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Does VMware "remote console" functionality just not work with Safari on OSX? I updated to Safari 9 with ElCap but this was the case with 10.10 as well. I'll click on "Launch remote console" in the VCSA UI and it'll spin the refresh button for a second, yet nothing happens. I've got "/Applications/VMware Remote Console.app" installed, though I don't remember where I got it, and I've got the integration plugin installed. I know they say that Safari isn't supported when you first log into vCenter but I was hoping this would be one of those things that just "worked", much like just about everything else does. I don't REALLY want to run a browser JUST to manage VCSA so I dunno, I'll likely just keep using VMware Fusion to get my VM's console if I need to. Just a pain in the butt.
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Wicaeed posted:Can someone shed some light on how VMware View licensing works? You go replace those loving machines right here right now
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Oct 9, 2015 19:38
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There's no way view licensing is $3k per user. If you're using their website, the price per unit is a 10-pack. Is that where the discrepancy?
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Oct 9, 2015 20:29
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Erwin posted:I remember someone on these forums telling a story of someone doing exactly that - being 'helpful' and mounting disks on a Windows server that turned out to be attached for backup purposes. A few days late, but I had a client lose all (!!!) of their data to this. They had a datastore that consisted of 4 LUNs (using extents), which were all also mapped to their Windows boxes (no LUN masking, just wildcards). There was a power outage, the Windows boxes booted first and grabbed the LUNs. Fun fact: if Windows overwrites the disk signature on an extent (not the first drive in the datastore), there is no way to fix it! (ask me about two days on the phone with NetApp and VMware).
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Oct 10, 2015 07:55
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madsushi posted:A few days late, but I had a client lose all (!!!) of their data to this. They had a datastore that consisted of 4 LUNs (using extents), which were all also mapped to their Windows boxes (no LUN masking, just wildcards). There was a power outage, the Windows boxes booted first and grabbed the LUNs. Fun fact: if Windows overwrites the disk signature on an extent (not the first drive in the datastore), there is no way to fix it! (ask me about two days on the phone with NetApp and VMware). Hah, the exact same thing happened at my previous employer except it was deliberate, not accidental. A hapless tech was trying to get more space on the clients backup server which was connected to the FC fabric and was zoned so that it had access to the LUNs containing the VMFS datastores. He launched Disk Management in Windows on the backup server, saw the offline LUNs, thought "Oh, there's some storage!" and proceeded to online and initialise the LUNs which nuked the VMFS datastores on those LUNs. Oh and it turns out that the backup software on said backup server (Backup Exec lol) wasn't actually working so it was a total loss. Edit: Erwin posted:I remember someone on these forums telling a story of someone doing exactly that - being 'helpful' and mounting disks on a Windows server that turned out to be attached for backup purposes. Oh yeah that was me, forgot that I'd told the above story before in this thread/elsewhere.
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Oct 10, 2015 08:19
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How lazy do you have to be to not mask your luns?
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Oct 10, 2015 14:04
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KS posted:There's no way view licensing is $3k per user. If you're using their website, the price per unit is a 10-pack. Is that where the discrepancy?  Holy crap you're right!
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Oct 12, 2015 08:18
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Martytoof posted:Does VMware "remote console" functionality just not work with Safari on OSX? I updated to Safari 9 with ElCap but this was the case with 10.10 as well. If you click on the little console window preview thingy it should open a HTML5 console iirc
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Oct 12, 2015 10:07
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So, rumor is that Dell is raising $8/EMC share to get VMware as well. Google it.
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Oct 12, 2015 12:39
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http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/12/dell-buys-emc-for-67b-in-largest-deal-in-tech-history/ I don't expect this to really change much. Except maybe now Dell will be able to fix all the bugs we find in their machines. Doubtful though.
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Oct 12, 2015 15:22
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theperminator posted:If you click on the little console window preview thingy it should open a HTML5 console iirc Hm yeah, definitely not happening here unfortunately 
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Oct 12, 2015 17:34
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I noticed in VMware's knowledge base that they recommend enabling Turbo Boost on processors that support it. Based on my understanding of how the VMkernel implements co-stops for SMP virtual machines, it seems anything that causes the frequency of CPUs to bounce around unevenly would cause an increase in jitter with a corresponding uptick in CPU ready time. Can anyone explain to me why I'm wrong and the KB is right?
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Oct 13, 2015 14:59
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Vulture Culture posted:I noticed in VMware's knowledge base that they recommend enabling Turbo Boost on processors that support it. Based on my understanding of how the VMkernel implements co-stops for SMP virtual machines, it seems anything that causes the frequency of CPUs to bounce around unevenly would cause an increase in jitter with a corresponding uptick in CPU ready time. Can anyone explain to me why I'm wrong and the KB is right? Intel Turbo Boost is capped by physical CPU limits, primarily thermal. If you server's are in a controlled environment like a DC then you shouldn't see major thermal variations and therefore the upper-limit of CPU frequency with Turbo Boost should be static. CPU frequency increases with demand so unless you are running some very weird workloads the amount of jitter shouldn't be noticeable.
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Oct 13, 2015 17:38
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cheese-cube posted:unless you are running some very weird workloads 
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Oct 13, 2015 18:01
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cheese-cube posted:Intel Turbo Boost is capped by physical CPU limits, primarily thermal. If you server's are in a controlled environment like a DC then you shouldn't see major thermal variations and therefore the upper-limit of CPU frequency with Turbo Boost should be static. CPU frequency increases with demand so unless you are running some very weird workloads the amount of jitter shouldn't be noticeable. Wouldn't the majority of the jitter come from the CPU shutting down/restarting pipelines (since it has to stop some cores to free up TDP to ramp up the remaining cores to full clock). The shutdown's cheap, but the latency in restarting is going to be expensive.
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Oct 13, 2015 18:07
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ragzilla posted:Wouldn't the majority of the jitter come from the CPU shutting down/restarting pipelines (since it has to stop some cores to free up TDP to ramp up the remaining cores to full clock). The shutdown's cheap, but the latency in restarting is going to be expensive.
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Oct 13, 2015 18:20
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ragzilla posted:Wouldn't the majority of the jitter come from the CPU shutting down/restarting pipelines (since it has to stop some cores to free up TDP to ramp up the remaining cores to full clock). The shutdown's cheap, but the latency in restarting is going to be expensive. This would only occur if your hardware was in an environment which has an unstable ambient temperature that would affect maximum TDP. Turbo Boost increases the clock frequency in increments of ~100 Mhz so should you have a stable ambient temperature then Turbo Boost will find the stable operating clock-speed accounting for TDP.
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Anyone know of a mechanism to run commands remotely and get the output using the **vmomi SDK, similar in functionality to the Invoke-VMScript? I can launch processes with StartProgramInGuest but it only gives a return code; you can't see any output, and there doesn't seem to be any easy way to get output back out in any way. I can redirect it to a file, and I can move files around, but there doesn't seem to be a way to read them. Possibly I can use InitiateFileTransferFromGuest but that's super hacky and there's got to be a better way Bhodi fucked around with this message at 15:37 on Oct 20, 2015 |
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Oct 20, 2015 15:34
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Messing around with the ESXi web client, this thing can't become production ready fast enough 
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Oct 21, 2015 08:03
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So with HP going downhill and Cisco being gently caress Cisco what is everyone using for switching these days? My only other experience is with PowerConnects or Force10 switches. Is there anything else out there worth looking at?
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Oct 21, 2015 18:07
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Internet Explorer posted:So with HP going downhill and Cisco being gently caress Cisco what is everyone using for switching these days? My only other experience is with PowerConnects or Force10 switches. Is there anything else out there worth looking at? Access or datacenter? If the latter, check out Arista.
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Oct 21, 2015 18:10
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Internet Explorer posted:So with HP going downhill and Cisco being gently caress Cisco what is everyone using for switching these days? My only other experience is with PowerConnects or Force10 switches. Is there anything else out there worth looking at? Doing a lot with Arista and Juniper these days.
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Oct 21, 2015 18:11
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1000101 posted:Doing a lot with Arista and Juniper these days. I am really enjoying working with Juniper gear for switching/routing/firewall.
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Oct 21, 2015 18:20
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Datacenter. Thanks for the quick suggestions. Will check out both. Never even heard of Arista. Must be getting slow in my old age.
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Oct 21, 2015 18:23
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Large datacenter is using Juniper, another Cisco. Some smaller branch-and-subdepartment "datacenters" (data closets with two or three 48U racks) have been doing great on
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Internet Explorer posted:Datacenter.
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Is running OS X on ESXi still technically even legal (based on the El Capitan EULA) on Apple hardware? (iii) to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software, for purposes of: (a) software development; (b) testing during software development; (c) using OS X Server; or (d) personal, noncommercial use. The "that is already running the apple software" parts seems to be saying to me that "oh hay, it's cool to run this in vmware fusion or virtual box or something", but not "it's cool guys, run this in ESXi". All the discussion I've seen about it has primarily been 2-5 years old.
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I'm seeing some strange behavior occasionally when cloning from template. Sometimes shortly after powering on for the first time, DRS moves a VM from one host to another because it's lost heartbeat. If this happens while guest customization is still going on the customization complete event is never written in tasks & events. This would not be a problem normally, but vRA appears to key on this event to determine that customization has finished, and without it the request just gets stuck in the CustomizeOS status. I've compared the guestcust.log between machines that finish normally and ones that didn't, and found a couple of discrepancies. In a "good" build I see this: [2015-10-23T10:11:18 DEBUG] Rpci: Sent request='deployPkg.update.state 5 0 C:\Windows\TEMP\vmware-imc\guestcust.log', reply='', len=0, status=1 vs this in a "bad" one: [2015-10-23T10:11:31 DEBUG] Rpci: Sent request='deployPkg.update.state 5 0 C:\Windows\TEMP\vmware-imc\guestcust.log', reply='Unknown command', len=15, status=1 The bad one also has this: [2015-10-23T10:11:31 ERROR] Unable to set customization status in vmx. That last one seems pretty damning, but I don't understand what's different about these builds that causes that communication to fail. Couldn't find anything pertinent in the KB either. Any ideas?
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Oct 23, 2015 18:35
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Is there a build list for a nice cheap home lab? I'm looking to dump esxi 6.0 on something to build a test domain for 2016 servers. I spare parted together a c2q 8gb system, but Dell doesn't put freaking vt-x in their bios. So I'd probably just want mb/cpu/mem or something and step up everything a notch. I see cheap Dell 1650 servers on ebay for $200, but that would probably cost $40 a month in electricity alone.
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If you're talking about a PowerEdge 1650 then those are essentially useless garbage at this point. You can probably find a 1950 for those kinds of prices and those are literally the lowest end I'd go with a Dell. That said I probably wouldn't even bother with rack equipment unless you have a need for it. If 2016 is close enough to 2012R2 then you should be able to get away with a Proxmox setup on commodity intel desktop hardware.
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is there anything built into hyper-v that would allow me to replicate VMs to other storage? We acquired another bank and they outsourced all of the servers to an outfit that hosts on hyper-v. I have not even had a chance to talk to the hosting company yet, but I wanted to have an idea if there was a built in replication option in hyper-v or if I was going to have to stick some replicating storage in their datacenter.
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Philthy posted:Is there a build list for a nice cheap home lab? I'm looking to dump esxi 6.0 on something to build a test domain for 2016 servers. If you keep an eye on slickdeals, ThinkServer towers come up pretty often in the $200-300 range.
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Philthy posted:Is there a build list for a nice cheap home lab? I'm looking to dump esxi 6.0 on something to build a test domain for 2016 servers.
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adorai posted:Honestly an AMD athlon 5350 and motherboard can be had in the $80 range, so you just need case power supply and ram. Quad core, 2GHz, easily enough CPU for 16-20 VMs in a lab. Thanks, ill look into this. Sounds about what I need. Ive lost track of PC specs ages ago.
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Oct 24, 2015 04:07
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adorai posted:is there anything built into hyper-v that would allow me to replicate VMs to other storage? We acquired another bank and they outsourced all of the servers to an outfit that hosts on hyper-v. I have not even had a chance to talk to the hosting company yet, but I wanted to have an idea if there was a built in replication option in hyper-v or if I was going to have to stick some replicating storage in their datacenter. Look at Zerto for storage agnostic replication and even Hyper-V to ESX replication.
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Potato Salad posted:Large datacenter is using Juniper, another Cisco. Some smaller branch-and-subdepartment "datacenters" (data closets with two or three 48U racks) have been doing great on We've be running Dell N4000's without complaint. Will probably switch out for Junipers next year to better integrate with our upstream provider for link aggregation but they've handled everything we throw at them just fine.
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I've been asked to find a way to validate I/O performance of new esx instances as they come available to make sure there weren't any crossed wires or anything, because there was apparently a problem recently where pathing was configured wrong and clogged the whole thing up. Are there any tools that will do this for me? Otherwise, I'm going to have to write something to spin up a dozen vms and run bonnie on them or something, and I really don't want to do that.
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Bhodi posted:I've been asked to find a way to validate I/O performance of new esx instances as they come available to make sure there weren't any crossed wires or anything, because there was apparently a problem recently where pathing was configured wrong and clogged the whole thing up. https://labs.vmware.com/flings/io-analyzer will probably do the trick. Also check the CDP/LLDP hints if you want to verify cabling for your ESXi hosts. Should tell you what switches and what switch ports they're connected to. In the web client, select a host-->manage-->networking-->virtual switches. If you're on a dvs, select it and expand out the uplinks and click the little blue 'i.'
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yeah, this is my boss wanting a third party auth / report to sanity check our vm techs who cabled and configured the thing, since they didn't catch it the first time. I've forwarded that link along to see if it's more of what they're looking for, thanks!
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adorai posted:Honestly an AMD athlon 5350 and motherboard can be had in the $80 range, so you just need case power supply and ram. Quad core, 2GHz, easily enough CPU for 16-20 VMs in a lab. Just wanted to say thank you for this. I picked this up and an Gigabyte AM1 board, 16GB of memory slapped it into my previous case, injected the Realtek drivers into the ESXI 6 install and now I've got a 2016 domain up and going with hardly a dent in CPU and memory usage after 3 VMs up and going. I feel embarrassed to say this is my first AMD purchase. It's doing the job well. Edit: On a side note, does anyone know why VMWare blacklists anything Realtek? Is it just because the drivers/hardware is deemed too unreliable to be supported or something? Or is it more nefarious? Philthy fucked around with this message at 04:27 on Oct 27, 2015 |
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