IrritableTech

Now you've entered the IP route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 line, can you remove the default-gateway?

Yeah, you should have an entry per VLAN here... I think I may have found an (the?) issue... fingers crossed... You've got a default-gateway setup - I think that is wrong when you're doing inter vlan routing. Try this in the CLI... no default-gateway ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.122.204.49

Thanks for the heads up - looks like something is starting to happen, but this seems reliant on users being logged into their school account. It seems useless if they log into another account or aren't logged in at all?

Ok - so your config isn't working as yet. I know it seems daft, but i had the same issue with our 5412zl. I ended up rebooting it and routing worked. When I looked at your config earlier nothing shouted at me as an issue.

Normally you'd set every device on your network to use your core switch as its gateway. You've already set the switches gateway (10.122.204.49 - your smoothwall). So your client wants to send a packet to an IP address out of it's network - it sends it to it's gateway (your switch). Your switch decides if it knows about the network (one of it's other vlans) or not. If it does - it should retag it and send it to the right network /device, if not it sends the packet to its gateway (your smoothwall) for it to deal with it. Lets go back to early steps again... Plug a device into an untagged VLAN1 port - give it a fixed IP with the gateway of 10.122.204.81. Plug a device into an untagged VLAN50 port - again, give it a fixed IP with the gateway of 10.122.201.129 Can the devices ping each other? If so, your switch is routing between the networks and you can think about your DHCP server. If not - the switch config is at fault.

I don't configure our physical hosts or virtual machines to be honest - I've done it all on my switches. Untagging the ports in my servers VLAN. Yup - all your devices will need to use the switches IP address within the same VLAN as their gateway. You then let the switch handle it from there. Your DHCP server is (probably) getting the DHCP request (can you see a lease?) but the client isn't getting that information because the DHCP server is sending it straight to the smoothwall.

Good advice from @FN-GM but whilst we're still trying to get things working... Your server ports which are tagged within you switch config need to be tagged within ESX. In HP lingo 'tagged' effectively means allow packets to pass which are already tagged with this VLAN. Your client port most likely needs to be untagged within VLAN50 and not tagged in VLAN1. 'Untagged' effectively means tag packets on this port with this VLAN and forward them. HP terminology is a little confusing. So VLAN1 shouldn't need to be tagged on A24 (client port) and VLAN50 shouldn't need to be tagged on A1-A12 (server ports)

Ta. Where are your devices plugged in? The DHCP server and the client.

Is routing enabled? You could always let us look at your config - shouldn't be any confidential details included, but check. If you confirm where your DHCP server is plugged in, and the client someone should be able to help.

Small switches had been well used in my current school when I first came here. It took a few years to get rid of them all. You're switching the single connection between devices, so there is a detrimental effect on speed of all the devices connected - but you might not notice in most cases. The biggest issues are the fact that little switches don't have the resources to be plugged into large networks. Mac address tables quickly get filled for example - we had lots that crashed frequently. The other big issue is that power gets unplugged, cables get messed around with causing loops. The more wires in an area, generally the bigger the problems. When we decided to VLAN our network we had to rethink the small switches on a large scale. We moved to using 'economisers'. One network cable split into two (obviously with each using four wires and therefore having a max connection of 100mbit) where we had to, but we've now got to the point where we have removed all but one or two pairs of these.

Looks like a reasonable option. What's 'No memory effect' when it's at home?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4hVG2Br1W1LKCmw8nSm9WnQ/introducing-the-bbc-micro-bit At the very bottom of this BBC article it says the hardware will be open sourced and they will create a not-for-profit company, so signs are good. If manufacturers feel there is an big enough interest in the product, I'm sure they'll be selling them commercially. You can buy Arduino Nano clones from Chinese manufacturers for about £1.30 delivered - Given a few months I bet we'll see micro-bit clones available for little money.

We tried this a few times with our neighboring schools. It was an nightmare getting everything together and decisions made at the same time. As the biggest stake holder in the arrangement, and the organizer the slight reduction in costs were probably not worth the additional time for us.

I definitely don't need one at home - but I might still want one... :-) Thanks Dave, let me give it some thought.

Sorry it didn't work out for you. Is there any reason you are doing this on an evening/weekend rather than waiting a week or two and making it first job for the holidays? When I used the upgrade tool for the migration I didn't detach anything. It needs the live SQL DB to use the tool. I think the migration tools takes into account the authentication issue. It would make sense, because even if you're not moving server - you are moving SQL instance and the logins need to be accounted for. Read the first document that comes up here: https://myaccount.capita-cs.co.uk/search/All?q=database+migration+sql+2014&sort=relevance# It explains how to migrate the sql to a new server - the only added thing you need to do is actually install and configure sims on your new server. I combined the above document (although I used the 2012 version) with the installing a sims server document to make it work here. I read and read those documents and wrote a flow chart of which steps I needed to do in what order.

If you run it as I suggested the original server instance is not touched. Only the exported file is upgraded. I think you need users out though. Check latest supportnet documentation but I'm 99% sure you'll be safe. I liked this method because it left my old server running if I messed up.

@timbo343 I did the same as what you're trying to do last year. It worked surprisingly well, took me only a morning and saved a lot of money. I used the database migration tool as follows... Run it on the old server and migrate the database to a file (in my case SQL2008). Copy file to new sever. Run migration tool again on the new server - file to new SQL instance (in my case SQL2012). I then installed sims on the new server and it happily connected to the new database. Then you just need to sort your DMS stuff and the connect.ini Support net is full of documentation for this. I have heard of the issue with passwords, but to be honest I thought this had been sorted some time ago and the database migration tool (using it twice to go from server to file to server) should take into account this issue. Capita wouldn't give me anything to help migrate InTouch. I had to pay them for that bit.

Just timed it on my machine. 16 seconds for the first start. Although we can live with that - it does feel like it shouldn't really take that long. It's on par with the other schools I've discussed it with.

Is it as easy as that - is a box literally going to turn up at reception in October? No need for schools to apply or account for how many they require? I'm still waiting for my codebugs to turn up. :-/

Just seen this flash up on my twitter feed... Stockport Academy is looking for an ICT Manager, 37.5 hours per week, full time. Stockport Academy > Staff > Vacancies

This. Or as google reps alluded to me at Bett - What is going to replace Youtube for schools, and when will it be released? And - can we please have a mechanism for schools to register 'Google Search for Schools' and allow us to quickly and easily monitor searches?

I recently got a SAN certificate (domain and three subdomains) from our local RBC (even though we don't use them) and they got it through Janet. Signed by Terena. £100 for three years.

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is the first major department to move to Google Apps, part of an apparent loosening of Microsoft's stranglehold on the government's software services. The department will join the Cabinet Office and Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in deploying the fluffy white stuff. HMRC ditches Microsoft for Google, sends data offshore • The Register Interesting given the tax history of Google, but a clear indicator that even large government departments are now more comfortable with exporting their data to the company.

Referring to my previous post, nobody has stated (to my knowledge) what mechanisms need to be in place to show due regard to the need to prevent people form being drawn into terrorism. An automated list of words being monitored is a good way to show you are trying to tackle radicalization and a good way for private companies to add features to their solutions. However the addition of this legislation was not to force schools into paying private companies a percentage of their funding. I live in hope that various government agencies are working on advice for 'specified authorities' which include technical and none technical ways of highlighting radicalization. I'd argue the legislation was hastily written and therefore everyone is playing catch up - we're a long way from people getting into trouble for not doing enough.

There is a OSX version of the lightspeed agent. Speak with your supplier, or PM me. I run a script to archive my dhcp leases for more than seven days - this is for our BYOD logs.