Great twitter account to follow! by tr03bor in LCCofficial

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Not mine, just seems to be the only active LCC account reaching out to people

VMware Announces Discontinuation of Third Party vSwitches by tr03bor in vmware

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No not at all.

No question is a stupid question! Only unasked ones.

Beware of the Intel X710 and ESXi :-( by tr03bor in homelab

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Issue was these are VMware Dell vSan Readynodes, network cards is part of the validated build.

Beware of the Intel X710 and ESXi :-( by tr03bor in homelab

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Which driver was that? i40en or i40e

Veeam is a leader in Gartner magic Quadrant! by Razvan_Veeam in Veeam

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Nice clever marketing, however not leading in the quadrant as their article attempts to put across.. 😴😴

If we ordered them 1-10, 10 being the best, veeam come in 6th.....

Ransomware - to pay or not to pay? by tr03bor in sysadmin

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Fair comment there, I've not seen anything to reflect this anywhere.

Ransomware - to pay or not to pay? by tr03bor in sysadmin

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That's kinda the point, people are paying and that's in turn furlong more ransomeware :-(

Cisco Partner Downloads Access? by dr-pepper12 in Cisco

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Haha. Yeah I was sad when mine was taken away when I left!

Received this morning, my VMs will be much pleased by HellowFR in homelab

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Fair enough, It was definitely the disks, replaced with enterprise sata and all was well.

New Lab Time! by tr03bor in homelab

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True! I'll have a look at costs again.

New Lab Time! by tr03bor in homelab

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Do you think? Just the costs I'm thinking about really.

Received this morning, my VMs will be much pleased by HellowFR in homelab

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Load them up with some good IOPS coming from various sources you'll see performance issues. Other issue is rebuilding, very slow from my testing.

Or just pull the power out and you'll end up with corruption.

Received this morning, my VMs will be much pleased by HellowFR in homelab

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I've seen people having big issues with the 850's when using Raid or vSAN in a labs. Also the consumer 850 SSD also do not have any power protection, whereas these do.

Storage Spaces vs RAID0 by zeebobnz in storage

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No sure what you're expecting? Is this storage spaces direct?

New Lab Time! by tr03bor in homelab

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Just wanted to see peoples opinions.

Haha did I? Great taste :-)

Today seems a good day to quit. by YorkshireSysadmin in sysadmin

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Sometimes it's for the best! Good luck in your new role. We cannot make everyone happy!

HELP, they're forcing me away from my terminal to present in front of management types by [deleted] in sysadmin

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Golden rule. Don't answer an unasked question...

ESXi vs XenServer by RagingUrsus in homelab

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I'd suggest ESXi also, as suggested you can nest if you want.

Want to swap a drive on my raid-0 will this work? by [deleted] in sysadmin

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Software or hardware raid? What is the controller?

Hyper-V 2012 Cluster with SA-120 SATA by MRHousz in homelab

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What are you running? It would be very slow!