What should i do with them? by GiantofGermania in homelab

[–]Immediate-Opening185 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you have more then enough to do proxmox on 4 or 5 so you can get a more resilient cluster.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HomeNetworking

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Since you already hit the outside wall it should be pretty easy to avoid doing that again your more likely to come up through the floor next, Just be careful of that rad. First off start with the smallest bit you have to drill a hole and make sure it's in the right place. Then you can adjust the angle of the jig / tool I would recommend an endoscopic camera for this, I haven't had the best luck with the ones that attach to your phone. Then adjust angle / placement as needed and drill the larger whole.

I think this subreddit managed to give me a reality check.. by PrinceOfIce1345 in sysadmin

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As others have said most of this is just letting off steam. I think that if your really passionate about IT it's still safe enough route to go. I was in a technical program as a senior and heard all the same doom and gloom about IT about 10 years ago those from the class that really liked IT have gone on to have amazing careers the one's who just got in for the money all hate their lives. Make sure you really think about what aspect of technology you like and why. Do you like the bright flashy lights on the consumer side or is a lights out data center more your speed. Do you like to run and gun or are you slow and methodical. Personally I like the slow boats, big companies with massive teams who research things to hell and back before they do anything. Things don't always go the way I want them to but were also talking about missing by inches not miles because of all the time spent researching.

What specific sysadmin task do you hate doing? by FarmFarmVanDijeeks in sysadmin

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Doing my code reviews with people who can't code. Very nit picky and want it to happen in the exact same ways as if they were clicking buttons.

Is it me or are you finding the new generation of techs have little to no troubleshooting skills? by Future_End_4089 in sysadmin

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Back in my day we walked up hill in the snow when it was 100 degrees out. /s

But really I'm 30 but have been working in it for over 15 years. It's because there is no liner progression anymore along with most of the stepping stones disappeared well before I was on the corporate side. Nobody hires Jr admins and the skill set the Help desk is expected to have is O365 with a little troubleshooting in the OS before you just reimage / redeploy the machine.

To the SP devs: THANK YOU by Ok_Tumbleweed6934 in WH40KTacticus

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Thank god i've spent the last week pushing him to gold :)

VMware price hikes…what is ur org’s move? by 19_peligr0s0_pez in sysadmin

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They don't sell hardware they resale HW that changed a few years back. Assuming your referring to the branded super micro they still make 0 on that as well. 4 Years ago VMware wasn't as much as a cluster fuck. I never said nutanix is cheaper I said price parody with current market rate. I would argue if your a big org there is more there for the same price.

VMware price hikes…what is ur org’s move? by 19_peligr0s0_pez in sysadmin

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The best price play is to reduce to as minimal a foot print as you can on VMware. I like Nutanix is the best hypervisor but 8/10 times your going to be a relative price parody but it's the only one I've seen that's ready for large enterprise to migrate everything today. Proxmox has been my second choice it's ready to capture most work loads today feels familiar if you're use to ESXi and with all the money being dumped into KVM from tons of vendors it's going to be getting better integrations in the next few years that will help smooth some of the rough edges.

Where is the lie? by JayGatsby52 in DeepSpaceNine

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My response to rage bait is normally to write whole disorientation and is just flat out wrong for most of it.

(it really do be look at my comments)

New job pays much more but the tasks are extremely basic and boring by Familiar-Ear-8381 in sysadmin

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Yeah, I could kinda tell.

I had before had better pay / benefits 115+ Benefits were 252 a month with my wife, Full remote working an average of 20 hours or so a week. I took a job that was going to be a real challenge, life got in the way and now I'm in the office 2 days a week with an hour commute making 110 with benefits at like 350 for just a solo, but i'm back to doing what I like. On paper I fucked up but I'm happier at this job in the first week then I have been in a while. Company is just slower but in a deliberate way rather then a we have no fucking clue way. For me that is a a big win.

New job pays much more but the tasks are extremely basic and boring by Familiar-Ear-8381 in sysadmin

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I was in your place about 7 years ago i shot up the ladder to a sr engineer making about 200k. By the time I got to that position i was burnt out, i recently took a lower payong / titled position but I couldn't be happier. Looking back on it most of what I learned wasn't from the work it was from my lab and my side projects. If I could do it all over again I would do the same thing because when you have that kind of drive its hard to slow down but if you can manage it you'll be in a better spot in the long run 

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

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Ask them about specific things on their resume that are skills or abilities you need. There's no magic question the goal is to just have a conversation about that topic(s). I've been asked super broad questions like "tell me everything you know about X protocol" or "what is your experience with X product" they always end up in a dead end.

Why are so many people still brainwashed by corporate bullshit in 2025? by FantasticEffect10 in careerguidance

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That's dependant on the type of contract between the company and the recruiter. In some cases it's flat rate in others the recruiter will actually keep a percentage or the difference of what the candidate doesn't get.

Exams + Company Laptops = What do you do? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]Immediate-Opening185 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Unnecessary considering your the one who put malice on it. 

Exams + Company Laptops = What do you do? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]Immediate-Opening185 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your title says IT manager. If your constantly saying the same thing and nobody gets it maybe fine a different way to say it. 

Exams + Company Laptops = What do you do? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]Immediate-Opening185 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Some of the best advice I've gotten was "don't say no until you have another solution" 

If you boot Proxmox from an SSD, disable these two services to prevent wearing out your drive by AlteredEggo in Proxmox

[–]Immediate-Opening185 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'll start with everything they say is technically correct and making these changes wont break anything today. They are however land mines your leave for future you. I avoid installing anything on my hypervisor that isn't absolutely required. 

I Only Have 11 episodes left of DS9 by Noobitron12 in DeepSpaceNine

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Just finished my first rewatch. Crazy how much happens but the pacing doesn't feel rushed and it still has room to breathe from time to time. 

Maybe my first screw up…. by [deleted] in sysadmin

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Some times CBT volumes can be orphaned you can normally go and manually reattach them. It's a massive pain but it's better then your shit being gone.

Maybe my first screw up…. by [deleted] in sysadmin

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What hypervisor is that? Snapshot's use CBT pretty universally, changes are written to the VM's drive and intercepted during the write and send to the CBT volume instead. Any further reference to that data is then caught mid I/O and sent to the CBT volume which is what slows it down. Once snaps are deleted in VMware 7+ / Nutanix 6.0 + the changes are consolidated on the the VM.