What Are You Doing Right Now
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Updating production server iDRAC firmware... again. Apparently you can't jump from 1.66.65 to 2.40.40.40 without an intermediate version. Hooray for tedium!
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Updating production server iDRAC firmware... again. Apparently you can't jump from 1.66.65 to 2.40.40.40 without an intermediate version. Hooray for tedium!
lol why did you allow yourself to be so far behind?
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Updating production server iDRAC firmware... again. Apparently you can't jump from 1.66.65 to 2.40.40.40 without an intermediate version. Hooray for tedium!
lol why did you allow yourself to be so far behind?
Good question. I guess I just updated BIOS and forgot the FW. Until they all started throwing 1004 errors, which is a bug in the FW itself.
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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.
