There's a lot of stuff, even from vmware, that just doesn't work with it
Case in point: VMWare Converter. I had to dig up an old Converter 4.1 install file (which I thankfully had) just to get a Hyper-V machine onto ESXi... just to find out that Converter 4.1 doesn't support Hyper-V > ESXi migrations, you need VMWare Converter 5 for that, but VMWare Converter 5 shits itself when connecting to ESXi 5.1
And then there was all the hacking I had to do to get some software installed, because the way HP were checking for the vSphere signatures was flawed.
I'm attempting to install the HP LeftHand P4000 Storage Replication Adapter in VMWare Site Recovery Manager 5.1 with vSphere 5.1
However, the LeftHand SRA keeps stating that SRM is not installed, even when it is.
Is there any way I can convince it that it is installed?
5:44 PM PDT Performance for almost all affected volumes has recovered. We are continuing to work on restoring IO for the remainder of volumes. While almost all of instances and volumes have recovered, many of the volumes affected by this event will undergo an additional re-mirroring. During this volume re-mirroring, customers may notice increased volume IO latency.
I don't want my production systems running on "magic", I want them running on quantifiable, tangible hardware that I can throw at incompetent people when they fuck things up.
I do not think the cloud is a bad thing. But if a big cloud provider has 1000's of clients, then we are just one of their fish. So if a problem occurs I do not expect it to get as much attention nor as much priority as I would like.
The other side is that they can afford to pay a lot of experts.
I'm a computer geek. While i am trained in schoolboy accounting, feel free to throw me out of a high window if i EVER tell my accountant how to do his job.
@Hennes I failed Maths in year 11, year 12, and 1st year university. 2nd time through the uni class I got a pass conceded because I was fucking up the teachers grade average
@JourneymanGeek It's why I'm not a comp-sci student :p
Of all the people I know who went into CompSci, only 1 came out the other end. But he's fuckign smart and is working for Boeing or Northrop Grumman or something
My SCSI drives where a rodime 3.5inch half height (on a SCSI card in an Amiga. A quantum prodrive LPS 52S, a quantum prodrive 240S, another prodrive 240S, an atlass 9GB (high voltage differential), a iomega 105S removevable drive (105 actual megibytes, not marketing bytes), a quantum viking 2 (4.5GB, low voltage differentioal).
Heck, why do I remember those
Except as the times that I used three hostadaptors, a NIC and a sound card and ran out of PCI slots
@MichaelHampton Ahhh, token ring. ring-based topology with a star-based phy
Well whatever, I remember my 48-port 10Base-T hub with the collision light permanently stuck on when you had any more than 3 or 4 people in a network game
@MarkHenderson Interesting. We've had a great experience with the basic aspects of ESXi 5.0 and 5.0u1. Converter works so great my boss wishes he could use it for everything.
@MarkHenderson Had an accounting department on one 10b2 line back in the day. That was just painful whenever they'd open or close one of the Quickbooks files. 70MB had to be sent back up to the file server.
It's just that the rest of the things around it aren't up to scratch
@Adrian Heh, what I found fun yesterday was when the power in our offices went out for the first time ever, and went and watched the UPS's power lights drop lower and lower, closer to the red zone
The power came back online with maybe 90 seconds to spare
@Adrian Yeah our DC has a generator in it, but the one power failure they had it didn't work (of course). So one of the smart cookies went and bought a diesel generator and put it in there, right next to an external wall, so it vents outside.
So we know we have 45 minutes to get out there and fire it up :p
@MarkHenderson Nice. We have 10 minutes to shut it all down if ours doesn't fire up in 2 minutes. But that's getting better with virtualization. Our 4x1500w units used to run 75%.
@WesleyDavid Hey, you're a whore, right? I have a job for you. The cat we got rid of from our back yard? Well a new cat has replaced it. Goddamn thing came like a lightning bolt when it heard me shake the cat food. I need you to fuck it like it's never been fucked before so that it has terrible, terrible memories of my back yard and never comes back
Anyone have a preference for a FOSS Windows password reset tool? Don't know the admin password and the old "rename a accessibility tool to cmd.exe" trick isn't working.
@ewwhite Of course not. It's not something I can control. Everything has to be the basement model except for things I can justify on a case by case basis, such as needing more memory to fit 4 VMs instead of 3.
My Amazon instance is fully recovered. After only ... nine hours?
I guess I should pay more attention to the graphs. It seems it was up and reachable for most of the event, the problem was that it caused asterisk to crash. Oops!
Please note that I do know the answer to this and have provided one below. I see a lot of newer systems administrators that don't understand the contents of my answer, so I hope that all of the beginner AD DNS questions will be closed as a duplicate of this. If you have a minor improvement, fe...
@Dan Ah, right. I wasn't too fussed about it but seing this recent video by Birgipall (same guy who did a lot of Battlefield 3 videos) I'm tempted to get it and have a play over the half term break.
I try to Install a Hyper-V 2012 Core on a HP Proliant ML110 G7 with a Raid 5 (4x3TB=~8TB for use). It seems, that this Server has no UEFI Support (can't figure it out). So I ended up with 350MB System-Partition and a 2TB Install-Partition. Diskpart shows 8TB, but only ~2TB are free. Is there anyt...
I need to improve our account management (using Active Directory) for a customer support site with 50+ computers.
The default "AD"-way is to give each user their own account. This adds up with a lot of administration with adding/disabling/enabling user accounts.
To avoid this supervisors have s...
Could someone please point me in the direction of where I could find some best practice securiy guides for VMware Workstation 9 please? I've searched the VMware site and to say it's badly organised is an understatement! I've been able to find general setup guides but nothing with a specific focus...
In a Windows domain environment, what GPO do you have to set up to allow network discovery? The simple list of other computers in the LAN, not the network map thing.
@MichaelHampton have you read any of tomtom's answers? He's a character to say the least. And his response to any webserver capacity question is "That's nothing, I run bigger sites than that on my phone".
I have dell equallogic ps3000 series and ps 5000 series and apparently Dell is not going to support them after end of life date passes.
what would you guys usually do for this legacy devices?
Would they provide at least some parts for these equipments?
I am pretty sure that upgrade or replacement...
When I try to set up https (let nginx listen on 443, with the ssl settings) and access my page, the quite surprising thing happens that I see my php code being displayed.
I see this in the nginx config
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
Does it means nginx direct the php request to port 9000? my se...
it looks like at least one SO mod agrees with us about some of teh migrations
I find it faintly annoying that questions about building and installing development tools get closed as off-topic by the SO community, then to add insult to injury, migrated to somewhere wholely unsuitable. The SO FAQ allows for these questions "but if your question generally covers...software tools commonly used by programmers...then you’re in the right place to ask your question!". Grr. — Kev12 hours ago
Today both implement the same zpool version (28). I'm wondering if is it a good or bad idea to use this setup
Production server Linux with native port LLNL (http://zfsonlinux.org/)
Backup serveur on a Freebsd
Why this? Well I don't want to put all eggs in one basket. Maturity of ZFS is quite ...
I'm attempting to install the HP LeftHand P4000 Storage Replication Adapter in VMWare Site Recovery Manager 5.1 with vSphere 5.1
However, the LeftHand SRA keeps stating that SRM is not installed, even when it is.
Is there any way I can convince it that it is installed?
Please note that I do know the answer to this and have provided one below. I see a lot of newer systems administrators that don't understand the contents of my answer, so I hope that all of the beginner AD DNS questions will be closed as a duplicate of this. If you have a minor improvement, fe...
I need to improve our account management (using Active Directory) for a customer support site with 50+ computers.
The default "AD"-way is to give each user their own account. This adds up with a lot of administration with adding/disabling/enabling user accounts.
To avoid this supervisors have s...
When I try to set up https (let nginx listen on 443, with the ssl settings) and access my page, the quite surprising thing happens that I see my php code being displayed.
I see this in the nginx config
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
Does it means nginx direct the php request to port 9000? my se...
Today both implement the same zpool version (28). I'm wondering if is it a good or bad idea to use this setup
Production server Linux with native port LLNL (http://zfsonlinux.org/)
Backup serveur on a Freebsd
Why this? Well I don't want to put all eggs in one basket. Maturity of ZFS is quite ...
