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Does anyone have any experience with Citrix XenDesktop in a Split-scope DHCP environment? (That is, the suffix of the FQDN doesn't completely match the domain. Domain is ds.contoso.com, FQDNs are Computer.subdomain.contoso.com) The VMs for my trial deployment are being successfully created, but they aren't registering with the DDC. I can issue power state commands and put the VMs in and out of maintenance mode (and console/RDP to them), but they refuse to register.
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Moey posted:Is that really showing a big performance difference? I thought from previous reading it was only like a 10-20% gain in most case. For some reasons my boss keeps claiming it will be a 9 to 1 performance difference. 10-20% gains can have a much larger affect on applications as a whole when you are talking about something that makes disk waits pile up.
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Does anyone have any experience dealing with large local disks in ESX? I've been reading about issues with virtual disks larger than 2TB and I'm not really sure how to handle this. I have a single host with 12 900GB drives and I don't know how to handle it in a way that's both redundant and plays well with ESX without losing a ton of disk in the process.
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You should be able to make a RAID array like normal, create several volumes, then present those to ESX. I think. I've never actually done it.
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Jun 1, 2012 21:07
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Can I ask what you want to use that much local disk for anyway? Just curious.
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Jun 1, 2012 21:10
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Can anyone comment on how well a virtual machine can handle 3d games (diablo 3, dota 2, etc)? I realize that playing games is not really the aim of virtualization but wondering how well it work assuming I gave the virtual machine enough power.
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Jun 1, 2012 21:32
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Internet Explorer posted:You should be able to make a RAID array like normal, create several volumes, then present those to ESX. I think. I've never actually done it. I think he wants a big VMFS partition, but those aren't supported above 2TB.
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Naes posted:Can anyone comment on how well a virtual machine can handle 3d games (diablo 3, dota 2, etc)? Let me start off by saying that this is an awful terrible idea. But, you asked - I don't know about Hyper-V or VMware View but it should technically be possible on XenDesktop as it has the ability to assign/share a GPU to a virtual session. Assuming you gave it enough bandwidth. I'm sure VMware View is working on the same thing, if they don't have the feature already.
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Naes posted:Can anyone comment on how well a virtual machine can handle 3d games (diablo 3, dota 2, etc)? This is how most mac users play games from my understanding v0v.
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Rhymenoserous posted:This is how most mac users play games from my understanding v0v. Oh, maybe I misunderstood the question. I assumed he was talking about connecting to a remote virtual machine, not running something like VMware Fusion. Yes, some people using Macs do that. Most use Bootcamp, though. Less of a headache in the long run.
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Rhymenoserous posted:I think he wants a big VMFS partition, but those aren't supported above 2TB. ESXi 5.X supports SCSI devices over 2TB though individual virtual disks are still limited to 2TB-512B. A single 64TB VMFS filesystem is also possible in 4.X though you need to use 32 2TB extents to create it.
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Internet Explorer posted:Oh, maybe I misunderstood the question. I assumed he was talking about connecting to a remote virtual machine, not running something like VMware Fusion. Yes, some people using Macs do that. Most use Bootcamp, though. Less of a headache in the long run.
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Jun 1, 2012 23:10
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DirectPath I/O passthrough of a videocard is the only way to get native PCI-E GPU performance in a VM, but it's not a painless affair to get working. You'll need a monitor attached to the videocard, VT-D support (if you're Intel), and a very modern GPU that will work with this configuration. Some of them don't take kindly to memory holes and mapping that occurs for VM operation (at least on VMware). This is definitely an area that will be developed more in ESXi. Even vmotion might be possible later if each server has the same GPU. It's just more processor and memory to allocate/reserve/share/balloon, etc. Kachunkachunk fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Jun 2, 2012 |
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Jun 2, 2012 00:33
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I'm having some host-only network problems in VMware Player. My two VMs are getting IP addresses and stuff from dhcp and can communicate with the gateway, but not with each other. Everything's pretty much out-of-the-box with the exception of adding the default gateway in the dhcp config file (it didn't work beforehand either, and I added it in hopes that they just didn't know how to get from A to B). What should I try in troubleshooting this? Networking is not my strong suit unfortunately.
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What network are the VMs on? Usually by default desktop virtualization programs make a NAT for the VMs, you have to modify them a bit to be on you're real LAN.
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nahanahs posted:Does anyone have any experience dealing with large local disks in ESX? I've been reading about issues with virtual disks larger than 2TB and I'm not really sure how to handle this. My enviroment before I got some EMC poo poo was 2+ TB storage per host, large local disks are only a problem pre VMFS-3 where the 2TB limit is in place, VMFS5 is GPT and +2tb Naes posted:Can anyone comment on how well a virtual machine can handle 3d games (diablo 3, dota 2, etc)? TF2 works well in VM 2012 beta with a 6790 not terribly great but decent FISHMANPET posted:What network are the VMs on? Usually by default desktop virtualization programs make a NAT for the VMs, you have to modify them a bit to be on you're real LAN. Depends what your SLA's are and security needs are. My enviroment each has their own type of VLAN depending on what they support Dilbert As FUCK fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Jun 2, 2012 |
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1000101 posted:ESXi 5.X supports SCSI devices over 2TB though individual virtual disks are still limited to 2TB-512B. Heyooo, learn something new every day.
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FISHMANPET posted:What network are the VMs on? Usually by default desktop virtualization programs make a NAT for the VMs, you have to modify them a bit to be on you're real LAN. They're on VMnet1. I think NAT is the default network type, but they're both set to host-only, and the IP addresses they're getting are in the range I expect them to be. Here's the definition from vmnetdhcp.conf: code:code:code:
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Kachunkachunk posted:This is definitely an area that will be developed more in ESXi. Even vmotion might be possible later if each server has the same GPU. It's just more processor and memory to allocate/reserve/share/balloon, etc.
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Would this be the right place to ask about OSX VM (using VirtualBox) inside of Windows? I have a version up and running in virtualbox, but I need to adjust the resolution. To do this I need to edit a specific file but I cannot access the file because it is in the bootdisc iso that the vm is using to launch OSX. I either edit the file in the iso but when I try this the iso corrupts so I must be missing something when I save it, or I try to make the iso into a bootable VM drive but so far that hasn't worked. I haven't really had anyone to talk about this with so I was hoping this would be a good place to find others who have gotten OSX running in VirtuaBox on Win7. Physical fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Jun 3, 2012 |
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Jun 3, 2012 02:06
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Physical posted:Would this be the right place to ask about OSX vm (using virtualbox) inside of windows? did you install the tools for the VM? if not try to click on it also http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/beta/workstationtp2012
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Short question about a 'best practice' for my scenario. We have two vshpere hosts, with a vcenter server running on one of them. If the server that is hosting vsphere goes down, I lose HA and the ability to vmotion our VMs on to the other host, correct? If that is the case, what will I do if that host does in fact go down, taking vcenter with it? edit - the point being I would want to get the production servers up and running as soon as I could. Swink fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Jun 3, 2012 |
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Swink posted:Short question about a 'best practice' for my scenario. Yes, that would all happen. If it goes down you use the vsphere client to log in directly to the host and boot the VM back up.
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Swink posted:We have two vshpere hosts, with a vcenter server running on one of them. If the server that is hosting vsphere goes down, I lose HA and the ability to vmotion our VMs on to the other host, correct?
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Is there a way to make an RDP-connection smoother? I'd like to have more of a "proper" desktop experience in one of them. The server is using Windows Server 2008 R2 running Hyper-V. Server specs: I-5 2.6ghz quad core 16 GB of RAM 4 windows XP virtual machines. The VHD's are all on the server's SSD hard drive. Everything is going through my gigabit router and I've checked the speeds and they are consistently excellent. I'd like to be able to watch youtube clips on one of them smoothly. Is that possible? It's choppy as hell at the moment, and the sound lags. And no, this is not in an business or company environment. The server is in my closet and I have full control of everything. Any ideas? Bhm fucked around with this message at 12:03 on Jun 3, 2012 |
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For an included-with-Windows option check out RemoteFX. Personally I'm more familiar with Citrix' HDX flash redirection that will usually send the Flash to the client for rendering, but this is Microsoft's solution. It needs 2008 R2 SP1 and the latest RDC. e: Oops missed the XP thing. Yeah, that won't do it. microserf fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Jun 3, 2012 |
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Bhm posted:Is there a way to make an RDP-connection smoother? I'd like to have more of a "proper" desktop experience in one of them. Its entirely possible. Stick a supported video card in the server and install remotefx on the server. Then go to the hardware config of the vm in hyper-v and assign it a remotefx video adapter instead of a standard adapter.
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RemoteFX isn't going to work in this situation as the VMs are Windows XP. RemoteFX only works with Windows 7 Ultimate or Enterprise VMs.
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Is there a way to extract performance metrics from vCenter to another graphing tool? I'd like to take the graphs I can see in vSphere Client under the "Performance" tab and get them into something like Graphite or Munin. I looked a bit at SNMP, but vCenter only has traps, no performance counters at all.
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luminalflux posted:Is there a way to extract performance metrics from vCenter to another graphing tool? I'd like to take the graphs I can see in vSphere Client under the "Performance" tab and get them into something like Graphite or Munin. I looked a bit at SNMP, but vCenter only has traps, no performance counters at all. You can export to Excel, and from there go pretty much anywhere (you might be able to do CSV directly). Of course, it's a manual process. Also, you could probably query SQL directly.
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Erwin posted:You can export to Excel, and from there go pretty much anywhere (you might be able to do CSV directly). Of course, it's a manual process. Also, you could probably query SQL directly. I was thinking more along the line of real-time information, so that's not really useful. Any ideas on where I could find the counters in SQL? Splunk seems to have a statistics forwarder for vCenter, so it's definitely doable somehow.
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Is the VMware vSphere Essentials Plus Kit with vSphere Storage Appliance a good deal if we have two Dell R710 servers and we would like to have HA? Is vSphere Storage a good cheap alternative to a NAS/SAN?
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Unless it's massively improved recently, no. And last time I checked the VSA was entry level SAN money anyway.
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With the essentials plus kit the VSA costs about $3k, is there any entry level SAN that could server a few R710's for around (+-2k) that?
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VSA pricing makes a little more sense when bundled with Essentials Plus, but it still has a lot of drawbacks like not being extendable beyond your initial setup and/or 3 nodes, large storage overhead, unrecommended to run vCenter on the same nodes as VSA runs, etc. I'd personally rather pitch an entry level SAN for a few more thousand dollars.
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Mierdaan posted:Can I ask what you want to use that much local disk for anyway? Just curious. We've got a deal where we can get individual machines and lots of disk pretty cheap, to the point where it's way more economical than network storage. 1000101 posted:ESXi 5.X supports SCSI devices over 2TB though individual virtual disks are still limited to 2TB-512B. Do you know where I can read about setting up extents? This is a new concept for me. I'm not sure if I do something with a single or multiple virtual disks and then install or what. The real key for me is getting a setup with both some kind of redundancy and using as much disk as I can. We're big on burning a candle at both ends and then wondering why it melted.
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three posted:VSA pricing makes a little more sense when bundled with Essentials Plus, but it still has a lot of drawbacks like not being extendable beyond your initial setup and/or 3 nodes, large storage overhead, unrecommended to run vCenter on the same nodes as VSA runs, etc. I'd personally rather pitch an entry level SAN for a few more thousand dollars. What would be an example of an entry level SAN for a couple servers?
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Extents are just one of many ways you can grow a VMFS filesystem. Extents are not a means of making 1 big monster VMDK so you'll still end up creating a bunch of 2TB VMDKs and slinging them together with LVM. Since this is undesirable to some then your best bet is to use a physical mode RDM with whatever fancy features your storage supports to grow the device. If you tell me more about your problem and what you're trying to do to solve it I could probably provide more help. Doc link; hopefully this works: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc_50%2FGUID-8AE88758-20C1-4873-99C7-181EF9ACFA70.html Not sure if this is exactly what you want though. Basically extents are concatenation; once the first device fills up it starts to spill into the second device. The positive is you get another LUN queue to send data to but the negative side is now you've got two separate devices with one filesystem spanned over it. If you do this and use storage replication you'll need to make sure the LUNs are in the same consistency group (EMC term)/volume (netapp vernacular) to make sure they're replicated at on the same schedule.
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1000101 posted:
Awesome, thank you. I have a ton of local disk and I'd like it to show up as a single data store. I'm not concerned with any VMDKs getting over 2TB (nothing should get any larger than 1, if that). Posting from my phone right now, but I'll look at the doc you posted when I get to work as well. Thanks again! EDIT: I forgot to mention, I need to use ESXi 4.1 for this. We'd lose too much memory with the memory limitation in 5. Is this still possible? nahanahs fucked around with this message at 13:27 on Jun 4, 2012 |
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nahanahs posted:We've got a deal where we can get individual machines and lots of disk pretty cheap, to the point where it's way more economical than network storage. Roll your own SAN/NAS by getting an individual machine with lots of disk.
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