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I also would like an invite if anyone has one!

I have 3 invites I can hand out. Really hoping to get invites to other sites if possible as well. PM me your emails

Thank you! I have an order in with them now.

So I'm really late to the party here, but I'm planning a new Ryzen build and see the A4 SFX is all out of stock now in the US. Is there a common schedule of production runs for this case?

Cisco UCS C240 M3s are really cheap right now on ebay. Will get you up to Sandy/Ivy Bridge chips. The LFF drive variants are pricey though, but the SFF variant has 24 2.5" bays. If you're sticking to small 10K SAS drives, it may be better to get SSDs instead. I have a DL380 G7 and have been...

What is the file system on the raid 1? If it is ReFS, then you need to disable integrity streams on the Hyper-V folder and child items. Integrity streams aren't designed to work on persistently open files and causes major performance issues for them. Once the streams are disabled you need to...

In that case, Meraki is the easiest option and a reasonable price. It's priced for small business, but it's not a cheap solution. They have list pricing on their website, and for a non-profit there will be deep discounts though. Going outside of that, you will likely need to homebrew up a solution

Sounds like your team can't afford a firewall based content filtering system. I would recommend Meraki if your WAN and VPN side of things is simple, but would be outside your price range I'd imagine. Have you considered instead using OpenDNS? Should be a reasonable subscription and you can...

All of those APs can happily sit on a desk. You dont have to use the ceiling mount brackets. I have my Meraki MR33 sitting on my tv stand in my living room (and a Unifi UAP-AC-LITE prior to that).

So as a note, each RDP session open on your client is running as a separate process and not the same process. Because they are separate processes, Windows itself will assign each process to a specific core as needed. There is no multi-threading needed, but you are using all available cores...

I left you a PM if you want to have a more private discussion. The VSAN route is the way to go at this point for ~50-60% of use cases. Will provide you plenty of performance and reliability, but will have its limits and caveats like all things. If you are absolutely set on having a SAN, then...

That sucks. It's a shame most resellers try to push something rather than work with the customer. I'm an architect for one of the largest resellers in the US, and collaborating with the customer on a solution has always been the most effective approach. Granted I'm a fan of pure, but every...

I keep forgetting to talk about cloud. Cloud is a strong proponent here too, but requires some deep scoping to identify TCO

The vagueness here is incredibly hard to scope correctly as we have no idea what you have in your datacenter and what your performance needs are. So because of this, I'm going to recommend based on the average use case, where you don't have anything really pushing things one way or another...

This right here. You can't recommend hardware without knowing what your needs are. This is why you work with solution architects at resellers so they can help you identify what you need. If you are open about what your likes and dislikes are the resellers can account for that. If you have no...

Have you tried using Windows Server 2016 instead? This sounds like file system or drive corruption to me, but Windows 10 was not meant to have full ReFS support, and is being phased out of Windows 10 entirely.

I have big hands and physically cannot use the playstation controllers because they are too small and my fingers get all bunched up. The control sticks are especially frustrating since my thumbs either butt into each other or I have to hold the controller at odd angles. The duke controller was...

Nano server is treated like an install type, so you have three options: Nano - No real UI of any kind at physical console (think VMWare ESXi type screen on the console). Manageable by powershell, but not all commands supported. Limited to only the following roles & features: Hyper-V, File...

As a standalone server and basic Hyper-V you wont see much different aside from some basic things: Hot add memory and network adapters to VMs DDA - Passthrough PCI devices to VMs Rebalancing Storage Spaces On the more advanced side, there are some cool features that are interesting to play...

Agreed with Mackintire. I've worked with a ton of enterprise APs (Cisco, Meraki, Aerohive, Aruba) and I had heard a lot of bad news from Unifi until version 4. Unifi is pretty good for simple deployments and power user homes. The controls are very simplified even compared to Meraki, but the devs...

This actually helps a ton for me. I've had issues with my S7 dropping off wifi all the time, and the DTIM definitely fixes it. I'm too lazy to do MAC whitelists for the broadcast optimizations, but I also went and set the minimum data rate to 12mbps on my radios to help combat this.

If you want GUI and have it be cheap, than Unifi is the way to go. Their 48 port switch is cheap and has two 10gig ports. https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-switching/unifi-switch-2448/ They also have a very cheap 16 port 10gig switch as well, but does not provide many copper RJ-45 ports...

TO copy a page at a time, open in notepad (or favorite text editor), select the start of the first line, then hold shift and PageDown. That will select a full page. PgDn twice and you have two pages selected and can copy in. Once copied, start at the next line after the selected lines.

Also, if you are copying a config through the console connection, a large config file will overflow the buffers. If this happens, you will see messed up errors like that above exactly. Copy and paste 2 pages at a time, should copy in without issue.

As a note, all versions of ESXi do not support native 4K disks (4Kn). Check the logical and physical sector size on that disk, and if it is 4096, then it cannot be used in VMWare.

Server 2016 added a specific VM configuration to enable nested virtualization. It must be enabled via PowerShell: Set-VMProcessor -VMName (name) -ExposeVirtualizationExtensions $true Once that is set and you boot up the VM, you can then install the Hyper-V role on the guest. I've been using...

CAN you do it? Yes SHOULD you do it? No, VERY MUCH NO. Technical limitations are going to become a huge problem very quickly Thus far there has been so little detail offered here, that I suspect that this cause is to connect all remote offices together on a single subnet. This is NOT how you...

ARP would be the majority of it, but it all depends on how many devices are on that subnet and how active the subnet is. If there's only a handful of devices on the subnet, then it isn't that bad if most traffic is unicast. If there is multicast or high broadcast applications running then your...

OpenVPN community edition is GPL. An alternative here is StrongSwan, which you can use to form IPSEC tunnels, but this uses IKE and thus not TCP (although NAT-T can utilize UDP 4500).

Yes, this is very much possible with Linux. I would recommend you look into OpenVPN. This will allow your Linux servers to build VPN tunnels to each other. While you can do this all with a single subnet, I would not recommend it as it will chew up a significant portion of your bandwidth at each...

You are correct. I had brain farted at the time and defaulted to VT-D. VT-X is correct. Still, server 2016 requires VT-X to even install the Hyper-V role. So a lot of very old hardware will be stuck on 2012R2 for Hyper-V I actually use it as a mix for work and personal. I own an IT consulting...

I've been doing nested hypervisors on my home lab for over a year now.I used to have a physical ESXi 6.0U2 with two Hyper-V 2012R2 hosts. This worked fairly well except that Linux guests would randomly kernel panic on the Hyper-V side, and any special extensions were not stable (ie. AVX, SES)...

Just to clarify here, can you manually vMotion the VMs? Only DRS and HA follow the affinity rules. You can choose to force the VM off without relying on DRS to do it for you. If a manual move fails then that shows you the issue is something else. Otherwise, your affinity rules are conflicting...

Along the same lines as Eulogy. You should stand up what you want in the cloud and have a site to site VPN reaching back to your home. You will obviously need a firewall or an RRAS server to be the VPN endpoint at your home.

It is not. Intel Quicksync utilizes the Intel Media SDK which cannot be passed through to the VM. IMSDK / Quick Sync with virtual machines The virtual hardware as a rule is generalized, so if it's not a standard CPU extension it will not be supported within the VM. You can pass through GPUs to...

Yes, virtualizing is the way to go for any system hands down. Still, you would be wasting your money on a system that didn't provide clustering and HA capabilities. If you have several disparate systems, you will spend a ton of time ensuring you have copies of them accessible by at least one...

I'm a little late to this thread, but this sounds like a fairly small deployment. If you have a small footprint on your servers, it may be of benefit to go with a cluster in a box type solution. I sell these to quite a lot of SMB type customers, and they work great for people who don't need a...

After doing consulting contracts to assist companies in moving to both AWS and Azure, they are very similar in product offerings. In the end from my point of view though, Azure is extremely focused on making users utilize their PaaS offerings such as hosted SQL or Web Apps, and have severe...

It's standard best practice for VMWare VMs. Granted the difference is minimal if your VM is a low workload, it does remove more of the overhead processing required when those VMs access the disk. For a system that avergaes 200 IOPs in a day, you would likely never notice the difference. Still...

There really isn't much you can do here from a VMWare level, but I would say that the VM is undersized for 20 users if they are especially using Outlook. Outlook is pretty heavy to run in general and will grind that poor server to a halt. I would recommend bumping RAM and CPU if possible. I...