What Are You Doing Right Now
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Awesome news!!!! I just got the green light for project "E-Ring Hyper-V - Virtualize the Infrastructure"!!! Of course, there will be a testing period (hello, test lab!), but I will soon start P2V-ing older boxes and decommissioning them!
I'll probably be asking some stupid questions very soon, stay tuned for all the excitement!
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Awesome news!!!! I just got the green light for project "E-Ring Hyper-V - Virtualize the Infrastructure"!!! Of course, there will be a testing period (hello, test lab!), but I will soon start P2V-ing older boxes and decommissioning them!
I'll probably be asking some stupid questions very soon, stay tuned for all the excitement!
I just spend the last 4 days P2Ving one 2008 R2 box - I have a good thread on here about it.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Awesome news!!!! I just got the green light for project "E-Ring Hyper-V - Virtualize the Infrastructure"!!! Of course, there will be a testing period (hello, test lab!), but I will soon start P2V-ing older boxes and decommissioning them!
I'll probably be asking some stupid questions very soon, stay tuned for all the excitement!
I just spend the last 4 days P2Ving one 2008 R2 box - I have a good thread on here about it.
I have glanced at that one. I've spun up a couple of 2008R2 P2Vs here in the past, seemed to do OK. But that is a good resource to have handy, I'll be bookmarking it.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Awesome news!!!! I just got the green light for project "E-Ring Hyper-V - Virtualize the Infrastructure"!!! Of course, there will be a testing period (hello, test lab!), but I will soon start P2V-ing older boxes and decommissioning them!
I'll probably be asking some stupid questions very soon, stay tuned for all the excitement!
Cool, just remember Type 1 hypervisors get installed to bare metal!
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Awesome news!!!! I just got the green light for project "E-Ring Hyper-V - Virtualize the Infrastructure"!!! Of course, there will be a testing period (hello, test lab!), but I will soon start P2V-ing older boxes and decommissioning them!
I'll probably be asking some stupid questions very soon, stay tuned for all the excitement!
Cool, just remember Type 1 hypervisors get installed to bare metal!
I'm gonna be installing Hyper-V 2016 on the bare metal. I hope that the hypervisor itself doesn't become an issue.
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Do you get new hardware with this too?
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Do you get new hardware with this too?
It's from a test environment, maybe a year old Dell R430, 64GB, Hex core single CPU. We plan to fill it with 8x drives (either 900GB/10k or 1TB/7.2k) and some more RAM. If this goes well initially, I'm sure they will buy a bigger host machine.
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LOL - don't just throw drives at it, design it. Find out what you need for space and IOPs for it's expected load and then buy what you need
I recently posted a thread about IOPs.
https://mangolassi.it/topic/12142/how-to-measure-in-use-iops-in-windows -
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
LOL - don't just throw drives at it, design it. Find out what you need for space and IOPs for it's expected load and then buy what you need
I recently posted a thread about IOPs.
https://mangolassi.it/topic/12142/how-to-measure-in-use-iops-in-windowsGood point, but we need max on board storage. I plan to run that IOPs test (great link btw) on the systems before moving them. I'm leaning towards the 10k drives, because I know we won't be getting any flash for this thing (yet).
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
LOL - don't just throw drives at it, design it.
F*** that!!
MOAR IOPS!
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@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
LOL - don't just throw drives at it, design it.
F*** that!!
MOAR IOPS!
With an R430 as the host, I'm thinking this is a good approach. But there was some talk of adding a second CPU.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
LOL - don't just throw drives at it, design it.
F*** that!!
MOAR IOPS!
With an R430 as the host, I'm thinking this is a good approach. But there was some talk of adding a second CPU.
You'll run out of I/O (or RAM) before you run out of CPU I'd wager - even with 8 drive OBR RAID10 - this has been my experience anyway. FWIW we run lots of small VM's.
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Just fired up a laptop that smelled like burning death.
Happy to find out it was only human slime getting roasted.
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@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
LOL - don't just throw drives at it, design it.
F*** that!!
MOAR IOPS!
With an R430 as the host, I'm thinking this is a good approach. But there was some talk of adding a second CPU.
You'll run out of I/O (or RAM) before you run out of CPU I'd wager - even with 8 drive OBR RAID10 - this has been my experience anyway. FWIW we run lots of small VM's.
yeah I'm in this boat. Dual socket 6 core - I'm out of IOPs and storage space - RAM isn't really an issue.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
LOL - don't just throw drives at it, design it.
F*** that!!
MOAR IOPS!
With an R430 as the host, I'm thinking this is a good approach. But there was some talk of adding a second CPU.
I'd really suggest spending that money on RAM and disk IOPs instead.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
LOL - don't just throw drives at it, design it.
F*** that!!
MOAR IOPS!
With an R430 as the host, I'm thinking this is a good approach. But there was some talk of adding a second CPU.
I'd really suggest spending that money on RAM and disk IOPs instead.
I was thinking the same. I'll be able to dictate the upgrades for it, but it's nice to know I don't really have a hard budget.
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Oldest has a fever. Everyone seems to be a bit sick around here.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Oldest has a fever. Everyone seems to be a bit sick around here.
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Youngest has a fever too. Ugh
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Youngest has a fever too. Ugh
sorry to hear the family is all down. When are you scheduled to depart?
Just found out my niece hit a fever of 105 this week... seems like it's been going around
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