@JasGot said in Slack? What is it?:

I am looking at Slack for a customer. I've never used or seen it. I hear about it all the time, and I know many people here use it regularly.

The sole purpose for looking at Slack for this customer is to send appointment reminder vis SMS using Skyetel's "Postcards for Slack" feature.

Has anyone done this? Is it a good option, or should I be looking at other options?

Do they want to start using a dedicated chat app?

If yes, have they evaluated options besides Slack? (RocketChat, etc.)

Slack IS NOT SMS. If they want to send reminders via SMS, just use Postcards. No reason to introduce more complexity than needed.

Edit: That all assumes you have input instead of being told to just do it.

@Pete-S said in XO-Lite beta:

@travisdh1 said in XO-Lite beta:

Link to original article: https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/4731/xen-orchestra-lite/5

Found this while watching Lawrence Systems Thursday live stream. Most areas of the interface still say (coming soon), but you can do basic tasks for VMs on the host.

I don't know what to think about this web ui feature. There is already a TUI interface for basic management - which you can operate from the console or ssh. Perfect when installaing hypervisors and basic things (like changing network settings, starting stopping VMs etc) because you can use it over IPMI.

And there is the xcp-ng center Windows desktop app, which has all the features that is part of the Xen and the hypervisor itself. Developed by Citrix but not part of Vates' (company behind XO and xcp-ng) business model though.

And there is Xen Orchestra (XO) web app from Free to Enterprise if you want support and the fully unlocked community edition if you don't need support. There you can do things that are not actually part of Xen and the hypervisor itself, like replication. Runs in a VM, not on the hypervisor itself. But there are options to deploy it with a click.

I think the big difference between what XO Lite will be and the web TUI is that you don't need console access, just hit the IP address via a web browser. With how so many other things are moving to the web browser to work or manage, I think it's a good thing for them to be doing.

I also think having XO Lite available will make XCP-NG more approachable for less experienced techs. I'll still use XO to manage my XCP-NG servers, but XO Lite will make that initial server rollout and XO install more approachable.

@Jimmy9008 said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

@Dashrender said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

Sounds like all the bases have been covered.

It's unrealistic to work with files of that size (even 10 GB files are unrealistic to work on from cloud).

As Pete said - show the owners the time it takes to move the data, then show them the cost of a potential VDI solution with hosted storage - your solution of a NAS will quickly be back on the table with backups to cloud.

I have been doing some research and am interested in this company, they seem to have both storage in cloud and editing via browser. Any thoughts on this, or better alternatives?

https://www.blackbird.video/

Does anybody know if Adobe has a similar entirely cloud solution for video editing? When I go to their site I find it a mess and confusing.

Frankly, that site has no real useful information after a very quick look. It's all marketing fluff and no pricing listed anywhere, which tells me the price is crazy high. It might make sense, but most likely not.

@scottalanmiller said in Windows 2022 Disk Defrag Freezing System:

@Obsolesce said in Windows 2022 Disk Defrag Freezing System:

You should never Defrag SSDs except for very specific reasons.

Which is why it is surprising that in the SSD era, Windows 2022 has it on by default.

Has Microsoft changed how they handle TRIM yet? I know years ago they only ran TRIM when defrag was run. Why? Because Microsoft is still that bad at managing storage.

This process was simpler than the official instructions make it. I'm using the unlicensed repository.

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_7_to_8

When you get to the section about updating repositories, only the first update is necessary.

@gjacobse said in Proxmox and USB support:

Not looked at ProxMox enough to remember or know this answer. And before I dive to deep into this personal project.

Can each VM attach to a specific USB device for use?

Specifics, a raspberry 3D printer replacement

I've only verified this with a USB thumb drive, but it's quite easy if you haven't found it yet.

In VM -> Hardware -> Add -> USB Device

@GUIn00b said in ProxMox Storage Configuration Question (idk how lol):

Quick update: I did this https://help.nodespace.com/knowledgebase.php?article=307 to all 4 drives, then created a 7.0 TB lvm-thin. Is that the right way to go about this? Here's console output:

root@pve:~# wipefs -a /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd
/dev/sda: 8 bytes were erased at offset 0x00000200 (gpt): 45 46 49 20 50 41 52 54
/dev/sda: 8 bytes were erased at offset 0x3a3817d5e00 (gpt): 45 46 49 20 50 41 52 54
/dev/sda: 2 bytes were erased at offset 0x000001fe (PMBR): 55 aa
/dev/sdb: 8 bytes were erased at offset 0x00000200 (gpt): 45 46 49 20 50 41 52 54
/dev/sdb: 8 bytes were erased at offset 0x3a3817d5e00 (gpt): 45 46 49 20 50 41 52 54
/dev/sdb: 2 bytes were erased at offset 0x000001fe (PMBR): 55 aa
/dev/sdc: 8 bytes were erased at offset 0x00000200 (gpt): 45 46 49 20 50 41 52 54
/dev/sdc: 8 bytes were erased at offset 0x3a3817d5e00 (gpt): 45 46 49 20 50 41 52 54
/dev/sdc: 2 bytes were erased at offset 0x000001fe (PMBR): 55 aa
/dev/sdd: 8 bytes were erased at offset 0x00000200 (gpt): 45 46 49 20 50 41 52 54
/dev/sdd: 8 bytes were erased at offset 0x3a3817d5e00 (gpt): 45 46 49 20 50 41 52 54
/dev/sdd: 2 bytes were erased at offset 0x000001fe (PMBR): 55 aa
/dev/sdd: calling ioctl to re-read partition table: Success
/dev/sda: calling ioctl to re-read partition table: Success
/dev/sdb: calling ioctl to re-read partition table: Success
/dev/sdc: calling ioctl to re-read partition table: Success
root@pve:~# pvcreate /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd
  Physical volume "/dev/sda" successfully created.
  Physical volume "/dev/sdb" successfully created.
  Physical volume "/dev/sdc" successfully created.
  Physical volume "/dev/sdd" successfully created.
root@pve:~# vgcreate hdd-thin /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd
  Volume group "hdd-thin" successfully created
root@pve:~# lvcreate -L 7T --thinpool hdd-thin hdd-thin
  Thin pool volume with chunk size 4.00 MiB can address at most <1016.02 TiB of data.
  WARNING: Pool zeroing and 4.00 MiB large chunk size slows down thin provisioning.
  WARNING: Consider disabling zeroing (-Zn) or using smaller chunk size (<512.00 KiB).
  Logical volume "hdd-thin" created.
root@pve:~# 

That looks correct to me. Convincing ProxMox to use it as an lvm-thin pool might be a bit tricky as it wants a blank block device in the gui....

ProxMox's aversion to the best RAID system available is mind blowing to me. They've completely bought into the cult of ZFS and the Windows world of "software RAID is bad".

@gjacobse said in TMUX: hype or function:

Scanning through my recent feed, I found mention of using TMUX in Linux. Has anyone been using this, is there benefit to using it?

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tmux is a terminal multiplexer for Unix-based operating systems. Simply put, it acts as an add-on to an existing terminal.

Off the top of my head, tmux is like screen. It's a way to manage multiple terminal sessions.

I used to use them often, but today I ask myself why I feel it's necessary? What's failed that I need multiple terminal sessions at one time. Every time it's either "this should be a VM" or "this should be a container".

@NetworkNerd

Obviously look for stored procedures in the database.

SHOW PROCEDURE STATUS;

You also might want to check for a php-cron somewhere in WordPress itself. It's been long enough since I've touched WordPress that I forget where to look for that.

@DustinB3403 If you can access the shell, you should be able to find those in the log files. Been to long since I had to do that myself, I don't remember which logfile to check off the top of my head.

@gjacobse said in Proxmox: UPS:

In all the Proxmox discussions, I can't say that I have heard or seen anything regarding the use of the UPS,.. Tripplite or APC or other.

I have only done a little searching regarding this and having seen much as of yet, but sometimes it's about the keyword order of the search.

Is there any pointed documentation on how to establish UPS support / power down on a Proxmox node. While mine isn't 'production' grade or priority, it would be nice to know that my node will power down properly over just shutting down with the battery is depleted.

I have an APC for my home lab server that's running Proxmox currently. This is the 1 thing I've found that XCP-NG does better than Proxmox, a UPS "just works".

For my Proxmox server, I have the UPS assigned to a VM. However, I haven't found a solution to shutdown the server from the VM that I like yet. All the online documentation I've seen says to use apcupsd or nut, and I'd rather not have to have anything non-standard running on it.

That's my long, whiny way of saying I just need to write a 1 liner script to do it. Come on man, it's not that hard!

@gjacobse said in ReadyNAS314: likely failing:

This is to document for myself and should anyone else need.

Unable to access my storage shares the last bit, rebooting does not resolve. Rebooting takes upwards of four hours to complete.

While had been able to access, now cannot. GUI does respond, but none of the user accounts seem to work. Am able to sign in local as root.

While no errors were on the status page when I was able to access, suspect the system is reaching end of life. End of product life happened some time ago.

Am able to interact with SYSLINUX from the unit directly, it has HDMI and USB ports.
However I ‘lose’ response when I plug in any USB drive.

Am able to ssh, so the system isn’t totaled just yet. I can view the shares, and can ping.

While not ready to build a Nextcloud instance on the Proxmox system yet, I am thinking I should be able to recover the data.

Next step:
Create share
Mount share to NAS
Cli copy data from NAS to another computer as backup

That would be the preferred way to move things off.

If ALL ELSE FAILS, you can likely mount the bare drives in another system and restore the array using md (mdadm). It's been a long time, but I have successfully recovered arrays removed from NAS devices by doing this in the past. Still, very very risky, last resort only deal for sure.

@Obsolesce said in Remove Windows 10 & Windows 11 "No Internet" Message:

Doesn't that prevent Windows from probing a Microsoft server to check if the network connection has internet access? I imagine that would only not work as designed on user devices if they are on some kind of highly secure network that blocks that connection.

That would be the logical behavior, but I see this reported as offline while actively using streaming services and such. It's just flat out broken, so disabling it makes sense for many end users.

@Grey said in Windows/vmware server licensing:

@travisdh1 Does that imply that each guest needs a minimum number of cores assigned?

No, you just need to cover the cores on the host.

@CCWTech said in Proxmox 8.2 is out:

@IThomeboy80 You are welcome. I keep falling more and more in love with Proxmox every day. It's just a great product!

I feel the same way.

Looking forward to the possibility of doing some migrations off of ESXi.

@gjacobse said in Dell r720 and Hitachi Drive:

iDRAC -

Ended up being short lived excitement when I came in last night to see that I could access the LifeCycle controller and was able to get the iDRAC connected.

Used the reboot option and that was it I suppose... Back to LifeCycle controller being disabled and the iDRAC being inaccessible.

Odd also is that it seems to only allow one of the four main NICs over the iDRAC NIC - Has it been so long since I worked on something at this level that I've misconstrued some information on how the iDRAC NIC is suppose to work/

iDRAC normally has a NIC separate from all the others. Some utilize the same NIC as the main system, but those are the jank version. My R620 iDRAC is a physically separate network port, and all the servers at work are as well.

@dbeato said in Anyone hosting your own S3 bucket?:

@travisdh1 Are you using a Scale Cluster or just a straight made up cluster of your own?

We'll be using a cluster of our own. Doubt it will make sense to use Scale in this scenario as it will be purely storage, no compute.

I had another look at updating my Cloudflare domains using dynamic DNS, and found that it is very easy now compared to a few years back.... I think 2018 was the last thread I found on it.

Anyhow, super simple.

Start by creating a new API key with DNS update permission.
Using a current Ubuntu.
apt install ddclient
Follow the instructions.

@gjacobse said in Getting Domain Information / Owner:

@travisdh1 said in Getting Domain Information / Owner:

@gjacobse Try the source, ICANN.

https://lookup.icann.org/en

Site seems to use Domains By Proxy, part of GoDaddy,.... maybe,..

ICANN is literally the source of truth so far as internet domains are concerned.
https://www.icann.org/

The domains I'm responsible for always reflect the correct information there.

Hopefully the one you're looking at isn't behind a privacy screen, most are these days.

@gjacobse Try the source, ICANN.

https://lookup.icann.org/en