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How good are the save my server 1750s and whatnot? I really need a home server for practicing new and exciting stuff but most servers I come across are expensive?
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Im thinking of beefing up my Desktop to do some home learning. Is the main bottleneck for running VMs the hard drive speed? I already have a nice quadcore CPU, but I'm loath to spend a lot on SSDs. I just want to learn the ins/outs using ESXI and whatever, probably with virtualbox like in the OP. Will I hate myself without them or would getting a couple more regular drives and tons of RAM be fine?
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Apr 19, 2012 23:09
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I know VMconverter lets you go physical to virtual, does it let you do the reverse as well? I'm a retard/not too knowledgeable on it yet so this may be a stupid question.
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Apr 20, 2012 15:35
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I was checking through the VCP schools list in the OP, are any of those in Western PA near/in Pittsburgh? I don't see anything obviously in PA and Im new to the area and can't tell by the names alone. If no one has a guess I'll just try asking VMware.
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May 1, 2012 01:47
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Are there online versions that count as the class requirement for the VCP? I agree its retarded how you have to choose between CRASH COURSE CORPORATE MONEY BLEED 2k12 versus take forever CC.
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May 1, 2012 19:46
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I'm in the same boat and can teach myself poo poo but thats useless if I can't fulfillt he classroom requirement. I don't think anyone teaches it around here anyway, plus I don't really have time since, you know, I have a loving job.
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May 1, 2012 20:34
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Yah I checked everything and there is gently caress all around here besides the fast track/5 day courses that are $3495 and up. Ugh.
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May 2, 2012 02:05
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I'm messing around with ESXI, finally. But I'm wanting to test more of the networking and clustering. But I'm a bit limited on processing/space, is there a super slim linux distro or anything like it out there that just has basic networking, a shell and a few other features that is also very small in terms of disk space and other overhead? I mostly just want to test networking numerous machines together and that sort of thing without installing larger OS's like Windows servers etc.
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Jun 6, 2012 02:00
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I'm reading through that EMC storage book because I don't know that much about storage hardware. While I find the more practical aspects about NAS/SAN easy to pick up, a lot of the extra details I find a bit involved. Do I really give a poo poo about the frames in a SAN that much down to what each set of bytes is doing?
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Jul 2, 2012 17:48
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I suppose. I meant more along the lines of how often would you use such knowledge? For instance, I can set up networks and have an intermediate understanding of how it works, but I couldn't tell you the exact structure of a packet because it almost never relates to the tasks I tend to be doing.
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Jul 2, 2012 19:07
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I just ordered 2 SSDs and 16gb of RAM (32 was out of my range), can't wait to have my home lab not suck!!
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Jul 18, 2012 12:56
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Is there a vCenter iso/installer package for a trial version somewhere on the vmware site? I cannot dig the thing up for the life of me and I want to install it under Win2k8 Server. When I login to myvmware or whatever it says I can't download the iso for vCenter server with everything on it and I can't seem to enable any kind of evaluation anywhere. This is just for a home lab.
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Jul 29, 2012 00:05
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theperminator posted:You can start a free trial of the vSphere server here: http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/mid-size-and-enterprise-business/overview.html vSphere != vCenter ?
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Jul 29, 2012 15:09
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Has anybody used the vCenter Server Appliance here? I like deploying from the OVF and instantly having it set up along with an embedded database (this is a practice environment) but the web interface seems to be unresponsive/slow as balls. Is this normal? I can connect it via vSphere no problem, but something about seems clunky like I either did something wrong or its just bad. And its not like my system is slowing it down.
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Aug 1, 2012 13:19
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Yah I dont care about updates for a home lab, I just want to work with vSphere/vMotion etc and get cranking but the appliance runs like poo poo in the web interface. Maybe I just need to give it more resources. And this is connecting to it on a VMnetwork (VMnet2 or one of those) in workstation from a VM Win 7 machine.
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Aug 1, 2012 21:07
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Those who have taken the VCP5 exam, were there a lot of limits questions on it like "what is the max number of VMs per host etc?"
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Sep 24, 2012 17:41
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Ok cool, I have a guide with all kinds of maximums on it and I was like who gives a poo poo about these because really I can look them up on the off chance I have a need to install 50 floppy drives.
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Sep 24, 2012 18:59
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Is there a newer tech preview out for workstation? The one from July is expired now and I would like to keep using workstation. I searched but can't find a key or anything.
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Oct 29, 2012 16:28
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I just signed up for another 30 day trial, I guess that will have to hold me for now. Does anyone have a good recommendation for VCP5 study notes that follow the blue print/have good links to the vmware documentation within? I found these notes http://vinfrastructure.it/en/certifications-on-virtualization/vcp/vcp5/ but the links in the PDF only work in HTTP format and the ones that are supposed to link to documentation are broken  None of the others listed seem ideal. I have the mastering vsphere book as well but its always nice to follow the vendor blueprint along with additional notes from people.
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Oct 29, 2012 21:02
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I'm surprised they don't make a custom Linux appliance with vSphere on it that you can load up, say in a VM and then use that to manage everything, which frees them up from Windows installs. They could probably expand the vCenter appliance similarly.
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Oct 31, 2012 21:17
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mstsc is poo poo get a tabbed client you cavemen. I use multidesk and its really simple and nice.
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Nov 1, 2012 13:28
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 when I google searched a long time ago for tabbed RDP that doesn't even come up. Good job microsoft.
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Nov 1, 2012 14:36
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Is there a good online resource for jumping into Xen Server? I have some knowledge of VMware but I'm going to start a job where everything is hosted on Xen Server so welp.
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Jan 3, 2013 15:31
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Is anyone here a Xen expert? I am trying to use the xe CLI to get basic info about various servers. However, despite using the right credentials I continually get an authentication failed. I am running a command like this: code:XenCenter works fine on the machine I am trying this from, I don't understand what the gently caress is going on. The logs on the target machine show that a connection was established but says nothing about failure. The workstation is a W2k8 server going to various hosts.
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Nev posted:This may be a stupid question, but I can't find a good answer using Google. I have disabled defragmentation in every Windows guest OS since it is not meant to be of any use, but what about Linux operating systems? Should the occasional fsck on boot be disabled as well? I was under the impression you don't need to defrag under linux.
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