Cisco USC power questions
Is anyone here using Cisco's UCS blade system? How do you have the power connected. How much power does each of the Power supplies use? I saw they are rated at 2600 Watts, and there are 4 of them. Do...
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View ArticleWill VMware make my job easier or harder? (xpost)
Small company (300 users), 3 physical sites, single data center at headquarters. I am the only real admin/manger on the infrastructure side; I have a few support techs to handle client OS/hardware...
View ArticleI'm looking for an affordable server to run vmware ESXi / hypervisor. Any...
Hello. First-time poster, long-time lurker. I'm looking for a system capable of running vmware ESXi/ Hypervisor (the freeware releases vmware provides). I've seen the whitebox compatibility list, and...
View ArticleBridged OpenVPN and subnets (UNPOSSIBLE?)
Hoping you OpenVPN/Linux experts can help me out. I've set up a bridged OpenVPN server under Ubuntu. I'm using bridged routing because I need to support Windows clients and I've read that, in this...
View Articleokay, Bladeserver question, kind of dumb, but I never got to concept
I want to get a blade server (not a cluster, just a stand alone) question is, can you have just 1 blade working as a stand alone server, or is anything else required, for example if I just wanted to...
View ArticleBackups - No Tape
Anyone have experience with a solution like Dell's removable disk backup? I'm looking to get 2.6TB of data backed up and carried off site at a remote office. Is there something else/better out there?...
View ArticleSquid Proxy for Anti-Spyware
I often hear people discuss the use of a filtering squid proxy to guard against virus and spyware on a corporate network. Lately, I've been seeing quite a few "Windows 7 Anti-Spyware" infections (to...
View ArticleSys Admins, what's your day like?
I'm just curious what a day in the life of other System Administrators tends to be like... Right now I don't feel like I'm doing enough, but I'm unsure what questions to ask specifically... so I just...
View ArticlePossible to get into the field without college?
As the title says, do you think it is possible to get into the field without any college degree? I'm curious because my highschool grades are shit and I will not be accepted to any colleges anytime...
View ArticleHead of IT rage-quitted, deleted a handful of VMs, disabled my(the only other...
I just found out my supervisor threw a fit and quit on the spot. Before I knew what was what my account was disabled, the backup temp admin is disabled or pass changed, and the big boss (the only other...
View ArticleStupid Question -- Is there a tool that will create an html page full of...
I have tooons of servers I access via web guis on a daily basis. I have them all bookmarked, etc. It would be handy to have all those links available in a sort of web portal that I could make my home...
View ArticleActive Directory Housekeeping - Remove group membership for all disabled users
I am struggling to find a decent way to do this. For one reason or another (not important, it is what it is) we have a shit tonne of users who are disabled but are still a member of all of their...
View ArticleOpinions/Experiences with Cloud Computing?
I've been asked to put together a presentation on the pros and cons of cloud computing and a recommendation for what, if anything, can be moved to the cloud which will result in a net savings that will...
View ArticleKMS on 2008R2
Can I have a kms server on windows sever 2008 R2 for just windows 7 clients? All of our servers are non kms, but We just got a license for windows 7 and would like to host the kms on our primary DC...
View ArticleWhat's the deal w/ Nagios? I see it everywhere on here...
Just started reading /r/sysadmin and prior to it, I've never heard of Nagios. Yet I see it on the frontpage on the regular here. I did a search, and there's just so many threads on it, finding one that...
View ArticleTop Down Ruling - IT Can't Tell the Business How to Use Data
Let me explain the scenario and then I will add some context as to why I am posting it here. For a number of years, my job as sysadmin has become increasingly more frustrating. One of my biggest...
View ArticleDomain records, email, and spam
The background So the primary domain name for my company, a three-character .com address at that, almost expired yesterday. For political reasons (and maybe a bit of timidity on my part), these are...
View ArticleDeploying Adobe reader custom .msi's through SCE 2007?
This post is related to a previous one I found here I am testing out Adobe Reader deployment to our Windows XP/7 boxes through System Center Essentials 2007. I have the "Adobe Reader and Runtime...
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