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    • DashrenderD
      Dashrender @RojoLoco
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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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      • RojoLocoR
        RojoLoco @Dashrender
        last edited by

        @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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        • RojoLocoR
          RojoLoco
          last edited by

          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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          • DashrenderD
            Dashrender @RojoLoco
            last edited by

            @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.

            https://mangolassi.it/topic/12126/p2v-windows-2008-r2

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            • RojoLocoR
              RojoLoco @Dashrender
              last edited by

              @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.

              https://mangolassi.it/topic/12126/p2v-windows-2008-r2

              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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              • DustinB3403D
                DustinB3403 @RojoLoco
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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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                • RojoLocoR
                  RojoLoco @DustinB3403
                  last edited by RojoLoco

                  @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!

                  0_1484259341978_1bu888.jpg

                  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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                  • DashrenderD
                    Dashrender
                    last edited by

                    Do you get new hardware with this too?

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                    • RojoLocoR
                      RojoLoco @Dashrender
                      last edited by

                      @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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                      • DashrenderD
                        Dashrender
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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

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                        • RojoLocoR
                          RojoLoco @Dashrender
                          last edited by

                          @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-windows

                          Good 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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                          • MattSpellerM
                            MattSpeller @Dashrender
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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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                            • RojoLocoR
                              RojoLoco @MattSpeller
                              last edited by

                              @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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                              • MattSpellerM
                                MattSpeller @RojoLoco
                                last edited by MattSpeller

                                @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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                                • MattSpellerM
                                  MattSpeller
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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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                                  • DashrenderD
                                    Dashrender @MattSpeller
                                    last edited by

                                    @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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                                    • DashrenderD
                                      Dashrender @RojoLoco
                                      last edited by

                                      @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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                                      • RojoLocoR
                                        RojoLoco @Dashrender
                                        last edited by

                                        @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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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller
                                          last edited by

                                          Oldest has a fever. Everyone seems to be a bit sick around here.

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                                          • MattSpellerM
                                            MattSpeller @scottalanmiller
                                            last edited by

                                            @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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