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work was tossing out some 2950s and 2948Gs so I grabbed them, now to actually do something with them.
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If you are running windows you can always use http://tftpd32.jounin.net/ for a super easy tftp server. We use it a work to push IOS updates to some of our older switches. Super easy, just double click an exe and go. Close out the program when you're done
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for a testing and learning lab only I don't see any reason not to just work on everything. Telling people not to try out t/ftp or anything else just because "it's 2013..." is short sighted. The point is to learn not conform to your one specific thought process.
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So I totally agree that being able to install ESXi on a box isn't that impressive just like being able to install Windows 7 isn't either but I would like to know once you have it installed and a few VMs running what would you consider an "accomplishment" in regards to actual VMWare work? Is it getting them networked and talking to each other? I've been "deploying" VMs for a little while now but I'd like to get some more knowledge and working into what makes a good VMWare admin
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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. ABR man, Always, Be, Ranting evol262 posted:What makes a good VMware admin subject matter knowledge of: So where would you suggest starting? Any good beginner books to read up on? Like I said we do a very, very limited amount of virtualization right now but I find it fascinating and would love to dig into it more. smokmnky fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Aug 23, 2013 |
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Docjowles posted:How many physical servers do you manage right now, and how many of those do you hope to virtualize? Do you already have any sort of SAN/central storage in place? Answers to questions like that will help posters decide if you need "loving Guru" or "Intro to VMware" level advice So that's the thing, my specific job and department is a little weird. We have ~100 colos in 34 countries that run on what we would call cookie cutter boxes. They are the same everywhere and when one goes down we just put a new one in it's place. Our expansion/capacity or redundancy is just adding more of that type of server into the rack. We do web monitoring and metrics based off that specific hardware so turning it into a VM isn't possible because data consistency is what we sell and the whole point of the business. Basically if you get metrics from a location in Chicago and Beijing it's the same other than the actual network. We run two esxi servers that vm our centos dns servers and a couple other support style machines that don't collect data like the main service machines. /edit That's two esxi servers per location with 9 vms loaded but only 4-5 running per server. They mirror each other in the VMs but we run different VMs on the A and B servers smokmnky fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Aug 23, 2013 |
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smokmnky posted:So that's the thing, my specific job and department is a little weird. We have ~100 colos in 34 countries that run on what we would call cookie cutter boxes. They are the same everywhere and when one goes down we just put a new one in it's place. Our expansion/capacity or redundancy is just adding more of that type of server into the rack. We do web monitoring and metrics based off that specific hardware so turning it into a VM isn't possible because data consistency is what we sell and the whole point of the business. Basically if you get metrics from a location in Chicago and Beijing it's the same other than the actual network. think my post got swallowed up by QPZIL awesome graph. I'd love some feedback from Docjowles and Dilbert(Corvette)
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Question for you guys, I'm using a mac and want to manage my ESXi (free) 5.5 host. What's the best way to do this? Since this is just a home lab I'm not looking to buy anything and using OS X I can't get vSphere Client and it seems like VMWare is pushing everyone to their web based management tools but I can't seem to find anything not related to vCenter.
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:You fusion IO a vpshere or run some windows box for vpshere C# client. Or just force the flash/html. So basically "you can't"? I'm not sure what "force the flash/html" means.
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Am I reading it wrong or is the web client only available with vCenter?
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Well I just went ahead and installed virtual box and a Win7 VM to run VSphere. Thanks for setting me straight
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