David Phillipps

I used to work at a company that provided tech support for a few Canadian Tires. They don’t hire nearly enough staff. They try to make up for it with high amounts of automation. Frequently people will come and steal from them because there aren’t enough staff to stop that. This causes the inventory system to think there is more stock than there is. Because the reduced staff, they don’t frequently manually check their stock so it can be quite some time before it becomes aparent.

I tried that one time. I went over budget and sent a really nice gift. I didn’t receive a gift myself. Then my recipient reported that I didn’t send a gift. I got banned.

We have some air gapped environments. VMware have asked us to install vRealize to monitor the CPU usage. Then they want us to export a report from vRealize every month and upload it to VMware so they can bill us accordingly.

My management is dead set on getting off VMware as quickly as possible. I’ve spent a lot of the past year and a half setting up test labs and reporting on these potential replacements:

• oVirt and RHVC
• Nutanix
• scale
• Azure Stack HCI
• VX rail
• Harvester and Rancher
• A variety of qemu wrappers

None of us are very happy about it but it looks like Azure Stack HCI is the winner so far.

You can use Lynx. Here is the google homepage:

I had this happen to me! I created an instance for myself and a few friends. I didn’t tell anyone about it outside the 3 of us and I didn’t post it anywhere. I had some trouble with my SMTP settings initially so disabled the email verification. I fixed the settings and re enabled the email verification. Someone messaged me pointing out that I had an extra 30,492 users. Within 2 days they found me and created that many accounts.

It took a long time to delete. Querying the DB or adding a record took milliseconds, but removing one of these users took about 6 seconds each. They must have had a lot of other records in other tables that got cleaned up at the same time? Removing that many records took me a day and a half.

Thanks for your post. It was very helpful.