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adorai posted:1) Get 2x HA pairs of Oracle Sun 7320 storage. How are these working out for you? Is the performance good? Have you tested HA on them? I am curious because I am a huge ZFS fan and some real world experience with Oracle/ Sun gear would be nice.
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That's great to hear, does Oracle have a roadmap for the systems? I don't want to buy/advise something with no upgrade path.... Is this your primary storage? If not why not?
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Jun 28, 2013 17:22
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evil_bunnY posted:The problem with oracle ZFS is that 80% of their core engineers left after they closed Solaris. Not to defend Oracle or something but isn't this the problem almost anywhere? EMC has lost a couple of their directors who started another company and build the XIV. NetApp is laying off 800 people and other tech companier are doing the same.
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Jun 28, 2013 20:22
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Misogynist posted:The bigger problem is that the divergent ZFS codebases mean that many more independent vendors are using Illumos ZFS than Oracle ZFS. Oracle now has vendor lock-in on their formerly open-source filesystem, while the competition doesn't. True, Version 28 is going to be the best version I guess.
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Jun 28, 2013 21:14
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I've been looking into OpenStack a lot recently and from what I've seen the technology is pretty good but, like others have said, pretty rough around the edges. It's built for VMs that are not long lived. For many businesses this will probably not be a good fit. I've also been looking at Cloudstack and that looks much better. Combined with Ceph it seems like you can built a pretty awesome cluster on relatively simple hardware.
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Jul 1, 2013 08:03
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L2ARC is the caching mechanism that ZFS uses. You create a pool of disks and to that pool you add a cache disk. ESXi only supports one physical processor. KVM here you come  I run Ubuntu 13.04 with KVM and ZFS. Works pretty awesome.
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Jul 1, 2013 13:56
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jre posted:The free version of esxi has no limits on physical cpus, The essentials versions have a two socket limit. Well scratch my remark. Thought i read it somewhere.
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Jul 1, 2013 14:02
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I have an 128GB SSD in my main machine and I have a ISCSI drive hooked up to my ZFS box for Origin and Steam. 83GB of games is a bit much on an 128GB SSD. No messing about with programs that don't understand UNC networkdrives. It behaves like a disk and works perfectly. When Battlefield loads a map it sometimes goes up to 200Mbps. This is on Ubuntu running LIO.
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Jul 6, 2013 09:17
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dont change my name posted:What's a good libvirt front end for KVM? Something nice and easy with lots of gui and charts and things. Ovirt?
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Feb 6, 2014 14:28
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Kachunkachunk posted:You're my favourite grump in this thread. The webclient looks awful next to the clean vsphere client. It looks like SCVMM, which feels cluttered.
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Jul 16, 2014 05:37
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:They work basically the same, only IIRC hyper-V has some of the built in plugins install in it's tools for VSS on exchange and SQL servers to quiesce the filesystem and DBS. Does anyone have any real experience with this? We have some challenges with VMware that, due to the way its snapshotting works, we can't make consistent snapshot as many times as we'd like because of the VM stuns when it starts replaying the redo file into the VM after a snapshot. I read that HyperV works differently and does not have this problem but I haven't found anything conclusive.
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Jul 23, 2014 05:43
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Install Windows 8 and use HyperV? Do you have a SSD in it? I think Hyper V performs much better than VB. An SSD is always a good choice.
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Knighty21 posted:Is the vmware box located on the same PC you're accessing it on? RDP is very efficient. The console is like emulating the vid card.
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I don't exactly know where to put this but here goes: Does anyone know if Linux bridging works under Hyper-V? I've been trying to setup bridging for LXC and I am having a hell of a time getting the containers to work. I've tried the following Linux sysctls: net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-arptables = 0 net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-ip6tables = 0 net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables = 0 To disable any filtering but I still can't get DHCP to work or ping another machine (but the Linux host ) from a container. I've created a br0 with brctl and everything looks right, but it does not work. This is making me doubt the networking part of Hyper-V. Any clues?
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Dec 28, 2014 18:19
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Thanks Ants posted:Is this any good? No dice, I hoped that would be it but it does not seem to work. It's also pretty horrible to pinpoint where it goes bad. If anyone else has an idea, please let me know.
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Well my problem of Linux bridging not working in Hyper-V turned out be a simple checkbox. Turn on "Enable MAC address spoofing" in the advanced features of the VM nic and BAM! it works. Now to get that day back I spent troubleshooting this....... 
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Dec 29, 2014 21:37
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Misogynist posted:All you lollygagging young'uns complaining about Microsoft licensing need to try pricing a datacenter-wide IBM product rollout by Processor Value Units. Or Oracle. "Is a core 75% of a normal processor or is that hyperthreading". pfffff
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Jan 9, 2015 09:01
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evol262 posted:Imagine IBM pricing every POWER system at 1 processor unit so you get a deal on Tivoli, then turning the screws as you slowly migrate to x86, with every additional SMP core being counted, then every additional SMT core, so it's 2012 and you can't even buy a server with less than 8 "cores", so your licensing costs have gone from $1M/yr to $15M/yr, See boneheaded moves. And they wonder why people are not buying IBM anymore. We had Tivoli backup, my god the per TB licensing was insane.
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Are there any gotchas for Vsphere 5.5 update 2 that I need to be aware off? We are updating our cluster at the end of the week because of some VSS errors and some other things relating to the VMCI driver.
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Feb 19, 2015 06:32
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evol262 posted:It's because they're developers who have never worked as admins/engineers dealing with it. And we don't consider VMware competition. Product management certainly does, but what VMware is or isn't doing doesn't really matter to us when we're working, individually. Because the terminology is useful, if people come from a MS shop they will ask about Active Directory like features. It is easier if your people know that they are talking about centralized management of users and some SSO stuff instead of "No, we don't do that." It makes it easier for customers if you can compare stuff by its name. IMHO.
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Double post?
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EuphrosyneD posted:Newbie question about automatic virtual machine activation in Hyper-V ahead. The hardware should be the same, Hyper-V in 8.1 is the same as in 2012R2 so it should work. One of the use cases MS talks about is developers migrating their VMs to their local 8.1 workstations from Hyper-V clusters, so theoretically you should be fine. It would be dumb that in scenario like this you would need to reactivate the VM. Could be that you would need a KMS server instead of MAK keys though. But, as with everything, I would test it first. 
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KS posted:That is loving stupid. Question everything else you're "learning" from him. It's actually critically important in an environment where L2 is spanned across sites, because you want to be very careful and deliberate about traffic going across your WAN. If the WAN is just a leg in the network, an extension of the normal network, why would you need to worry about traffic going over it? You want it as transparent as possible. Granted you would put servers that need services from each other close together. You can have affinity with servers located close to where your users are so as to not make the WAN a bottleneck. We have a 100 mbit linkup to another DC that also runs the same IP space, so in the event of a failover we can just power-on servers without needing to worry about reassigning IP addresses or DNS entries. If the connection is reliable, get two at least from different providers, I don't see the need to split-up your network and make things harder for yourself in the event of a fail-over. Mr Shiny Pants fucked around with this message at 18:22 on Apr 3, 2015 |
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Erwin posted:You say this as if IT companies aren't known for charging for software features. Cisco Nexus VM anyone?
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Apr 3, 2015 18:45
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SlayVus posted:Using the dells as clients, not to run virtual machines. No, the point is you use server resources. The Dell machines are just dumb clients performing the least processing necessary.
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May 21, 2015 06:59
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Internet Explorer posted:Yes, Hyper-V on Windows 8 allows you to create VMs. It'll even do Gen2 VMs which work with most Linux and newer Windows versions. It is pretty nice and really, really fast..
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Jun 1, 2015 06:00
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madsushi posted:So the web client guys have moved on to containers, got it. Nice loving webclient Vulture Culture posted:Here's everything you need to know in a few paragraphs. This is great, thanks. Mr Shiny Pants fucked around with this message at 10:00 on Jun 12, 2015 |
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Jun 12, 2015 09:54
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DevNull posted:Hopefully the success of the embedded host client (I hate the name) will convince the higher ups that we need to focus on html5 and dump flash fast. I've been watching this trainwreck for something like 5 years now. Can we still also love the C# client? Please....
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Aug 18, 2015 19:58
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DevNull posted:It has no future. It was kept on life support only because of the problems with the web client. The embedded client is more likely to get good support than the C# client. Weird how a company that says that it listens to it's customers will discontinue a feature that is well loved by the same customers.
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Wow, this might be something I will try. Windows 10 is not for me, but I do have some games I want to play. If I could run a VM with decent framerates and use a Steam Link to display it on my TV.....
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My TS440 has an PCIe 16x lane slot and I have a spare 660GTX. Might try something in a couple of days.
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I don't think that is possible, maybe with some scripts. But if it takes a reboot then you can just as well dual boot. The nice thing about this is that I can make my main machine a Linux or OSX box and still play my PC games without dual booting. Luckily my TS440 has onboard video so I can just use that for the host OS and run the Windows VM with a dedicated GPU attached. It would be awesome if you could partition your vid card, didn't some Nvidia cards allow this? One third for the main OS and maybe two thirds for the VMs.
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So if I flash my 660GTX to UEFI firmware, use the OVMF bios in my VM and have my server boot in UEFI mode this should work? Cool I can try that. The steamlink is just a way to disable having to have a physical keyboard and monitor attached.
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Martytoof posted:It's hard to say. I mean in a perfect world you're going to want the fastest everything. Anecdotally speaking I don't really see a huge performance boost between my Dell 1950-IIIs with ECC-DDR2-whatever and my new R620 with ECC-DDR3-whatever, at least in the applications I run on my homelab, so I'm sort of going with the whole "throw your money at other parts of the system" viewpoint. I think the highest memory-intensive application I run is Splunk, then Hercules. If either has been impacted by faster memory then I doubt I'd notice. Yeah, memory could be a few percent and is really not that noticeable. Making the choice between SSDs or spinning rust however..........
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DevNull posted:It was definitely a holy war getting it to this point. There was a lot of political resistance along the way. I bet they fired him, kicking up a storm like that. I hope not, but I would not be surprised.
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DevNull posted:No, he is good. The director that was backing him is now actually a VP, so he has even better protection. Cool
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Mar 18, 2016 16:52
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^^ this. This whole devops poo poo is getting out of hand.
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HPL posted:I just figured out there's a Windows QXL driver on the virtio Windows ISO. What a difference. Now video performance is smoother and mouse response is way, way better. I just use RDP.........
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Mar 21, 2016 19:44
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NippleFloss posted:Agreed, VEEAM is the best option here. Volume based replication will require something like SRM to automate the adding to inventory and re-ip work. Veeam replication was built to do this. Veeam is great, testing your DR/replicated VMs in an isolated network to see of they really do come up is really really slick.
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I can't imagine people willingly buying new Oracle stuff when given the chance. I'd rather not use software than have to deal with Oracle. "Yes I would gladly pay a lot of money to a vendor and get abused everytime they think of some new licensing trickery."
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