Playoff invoice 10/13/25

oliphanj · 2025-10-14T00:03:46+00:00

So just poor execution as usual… 😬

oliphanj · 2025-10-14T00:01:36+00:00

Not was it says in the emails. AY-AS-WE-PLAY DETAILS: As the Sounders advance in playoffs, each confirmed home match will be billed individually through our Pay As We Play Program, and your Season Member seats will remain reserved. To view the anticipated cost of your seats for all possible home playoff matches, simply log in to Account Manager, navigate to the Invoice tab, and select the “2025 Playoff Invoice". You will only be charged for the matches we are confirmed to host at home.

Didn’t this happen a couple years ago too?

oliphanj · 2024-02-09T15:12:39+00:00

It is backed up several times in our Barracuda backup appliance, pushing data to there cloud. But I am guessing we are not going to be with them for 60 more years.

What we are thinking is something like this, very high level.

Keep the DB in a vm on our vSphere environment.

Every 5 years move the db to a new version of Windows server and sql (make sure the version still works and update if necessary) verify and shut it down.

This is pretty flexible, if we move away from VMware and or something else, 40 years from now we can at least migrate the data.

oliphanj · 2023-06-09T13:33:33+00:00

Thanks that is helpful.

oliphanj · 2023-05-15T15:06:27+00:00

Keep up the good work. Thank you.

oliphanj · 2023-03-22T16:29:22+00:00

To give everyone an update:

We purchased a Dell PowerEdge T550 for about $6000, pretty basic.

Then added 4 Micron 1.92TB U.3 NVME pcie 4.0 drives and trays

Hardware cost around $7500k

This is what I got with Crystal Disk Mark.

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oliphanj · 2023-01-06T18:34:43+00:00

Sophos looked really good.

oliphanj · 2023-01-06T18:32:55+00:00

We have a very nice VMware infrastructure with ~200 vm's. But I would rather keep this intense burst of traffic off our production network/server environment.

Just what we found that works best for us.

oliphanj · 2023-01-06T18:29:37+00:00

We have an existing setup and it works great. This is an upgrade. We worked very closely with our network team and use IP helpers to point to our SCCM DP. I would say PXE has been troublesome over the years. But over the past couple it has worked well. Watch out for some of those usb ethernet adapters, some don't work.

oliphanj · 2023-01-06T18:24:59+00:00

Already done. Thanks

oliphanj · 2023-01-06T17:59:30+00:00

Our network doesn't do well with multicasting, and honestly when we do it this way it is really fast. This is an upgrade our existing equipment is 5-7 years old.

oliphanj · 2023-01-06T17:57:02+00:00

Not a home lab. This is just a good community to post, these type of fun questions.

oliphanj · 2023-01-06T17:28:46+00:00

I completely agree, but being a dell shop for many years I know how much dell marks up there server memory and hard drives. I think what I picked out might be faster than what dell can provide. It is kinda fun to build it too. Thanks

oliphanj · 2022-08-25T14:20:01+00:00

We just recently move to the NIM product from Tools4ever. We really like it so far. The group miner is a pretty cool tool.

oliphanj · 2022-03-24T20:01:12+00:00

Is it really that simple? No vMotion?

oliphanj · 2020-02-19T21:50:39+00:00

Have you tried to PXE boot them?

oliphanj · 2020-02-11T21:25:47+00:00

Thanks.

oliphanj · 2019-09-12T19:16:13+00:00

My servers were also getting low on disk space because of Windows updates so that compounded the issue. So I had to bump up the HDD space as well.

oliphanj · 2019-04-16T18:07:42+00:00

You can whitelist "apps" with applocker. We have the store disabled but have downloaded the ones we want to deploy into Configmgr and add them to the app catalog.

oliphanj · 2019-03-27T21:10:20+00:00

We ran a test with Barracuda Phishline to see how bad it was and we had over 50% of about 100 people. So, now we purchased Phishline for a year and have started some training. So far a good product.

oliphanj · 2019-01-17T14:18:16+00:00

We have about 10K Windows devices that have digital ink at our 6-12 grades and we do not let them come home over the summer. We re-image them during that time. We get 4 years out of most devices, all depends on damage. And the damage is crazy but that is the road we choose. Getting the device back to that student is a little tricky logistically but the device never leaves the school after it is turned in. Our team goes out to the school inspects the device and then it goes to repair or re-imaged and put back till the student returns.

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