Won’t someone please think of the investors…!

I’m just glad they’re still distracted with torrents…

rawdawg some torrents

LOL! Did you spray 1’s and 0’s in their face when you were done?

Good comments.

Do you think there’s still a lot of traditional or legacy thinking in IT departments?

Containers aren’t new, neither is the idea of infrastructure as code, but the ability to redeploy a major application stack or even significant chunks of the enterprise with automation and the restoration of data is newer.

Lol, even in 2024 with free VPN/overlay solutions…they just won’t stop public Internet exposure of control plane things…

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Funny how that seems to often be the case. They need to see the consequences, not just be warned. An ‘I told you so’ moment…

Agreed.

Dont we all use centralized management because there is cost and risk involved when we don’t.

More management complexity, missed systems, etc.

So we’re balancing risk vs operational costs.

Makes sense to swap out virtual for container solutions or automation solutions for discussion.

Yeah, that’s pretty risky for this point in time.

I guess the MBA people look at total cost of revenue/reputation loss for things like ransomware recovery, restoration of backups vs the cost of making their IT systems resilient?

Personally, I don’t think so (in many cases) or they’d spend more money on planning/resilience.

Seems like your org has taken resilience and response planning seriously. I like it.

contract “options” are indeed normal. You could also lump in government contracts into the category your thinking about. I’ve never heard of a scenario where the vendor broke contract by not honoring the options. I also have never dealt with a vendor getting bought out and then not honoring existing contracts. Super fun to watch the corporate drama. I personally don’t care for the private equity style business that seems to be an even bigger problem than the investor first/profit centric model that I thought was the worst thing.

Office culture nuances… I enjoy them.

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I worked for a company where the previous IT dorks named the servers after startrek ships. It’s cute at home. Had to rename everything and readdress the whole organization.

Just make sure it’s HBA mode and it’ll be fine. Sometimes called IT mode.

Google IBM m1015 hba, there’s a ton on eBay for no money. It used to be TrueNAS go to. There’s newer HBAs that are faster, but I don’t think it will matter for you

If you do TN, you MUST read the manual and look at their ZFS intro guide. Trust me.

TrueNAS is a propose built solution.

You’ll need to use it the way it’s designed, which is extremely capable, but reading the manual is mandatory or you’ll do it wrong and then it will suck. I know this.

There’s TN Core, and Scale. Ones based on FreeBSD, one’s Linux. You can compare for your needs.

TN can be an enterprise solution if that tells you the capability.

Edit, it’s meant to be a storage solution. Scale adds containers. It’s not great IMO as a general purpose server OS .

Unless you are forced to use the same network interface, always use dedicated NIC, vLAN when possible.

Like others mentioned, if the VM is on a hypervisor where you can use that to present the disk, you should try that.

Examples would be NAS box with two interfaces, use second one for iscsi. Connect that to switch with different vlan. Connect something like proxmox second nic to iscsi vlan. Add remote disk in proxmox from iscsi nas. Add disk to VM.

This idea spans all different tech.

Have you confirmed you’re not breaking corporate user policy?

Everyone has mentioned Outlook.

Also, 2FA is standard now, like eating ass.

I have the old school utm 9, which was self managed. Now it’s a cloud managed. I haven’t used new cloud portal, sorry.

They still have free home use last I checked. I really like nfr, ce, home use companies.

Sometimes it’s for career progression or familiarity.

Just for SSO, might be easier ways, sure.

I think I’m the most ridiculous, but for the same career reasons as the rest:

Active directory, yes, plus: Azure cloud sync with entra active directory Hybrid exchange on prem and office/exchange online.

For better or worse, large enterprise isn’t going away from M$.

Also, I have transparent proxy sophos IPS, security Onion IDS, Trellix ePO, and other security products all being integrated for info security testing.

Not suggesting this is normal, just my test/dev playground I don’t have to worry about breaking.