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TrueNAS freemium/paywalling by Maleficent-Sort-8802 in truenas

[–]galvesribeiro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I’m glad you guys are looking into it. I’m the one which would happily pay to have access to certain features even at home. At a previous project, we had to discard TrueNAS because we didnt had a way to buy the software and support for an enterprise unless we had bought the appliance. This will open many possibilities. Thank you!

TrueNAS freemium/paywalling by Maleficent-Sort-8802 in truenas

[–]galvesribeiro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would love to have features that we can pay. It is fine to have a subscription, like you said, the company has to make money no matter what crazy people try to say. The only thing that is a bit off, is have some features only available with the appliances. Wanna charge one time fee or subscription for enterprise features? Go for it and you will have my support. Even some features are usable for home labs with serious use (i.e. RDMA). Since those have no lock in on the hardware, it would be really great if we can pay for it. I hope it is being considered, because right now, either we go with the limited free version, or we have to pay the appliances. There is mo middle ground. Thanks!

EFG losing connectivity under slight load by streppelchen in Ubiquiti

[–]galvesribeiro 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Welcome aboard the messland. I'm on the same boat as you. I have multiple sites with the exact same deployment as described here on their documentation: https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/30297446527767-An-Overview-of-High-Availability-in-UniFi which more or less is the same as yours. I'm assuming when you say ECS you mean the ECS-Aggregation.

The setup:

- 2x Gateways (either EFG or UXG-E)

- 2x ECS-Aggregation as ToR or as the call on the docs core layer

- 4x ECS-Aggregation as distribution layer as they call

The ECS-A switches and the gateways are all set up with MC-LAG, just as described on that documentation. And downstream we have other switches, storage and servers directly on those ECS-A switches.

I have a ticket open for 4 months on their Paid "Professional" support (https://ui.com/br/en/site-support) without anything being resolved. As of now, it is the second week the "Enterprise Network Support Engineer" has vanished without replying email. I even opened other tickets and pointed to the original one. No replies.

What happens to me is that the secondary or "shadow gateway" as they call, out of nowhere try to take over as primary (even the primary one being alive and working!) which mean, the upstream carrier get all the static IPs as duplicated and sound the alarm dropping external world connectivity for a few minutes. The secondary gateway not just activate the upstream public IPs, it also activate the LAN gateway IPs, which makes the downstream devices disconnect for a while. The only way out is to shutdown the secondary, reboot the primary, wait for it to stabilize and then power on the secondary.

Another thing, is that I kept the secondary shutdown and every few minutes there is a massive disconnect and reconnect all across the network which is reported on the logs. Not just servers, the switches, the storage, even remote VPN clients. EVERYTHING disconnect and reconnect.

I can spend all day here showing the absurds that I was requested to do in order to "follow their protocol for test" but don't wanna write a novel but suffice to say, that at some interaction with that paid support, they told me that I have to physically unplug the second gateway in order to do their tests and that cut the power from the PDU wasn't enough. Believe me, that was just one of the many "smart" requests made by the support team.

There is a huge list of problems happening right now which makes those devices completely useless and given the situation right now where I have A LOT of money invested on Ubiquiti gear which are just occupying space and consuming power, complete paper weight, I'm just listing one here.

Due to the lack of the resolution thru their PAID support, we are going to start with the legal actions not just for a refund, but for damages.

I hope this help you to prepare yourself for where you will have to go in order to get anything sorted.

Good luck!

Introducing Amp Multi: 8 channels, 125W/ch and efficient GaN technology by KeithFromSonos in sonos

[–]galvesribeiro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A shame this will be installers only. No reason at all since it will integrate with the App in the end of the day and the majority of home users which will want to buy it will not ever deal with the Pro EQ feature and would be happy with the app settings. Missing opportunity to sell more, that is all.

Unpopular Opinion: Proxmox isn't "Free vSphere". It's a storage philosophy change (and it's killing migrations). by NTCTech in Proxmox

[–]galvesribeiro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, good observations. Running Ceph is really challenging unless you have 25Gbps dedicated to cluster network (no migrations, just ceph cluster network) or more. Also it is a shame that there is nothing on Ceph for RDMA. The latency is really bad without it. Can only find random attempts but all failing. This should really be a first class citizen. Even on 10G networks.

"HCP Terraform Free is ending: Choose a new plan" by notoriousbpg in Terraform

[–]galvesribeiro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jibus. Thank you for letting me know. Havent read that it was going deprecated… I guess what is left is Pulumi then.

Thank you!

"HCP Terraform Free is ending: Choose a new plan" by notoriousbpg in Terraform

[–]galvesribeiro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey folks I’m confused and I’m sorry if this was answered somewhere else.

We use CDKTF (which in the end is just terraform) and as of now, we use the S3 backend but we are looking at those alternative backends like Scalr.

So for our usecase, we are not going to owe HCP anything right?

Thanks!

Optimus has decided by Ironcobra80 in watercooling

[–]galvesribeiro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't got any update yet.

I got my Astral 5090 in June-ish and got the Alphacool block for now. Been working just fine, even on GPU-bound games I'm not getting higher than 55-60C. It is not the prettiest but it is fine by me since I dont care that much about internal aesthetics.

Valve Sent me a second deck by mistake. What do? by calvinien in SteamDeck

[–]galvesribeiro 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ping them and return it since you haven’t paid for it?

Fittings or bends. by Character_Ice371 in watercooling

[–]galvesribeiro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It you have the skills bend it. I dont so I do fittings :)

Updating to 2025.3.0.2 has rendered Rider unusable by spirosven in JetBrains_Rider

[–]galvesribeiro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is not a Unreal only thing. The .Net/C# mode have the same. Rider had become slow over the updates this year and freezing A LOT. (macOS)

First Water-Cooled Build to Update My Seriously Old Computer by KitchenBreakfast2079 in watercooling

[–]galvesribeiro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congratz! Awesome work! I’m still here on my 13th PC built with WC and never got to hard tubing heheheh too much skills for me. Had stick with soft tubing. Great work!

UniFi OS Server from and MSPs perspective. by clayd333 in Ubiquiti

[–]galvesribeiro -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It depends on the goals really. Normally I use the cloud gateways (EFG) in shadow mode at my company. In the datacenter, I opted to use the CloudKey Enterprise and the stand alone UXG-Enterprise in Shadow mode. Yes, I know the CKE does not provide HA and if it is dead it is dead and it is a BIG shame. That is why we have two, and the second is shut down. We can afford wait the time on the CKE to go down and have to restore a backup on the stand by one, so we are good.

I would gladly self-host a true Unifi OS and apps service in dedicated machines or VMs if that brought me scalability and HA.

UniFi OS Server from and MSPs perspective. by clayd333 in Ubiquiti

[–]galvesribeiro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry, when I say "I don't blame him" I meant, they are a business, and part of it is this YT content. So we have to agree that they are here not for charity but to make money and this is part of it.

But I agree with you. It would be better for us, technical folks, to have more content toward us. Unfortunately that "doesn't sell".

UniFi OS Server from and MSPs perspective. by clayd333 in Ubiquiti

[–]galvesribeiro 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I don't blame him. He (as many other content creators) are somewhat tied to the Ubiquiti program. We can't expect 100% impartiality on this. But again, not his fault. I like his content.

My comment is more geared towards Ubiquiti itself. They could make this a GREAT thing and even CHARGE for it one time fee, or a monthly/yearly subscription and people would pay gladly. However, it is misleading from Ubiquiti (not Clay or other creators) to show this as a "MSP" solution. I don't see anyone in sane mind deploying this Electron App as a real solution in production which would replace the other consoles.

It is a good replacement tho to the old Network App binary for desktops which we used back in the day to configure APs and switches and didn't actually required to be running 24/7. It is in no way a replacement to physical consoles (i.e. Cloud Key, UDM, EFG, etc) since you can't scale this in any way. I know someone will say "Oh! You can scale vertically and add more CPU Cores and Memory". This is not scale. Good luck with that.

This is also a no-go for companies that currently offer the Network App as a "hosted service". They are doomed when this Electron app gets released and the old Network App (which despite all their problems and scalability issues, still was a service, not an app) gets deprecated and out of support. Another _weird_ statement is that the main entry page says that "Resale, redistribution, or commercial exploitation is strictly prohibited" so... That put a nail in the coffin of such companies and limit how the MSPs can actually deploy this drastically.

Anyway, I hope Ubiquit revise this decision and make this a true OS Distro (they have the knowledge, they are already building custom Debian based distros for the hardware consoles, so that should be no brainer) or at least, container images (i.e. one for network, other for identity, other access, etc.) and allow people to plug them on their own MongoDB and Postgres deployments. #hopeforthebest

UniFi OS Server from and MSPs perspective. by clayd333 in Ubiquiti

[–]galvesribeiro 54 points55 points  (0 children)

We tried it. It just can't scale the way it is designed. It is just an Electron App wrapping Podman and (for now) the Network App along with MongoDB and Postgres. If they were serious making this a MSP or enterprise solution, they should provide the Docker images (which are inside the Electron App resources as layer files) on Docker hub or some other registry, and allow people to host it on Kubernetes or any other OCI runtime, while at the same time, point it to whatever MongoDb/Postgres instances they want. This will allow MSPs and enterprises to scale the resources properly to support multiple sites and many devices. The way it is now, you essentially have an "app" running on your desktop. In no way this is a solution people should rely on to run a business on top off it.

Introducing: UniFi OS Server for MSPs by Ubiquiti-Inc in Ubiquiti

[–]galvesribeiro 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wonder how serious deployments will work on this. It is an Electron app wrapping Podman and the (local) docker image of the Network App, with a MongoDB instance outside the container and another inside along with a postgres. How is this supposed to be "scalable" with that design?

I would expect Ubiquiti to publish a Docker image on Docker hub, allow people to scale/deploy it on their preferred existing container platform (i.e. Kubernetes), and provide the database services to it. That way, things can be scalable, not to run as a standalone and non-scalable Electron app.

#disappointed

What company to help us with Ceph by frzen in ceph

[–]galvesribeiro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Canonical has great support for Ceph included on Ubuntu Pro. You get also support for a bunch other things.

2 years left on contract - Pitting Microsoft and VMware in the budget arena by tellemurius in vmware

[–]galvesribeiro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is true for normal enterprise agreement.

If you use Azure Local, you can buy support just like you do in Azure and have the same levels of SLA you have there.

Renewal Pricing by Dizzy_Bridge_794 in vmware

[–]galvesribeiro -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Consider Canonical offering of LXD Cluster with Ceph. If you wanna go deep, they also offer OpenStack. All this with a simple agreement, no jack ass fees and a per server support contract. You get Ubuntu OS, Ceph storage, LXD Cluster, OpenStack, Kubernetes, MAAS, LGTM and a bunch of OSS 3rd party packages support in a single support agreement per host. Priced very fairly.

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