@nadnerB That's... a surprisingly decent analogy, lol. Not technically accurate, lol, but for a layperson / non technical person, I'd give that a B+.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

one of the issues that we ran into is apparently a common filesystem corruption problem with 6.5. A key problem with Vmware is that it doesn't have the filesystem reliability of any modern OS.

I've run VMware since v2.0 in various forms and have NEVER had file system corruption happen. That's crazy! .... although as of late, I can definitely believe it, lol.

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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Before ESX 7.0.3, I can count the number of times I had to call VMswear for support on one hand.... Heck, one finger. They seriously screwed the pooch on 7.0.3. We had to open several tickets with them about new issues.

This is all ESXi 6. The customer doesn't want to upgrade to 7. Jaja.

So this is, in theory, the "good" Vmware.

ROFL! Just don't upgrade them to 7.0.3. Apparently, that's when the problems really got bad.

Awesome man! Congratulations!

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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

All weekend it is doing a VMware migration from 6.5 to 6.7 on two hosts, not a cluster. Should be SO simple.

As this is VMware, it's over 150 hours of engineering time already. VMware support had to be engaged as we hit a bug in VMware's code that they didn't patch and doesn't get hit very often and it took them hours to figure out once they were engaged.

VMware is a train wreck. If we were doing this on ProxMox, this entire process would have been fifteen minutes, for real.

And we have a green zone. There's no attempt to do this online. This is a powered down process, and VMware can't do it.

Ouch - That doesn't offer much confidence.

Nothing about my real world experience with VMware inspires confidence. Nearly every deployment seems to be done based on emotions or confusion (you mean there are other options? but I've seen ads for this? but it is expensive, it must be good?) so the starting point is bad. And every deployment seems to need to bring in specialized outside help because nobody can manage it on their own. Every aspect of it is 100x harder than with every other product out there. People act like it is easy or well known, but how can every IT shop easily support KVM, Xen or HyperV, but we always have to get brought in as VMware specialists because no one can run patches reliably on ESXi?

Before ESX 7.0.3, I can count the number of times I had to call VMswear for support on one hand.... Heck, one finger. They seriously screwed the pooch on 7.0.3. We had to open several tickets with them about new issues.

They change the driver name for an intel NIC... but didn't check the depenency chain and update those to look to the new driver too. So that causes problems installing things like... Security patches. Go VMswear!

After we got past that hurdle, at some point on the 7.0 branch of ESX, we started seeing file locking issues where DRS would try to migrate a machine to a more suitable host -- which is fine... Except that if the VM is in the middle of a snapshot cleanup, the move will fail and the VM will power down and you can't get it back up until you reboot the original host it was on... Which in our environment here is not a bad thing, just aggravating.

So yeah, I'm not happy with recent editions of VMware. However, KVM and Proxmox (both personal setups) have worked beautifully! Proxmox makes KVM much easier.

Try Expresso Caffienatum ?

Actually is this happening on the same machine or random computers?

Edit: Sounds like a "Published / Draft" type setting or some kind of caching in Wix, but I'm not familiar with it.

@Danp said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

I think there's a flossing joke in there somewhere, but I just can't extract it.

You should really quit stringing this along.

My initial impressions are to tell you to go with Proxmox.

I just switched to it from Vanilla KVM. The managment interface isn't terrible. As a whole, the system is easy enough to use once you figure out where things are at.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Power keeps going off for a few minutes. Not tragic but so annoying.

Surely you have all your important things on UPS... Things like... your internet and such? lol.

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@Danp said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

American Dental Association hit by new Black Basta ransomware

Probably forget to secure their bluetooth

They were... bracing for this.

They really need to get things straightened out.

@RojoLoco said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@nadnerB Works well, but for crispy shell applications, I like to use a shock mount. Best way to listen to any taco recording? These:

Tacobout a neat idea.

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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Morning all!

mutters ... Need coffee.... and for pine trees to quit trying to grow in my head and chest.

I just got my 1st coffee... same feelings about the pines. But at least it's been cooler weather. I turned my heat on for a few minutes this morning.

Nice! It's still warm enough to need a jacket in the morning and leave it behind by lunch.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Morning all!

mutters ... Need coffee.... and for pine trees to quit trying to grow in my head and chest.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

About to do a VMware migration (upgrade.)

To the latest & greatest v7 u3 or to a different platform altogether? lol.

@WrCombs Here you go...

Maybe you should share with @jt1001001 , lol.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Cafe dos ahora.

That's not nearly enough. I was up to 4 cups before noon.

Yet another +1 for using Bitwarden and not self-hosting. I actually did self-host it for a bit a couple of years ago, but changed my mind and moved to their hosted service.

Lots of new jobs happening around here!

I just found out I may get a promotion. I think there's some other folks on the team that are trying out for it as well. I hope they decide by making us do a battle royale. I'd win, for sure.

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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Goooooood morning everyone!

a few sips of coffee....

Few CUPS here.

I just finished cup 6, and it's only 11:30 am here.

In other news, I'm officially off of google for my "personal" email domain... now I just need to transfer all the messages I want to keep and turn Google off.

Zoho now?

Actually, no. Self-hosting now. Last time I did this, I got absolutely torn alive by spammers within 24 hours. It's been a little over 48 hours since I got set up, and my spam stuff seems to be doing the job, although I don't have a lot of email coming to me, lol.

Postfix+Dovecot+Rspamd is the setup this go round. Using NextCloud for webmail, and K9 for my mobile.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Goooooood morning everyone!

a few sips of coffee....

Few CUPS here.

I just finished cup 6, and it's only 11:30 am here.

In other news, I'm officially off of google for my "personal" email domain... now I just need to transfer all the messages I want to keep and turn Google off.