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Yeah pretty much agree with Three, most of the UCS stuff is things you can already, or free, do if you know how to utilize your feature set given.adorai posted:List price might be more expensive, they are reasonably competitive with normal discounts. Yeah the Gen3's are reasonably priced, smartnet renewals can be a pain sometimes, with promotions that never seem to end, I do like if you are just unhappy with the server TAC will basically send you a full new one. I do wish they would use some AMD procs in their UCS line up however Dilbert As FUCK fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Apr 4, 2013 |
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Corvettefisher posted:I do wish they would use some AMD procs in their UCS line up however Is that for technical or philosophical reasons?
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three posted:The hardware detaching is cool, but how often does anyone need to use it? It'd be easier to just use auto deploy for ESXi hosts, and only bad people run physical workloads nowadays. (Plus who boots Windows from SAN? Although, technically you could just swap the drives.) I use it pretty frequently. I also like the idea of policy based management and being able to manage 200 blades from a single interface without having to buy a manager of managers. It's also pretty rad when you can sort your blades into different organizations and then apply permissions/policies. So if you have 100 blades you can give say 20 to dev, 30 to QA and the rest to production. Then the Dev/QA engineers could have total control over their blades without being able to mess around with production stuff. Taking that one step further it opens up the option for production or QA or Dev to borrow resources back and forth without having to deal with re-installation/deployment if you don't want to. It's also nice to pop in a new chassis then go click on your service profile template and tell it you want 8 more ESX servers configured in exactly the way you need. As an example our ESXi servers tend to have 6 NICs configured (lab machines with a pair of NICs on a standard switch, a pair on a dvSwitch and a pair on the Nexus 1000v) and our hyper-v systems only have 4. I find UCSM is a lot friendlier when you have multiple administrators poking around doing stuff. If two people try to open a KVM console for the same blade it'll offer a chance to share it. Last time I dealt with Dell, HP and IBM they usually just said "sorry this is locked! try again later!" which was really frustrating when I was the one using it but my browser crashed from trying to use virtual media. This may have improved in recent versions. I haven't had a chance to touch that Dell M1000 in the lab. quote:It would be better to use NIOC. I'd prefer real QoS to NIOC. Mostly by virtue of QoS being honored outside of the dvSwitch.
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three posted:Is that for technical or philosophical reasons?
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Was thinking about testing Microsofts Hyper-v solution, since it is way cheaper than VMware. Anyone know of anything I should be aware of? Also can you run the SQL you need for System center VMM virtual on the same cluster it is supporting?
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DagPenge posted:Was thinking about testing Microsofts Hyper-v solution, since it is way cheaper than VMware. Anyone know of anything I should be aware of? Also can you run the SQL you need for System center VMM virtual on the same cluster it is supporting? Whats your deployment scenario? Hyper-v isn't always 'way cheaper'. I mean it can be but it depends. And yes you can run your scvmm instance as a VM.
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For a small setup thats supposted to have AD, Exchange, SQL and a few hosted desktop (terminal services or whatever its called now) for about 10-20 users each. Hyper-v seems to be the easiest way to get going, since it's included with the Microsoft licenses I'll need anyway. Is this easy to visualize or should I make up a drawing to better explain?
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evil_bunnY posted:Is it ok to admit I love vDS'es mostly because I'm lazy?
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Joy: build 5.0.0.913577 of the vSphere client fixes the console nonsense on Windows8. No more using Workstation 9 for console access.
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Mierdaan posted:Joy: build 5.0.0.913577 of the vSphere client fixes the console nonsense on Windows8. No more using Workstation 9 for console access. I actually use WS most of the time. The only thing I need but can't do is add VMs to my inventory from the datastore. I have been bugging the product manager about it. Hopefully, it will be next release.
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Mierdaan posted:Joy: build 5.0.0.913577 of the vSphere client fixes the console nonsense on Windows8. No more using Workstation 9 for console access.
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"The VMRC console has disconnected...attempting to reconnect" for all consoles all the time, was the behavior I and many others got.
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Does anyone here have any background scripting esxcli commands on 4.1 hosts? We are doing a massive storage migration and each LUN I remove from the host has to me masked (see below) : esxcli corestorage claimrule add --rule 110 –t location –A vmhba3 –L 156 –P MASK_PATH esxcli corestorage claimrule add --rule 111 –t location –A vmhba4 –L 156 –P MASK_PATH I have to repeat this for each LUN being removed. Is there an easy way to script this process? Edit : BTW, 5.0 makes this process much easier and is all done via the GUI with a simple right click. 4.x is a miserable beast, especially when you have to migrate about 100 LUNs. Shoot me now. Edit 2: We were able to script it (bash script) easily, I would love to see if we can do this from power cli. mAlfunkti0n fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Apr 4, 2013 |
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Handy script I wrote earlier:code:
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When it comes to virtualizing things like exchange that use all the ram you give them, how do I know if I should allocate more memory to the VM? Right now our new server is floating at 8.3-8.4 GB used out of the 10 we gave it. Everything seems to be running fine. It's a small server with 75 users and 25 GB of mailboxes. I'd like to say that we are fine since we're not at 100% memory on the VM. I'm just not sure how to tell definitively.
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Frozen-Solid posted:When it comes to virtualizing things like exchange that use all the ram you give them, how do I know if I should allocate more memory to the VM? This may depend on the application honestly, there may be different sets of perfmon counters, etc. to check to determine if you're experiencing memory pressure or not.
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Frozen-Solid posted:When it comes to virtualizing things like exchange that use all the ram you give them, how do I know if I should allocate more memory to the VM? That's when you start looking at the application performance counters and see if they indicate RAM pressure. Specifically, the Memory Paging Counters are a good place to start. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff367896(v=exchg.141).aspx
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bull3964 posted:That's when you start looking at the application performance counters and see if they indicate RAM pressure. Specifically, the Memory Paging Counters are a good place to start.
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Frozen-Solid posted:When it comes to virtualizing things like exchange that use all the ram you give them, how do I know if I should allocate more memory to the VM? Exchange likes to cache, depending on what you are making it do it can take a lot. If you are on standard or higher you can always hot add ram, so you can start low and gradually add more if ram is being the bottleneck.. Generally I'll run VM's at 65-80% usage or vRam. Incase you are wondering here is the white paper for Exchange 2010 http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/exchange-2010-on-vmware-best-practices-guide.pdf
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The good news is we're not even CLOSE to our full RAM utilization. Even if every server that was allocated memory took 100% it was allocated, we'd be barely over 60% total utilization on that VM host. We're sitting at 17 GB total allocated out of 32 GB on that blade. I can afford to allocate more, but I only want to do it if I have to. Right now I can fit several VMs from our other host on this, if the other host goes down spontaneously. We're not at risk of swapping at all. I'm just at a loss when Exchange will take literally every byte of RAM it can just to cache, but I don't have a clue how to tell if the RAM is bottlenecking us. That's where I start getting out of my league. Frozen Peach fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Apr 5, 2013 |
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Swapping being reported from ESXi is the LAST thing you want to see, Ballooning and Compression should be warning signs that your host is running into oversubscribed ram issues. Transparent page sharing, is a great function which helps lower ram usage on the host as well. Ram would be the bottleneck if you are seeing the guest page it's memory into swap, usage runs ~90% during normal operation, the windows OS complains about memory via event logs or warnings, and/or performance is poo poo when you can verify IOPS, CPU, and network are not constrained.
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How much of the 5.1 upgrade complexity does this help with? I haven't been through it yet. http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/2013/04/introducing-the-vcenter-certificate-automation-tool-1-0.html
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Exchange does start spewing log errors if it gets really low on RAM, I've only seen it on single server 2010 environments with 4gb of ram though (not my idea). Once you get up past 8-10gb it hums nicely, I suspect (un-scientifically) based on your environment size it'll be just fine with 10.
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Mierdaan posted:How much of the 5.1 upgrade complexity does this help with? I haven't been through it yet. It's honestly pretty straight forward so long as you don't select simple install. Also put SSO in multi-site even if you are currently one site, there is no easy way to change it after you finish it out. Replacing certs in 5.1 was a bit more tedious, but that tool looks pretty cool.
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Corvettefisher posted:It's honestly pretty straight forward so long as you don't select simple install. Also put SSO in multi-site even if you are currently one site, there is no easy way to change it after you finish it out. Yeah, as long as you don't choose the wizard (which should be the safest). And as long as you choose multi-site (without being warned that you can't change later). And as long as you don't change your RAM/CPU count after installing (or you'll break the Java thumbprint). And as long as your password doesn't have a ! or \ or other character in it (since it passes the password via the command line). The 5.1 upgrade process sucks hard unless you've been through it and figured out all the "gotchas". Enterprise-grade software should not be this difficult to install/upgrade. VMware messed up. Your software shouldn't have "traps" set up that people can fall into.
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Doesn't installing a latest version of Java reset that foot print? I know it does something to combat the poo poo that vCenter became. OH LET'S JUST WRAP IT IN JAVA WHAT COULD GO WRONG!
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Anyone know what causes this? None of the VMs on here are backed up through PHD Virtual, so that's not it. Edit: This happens on basically all our datastores at the same time, across four different SANs. Vulture Culture fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Apr 5, 2013 |
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I assume that's in vCenter and not a specific host? I had the same problem and support said it's a bug with vCenter and the way it polls usage. It was annoying because it kept crossing an alarm threshold and I kept getting alarms. I don't remember how I resolved it, but it probably involved rebooting vCenter or some stupid poo poo.
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Misogynist posted:Anyone know what causes this? Are you doing any replication outside of PHD Virtual that would invoke snapshots? Any corresponding events on VMs that reside there at that time?
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Erwin posted:I assume that's in vCenter and not a specific host? I had the same problem and support said it's a bug with vCenter and the way it polls usage. It was annoying because it kept crossing an alarm threshold and I kept getting alarms. I don't remember how I resolved it, but it probably involved rebooting vCenter or some stupid poo poo. three posted:Are you doing any replication outside of PHD Virtual that would invoke snapshots? Any corresponding events on VMs that reside there at that time?
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I am going to be covering VCP/VCP-DT on my new site, any fine points I should cover?
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So I am taking the 5.1 ICM class remotely starting next week. Later in July I may be able to get my company to cover the optimize and scale course for VCAP. I am wondering if there is any major benefit to the higher level cert other than sending your résumé up a notch? Essentially I'm trying to figure out which path to go for -- focus on VCAP or go for the VCP-DT? I am leaning towards the latter for diversity but I was wondering what others thought. Currently I am one of the senior admins at a MSP and we are very VMware focused. We have View in production but few people use it.
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Cronus posted:So I am taking the 5.1 ICM class remotely starting next week. Later in July I may be able to get my company to cover the optimize and scale course for VCAP. I have the VCP/VCP-DT, the VCP-DT the outline for the DT was great the exam felt like "NAME AD POLICIES TO OPTIMIZE PCoIP", when this new job starts I am going to pass my VCAP-DCA as I get a nice bonus! There is also a VCAP-DT, which looks fun, and my site should be covering all the objectives. Video editing on the laptop I have is much slower than I thought. The VCAP is a great course to go over, Troubleshoot especially. If you are going for view stuff these books are great http://www.amazon.com/VMware-View-Building-Successful-Technology/dp/032182234X/ For VCAP and such http://www.amazon.com/VMware-vSphere-Design-Forbes-Guthrie/dp/1118407911/ http://www.amazon.com/Administering-vSphere-Planning-Implementing-Troubleshooting/dp/1435456548/ These books really helped me out. Just remember if you are unsure the answer or if you have it right move on, because your time zips by.
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It seems inappropriate to take a certification as a given when not passed, and to provide advice on exams you have not taken.
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three posted:It seems inappropriate to take a certification as a given when not passed, and to provide advice on exams you have not taken. I took the VCAP-DCA and missed it by a stupid close number, if I just didn't spend so much time on autodeploy I would have been fine, and took I should have taken it BEFORE a week in Vegas at PEX. Granted I haven't taken the VCAP-DT but the book I gave was in reference to the VCP-DT, which I did pass.
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Our office had our main AD server die today. Is it possible to add a domain controller to a domain when the primary has died? Am I even in the correct thread?
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Red Robin Hood posted:Our office had our main AD server die today. Is it possible to add a domain controller to a domain when the primary has died? Probably not the right thread. But regardless: Google how to sieze FSMO roles. It's not too hard http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255504
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Walked posted:Probably not the right thread. We don't want to seize the FSMO role as we don't wan to replace the primary just add another secondary. Does that make sense? If you can think of a more appropriate thread please point me in that direction! Thanks!
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Red Robin Hood posted:We don't want to seize the FSMO role as we don't wan to replace the primary just add another secondary. Does that make sense? If you can think of a more appropriate thread please point me in that direction! Thanks! General Windows enterprise IT chat Group policy/AD thread
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Red Robin Hood posted:We don't want to seize the FSMO role as we don't wan to replace the primary just add another secondary. Does that make sense? If you can think of a more appropriate thread please point me in that direction! Thanks!
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