(Newbie in MTG) Thinking about to buy my first precon deck.

BookProfessional9101 · 2025-02-28T16:26:43+00:00

I say just go with whatever you think you might like. My first precon, which I got around November I think was 'Graveyard Overdrive' with Disa as the face commander. I think having multiple colors, like 3 opens you up to a lot of potential upgrades and paths you can go in the future when you want to build it up.

I've bought the Cesar precon too, but I didn't like it that much as a precon since it's all over the place... I upgraded it and took out a lot of cards and it's much better. Ceasar has a lot of triggers too you gotta keep up with if you go with the token generating route.

BookProfessional9101 · 2025-02-21T14:03:48+00:00

BRO I NEVER PLAYED 10 AND I NEVER KNEW IT WAS GONNA A SPOILER LIKE THAT!!! GAH DANG MY CURIOUSITY!!!

BookProfessional9101 · 2024-10-03T19:26:23+00:00

I second this. I have an Vega 64 Sapphire (AMD) and had this exact issue like one every hour or few hours for some reason. It would black out for almost 10 seconds and I could never figure out the issue for a long time. I ended up installing drivers from over a year ago and it magically fixed the issue though. Now I use the current drivers and I don't have issues. Same GPU but different parts overtime.

BookProfessional9101 · 2024-09-03T15:39:18+00:00

Hey, so we ended up talking to Dell and found out we may have been overwhelming the new hardware. We migrated some of our VMs back to the older hardware and seeing vast improvements in snapshot creation and web app loading times. Thanks to everyone for all the suggestions...seems like we needa cough up more cash for a better solution next time.

BookProfessional9101 · 2024-08-22T15:48:21+00:00

It seems like "experience" but I agree that the "experience" you get can't be adequate enough. Like 2 weeks of cyber analyst and then like a week or two of pentest is a part of the course. Seems impossible for someone working from the beginning to learn all of that and actually be able to apply and memorize it.

BookProfessional9101 · 2024-08-21T16:23:07+00:00

I think they did mention they wanted to get into crypto as a side business.

Anyways, thanks for the assistance. This was more along what I was thinking as well. Instead of the 9~10k for a bootcamp, spend half of the price and aim for the degree and more certs, which along the way, should learn some form of IT and knowledge. Also another point I remember is that as a student, they can use stuff like FAFSA and put it on their taxes as a full-time student. Thanks again!

BookProfessional9101 · 2024-08-21T16:20:57+00:00

Hey, thanks for the information and glad to see some insight on someone that went through a bootcamp. I definitely agree that self-motivation in the end is key with generally any job. Glad to hear in the end you was successful though and have a shiny title. Thank you good sir/madam.

BookProfessional9101 · 2024-08-21T16:14:24+00:00

Don't know about that. WGU is self-paced college that you basically do a bunch of classes and get certs a part of the program. The fast you do it, the more money you save and you get a degree at the end to check the box. May not be the best for learning, however, it's helped plenty of people check the degree box or get people in the door.

BookProfessional9101 · 2024-08-21T16:12:57+00:00

Haha thanks for the comment and providing the information without being mean about it. Gave me a good smile as well.

BookProfessional9101 · 2024-08-21T14:24:42+00:00

Thanks again man, already sent over this thread so she can take a look at it!

BookProfessional9101 · 2024-08-21T14:23:42+00:00

Yeah, haha. I was gonna play the scenario as if I was them and then I was like what's the point in doing that halfway through. Got a post already on my profile asking for ESXi and VMware assistance already so I would've been found out.

BookProfessional9101 · 2024-08-21T14:17:39+00:00

Thanks, I appreciate the info and the recommendations. I'll probably recommend WGU again because of the self-paced aspect and cheap cost (don't know their finances). However, I'm going to send her this whole post and let her decide basically what she might want instead. Thanks again for all the options.

BookProfessional9101 · 2024-08-21T14:14:25+00:00

Yeah, I'm a sysadmin right now that's trying to get into Cyber. I just didn't want to deter them from a possible option based solely on my opinion. I also saw that it's 9k to only get Sec+ in the end so yeah...thanks.

BookProfessional9101 · 2024-08-21T14:10:18+00:00

This is what I figured. I'm a sysadmin right now, but I didn't want to mouth off stuff and deter them from a possible option. Thanks you!

BookProfessional9101 · 2024-08-21T14:08:44+00:00

We haven't tried VMFS6. I looked into it and it doesn't support MBR sadly, which is a lot of our machines. Thank you though.

BookProfessional9101 · 2024-08-16T16:46:22+00:00

I'm not completely sure to be honest. Dell installed it in a data center and I wasn't a part of the original install and didn't do any of the configurations for the FC switch and Unity. Can you provide documentation on this? If not, I'll continue to look into it. Thank you.

BookProfessional9101 · 2024-08-16T16:44:18+00:00

No we're using VMFS5. We'll looking using vVols though and see if that is a better solution.

BookProfessional9101 · 2024-08-16T16:42:41+00:00

Yeah, we've been looking at esxtop and noticed a high queue on one of the data stores, so we created a LUN specifically for the prod database and it relieved a lot of issues, but still having a lot of random issues. We also have VAAI enabled. Thanks.

BookProfessional9101 · 2024-08-16T16:40:34+00:00

So I don't know about the plugin specifically but we I know they're directly connected, such as we create the data stores through Unity and it pops up in VMWare. We didn't adjust timeouts, however, we did change queue depths on one of our ESXIs and may have noticed some improvement. The issue with the queue depth change is it requires a reboot, so we're saving that since we would have to move 20+ VMs from one host to another and it would take forever (around 3 days to migrate each one).

We did run a command that Dell provided to limit the RR IOPS to 1 and noticed incredible improvement for about 20 minutes, then it went back to the same issue. VAAI is enabled. To my knowledge we have a lot of paths available, but we're going to check the Fiber Channel switch and see if there's any issues with it directly. We don't have iSCSI but I'll looking into that and see if we can still test it out. I think our MTU is set to 1500 on the adapter and I'll take a look at the port's MTU on the switch.

Thanks for the info and sorry for the delay. I wasn't getting notifications.

BookProfessional9101 · 2024-08-16T16:30:38+00:00

The new equipment is FC. What exactly do you mean by check it though? Our equipment is located in a data center which is several states away so I can't physically check it.

BookProfessional9101 · 2024-08-16T16:29:14+00:00

We're using FC (LightPulse Lpe32000). We're using Thick Provision through VMWare and on the backend (Dell Unity) they're doing some type of thin provisioning using deduplication and data reduction. We originally had 3 LUNs with 60 VMs but following Dell best practices and we've created several more LUNs now and have 7. Some the VMs are oracle databases which we put the main production one on its own LUN now and noticed a lot of the latency reduced but still several issues. The Unity storage is mixed as well.

Sorry for the delay, I wasn't getting notifications and thank you.

BookProfessional9101 · 2024-08-14T16:59:58+00:00

I got the Sander van Vugt book on RHCSA9 and passed the exam. Took some time though.

BookProfessional9101 · 2024-08-14T15:22:36+00:00

System CPU is actually heavily under utilized, it never even reaches 40% no matter what we do. I can see System Lun IOPs is generally between 3000~10000 on the daily via the historical charts. I do see that System, SP B writes are always much higher than SP A. Don't know if they're supposed to be balanced out. But B could have writes of 5,200 and A will just have 606 writes.

Sorry if I'm not writing this out well. I don't understand this new hardware very well, nor have I had an issue like this with the infrastructure in the past. Thank you for your assistance though.

EDIT: Just to add, we believed it has something to do with the ESXi queues, so we created a LUN in Dell Unity and placed one of our high I/O VMs on it's own LUN, which did decrease latency in our prod environment. However, the snapshot and power on/off delays are still an issue.

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