@Dashrender said in HyperVisor:

@pmoncho said in HyperVisor:

@DustinB3403 said in HyperVisor:

@mroth911 said in HyperVisor:

What kinds of servers do you recommend. I have dell R710. Or should I look for getting better servers? I am going to get all SSD drives.

Those servers are perfectly fine servers, if you wanted to upgrade the storage that's perfect too.

No reason to purchase different equipment unless you needed too for whatever reason.

This is where I get confused. Isn't moving up to a 720-730 about the virtualization technologies in the CPU's vs just having newer processors?

In the past, I could not start VM's on Hyper-V on a Dell R300 because the CPU did not support EPT so I stuck with ESXI. I only have this example so I don't know if it applies with the 710 or not with the newest hypervisors.

I have not dealt with the R7xx line and have been mostly in the R5XX line or lower. Is that the difference?

What year did the Dell R300 come out? the R710 was from 2009 - thats ancient from a hypervisor POV. I'm sure moving up as you mention have that in mind, but that's not all, the performance increase is still likely to be noticeable.

It was like 2007/2008 I believe. I know its old but so is the R710. That is where I was getting confused. I wouldn't think that using an R710 would be worth it to run only 2012R2 Hyper-V or ESXI 6.0 if one wants to really learn.

I am still using the R300 but only because I am still able to run the newest OS VM's. It is SLOW, and stinks but it is what I have to work with at the moment.

@DustinB3403 said in HyperVisor:

@mroth911 said in HyperVisor:

What kinds of servers do you recommend. I have dell R710. Or should I look for getting better servers? I am going to get all SSD drives.

Those servers are perfectly fine servers, if you wanted to upgrade the storage that's perfect too.

No reason to purchase different equipment unless you needed too for whatever reason.

This is where I get confused. Isn't moving up to a 720-730 about the virtualization technologies in the CPU's vs just having newer processors?

In the past, I could not start VM's on Hyper-V on a Dell R300 because the CPU did not support EPT so I stuck with ESXI. I only have this example so I don't know if it applies with the 710 or not with the newest hypervisors.

I have not dealt with the R7xx line and have been mostly in the R5XX line or lower. Is that the difference?

@StorageNinja said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:

@pmoncho said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:

I have not seen any M.2 on dell servers yet

All 14G servers AFAIK support adding in a "BOSS" card that has 2 M.2 slots.
https://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/Dell-PowerEdge-Boot-Optimized-Storage-Solution.pdf

My bad. Forgot about those. It is an additional card though and that is the stinky part.

@Dashrender said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:

@StorageNinja said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:

@DustinB3403 said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:

ESXi recommends SD card, USB is a bit to fragile for the number of writes you'd be making to it.

M.2 SSD is the recomendation. SD cards lack any kind of ECC and the controllers are too dumb to prevent read discards. Throw in the fact that cheap SD cards are slow on boot, you can log local on a M.2, I'd say for non-lab usage M.2 is the recomendation going forward.

If you must go embedded SD card, I'd get at least 32GB as it will likely have fewer read endurance issues.

are servers starting to come with M.2 slots specifically for this? that would make sense - it also makes booting systems much easier I would think.

I have not seen any M.2 on dell servers yet. With that being said, they R840 the OP has, there are two rear 2.5" SATA (HDD/SDD) bays that may/may not be used for a boot device. Have not looked to find out if it is possible though.

@Dashrender said in Writing a Job Posting:

@Carnival-Boy said in Writing a Job Posting:

@JaredBusch said in Writing a Job Posting:

*We currently run on an hourly payment model. The time you bill to clients is what you are paid.
There is no vacation, but the hourly rate accounts for that. If you can't swing taking time off, it is your own fault.

Wow, seems like a tough gig.

Yeah this is pretty uncertain - is there any type of assured number of hours? I mean - i seriously doubt it, but one should ask.

I was thinking about this also. Just figured it would be a question during the interview process vs being listed on the job posting.

Didn't want to get a FFS or WTF!

@Dashrender said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:

@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:

The H330 is like for labs or testing. Shouldn't be found in a production environment. It's a fine card for what it is, just not a production use card

Begs the question why when ordering a server for a specific purpose, they would even ship that out.

Because they are not your IT - at least, they shouldn't be.

I get it, although, to even sell an H330 on a Dell PowerEdge R840 is like selling standard breaks on a Audi A6 and making the driver request anti-lock breaks. While there are some users that prefer standard breaks, my guess would be the amount of users requesting a trade down to standard brakes is minuscule.

Also, Dell does not even have a Celeron processor on the list for anything higher than a T340. Logic tells me they know its is not a good idea. Apparently selling an H330 on a T/R440 or higher hasn't hit the "not a good idea" level yet.

EDIT - Reread my post - Dell just gets under my skin sometimes! Didn't mean to come off jerky.

Do you have any of these policies set?

User -> Policies -> Admin Templates -> Start Menu/Taskbar -> Remove Notifications and Action Center

User -> Policies -> Admin Templates -> Start Menu/Taskbar -> Turn off all balloon notifications

User -> Policies -> Admin Templates -> Start Menu/Taskbar -> Turn off feature ad balloon notifications

User -> Policies -> Admin Templates -> Start Menu/Taskbar -> Turn off notification area cleanup

@Jimmy9008 said in New IT Position UK, any advice/feedback?:

@IRJ said in New IT Position UK, any advice/feedback?:

You're asking for a cloud expert in competencies, but are saying it's entry level infrastructure. Which one is it?

Maybe its terminology? I use the term 'competent' to mean acceptable/satisfactory. Not expert. After 5 years of being a professional in IT with interests in technology, I would like somebody that knows a little bit about most of those items. 'Competent', not 'Expert'.

For example, if they have been doing support for 5 years for a range of companies, but does not have any competency at all with Office 365, then they would not be a good match.

Maybe like @Obsolesce mentioned, create a few different categories of skills/qualifications.

We all understand that the applicant may touch all areas during the course of a month but what is 80% of their daily duties? You mentioned certain %'s in your post but will they do mostly support calls, setup/config O365, Azure AD setup/support and login to a hypervisor host?

If they are only going to touch the SAN/NAS, support Oracle and do network security only for 10 hours a month, that could go under a "Limited skills" segment.

You stated you are willing to train the individual, so items in the competency category should cover most of their required daily duties. They can learn the rest through training, working in a team and further education.

@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:

The H330 is like for labs or testing. Shouldn't be found in a production environment. It's a fine card for what it is, just not a production use card

Begs the question why when ordering a server for a specific purpose, they would even ship that out.

I have thought the same thing for a long time on Dell 4XX's on up. Either no controller at all or start at the H730 and up. Just an opinion though.

@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:

@pmoncho said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:

@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:

@pmoncho We're ditching the H330. Boss just ordered the H730P.

That, in the long run, is probably the best call. Any way you can get the boss to add on the SD Card module? That will be a benefit also if you stay with ESXi.

haha, yes. Working on that as we speak.

Sweet. Keep going. See if your boss can get iDRAC enterprise license if you don't have that. Not really required but it is nice to have.