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    Burned by Eschewing Best Practices

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    • DustinB3403D
      DustinB3403
      last edited by

      Well he's getting his RAID 10 Array built now, and should report back soon. I'm steering him to XenServer. If other want to stir him in other directions go ahead.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
        last edited by

        He's doing great.

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        • brianlittlejohnB
          brianlittlejohn @scottalanmiller
          last edited by

          @scottalanmiller Hopefully he has an actual RAID card.

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          • DustinB3403D
            DustinB3403
            last edited by

            @brianlittlejohn said:

            @scottalanmiller Hopefully he has an actual RAID card.

            Hopefully (if he does) the drives are actually connected to it, and not the motherboard....

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @brianlittlejohn
              last edited by

              @brianlittlejohn said:

              @scottalanmiller Hopefully he has an actual RAID card.

              Not looking likely.

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              • brianlittlejohnB
                brianlittlejohn @scottalanmiller
                last edited by

                @scottalanmiller Thats a shame.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller
                  last edited by

                  It's a Lenovo Thinkserver TD350

                  td350.png

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller
                    last edited by

                    And... it's FakeRAID.

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                    • RomoR
                      Romo
                      last edited by

                      He could still use software raid, couldn't he?

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                      • RomoR
                        Romo
                        last edited by

                        I use mdadm with our kvm vm hosts, I haven't used xenserver but I would think mdadm would also be a possibility for him

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @Romo
                          last edited by

                          @Romo said:

                          He could still use software raid, couldn't he?

                          That's what we are preparing to walk him through now. With XenServer that's a bit of a learning curve, though. Not going to be run.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller
                            last edited by

                            https://blog.trendelkamp.net/2015/02/configure-software-raid-xenserver-6-5/

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @Romo
                              last edited by

                              @Romo said:

                              I use mdadm with our kvm vm hosts, I haven't used xenserver but I would think mdadm would also be a possibility for him

                              Yes, works the same. But for someone who is new to Linux this will be a shock to his system.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller
                                last edited by

                                This guy is in for a tough time. No AD for 40 machines..

                                http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1274733-40-workgroup-pc-s

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                                • RojoLocoR
                                  RojoLoco @scottalanmiller
                                  last edited by

                                  @scottalanmiller said:

                                  This guy is in for a tough time. No AD for 40 machines..

                                  http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1274733-40-workgroup-pc-s

                                  ...and all are home versions, some Vista.... ewwwww

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller
                                    last edited by

                                    Yeah, it is going to be tough. No AD with forty machines. Not fun. But I've seen way bigger without AD, it's not that bad. I'd rather AD, of course. But you can do a lot without it.

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                                    • StrongBadS
                                      StrongBad
                                      last edited by

                                      That's a lot of PCs to have no Active Directory. Going to need to do ridiculous things like having common admin passwords or using Keepass and storing tons of passwords.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller
                                        last edited by

                                        Not a bad approach.

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                                        • DustinB3403D
                                          DustinB3403
                                          last edited by DustinB3403

                                          Here is another topic of it, where an IT Department virtualized, but failed to develop and deploy a proper backup solution. Now the IT person is stuck manually restoring files and ActiveDirectory from a Snapshot created in January!

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                                          • brianlittlejohnB
                                            brianlittlejohn @DustinB3403
                                            last edited by

                                            @DustinB3403 I wonder if that snapshot from January is part of what messed his system up when it lost power. You shouldn't keep snapshots hanging around that long. Nothing but trouble.

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