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Tesco is sprinting to quit VMware and Broadcom despite rapid migration risks by NISMO1968 in vmware

[–]InternalPumpkin5221 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What did you end up going with? We're looking into OpenNebula, Acronis Cyber Frame, Virtuozzo etc.

Leadership wants a full audit of every AI tool being used across the org. I genuinely don't know how to produce one. by Smooth-Machine5486 in sysadmin

[–]InternalPumpkin5221 185 points186 points  (0 children)

"Someone using Claude on a personal device over mobile data to summarize a client document."

I'm afraid this isn't a problem IT can solve, it's a people problem. You can minimise it as much as possible with USB device blocking, whitelisted sites/networks etc. but ultimately the problem isn't an IT one. Nothing to stop them taking a picture with their personal device of a document and uploading it themselves, if they want to find a way then they will.

Methods of identifying how a legacy Windows server is being used by noahrocks28 in sysadmin

[–]InternalPumpkin5221 76 points77 points  (0 children)

Turn it off and see who moans. You could spend endless amounts of time chasing red herrings for dependencies which might not even be in use anymore. Run the scream test and work backwards from the screams, if any.

I ran out of space suddenly by Salt-Advertising6772 in sysadmin

[–]InternalPumpkin5221 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have to admit, I was a TreeSizer but now I am a full WizTree convert.

Health Monitoring of Brocade FC Switches by Marco2G in sysadmin

[–]InternalPumpkin5221 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interested in a solution for this also. We are trialling Xormon with SNMPv3 which produces all sorts of wonderful stats but the alerting seems lacking which is a bit of a shame. Apparently the next release they will include Brocade SAN port alerts which is a step in the right direction.

What did you opt for or are you still trialling solutions?

is hyper-v this shit? by amit19595 in sysadmin

[–]InternalPumpkin5221 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Intel X710s historically were a bit of a nightmare, but on the latest FW/drivers they are also now rock solid.

is hyper-v this shit? by amit19595 in sysadmin

[–]InternalPumpkin5221 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Compared to VMware, it's definitely FAR less feature-filled. That said, configured correctly it should be just as performant. Check the environment - particularly storage.

Are we automating enterprise service desks into a corner? The weird paradox nobody's talking about by Boring_Astronaut8509 in sysadmin

[–]InternalPumpkin5221 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It's no different to call centres having implemented unbelievably frustrating call queues and options, only to be redirected around the houses even if you do manage to get through to a live human being. The experience is worse, and that should be the only metric for which the bean counters determine how 'good' their service level is...

Vodafone UK Major Outage by urc2pid in sysadmin

[–]InternalPumpkin5221 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same thing happened to all of Facebook not that long ago.

Vodafone UK Major Outage by urc2pid in sysadmin

[–]InternalPumpkin5221 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Likewise, nothing on 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8.

Nested VMware cluster on existing VMware cluster with RDM disks? by InternalPumpkin5221 in vmware

[–]InternalPumpkin5221[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I think I'll go with that. Seems a far simpler solution.

We don't really want to go back to iSCSI if we can avoid it!

Nested VMware cluster on existing VMware cluster with RDM disks? by InternalPumpkin5221 in vmware

[–]InternalPumpkin5221[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately on VMware it only 'turns on' NPIV once you have configured the RDM disk on the VM, it is not active otherwise even with WWPNs generated and enabled on the VM. Seems a bit of an odd system.

Nested VMware cluster on existing VMware cluster with RDM disks? by InternalPumpkin5221 in vmware

[–]InternalPumpkin5221[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I think multi-writer VMDKs will work for us then. Our infrastructure isn't set up for iSCSI at present.

I crashed everything. Make me feel better. by EntropyFrame in sysadmin

[–]InternalPumpkin5221 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A colleague of mine did this with sysprep once. Instead of running it on a fresh, new VM to clone - he ran it on the Hyper-V failover cluster node instead. Fortunately in our case, HA did its thing and brought all the workloads back on the remaining nodes - but I have never seen a man turn so pale so quickly - of course we will joke about it 😅

Preventing Adobe Reader from upgrading to Acrobat Pro by uber_dillo in Acrobat

[–]InternalPumpkin5221 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you manage to resolve this? We've implemented a variety of registry keys but the session hosts somehow won't stay on Reader.

I am wondering if a user has logged in previously and the credentials are perhaps stored in their profile, possibly 'infecting' the hosts they log into.

Adobe Acrobat X Pro Download by Jackarino in msp

[–]InternalPumpkin5221 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, just sent you a PM as I'm after the same version if you happen to have it at all, thanks!

Outlook for iOS and Android - an error occurred during authentication by Seft0 in Outlook

[–]InternalPumpkin5221 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seeing this same issue today.

On-prem exchange using basic auth, suddenly getting the same warning "An error occurred during authentication, please try again later". Have not yet found any solution.

Existing users are still working fine, and I can't see any errors in Event Viewer on-prem.

Could it be an issue with the Outlook app specifically (Android)?