Norphy

It’s seems silly considering they make shows like Sex Education where one of the very first scenes was a pretty explicit sex scene with full frontal nudity of both participants

Carbon

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/20/global-report-covid-19-brazils-deadliest-day-as-trump-calls-us-cases-a-badge-of-honour

In my experience, the likes of Lastpass and Dashlane are fantastic at managing your own password collection for websites and suchlike (I use and paid for Dashlane myself) but they’re not so good as a corporate password storage and retrieval where you need to share passwords. Lastpass is a bit better than Dashlane in that respect but it’s still not ideal. In my experience, PasswordState from Click Studios knocks the spots off both of them in this context. It’s free for up to five users and pretty reasonably priced once you go above that

That's exactly what Storage Spaces Direct does. Every byte that's written to a server in the storage pool gets replicated to all servers in the storage pool. If one of the hosts falls over, the cluster moves the VM to a host that's up and the VM runs from the storage local to that host. When the failed host is recovered or replaced, the updated data gets replicated back. This disadvantage of that approach is that each server needs to have gobs of storage in it to work, so if you have a 15TB storage pool, each server needs 15TB of storage. When I was getting quotes for virtualisation farms, this pushed the price to similar levels to buying three hosts plus a SAN so I decided to stick with the SAN approach as I understand it already and getting it up and running would have required less effort. The alternative is to, as you say, keep backups and restore VMs if a host fails. The downside to that is that you don't have HA and you risk losing up to a day of data if you have a host fail.

Ricki...

Pyjama

Wimpey

Steps may have been formed in London but Faye Tozer comes from Dunstable, like me Either way, I suppose I’m covered

I went to the same secondary school as Faye Tozer. Does that count?

Took them long enough, considering the first x64 version of Windows was Windows Server 2003 which came in what, 2005?

Fair enough. I completely agree with your concerns about the subscription model as well. It’s why I refused to look at them when we were replacing our wireless network

Out of curiosity, if you’re going Cisco for your wired networks, have you considered Meraki for your wireless? If Cisco are going aggressively enough to undercut the likes of Aruba to get your wired business, I’m sure they’d do the same for wireless and Meraki kit is pretty damn good if you can tolerate the subscription model.

If I buy something like AirWave from Aruba, that will not only manage Aruba/HPE switches and wireless, that will manage Cisco, Juniper and other manufacturers as well. I could use it to monitor and manage an Aruba wireless network and a Cisco wired network. In theory it could manage anything which can be talked to over SSH or SNMP. Not every has, can have or even wants a single vendor network. Can Airwave manage Unifi/Ubquiti stuff as well? I don’t know, I don’t know enough about that platform. If you can’t see why managing kit from multiple vendors in one interface might be useful, well, frankly that’s on you.

When my brother in law started going out with my sister, every so often he’d hold up a mug and say “Two sugars Lou!”. In the end, she just started giving him back the mug with two sugars in it.

I hope that the who did this gets the book thrown at them: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/may/12/uk-rail-worker-dies-coronavirus-spat-belly-mujinga Unfortunately, I can't see a manslaughter or murder charge sticking as proving that this was directly responsible for this woman's death would be difficult but I hope they do time.

Duckula

Python

I saw a thing on BBC News 24 where the journalist was reviewing the fancy new noise cancellation technology built into new Nvidia graphics cards and where he was comparing it to a purely software driven solution. Both worked pretty well. The software solution is called Krisp. At the moment, they're offering it to all education, health and government workers worldwide for free, with unlimited usage for the next six months. https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/360012636379 I figured this will be useful to a lot of people right now...

If he's using Storage Spaces Direct, all of the VMs are automatically mirrored onto each host. It's like RAID across servers. If one host falls other, the other one automatically takes over until the failed host is brought back into service. You still need to take backups though; like RAID, this is not a backup. It protects against hardware failure but will still quite cheerfully get nuked by a piece of ransomware.

1995, not 85 [emoji4] It’s well worth looking up, it works in SCUMMVM and has an absolutely stellar voice cast including Eric Idle and Tony Robinson.

But... if you're going to the Zoo and you see an M word, why can't you say the M word if what you're seeing is a Monk*SMACK* Did you get the number of that donkey cart?* You may have had to have played the 1995 Discworld game to get that reference

There are two vendors I can heartily recommend: https://www.euroele.com http://Https://www.switchshop.co.uk Both are HPE partners, SwitchShop do other vendors as well. Both have done work for me

Personally, I wouldn’t. As good a product as vSphere and VMware is, I think that Essentials has been (trying to find a polite way of putting it), um, value engineered to the point of uselessness. I don’t deny for a second that vCenter is the nicer product to use but there are so many features taken out of Essentials which are pretty fundamental in my opinion (such as Storage Vmotion and DRS) who’s equivalents in HyperV are included as part of the base Windows license.

1) Will it work? Yes. Will it work well? That’s another question. About five years ago now, the college that I worked for replaced an Xserve of that vintage with the last Mac Mini server that Apple produced. We attached it to a Thunderbolt drive array which had PCIe slots in there and put in a 10gbit NIC. I think it must have been a 4th gen Haswell i7 in the Mac Mini and a quad core Westmere Xeon in the Xserve but I can’t remember for sure. Anyway, the Mac Mini utterly destroyed the Xserve in just about every way imaginable. CPU was faster, RAM was faster, storage was faster. Network interfaces in the thunderbolt enclosure were fast enough 2) it will only work with storage controllers, it’s not a network interface 3) possibly but you’d need some kind of adapter to get it in there and you’d be limited to 2.5” drives. It’s probably only SATA2 s as well so 3gbit/sec 4) It’s always worth updating the OS as far as it will go but I wouldn’t attempt to hack the newest version of MacOS on there, that could be problematic 5) Yes, I put generic SATA drives into the Xserve we had The main question I’ve got is what are you planning to use it for? If it’s just fine shares, I’d say it’s not worth the effort to be honest, Macs have used SMB as their preferred file sharing protocol for a long time and Windows or Linux with SAMBA can handle that well enough. Unless there’s something Mac specific that you want to do (like host Time Machine backup’s, for example) Mac servers aren’t with the aggro any more.