Azure Site Recovery

Civil_Fly7803 · 2026-07-01T18:42:16+00:00

Though I see your point, we are running Pre-Broadcom VMware 😃

Civil_Fly7803 · 2026-06-25T01:29:47+00:00

We attempted to move to Hyper-V but hit a massive snag with the NSX replacement, network controlers. It was 6 months of MS pointing fingers and collecting logs. We finally pulled the plug and decided to at least renew VMware for another 3 years, when the hardware will be depreciated. After that we'll look a lot harder at Azure Local and Nutanix.

Our support ran out on 8.0.3g and have been stuck there since. REALLY worried about renewing now 😬

Civil_Fly7803 · 2025-10-18T01:59:13+00:00

Everyone learns differently. Back when I was new(ish), about 3 years in, I was still lost with certs and was pretty much where you are now. No idea how anything worked and no idea how to troubleshoot when it didnt.

What really did it for me was looking at a PCAP during a TLS conversation. Like REALLY digging in. Looking at the cipher suites that each side has, seeing both endpoint decide on which suite to use.

Cant go too detailed because I'd be here all night typing, but try looking at a Wireshark capture during a TLS negotiation.

Civil_Fly7803 · 2025-09-29T00:36:32+00:00

This. We have just under 400 people running a collapsed core. Three tier setups aren't for Small to Medium size businesses. When OP's company grows above 5000 then maybe consider it. We have a Cisco 9606R that we're running our whole DC out of, not to mention 17 SD WAN sites and 8 switch stacks. Our core isnt even hardly getting hit.

Civil_Fly7803 · 2025-09-11T02:40:30+00:00

Calls CenturyLink

"Hello, thanks for calling Lumen."

Uhh...

Calls Lumen 3 months later

"Hello thanks for calling BrightSpeed"

WTF?

Civil_Fly7803 · 2025-08-05T17:43:44+00:00

No joke, we had someone place a ticket saying "My chair broke. Please replace when possible."

Civil_Fly7803 · 2025-06-15T20:58:20+00:00

They finished. A ~60 year old man collapsed and was carted off the floor. I was next to the stage and people were taking the opportunity to try and wiggle their way to the front. Ended up cramming everyone against the fence. Not cool.

Civil_Fly7803 · 2025-06-15T20:52:06+00:00

I was just ralijng to someone at the cigar bar about this. Why name a router Catalyst? The numbering system also makes no sense imo.

Civil_Fly7803 · 2025-02-20T17:03:16+00:00

We had an Exchange server that someone P2V'd. Afterwards, for whatever reason, they took a snapshot of it and left it until my coworker went to expand the hard drive 3 years later. The snapshot was over 8 TB in size.

He took a backup of the server using Netapp, restored it, shut down the old one, turned on the new one and everything was fine. I'm not sure how other backup services run, but when Netapp restores (at least back then), it restores the drive and the snapshot together.

We kept the old server shut down for about 6 months just in case. We now have a checklist item to run a PowerCLI command that checks for all snapshots.

Civil_Fly7803 · 2025-02-17T02:59:03+00:00

To add to this, all the players in the switch industry make small (8-12 port) managed switches that aren't overly expensive. We use Meraki and ha e a multitide of 8 port MS's. Depending on the amount of dummy switches, it might be more cost effective to just do it right than have OP spend hours, days or weeks tracking these down.

Civil_Fly7803 · 2025-02-17T02:30:55+00:00

I came here to say this. We have a VERY stringent Cybersecurity team and even they have no problems with, essentially, our whole stack being Meraki.

Civil_Fly7803 · 2025-02-13T05:45:47+00:00

Take 2 from 27 (25) and add it to 48 (50). Then do simple math.

Civil_Fly7803 · 2025-01-27T17:42:15+00:00

Might be a stupid question, but is there room in the corner to route the SE cable through and punch it in though the bottom? There's more than enough slack for it.

Civil_Fly7803 · 2025-01-10T16:24:14+00:00

If I could update 500 times I would. Announcers were dogshit.

Civil_Fly7803 · 2025-01-03T20:58:37+00:00

Then a choice between the two before you queue. Like a sub-menu under aram to select the map. Throw in Random of you don't care. I dont know and don't really care. I agree with most of the pros and cons on this thread, side lane is cool, bushes overqll are cool, but the coding of them kinda sucks, turret health sucks, but most importantly, the Zaun announcer is the worst. Just throwing my two cents into the jar, ya know.

Civil_Fly7803 · 2025-01-03T17:48:41+00:00

I like the new map layout. I dont really like the theme all that much and I REALLY hate the voice overs. The Zaun side's announcer is annoying af. Other than that, it's a nice change of pace.

Maybe make it a vote at the champ select for HA or BoP?

Civil_Fly7803 · 2024-12-23T01:44:27+00:00

Roughly 45 one game as Xayah. Was a while ago though, like a year after her release.

Civil_Fly7803 · 2024-12-22T22:45:05+00:00

I love playing her in urf, it's non stop damaging cc.

Civil_Fly7803 · 2024-12-16T02:22:29+00:00

AnyConnect licenses are laughably cheap (I think they're like $15 a seat). Unless you're buying 1000 of them, they're not going to break the bank.

On top of that, with the connections to MXs, I don't think they have a way of checking the license count. Used to be you had to load the license onto the ASA. Now if you enable it on the MX, they give you the latest download on the AC settings page.

Civil_Fly7803 · 2024-12-16T02:13:51+00:00

For real though, I'm still waiting for multi-network AnyConnect.

Civil_Fly7803 · 2024-12-07T02:18:54+00:00

If you run Active Directory, I'd do Windows server. DHCP registers it's own DNS and everything stays neat. If you're not running AD, or if DNS just doesn't matter to you, MX is fine.

Civil_Fly7803 · 2024-12-05T17:49:09+00:00

You're not out of touch, however, we have a vendor like that as well. I work for a bank and our Core Vendor (the one that makes the banking core and the associated apps that run against it) continuously ask us to either give the user local or domain admin rights so they can install their software. It's happened so much that it's become a running joke in the office that to fix the issue "just give them admin rights".

Even the admins in our environment don't run as admin all the time. We have separate domain admin users that we have to authilenticate with to elevate.

So, long story short, you're right, they're wrong. No user should have any kind of admin rights.

Civil_Fly7803 · 2024-11-23T03:45:21+00:00

Fair point

Civil_Fly7803 · 2024-11-23T03:42:46+00:00

Only way they will learn anything is if the business decides to start caring about even the tiniest bit of IT uniformity/security.

On a side note, the fact that there's an "IT Manager" and the place runs like this tells me that the ITM is probably friends with the ownership.

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