Very thorough, concise, well paced, excellent audio and graphics. Well Done, Sir

@ProTechShow

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Carl!

+1 Very good editing and product review.

@ProTechShow

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙂

Hey Andrew, I absolutely love your tech explanations, I purchased a Yubikey a few weeks back because of your explanation on how they work... I have an unrelated question, I recently segmented my home network (I have a regular home router nothing fancy) the way I did it was thru the guest wifi network... I did some minor research on "VLAN Hopping" should I be concern about that kind of attack with my implementation? Does the attack work thrue physical access to my router or can the attack be initiated over the internet?

@ProTechShow

Жыл бұрын

VLAN hopping is typically done by exploiting insecure switch configurations related to 802.1Q VLAN tagging. This is unlikely to be supported by a regular home router. Unless you've done something that involves tagging VLAN ID numbers against specific ports then it's unlikely to apply to you.

The trouble with the portable demo system idea is that a salesman already has a laptop. They could run a virtual system from the laptop, so they wouldn't need another machine, and that shape doesn't fit in laptop cases without pressing on the (fragile) lid of the laptop. Don't think I'd want to trust a sales presentation to an AliExpress PC either, even though it's just the type of box I like playing about with!

@ProTechShow

Жыл бұрын

The danger with using your laptop to host the VMs is sod's law comes into effect and you can pretty much guarantee it'll take that exact opportunity to pick up a policy and start running an antivirus scan or installing updates in the background and mess up your demo. I'd much rather have it on a separate device that's not subject to the whims of corporate end-user device policies. I've seen this one happen, too! I wouldn't put it in with the laptop, though - you're right about the risk of cracking the screen. I'd keep it separate, but it really doesn't need much space in a bag. It could even go in the pocket of a jacket, provided you remember not to chuck it around too much.

Hi, I want to make a homelab to practise esxi, venter, van etc. What hardware do you recommend. Or is it better to get a single beast and look into nested virtualisation?

@ProTechShow

Жыл бұрын

It depends on the experience you hope to get from it. If it's to help you pass a VCP exam you should be fine with a single host using nested virtualisation. It was a while ago, but I'm fairly sure this is how they ran the official course back when I did it. Having separate physical hosts and storage makes it feel a bit more "real" and may force you into learning about things like VLAN trunking on network switches that will be useful for a real-world install; but you have more kit to buy and power. I don't have specific hardware recommendations but VMware is a bit more picky about hardware than Windows/Linux tends to be, so hit Google to check if specific hardware is compatible. Definitely go for Intel NICs over Realtek, as from what I've seen that's a common issue for ESXi. Second-hand enterprise kit is fun, but can be rather power-hungry. I tend to use DIY-desktop builds (reusing existing parts where possible) for my lab because every time I've run the numbers using cast-off servers will cost me more in power over 3-5 years than buying and powering the parts for a desktop build. You do need to be more careful about specific parts this way, though; as you're more likely to hit problems than using a server that was on VMware's compatibility list.

cool little toy.... have you considered trying Sophos XG? wondering if it would detect all the NICs out of the box

@ProTechShow

Жыл бұрын

I gave it a brief attempt, but it looks like Sophos XG doesn't support UEFI yet. Support for physical hardware from the last few years seems to be a known issue for Sophos, and the workaround on their forums is to run it as a VM.

12:20.. On OpenWrt, they installed a KMS server to activate copies of windows in the "Enterprise LTSC" version on a virtual machine. ;-) The Chinese have a very loose approach to proprietary software. ;-) Probably according to their idea the virtual machine with OpenWrt on this PROXMOX is to be used as a router. 13:11.. I wonder what is on the virtual machine with debian? Have you checked this debian?

@ProTechShow

Жыл бұрын

I think that KMS config is the default out-of-the-box file that comes with vlmcsd (the KMS server), rather than something iKOOLCORE added themselves. It looks to be commented out and matches the GitHub source. Not that it matters all that much as it still shouldn't be there. The Debian VM was running Docker with a bunch of containers deployed as a bit of a demo environment. Nothing suspect, but not particularly useful and mostly in Chinese. The list of containers is: heimdall, Portainer, Alist, OpenSpeedTest, Squoosh, Qinglong.

@iKOOLCORE

Жыл бұрын

The default plugin of KMS was deleted, selected the worry OpenWRT IMG file, sorry for that.

Will be so nice when they release versions using the current Intel N100 and i3-N300 CPUs which are significantly faster.

@ProTechShow

Жыл бұрын

Interesting indeed. I know there's an R2 on the way, but I don't know the ETA or specs.

6:50.. What model of network card with four ports?

@ProTechShow

Жыл бұрын

The R1's built-in ports use the Intel i226-V. The PCIe card attached to the Zimaboard was a Realtek RTL8125B they sell as an accessory.

Wait is that manufactured by s company in mainland, any other alternatives to it?

@ProTechShow

11 ай бұрын

It's made in China (as are most things)

Can you buy 2 and get shared storage ro make esxi cluster

@ProTechShow

Жыл бұрын

I expect so. There are enough network ports to dedicate one or two to iSCSI. The only catch is you'd need vCenter to do clustering so you can't use the free version of ESXi.

The download link for the Windows LTSC image mentioned in the video has been removed.

@iKOOLCORE

Жыл бұрын

All orders will not be equipped with any commercial operating system and will only have Proxmox as the underlying virtual machine.

@bobjohn3108

Жыл бұрын

Who are you

@ProTechShow

Жыл бұрын

That is iKOOLCORE, addressing the issue of software licensing from the video

The reason why yur laptop's cpu i5 performed worse it's because it's a U model meaning underpowered & I think it's better of if u compared it to a i5 laptop 7th gen cpu that's not U model.

@ProTechShow

11 ай бұрын

U models are power efficient models designed for laptops. The comparison was for power efficiency, so comparing it against a non-U model wouldn't have been as relevant, but you can check the desktop figures in there for that.