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Boris Galerkin posted:To update Virtualbox on Windows (10) do I just run the new installer? Do I need to uninstall or anything first?
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I was hoping updating fixed it but it didn't. Every time i try to shut down my computer (the actual vm host, windows 10) I get a message saying virtualbox has prevented shutdown for some reason. It seems to have just started happening some weeks ago when I updated virtualbox. I guess I'll just manually uninstall and reinstall to see if it fixes things. I'm assuming after I reinstall it I can join point my new virtualbox installation at the image files/virtual hard drives and not have to do anything else?
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Nov 28, 2016 13:14
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Boris Galerkin posted:I was hoping updating fixed it but it didn't. Every time i try to shut down my computer (the actual vm host, windows 10) I get a message saying virtualbox has prevented shutdown for some reason. It seems to have just started happening some weeks ago when I updated virtualbox. I guess I'll just manually uninstall and reinstall to see if it fixes things.
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Nov 28, 2016 22:45
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So I am the Desktop Support Manager/jack of all trades IT person in my ~140 user department in my organization. My predecessor set up an old desktop running Windows 2008 R2 serving as a print server and Filemaker Pro server. It has been in service now for probably about five years, and I really want to replace it. Other than some very minimal lab experience with vSphere (and desktop OS testing with Workstation), I haven't worked much with VMWare products, but I would really like to virtualize this setup on new hardware. I've gotten approval to purchase real (low end) server hardware, (I'm leaning toward a PowerEdge T330 server), and have acquired a vSphere 6 license from our central IT department. I'm sure that I could stumble into getting this setup up and running by guessing at settings, but I'd really like to know what I'm selecting and why I'm selecting it. Is there a particular book that would cover everything I would need starting out on this? I know that the OP has Mastering vSphere 5 book listed as a recommendation, is the version 6 book still a go to? In terms of servers, is a PowerEdge T330 with 16 GB of RAM and RAID 1 SSD's going to be enough for a setup running two VM's for about 140 users in the same building?
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Nov 30, 2016 20:43
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Any VMware Horizon/View users out there with Zero Clients? Teradici PCoIP firmware greater than 5.0.2 will cause USB redirection issues with some devices. Broke redirection for scanners that a handful of people use here.
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Dec 1, 2016 00:17
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Greetings VM gurus. This is a very simple question and I apologize if it should be obvious to me from the OP or other sources: I have a Synology NAS (DS1515+) and would like to be able to host VMs on it that I can connect to from outside of home. I use Citrix for work and VMWare Fusion for Linux on my MacBook Pro but haven't the faintest idea what packages/software I would need to install on the Synology to be able to host and access a VM. Are there any free solutions for this kind of thing?
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Dec 1, 2016 19:22
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Smashing Link posted:Greetings VM gurus. This is a very simple question and I apologize if it should be obvious to me from the OP or other sources: Hosting a VM directly on the NAS probably isn't going to give you good performance results. I know there is a Docker package, so depending on what you want to do, that may work. Can you elaborate a little more on your use case? Edit: Looks like you can sideload VirtualBox as well. http://www.wijngaard.org/running-virtualbox-on-synology-nas/ Moey fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Dec 1, 2016 |
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Dec 1, 2016 21:24
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Hopefully easy question here. I have 3 ESXI servers, connecting to a netapp over iSCSI. One volume is a big VMFS volume for all the vmware disks and whatnot. I need to give a couple of the virtual machines an additional disk each for things like exchange database, or for a file server. Each volume they'd need would come in 3TB+. What's the best way to accomplish that? I've been advised not to let the virtual machines themselves create an iscsi connection to the SAN directly. I can create another datastore for each application in ESXI, create a 4TB disk or whatever, and just attach it to the vm as an additional disk. Is this retarded, or is there something better to do?
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Dec 1, 2016 22:06
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I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this, but I want to make sure I'm not wrong. Can I access the files on my main OS's storage from within VirtualBox? I'm thinking no.
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Dec 2, 2016 00:17
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this, but I want to make sure I'm not wrong. Can I access the files on my main OS's storage from within VirtualBox? I'm thinking no. You can, it's called shared folders https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html#sharedfolders
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Dec 2, 2016 00:18
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Moey posted:Hosting a VM directly on the NAS probably isn't going to give you good performance results. I know there is a Docker package, so depending on what you want to do, that may work. Thanks -- this is exactly what I was looking for. I realize it may not blow the doors off but I upgraded the RAM on my Synology to 16GB so hopefully it'll do. Much appreciated.
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Dec 2, 2016 02:37
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:Hopefully easy question here. I have 3 ESXI servers, connecting to a netapp over iSCSI. One volume is a big VMFS volume for all the vmware disks and whatnot. Expand the existing datastore (if possible) or create a new datastore/datastores and create VMDKs on those and attach them to the servers. Don't overthink it. Only reason to split it up outside of not being able to grow the LUN any further is if you're doing array based snapshots and want to have different snapshot scheduled on some VMs/VMDKs. That's assuming you're on a relatively recent release of ESXi that supports the ATS primitive, so you don't have to worry as much about lock contention. Also, consider doing NFS instead of iSCSI.
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Dec 2, 2016 02:52
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big money big clit posted:Also, consider doing NFS instead of iSCSI.
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Dec 2, 2016 11:34
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Playing around with the new AWS Storage Gateway that exposes S3 directly via NFS to your local server.....  
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Dec 3, 2016 02:08
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Wicaeed posted:Playing around with the new AWS Storage Gateway that exposes S3 directly via NFS to your local server..... test it 
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Dec 3, 2016 14:36
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DAF's anime collection is ready to upload. What's even the right unit for that? 8 exabytes?
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Dec 3, 2016 15:15
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That bar is never going to show usage
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Dec 3, 2016 15:43
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So all of Amazon AWS would grind to a halt if you somehow managed to fill that up?
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Dec 3, 2016 15:45
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Let's just say AWS is probably not the bottleneck
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Dec 3, 2016 17:14
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I'm going to migrate my buddy's lab VMs to S3 NFS then be all "Nope, Datastore looks fine" when he complains about speed.
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Dec 3, 2016 18:48
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At gigabit speed that would take 18641351 hours to fill, or 776722 days, or 2128 years.
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Dec 3, 2016 18:51
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Methanar posted:At gigabit speed that would take 18641351 hours to fill, or 776722 days, or 2128 years. Amazon has a faster way to fill it. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-snowmobile-move-exabytes-of-data-to-the-cloud-in-weeks/
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Dec 3, 2016 19:17
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bull3964 posted:Amazon has a faster way to fill it. Okay, that's cute advertising material.
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Dec 3, 2016 19:42
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bull3964 posted:Amazon has a faster way to fill it. 
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Dec 3, 2016 21:37
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Dec 3, 2016 21:45
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Mysteries abound with my issue of the default 6.5 Intel x710 drivers not working with NetApp. http://www.vmware.com/resources/com...r&sortOrder=Asc VMware is moving from vmklinux drivers to native drivers and instead of incrementing the version numbers they are leaving it to you, the poor sucker who has to run this poo poo, to just guess that the lower rev number is actually the most current driver. But the native driver has some kind of compatibility issue with NetApp so you can't use it at the moment, though it might get fixed at some point. Maybe. Who knows. So now I get to go talk to NetApp and VMware support at the same time and I expect it to be the most painful experience in the world.
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Dec 5, 2016 22:32
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:Mysteries abound with my issue of the default 6.5 Intel x710 drivers not working with NetApp. We had nothing but sadness and purple screens with the x710 drivers and vmware, it was bad enough we said gently caress it and switched out fleet back to the x520s 
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Dec 5, 2016 22:47
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Maneki Neko posted:We had nothing but sadness and purple screens with the x710 drivers and vmware, it was bad enough we said gently caress it and switched out fleet back to the x520s Seconding sadness with x710 and VMware.
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Dec 5, 2016 22:54
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Methanar posted:Seconding sadness with x710 and VMware. *Raises hands* We didn't have sadness, but that's because I specifically specced our hosts with 520's after talking with former colleagues.
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Dec 5, 2016 23:16
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Just specced some hosts with 520s by accident because I didn't see the 710s on the list.
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Dec 5, 2016 23:49
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Any qualms against HPE? I'm unfamiliar with virtualization, and corporate compliance entails us (me) deploying AD/PKI/802.1x/Syslog/ntop services. I'm considering a HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen9 Xeon E5-2620V3 16 GB, and granted no back up server we'll eventually need to lean on the support contract. This is where I'm anticipating support ticket issues might be complicated with 3rd party HDDs or NICs? So would I be a dummy to use 3rd party HDDs/PCi/etc/ Samsung Evo 850 pros in this situation? It looks like both VMware and ntop list compatibility with the Intel X540-T2 (HPE has a version they slap their brand on, I'm assuming it's literally the same unit and if not than BOOTUTIL could flash Intel's standard firmware?) Computer Serf fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Dec 6, 2016 |
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Dec 6, 2016 02:48
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Computer Serf posted:Any qualms against HPE? I'm unfamiliar with visualization, and corporate compliance entails us (me) deploying AD/PKI/802.1x/Syslog/ntop services.
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Dec 6, 2016 03:02
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Methanar posted:Seconding sadness with x710 and VMware. Thirded, but luckily for us we only recently bought the servers so the 1.4.28 driver was available to us straight away. We're still on 5.5 though, disabled TSO/LRO & updated the driver but will have to keep the above driver link for when we upgrade to 6.5 theperminator fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Dec 6, 2016 |
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Dec 6, 2016 03:05
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anthonypants posted:Yes. Yup. Just suck it up and buy everything through supported channels if convenience and "single throat to choke" are paramount, or buy a fuckload of spare parts via eBay or whatever if you are going to go cheap. You can't have it both ways.
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Dec 6, 2016 04:25
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Computer Serf posted:Any qualms against HPE? I'm unfamiliar with virtualization, and corporate compliance entails us (me) deploying AD/PKI/802.1x/Syslog/ntop services. I'm not familiar with HPEs offerings these days, but that's not 16gb of memory, right? Because that's hilariously underpowered as soon as you start putting VMs doing "real" work on it.
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Dec 6, 2016 05:57
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Also: get the loving iLO license.
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Dec 6, 2016 05:59
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evol262 posted:I'm not familiar with HPEs offerings these days, but that's not 16gb of memory, right? Because that's hilariously underpowered as soon as you start putting VMs doing "real" work on it.
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Dec 6, 2016 06:19
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evol262 posted:I'm not familiar with HPEs offerings these days, but that's not 16gb of memory, right? Because that's hilariously underpowered as soon as you start putting VMs doing "real" work on it. 16gb is likely included in the base model. You buy the rest seperately.
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Dec 6, 2016 06:23
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Methanar posted:16gb is likely included in the base model. You buy the rest seperately. I see it supports a max of 3TB (with 24 DIMMs), but I also figure that someone who's considering adding consumer-grade Samsung SSDs isn't upgrading the base spec.
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Docjowles posted:Yup. Just suck it up and buy everything through supported channels if convenience and "single throat to choke" are paramount, or buy a fuckload of spare parts via eBay or whatever if you are going to go cheap. You can't have it both ways. Hmm bare bones built out is about half the price... meaning we could have a full cold backup for the same price as 24/7 enterprise support, so I guess this opens up an option for the suits to meditate on.  evol262 posted:I'm not familiar with HPEs offerings these days, but that's not 16gb of memory, right? Because that's hilariously underpowered as soon as you start putting VMs doing "real" work on it. evol262 posted:I see it supports a max of 3TB (with 24 DIMMs), but I also figure that someone who's considering adding consumer-grade Samsung SSDs isn't upgrading the base spec. welp, guess I'll bump up to 64GB. I'm planning on running a Windows Server 2016, and 2 Linux VMs. It seems like RAM is the where the magic happens in VMs, so the budget proposal just got a bit more magical. Vulture Culture posted:My log servers alone use more than 16 GB. 
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