy to convert btw.

@scottalanmiller
Convert .VHDX to .qcow2

1. Copy the .VHDX to your Fedora host.

2. Check the .VHDX image for errors:
   qemu-img check -r all /path/to/vmimage.VHDX

3. Run the command to convert the .VHDX to .qcow2:
   qemu-img convert -O qcow2 vmimage.vhdx /path/to/vmimage.qcow2

Create your VM using the new .qcow2 image.

You can convert to/from qcow2, vhdx, and more.

@stacksofplates said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

@tim_g said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

@stacksofplates said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

@tim_g said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

@aidan_walsh said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

I had a microcode update applied by Korora 26 during the week, perhaps that?

Check dnf history?

Yeah dnf history shows my command/install history. But I don't know how to get it to show everything that was updated.

You can do

dnf history info <history number>

I've tried that but it doesn't show the whole line... it gets cut off so it doesn't help at all.

huh? There should be a lot more than one line.

OH! I had it in the wrong order. I had the number and info switched around.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Good morning everyone. Just did some dishes and made some coffee.

Nice way to start, although I did that last night with exception of coffee.

It's decaf. I'm trying to ween myself off of caffeine. Been almost a month without it now.

I had cut way back... or at least the time of day to which I consumed it... last few days hasn't been so good at that plan.

Need to get back to drinking less soda, less caffeine .

I drink water first thing when I get up... and then tea or coke during the day, and water when my body wants it... All things in moderation.

Fully agree with you. It's just a seriously bad habit to drink soda. it's so easy, and has taste unlike the water which tastes like... something I don't want to drink,.

If I make the effort to make tea - it's a 45/45/10 mix 3 Caffeine bags, 3 decaff bags, and a bag of mint... and I can generally drink a gallon of that a day.

Soda is bad... diet soda is fine-ish, way better than anything with sugar / added sugar (yes, including coffee and tea if you dump sugar and other bad shit in it) Diet soda has been known to make you keep craving sweets, but if you resist that it's fine.

Tea / coffee is excellent and very beneficial in a lot of ways if you don't dump sugar and shit (milk) in it.

I'm from the deep south... If there's not sugar, there's no sweet tea, lol.

I like to experiement, a lot. I've mixed several kinds of teas trying to replicate a recipe a friend of mine did with black tea, green tea, and oranges. Just an't seem to get it quite right.

It's that daily sugar intake that'll get you in the end, and keep you from reaching health goals in the meantime. I mean, drink what you want... just saying. Moderation is fine, but the sugar amount in sweet tea for example, and drinking it daily or several times a week, is actually not what is considered "moderation".

@kelsey said in Virtualization and HA, Scalability:

Now with Hyperconvergence, the above example uses local storage inside of physical host #1 and physcal host #2, using some kind of software (like StarWind vSAN or Microsoft's Storage Spaces Direct) that treats the storage in each Host as a single pool of shared storage. (like how in your picture the "storage server" is portrayed, but tha twould go away and would be inside of each physical host)

This way, you have no single point of storage failure.

If host 1 goes down, all data is also on host 2 where everything can continue running after the VMs fail over. Same with if Host2 goes down.

And now you know why.

New-LocalUser -Name "SpongeBob" -Description "Badass Admin"
Add-LocalGroupMember -Group "Administrators" -Member "SpongeBob"

New-LocalUser
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.localaccounts/new-localuser?view=powershell-5.1

Add-LocalGroupMember
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.localaccounts/add-localgroupmember?view=powershell-5.1

My opinion... Who gives a shit.

If you don't want it on your outgoing messages, turn it off.

If you see it on a message sent to you, who cares?

This is the stupidest concern I've seen on here in a long time.

Usually creating a new Outlook profile fixes things.

Long term fix is of course using something other than Outlook.