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Please check out this setup. The 10.2.1.x network works no problem However the 10.10.1.x network is causing me issues. This is not a routed network, just a 10g switch with the 10g cards plugged in and no gateway. All the networks are /24 10.10.1.81-84 can all ping each other no problem...

Hey, So at my work we have a 4 node ESX 5.5 cluster on r710s. Each node has local drives (this one has 4x 1Tb SATA in R10) and dual gige to a 3220i with 24x500gb drives. Yes I know it's all old but still running good and plans to get onto a 4 node c6220 later this year hopefully. Anyways, the...

Hey, So we had a failure of our supervisor in our c6509. The beast is still running but want to get another supervisor in. Bought some off ebay however we didn't notice in the ad that all the memory and batteries were taken from the units. On the sup720-3bxl-v08 the battery is larger than the...

Hey, I know this hardware is older than dirt but it should work to get me some cheap storage. I've got this so far: pe2950 w32g ram it has an internal PERC6i I added PERC5e to connect the MD1000 the MD1000 has 2 controllers There is a SAS cable connecting to either external port on the PERC5e...

Hey, So looking on the kijiji in my area and contacting a few sellers I've come across an interesting option. I haven't seen one of these servers in the wild so I'm checking with the best source on the internet....the [H]. A Levono RD240 CPU: 2 x e5620 Intel Xeon E5620 RAM: 24 Gb DDR3 8...

Hey, So found that one of our Server 2008r2 machines was infected with Malware due to the AV being turned off (still investigating that). Got the MS offline virus scanner and it cleaned up the few infected files. Rebooted, scanned again nothing left. This machine is now unable to browse to...

Now when I say lots, I'm not thinking thousands. But between 50-100 connections. Was going to build an ESXi box with three servers: 1- pfsense for firewall and VPN connections 2- Windows 2016 - Domain controller 3- Windows 2016 - File and database storage server This is all just thoughts...

Hey, So I'm trying to get a Linux (Virtuozzo 7) with a storage back end and data on their own bonded connections to a c4506. To throw more fun on the fire I want to have the data channel with a bunch of vlans on it. I'm having problems wrapping my head around why a bonded connection needs to...

Hey So just had great success with window FX for our Halloween display. Now I want more. Has anyone setup or worked with or thought of a Halloween or Christmas or whatever display that would shoot from multiple projectors on multiple window and the animation would move from one window to...

So, found this server for a company I'm doing some work for and it needs 212 updates. What is the best way to go about this. I'm assuming if I apply all the updates we are looking at probably a 4-6 hour window that the server will be down. This is an Exchange server and should most definitely...

Hey, So I have been given a task to turn some TVs at my daughter's gymnastics club into signage. Currently they have all the TVs connected together using component cables and a splitter to a DVD player which they burn a new disc for any changes to the presentation. However they want to do more...

Hey, So I got this server off of kijiji. $200. Pretty decent for a home lab with 58Gb of ram. However the controller in this thing is unable to support >2tb drives. This is a problem, I'm wondering if something like an h700 can go into a server like this and still work and be detected by the...

Hey, So We have an exchange setup with 2 Exchange servers and 1 FSW. However, for some reason the FSW stopped working on the DAG and I've been trying to figure out how to get it working again. The error is: This is what I've done so far: -Checked for any disabled accounts, don't see a way...

Hey, So I have a client that has no firewalls in front of their servers is colo. It's a couple a plesk servers so needing specific ports open. On these servers there are already static IPs assigned so I wanted to drop an extra c1811 I have here in place. I setup the bridged mode between...

Hey, So we have an older SAN with 15 450Gb 15k SAS drives. It's going to be for our ESX cluster. I was trying to figure out the best RAID setup for these drives. I'm trying to avoid the 2 drive in RAID 5 failure. My plan is to do 2 7 disk RAID 5 with 1 hot spare for both arrays. SO that...

Afternoon, So I've expended many drives without any issues in Windows 2008 R2 and windows 2012 R2. It's really easy and works well except that I can't use the new space. The drive was 100Gb and I have 15 Gb left. I expended the drive in ESX to 150 Gb I expended the drive in Windows...

Hey, So just bought a couple of these off of ebay but didn't notice the half bracket on these. The PE2950 I'm putting them in has full bays so I can't make it fit. Does anyone have the full bracket they are willing to part with...or better yet, two of them? If you're willing to offload...

Hi, So I've been trying to get this working all day. We've had a server with ESXi4.0 mostly crash but I was able to get the VM folders from ESX via SCP. I've copied these into our main ESXi5.5 cluster (the vmdk-flat and vmx files). I can boot the machine but when it tries to boot it comes...

Hey, So the company I work for has about 150 domains hosted. Every once in a while one gets compromised with some spam scripts. I've cat'd these files and it's just garble. Is there a way to understand how it's written? I'm curious on how it works. More curious to how it got there in...

Hey, So building a server for a client we decided to dive into the realm of SSDs. Found the Samsung EVO 850 500g drive on sale for under $250 so I was sold on that. Here are my settings on the Perc6/i controller (with the most recent firmware): RAID0 1 x Samsung EVO 850 500g Stripe Size =...

Hey, We currently have an exchange 2010 server with multiple domains using custom attributes and separate databases to separate them. However now we are being asked to give Administrator access to the domain. When we try to assign an administrator to the domain it shows all the domains in...

Hey, So I was recommended to get 4 Chromecasts for 4 TVs that are for my daughters gymnastics club. This was just before a meet. I tested this (casting chrome browsers from one computer to all 4 using different chrome profiles) and it worked great until they threw another 5 computers onto...

Hey, so the gymnastics club my daughters are in got some TVs for running advertisement. The guy that hooked them up ran composite cables to a splitter to one long cable to a DVD player where they have the media for advertisement. The director approached me because they want more multi media...

Ugh, I can't make up my mind. The problem with the G3 is it's not with my carrier and I'm hoping to make a deal to get some close to free phones for me and my wife for renewing. So my provider has the S5 and Z3. The Z3 seems to be pulling a head if only by a small margin. Anyone here have...

Hey all, So a co worker had a friend of his give him a new video card...not sure how he managed to do that. Anyways he has a gtx590 that he is wanting to sell me. Currently I have an asus . He will sell it to me for 150 plus a Cisco 1841 w/128mb card. Is the upgrade worth it? Thanks

Any suggestions? Building an esxi server and the motherboard ( X7DWN+ ) I want is a full eATX board. Never bought a case this big. This is the only one I've found local so far: http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX48657 It seems decent, looking to see if there are other suggestions...

Hey, If you have one of these I'd like to buy it. PM me with how much you want to sell it for. I've come across some ram and CPUs that will fill this board nicely for an ESXi server at home. Thanks!

Hey, So here is the story: Client called this morning and one of his IPs on his machine isn't working. Through a bunch of troubleshooting we found that it wasn't his hardware causing the problem (setup another port on the switch he is on and tested) Here is the general setup: BGP ->...

Hey, So looking to have a wildcard proxy service for our web hosting clients if they don't want to purchase their own cert but still want to have some of their site secure. Is there something for linux where we can serve secure.domain.com for www.hosteddomain.com? I've seen it done where it...

Hey, So we had a VDP 5.5 server and upgraded to 5.8 by just installing a new OVF and attaching the old backup drives. http://onevirtual.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/how-to-attach-data-disks-from-an-existing-vdp-appliance-to-a-new-vdp-appliance/ It didn't have the result I hoped. The...

Hey, So trying to upgrade my VDP install. The instructions (http://www.vladan.fr/how-to-upgrade-vdp/)indicate a snapshot while the machine is powered off. I did that and I can see the snapshot in the snapshot Manager however VDP says that it needs a snapshot before it can start the upgrade...

Hey, I'm trying to add a USB drive to my CentOS box to copy some backups to. However I can't get the drive information without fdisk. fdisk doesn't want to give me any information: # cat /etc/*-release CentOS release 5.3 (Final) # fdisk -l # What is wrong? How can I fix this...

Hey, So I have a PE2950 with dual X5460 and 8x2 FBDIMM running ESXi. Now this server is loud and generates lots of heat which isn't good for being in my furnace room (when winter comes along that room is going to be hot and that server will be really loud). I'm looking at putting it into a...

Hey all, the company we use for our outbound spam filter for our www clients has informed me the only way around my problem is to re-write the sender address in postfix. Here is the problem and please tell me if that's the only way around...if it is then I might need to get pointed in the right...

Hey, not sure where to post this however I'm getting some weird logs from lots of IPs looking for shoes but they have something in common. Here is a snip of the code: 101.226.166.219 - - [31/Jul/2014:11:47:05 -0600] "GET /?p=cheap-jordan-shoes-stores-online-for-sale.html HTTP/1.1" 301 371...

Hey, Can't seem to find a good thread to give opinions on this and if it's worth the hefty price tag. My wife is looking to replace her laptop and she pretty much does some office stuff, videos and tablet stuff. Some games like bejeweled and such but mainly surfing. Was thinking of the...

Hey all. Have a VMWare VDP 5.5 appliance that I'm trying to expand the storage from .5T -> 2T. I have it writing to a FreeNAS iSCSI drive connected through the ESX cluster. I just moved the VDP server to the FreeNAS drive and it can successfully backup what we need it to however it's...

Hey, So we have an old version of Plesk that I can't seem to get a qmail issue resolved (451 qq crashed (#4.3.0) ) so I was going to change to postfix and forget my problems existed. However I'm running into this problem: /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/autoinstaller...

Hey, Just curious what you use for colors for the different network types? Network - Blue iSCSI - Green vMotion/FT/Mgmt - Yellow Well, that's my wish right now. The admins before me used yellow non tied cables that looks like the rack is spewing spaghetti everywhere...ugghh....yay...

Hey, Anyone else here being attacked lots via word press? We have about 150 clients, 1/2 of which use word press and the server is being attacked all the time from IPs all over the world. I've implemented fail2ban but that's just a bandaid and I've noticed the attacks are getting worse...