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Dilbert As gently caress posted:Internal USB is cheaper and easier to manage, I could rant about blades but I don't think anyone wants to hear it. I'd like to hear a rant about blades. I loved working with IBM BladeCentre chassis and blade servers in my last job. Here's two IBM HS22 blades I did last year, internal USB is highlighted:  Another benefit of booting ESXi from USB is that it's a hell of a lot cheaper than having HDDs (In the above picture you can see that both blades have empty HDD slots).
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Of course the host will become completely unmanageable (No vMotion, snapshotting, etc.). I had that happen in a production cluster, some very specific and strange issue with vSphere 5.0 and the RAID controllers in IBM HS22 blades. We "fixed" it by installing USB flash drives in the blades that didn't have them 
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Once booted ESXi will keep running even if the thumbdrive is pulled. After boot everything runs from memory!
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I just tried to do this and I'm stuck at "BOOTMGR is missing" Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart. Was just about to reply to you but then I saw your edit. It would have been best to completely format the USB drive as RAW so that it has no partition table at all. Your machine probably attempted to boot from the USB flash drive prior to attempting to boot from whatever install media you are using which would have caused that "BOOTMGR is missing" error. Not really an issue, the ESXi installer will blow away the contents of the drive entirely when installing.
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Moey posted:Well farts, didn't mean to speak for you. Dilbert As gently caress lives and breathes VMware so his gear is probably co-located at a DC in Palo Alto next door to VMware HQ 
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Docjowles posted:I thought Broadcom NICs were notoriously awful, especially in conjunction with VMware? Is that not the case, or just not worth worrying about on the home lab level? IBM use Broadcom NICs on their mainboards and I've never had issues with them in the past (However I've always installed the IBM customised ESXi image which has the right drivers).
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cheese-cube posted:IBM use Broadcom NICs on their mainboards and I've never had issues with them in the past (However I've always installed the IBM customised ESXi image which has the right drivers). Probably best to point out that I'm not referring to HBA/mezzanine/PCIe cards here. I cannot vouch for Broadcom HBA/mezzanine/PCIe cards. Intel/Emulex for Ethernet, Brocade for FCP (QLogic will work too but their management software is garbage).
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Martytoof posted:Rescued a handful of 300GB SAS 10k 2.5" drives from a server that was heavily upgraded recently. Anyone have any leads on a cheap SAS controller that has ESXi VIBs? I'm hoping for under a hundred bucks but I dunno if that's feasible. 3Gb/s or 6Gb/s?
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If anyone lives in Western Australia (Perth-metro) and are looking at building a home lab for virtualisation then this may be of interest: https://www.auctions.com.au/auctions/2015/03/24/online-it-workstation-auction.html (Note that the majority of the workstations don't come with HDDs).
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The Grover-server, with load-bearing SATA
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This may be relevant for some of ya'll (I know it's been pissing me off for ages now): after almost 2 years of bullshit back-and-forth between Intel and Microsoft a version of Advanced Network Services (ANS) has finally been released for Windows 10 which supports VLANs and teaming (Functionality that was inexplicably removed when Windows 8.1 was released). You can grab the new version here, using it myself with an I350-T4 and it works perfectly: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25016/Intel-Network-Adapter-Driver-for-Windows-10
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Yeah DNS is easy if I set it up manually, but if addresses are handed out via DHCP then we have a problem, because I want some devices receiving DNS1 and some receiving DNS2. I think you'd benefit greatly by getting some better networking hardware. With Cisco the DHCP Relay Agent can be configured per-interface which allows you to use specific DHCP servers per network segment: https://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_4t/ip_addr/configuration/guide/htdhcpre.html#wp1085232. IMO the Cisco Catalyst CX series switches are great for home labs as they're small, quite (Passive cooling, no fans) and run full IOS (Layer 2 LAN Base on the 2960-CX and Layer 2+3 IP Base on the 3560-CX). However they are a bit pricey (Around $600 for a 3560-CX) and unless you're already familiar with IOS the learning curve might be a bit steep. That aside, I've got a 2960-CX in my home lab and I'm extremely happy with it. Or alternatively have a look at the EdgeRouter series from Ubiquiti. They're solid devices with full Layer 2+3 support and are extremely cheap (The EdgeRouter X is around $60).
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Cross-post, asking for a friend, anyone run into the same issue?cheese-cube posted:Anyone here managed to get ASAv running on ESXi 6.5 in a Workstation VM? A colleague of mine is having issues, "Failed to deploy VM: postNFCData failed." error. Edit: nevermind, psydude has answered my question: psydude posted:Pretty much all Cisco products aren't officially supported on 6.5 yet, and I've heard of all sorts of issues with it more generally. Pile Of Garbage fucked around with this message at 06:23 on May 4, 2017 |
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