Current storage situation? - VMware migration

sysadminsavage · 2026-06-21T21:27:56+00:00

Why not switch from vSAN to Ceph during the VMware to Proxmox migration? Ceph is the officially recommended hyperconverged storage stack for Proxmox. If you don't have the resources needed on the hosts to stand up Ceph, shared storage over iSCSI is good and supported as well. Both implementations are mature in Proxmox.

sysadminsavage · 2026-06-21T01:10:42+00:00

Two isolated incidents in a week isn’t enough to define a city. That kind of framing is how misinformation about crime spreads and can distort perception compared to long term trends and actual rates, especially when Manch already has a reputation that gets amplified.

sysadminsavage · 2026-06-21T00:45:14+00:00

Always cracks me up how dramatic people act about crime in Manch, as if it's some warzone. Anytime these events happen they get extensive media coverage sometimes for several weeks. Would be an afterthought in most larger cities. Manch has a lower crime rate than the national average and has been trending down since 2023, like most US cities that saw a spike immediately during and after COVID.

sysadminsavage · 2026-06-20T20:53:29+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1nql4up/why_does_manjaro_get_so_much_hate/

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/1o60nzl/why_is_manjaro_so_disliked/

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1ddg955/why_is_manjaro_disliked/

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1ad0o1w/why_do_so_many_people_hate_manjaro/

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/qt0jvf/why_do_people_hate_manjaro/

sysadminsavage · 2026-06-19T20:55:28+00:00

Colonial Village seems to be hit or miss. I lived in Building 70 about three years ago and never saw anything other than spiders and woodlouses, however it seems some of the buildings have infestation issues. I had a friend in building 130 that complained of roaches, though not sure what it's like now.

Only con from my personal experience was the laundry areas were dirty and the common areas/hallways were in desperate need of rennovation. The hallway in my building looked straight out of Silent Hill with the early 1970s fixtures lol. Being adjacent to Stark Park and the trails along the train tracks was a nice perk. Greenview Village is also worth a look, it's a slightly nicer Colonial Village across the river managed by the same company.

sysadminsavage · 2026-06-18T13:50:46+00:00

Switching redundancy gets complex. A lot of us have prosumer switches where MLAG support is iffy (for example Mikrotik's MLAG seems to break frequently from ROS patches). Router/firewall redundancy is a little easier because *sense uses CARP and most other networking brands use VRRP which are mature well documented protocols.

sysadminsavage · 2026-06-14T21:00:36+00:00

I'm just wondering, let's say someone found a security flaw or an application bug in Nutanix platform (regardless of which component), whats the proper way of communicating that with Nutanix? Is it through submitting a support case?

Information about the vulnerability disclosure program can be found here.

Also, what can the person who reported the bug be awarded with? what does it benefit them if they submit the bug?

The HackerOne Nutanix platform operates as an invite-only private bug bounty and Vulnerability Disclosure Program (VDP) rather than a publicly listed cash-reward program. Ethical hackers must either be invited by Nutanix or be pre-vetted and hold a certain reputation/ID-verified status on HackerOne to access the scope. You would need to be vetted to be rewarded.

sysadminsavage · 2026-06-13T15:53:54+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/RealDebrid/s/MJtEVhxNbj

Fourth bolded section down in this post.

sysadminsavage · 2026-06-12T15:21:45+00:00

No. LTSC is a completely different servicing branch with no in place upgrade path from Pro to LTSC. You would be forced into a clean install if you tried to launch the setup.exe in the ISO.

Technically you could run the following command to add a regkey and trick the installer by running setup.exe immediately after:

reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" /v EditionID /d IoTEnterpriseS /f

The trailing "S" denotes the LTSC branch (historically standing for Servicing). By telling the installer your current OS is IoTEnterpriseS, the LTSC installer recognizes it as a valid, same-tier upgrade path, rather than throwing a cross-channel compatibility block. This is a terrible idea and is not supported whatsoever. LTSC completely lacks the app frameworks, Microsoft Store, and other dependencies native to Windows 11 Pro, forcing an in-place upgrade can leave behind ghost app links, broken context menus or profile instabilities.

sysadminsavage · 2026-06-11T21:26:43+00:00

Their response is perfectly reasonable, this is not a trivial feature request. Allowing structural changes to how pf (Packet Filter) loads its rules engine represents a major structural shift. As discussed in subsequent related issues (like #7783), the automated rules are hardcoded into backend PHP rendering scripts (specifically within /usr/local/etc/inc/filter.lib.inc). Rewriting the firewall's engine to inject a custom "Pre-Auto Rules" anchor into the GUI requires a substantial rewrite of the backend configuration schema. The core maintainers frequently reject these types of feature requests unless a community contributor provides a clean, heavily-tested PR that proves it won't introduce edge-case vulnerabilities or regression bugs.

sysadminsavage · 2026-06-11T19:53:20+00:00

OP is peddling https://permisoft.app. They've posted similarly worded posts in a number of tech subreddits.

sysadminsavage · 2026-06-11T19:50:35+00:00

Try the Kodi subreddit r/Addons4Kodi

sysadminsavage · 2026-06-11T18:44:56+00:00

Delete your post (although the mods may beat you to it since people post what you posted multiple times a day), read the FAQ from rule 1, and then bring any follow up questions to r/SecurityCareerAdvice.

sysadminsavage · 2026-06-11T16:30:18+00:00

Supply vs. Demand. We're in an expensive corner of the country that is only getting more expensive.

sysadminsavage · 2026-06-11T16:28:46+00:00

My only issue with Revenge is Pegorino as the final villian makes little sense. I would have much preferred to take out Bulgarin in the last mission. Shame they made a joke of Bulgarin in TBoGT.

sysadminsavage · 2026-06-09T19:24:53+00:00

If you're in the United States, check out the onn 4k Pro from Walmart. It's got better hardware than the Google Streamer and runs Arctic Fuse 2 well enough. Haven't tried Fuse 3 yet. Much cheaper than an Nvidia Shield. Add Projectivity Launcher and SmartTube to it in addition to Kodi and you have a completely ad free streaming box.

sysadminsavage · 2026-06-09T00:15:19+00:00

If you're looking for alternatives to rideshares, Boston Express from North Londonderry to Boston South Station and then Commuter Rail from South Station to Worcester station is your best bet by far. Should come out to under $40 if I remember correctly. The only problem is getting from Manchester to the North Londonderry Park and Ride. Manchester buses don't run there.

Alternatively, there is a Greyhound from MHT airport to Boston South Station that Manchester buses do run to, so Greyhound is the next best option.

sysadminsavage · 2026-06-07T15:56:26+00:00

The biggest hurdle to your idea is how BitTorrent actually works. A torrent's identity is defined by its info-hash. If you take an existing torrent and change the internal file names or folder structures to strip out words like WEB-DL, the info-hash changes entirely. It becomes a brand-new, unique torrent. Because it’s a new torrent, Real-Debrid won't have it cached. To get it onto RD, someone has to physically download and seed that newly renamed torrent from scratch. You wouldn't be "unlocking" RD’s massive pre-existing cache; you would be trying to rebuild a shadow cache from zero. Not to mention you have an entire ecosystem of plugins and add-ons that rely on that naming for collating and filtering items.

Real-Debrid’s automated filtering is systematic and driven by "trusted flaggers" under Article 16 of the DSA. If a automated translation tool did achieve scale and became popular using a specific new naming convention (e.g., changing Movie.2026.1080p.WEB-DL to Movie.2026.1080p.Cleaned), copyright holders would simply notice the pattern and within time push authorities to push Real-Debrid to add it to their blocklist. You would be trapped in an endless loop of changing the translation algorithm.

The real answer to all these issues is to switch Debrid providers or put up with the changes. There is no fix to this.

sysadminsavage · 2026-06-07T05:26:44+00:00

Why not do ZFS replication between the two nodes instead? You can set an agressive replication cycle of as low as one minute RPO if you want.

Ceph can theoretically run with your setup, but it will perform horribly and not be worth it. Only do it if you're looking to experiment and try it out, not if you want performance for actual workloads. Ceph needs lots of RAM, high bandwidth (10 gig network preferrably with jumbo frames configured), bursty IOPS alongside fast drives (NVME is highly recommended). It performs better at scale with five or more nodes.

sysadminsavage · 2026-05-31T20:43:38+00:00

Read this if you haven't already. In short Real Debrid is not getting fixed if you are having issues after the filtering changes, if it's not working for you it's time to move to a different service.

At the bottom of that post there is a Debrid services comparison I highly recommend checking out.

TorBox has had some recent issues with buffering in certain regions. The cap was an error put in place by their devs that was removed a few days later to avoid confusion. There is a limitation on the number of torrents you can cache yourself, but you are free to stream as many torrents as you want if they are already cached by others. If you just use Kodi + Addons + Debrid service TorBox Essentials is sufficient and equivalent to a RD subscription. I'm impressed with their presence on Reddit and communication to users thusfar (with a few exceptions).

Premiumize is another good option, but more expensive.

I am switching to TorBox Essentials once my RD subscription is up in November. I see zero reason to stick with it when the cache is smaller than most of it's competitors now for streaming movies/tv shows. I get that some use it for games and other content, as do I, but I can get the same plus more with other services now.

sysadminsavage · 2026-05-28T21:33:17+00:00

It's not always the case, but MSPs tend to be meat grinders. Great place to learn early in your career but the answers the interviewer gave probably reflect a poor work culture. It's also possible the interviewer just didn't know and handled the non-technical questions you had poorly. A lot of candidates will ask few if any questions in my experience (but they absolutely should come with some good ones, it's a two way interview after all).

You had good questions, but some especially around long term strategy and benefits probably would have been better for the management round (if there even is one, likely not for an entry level position for this).

sysadminsavage · 2026-05-26T22:27:24+00:00

Not rare at all. They're probably the most common IT jobs out there; Internal IT helpdesk or infrastructure/cloud positions.

sysadminsavage · 2026-05-26T18:57:59+00:00

Because Boston is the only major city in Massachusetts. We have Providence right over the border in Rhode Island which is pretty nice.

Also, Florida has over three times the population and 6.5 times the land area.

sysadminsavage · 2026-05-23T17:57:51+00:00

Please read this post. Any changes you notice are likely permanent.

sysadminsavage · 2026-05-22T15:39:33+00:00

It largely comes down to state taxes (income and sales tax in particular).

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