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Gyshall posted:Essentials is great if you never have plans to expand out of a 3 host cluster. Oh yeah definitely, but it's a great way to get started on VMware. The Term licenses especially. Also what Misogynist said.
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Not knowing any details about your competitors offerings is more common than it should be.
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I've been presented with vSphere 5 (the free hypervisor) running on a shitbox HP tower with only one hard disk in  . I'm convinced that the disk is dying a slow death - one of the Windows guests will run chkdsk on boot and take ~2 hours to finish, backup jobs will fail within 15 minutes of starting, and trying to use vmkfstools to copy the vmdk to another datastore fails at the same place each time. Moving the files using the vSphere Client also fails at the same place each time with file read errors.The VM itself actually boots and runs fine, but I can't seem to move it away from this disk. Even booting something like Clonezilla and trying to copy the volume that way didn't work, failing at around the same point as every other job. Is there any way to un-gently caress this situation?
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Apr 21, 2015 21:33
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GobiasIndustries posted:Could you set up a new Windows guest on a non-hosed disk and try migrating the features needed from the VM in question to the newly set up guest? That is the plan now, it's just a domain controller and print server and that can all be rebuilt pretty easily. I guess a part of me wanted there to be an easy way out of this, but I think it's beyond that point.
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Apr 21, 2015 22:44
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Don't forget the cold spare licenses required for any cage nuts left in stock but not installed.
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May 21, 2015 19:44
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Pass all the individual disks through to the host and run this? http://www8.hp.com/uk/en/products/data-storage/server-vsa.html
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Holy gently caress is it annoying to click something that looks relevant on the MS support pages and be asked to authenticate with your Live ID to get in. Thanks for the tip.
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Feb 10, 2016 01:46
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It's not really an entire Windows server - the hypervisor sort of replaces the OS and then the original OS becomes virtualised on top. See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc768520%28v=bts.10%29.aspx
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Feb 22, 2016 23:59
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That becomes slightly relevant if you're buying Veeam - you can only have one Veeam Essentials license per company.
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Feb 23, 2016 17:21
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Is there a difference at all between giving a VM 2x single core CPUs vs 2x cores, other than guest application licensing?
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Mar 16, 2016 22:57
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It seems like something has happened recently to kick VMware into making non-poo poo ways of managing their products
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Mar 28, 2016 21:51
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I think the defaults are aiming at the highest compatibility rather than the 'best' configuration.
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Apr 4, 2016 20:56
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I work with people who don't 'trust' DNS or static DHCP entries so everything is hard coded to use IP addresses. You might think this makes it tough to have valid certificates, and you'd be right. The solution is to tell their clients to ignore SSL errors.
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Apr 4, 2016 23:58
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I don't have time to read the full MSA 2040 blurb but it looks like asynchronous replication which means you will have an RPO involved. I wouldn't be able to recommend such an entry-level SAN for something as critical as "absolutely 0 downtime".
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Apr 28, 2016 20:38
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And the costs of the connectivity / general networking stuff. Nobody who isn't a liar will promise to give you no downtime, either.
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Apr 28, 2016 22:52
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Is Oracle still a thing that people would rather spend the $$$ on fighting the licensing terms in court than spending that money on moving to a platform that doesn't come from a company that wants to gently caress you at every opportunity? Genuine question by the way, I have no idea what Oracle's strengths are (were?).
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May 18, 2016 20:46
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Is there any reason not to be mildly excited about Hyperconverged Storage Spaces Direct?
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May 23, 2016 20:10
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vMotion cares about things like processor features like SSE and other more modern extensions, core count isn't a problem.
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bobfather posted:Another quick question about ESXi to people in the know: What's your end goal look like here?
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Jun 28, 2016 21:19
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Also don't rule out Azure as a place to put a MSSQL database. Obviously depends on your connectivity.
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Potato Salad posted:Your IT department is retarded if they can't give you a slice of their storage pie. Lack of credentials on the single log generating machine is a bullshit excuse. There may a handful of options at numerous layers of the network to make it happen. Yeah, seriously. The way your IT has things set up at the moment is just perpetuating the stereotype of IT being unhelpful guardians of their own little fiefdom.
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I like Eaton stuff, tends to be slightly cheaper than APC as well here in Europe.
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Being able to browse to your VM datastores is nice as well. Stupid simple VMware question: If I have two sites and want to use site recovery manager then I need vCenter at each end, don't I?
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:Two vCenter instances in linked-mode. Yeah this is the conclusion I have come to since it looks like trying to do this in an automated fashion just ends up taking you down the rabbit hole of fixing the next weak link in the chain and then you're into pushing routing updates to get traffic flowing to your DR site etc. For the 6 VMs that people want to protect in this way I'm tempted to just use Hyper-V with local storage at each side. Applications that can't cluster in tyool 2016 
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Jul 19, 2016 20:53
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That was actually what I was thinking of when I said site recovery manager, sorry. Presumably this still requires a vCenter Server license per site though as all the unscheduled failover documentation talks about instigating it from the replica side (makes sense if the primary is down). Can you do this with 2x Essentials Plus clusters or is there a license limitation that prevents that? I'll throw the question at our VAR and see what they come back with, they can decipher the documentation for me. Thanks for your help. Thanks Ants fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Jul 19, 2016 |
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Jul 19, 2016 21:36
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Veeam adds some nice stuff to the failover such as re-addressing networks for different subnets etc. If you're small and don't need auto failover, synchronous replication etc. then co-locating a server with a bunch of local disk and replicating VMs across with Veeam is hard to beat for the money.
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Jul 20, 2016 00:02
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I meant buy an R730 or similar and then rent a quarter rack of space and connectivity at a convenient location.
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Jul 20, 2016 00:17
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Same. Dual SD cards in the hosts, flash cards on the iDRAC (wish they'd fix the 2GB limitation for virtual media though), 'cheap' RAID1 SSDs in case we need the space in an "oh poo poo" moment. And the new HTML5 iDRAC firmware 
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Jul 25, 2016 23:50
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They cost very little to add onto the iDRAC Enterprise option, and can store an ESXi installer image.
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Jul 26, 2016 20:50
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Yeah deleting snapshot A would just make snapshot B the diff between B and the original VM.
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Aug 5, 2016 09:01
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adorai posted:You use powercli to change the type and the mac will match the old card. 
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Vulture Culture posted:Does this product still exist? Hyper-V server is still a thing, yup.
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Aug 31, 2016 13:16
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Oh hey what's this? Someone who has no business speccing up servers has ordered something to host VMs on and deployed it. Let's take a look! Single quad-core Xeon E3-1xxx, 32GB RAM, running 6 VMs each with 4 vCPUs allocated  . Let me know how you get on with that.
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Sep 6, 2016 23:20
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https://www.vmug.com/p/cm/ld/fid=8792
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Oct 8, 2016 20:22
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Did vCloud Air ever get off the ground?
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Yeah that's what I heard as well, the entire UK deployed infrastructure was a few racks as of a year ago.
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Oct 13, 2016 17:26
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It's announced now https://www.vmware.com/cloud-services/vmware-cloud-aws.html
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I can reboot an NFS datastore and vSphere (5.5) will reconnect when it comes back up again. Didn't do any configuration to make this happen as far as I can remember.
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