@ChrisS Look up a local Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF) course. Many states offer a road test waiver for completion of the course. I took the course here in NY, so after nearly a decade of riding, I finally earned my "M" endorsement.
@jscott The local community college has a two weekend class. For $200 you get to use one of their almost-new motorcycles, go through all the requirements, and the road test. As long as you're not a total idiot you've got a license.
@ChrisS Yeah! That sounds pretty much exactly like the MSF course here, except for the "almost-new" part. The same local CC also does a vocational mechanics program which maintained the bikes for MSF. They ran well, but they weren't anywhere near new :) -- Sign up with a friend or two, it's really easy and dare I say "fun".
@jscott There are a couple cycle dealerships in the area that partnered with the program, including a "graduate" discount on a new cycle.... I'm not normally a proponent of public-private partnerships, but sometimes they workout really well
@JoelESalas it abstracts things too much. The clients using it think, "oh, I'll make this 16GB RAM and 4 CPU..." and don't realize that the underlying hosts are 96GB and 12-core.
then sometimes they'll hot-add RAM to make it 32GB... or add another four CPUs.
because the vCloud makes it all seem like an elastic resource...
when in reality, very few apps need more than 2 CPU and the appropriate RAM.
@ewwhite vCloud (and VMware as a whole, really) are tailor-suited to terrible enterprisey apps that used to live on physical hardware
of course virtualizing these is a much better option, but I've found that most of the "good" vcenter features don't benefit a properly-authored application
So it's basically, "Can't reimplement your application? Can't refactor into smaller pieces? HAVE WE GOT A FEATURE FOR YOU"
@jscott Yeah, mostly it's deferred maintenance that I hadn't had the time, space, or cash to do. Spark plugs, air filter. (Have to take half the bike apart to go to the air filter.) The DL's been ridiculously reliable. Probably moreso than most of the other Suzuki models that I've seen.
@ewwhite So are crappy third party vendors. Kronos is recomending 4 cores now for the has-to-be-dedicated-because-their-coders-suck-so-much database VM. And it looks like we're going to mark right off that cliff and follow their crappy advice, too.
Yeah, then pointless. Only purpose is for over-commitment scenarios (right?), and in that case you should be dropping in more RAM or more hosts anyway...
I love HP Support. Emailed them saying "where the fuck are my VSA licenses?", then after double checking the PO, realised we didn't buy any, got an email back from HP "Here you go!" and I have another 4 VSA licenses in my entitlement portal
I have SSDs in an onboard RAID array. I am running the Windows 2012 Server install, and it says "We couldn't find any drivers. To get a storage driver, click Load driver."
I tried to do some research, but I couldn't find anyone talking about that error message with Windows 2012, only Windows XP,...
@Cole Really, what the hell, people. You're staring at an error message about not having drivers, and a god-damn button saying "load drivers" 50 pixels below it... so you go to another computer, open up a browser and ask a a question on Server Fault?!?!?!
Especially considering that it will be more than cut in half after tax estimate and monthly expenses for rack, phone, a virtual server, and a few other business knickknacks.
@HopelessN00b @ShaneMadden Client just replied again... Our app is still taking about 20sec to dump garbage collection and it is not FULL GC, this is not normal. Normally we have seen this happening if memory is not reserved. Can you please do reserve the memory. Application is still performing poorly this application does really need memory to be reserved!!!
@ewwhite I'd be tempted to reserve it shut them up, say "test now" and when it doesn't help, you have your excuse to pull the reservation back. Not like it matters much with your cluster's resources.
Well, the balloon's gotten way smaller. And a balloon shouldn't cause slow java GC, it'll just cause pressure and maybe more often GC. I wonder if their slowness complaints are from earlier
Well, I take that back.
The balloon would cause the OS to swap JVM memory, which could definitely slow down the GC. A restart of the JVM would fix that.
@ewwhite Yeah, it's completely unnecessary if you don't have regular contention. And an unnecessary reservation can really shoot you in the foot when you actually need the contention stuff to work properly, like when you lose have your hosts for some reason.
Geezus, we're ordering some 4G Unidirectional antennas, and they're called "G-Spot" - my boss is on the phone at the moment to his wife saying, very loudly, "I need to buy four G-Spots, which credit card should I use? What? G-Spots! GEE SPOTS!!". The walls here are thin, I just know the neighbours are listening
"while he appreciates your suggestions, what they need done is part of best practice according to vmware knowledge base and his softwares best practice"
@ewwhite Well, why not give it to them? Either it will actually help (unlikely, but who knows?) in which case, you should be doing it for them, or it won't, at which point you can say see, it doesn't work, the problem is with something else. Like maybe Java sucking."
@MarkHenderson "No, we can't find your G-Spot! You're going to have to use your old method... What?! You're breaking up - your G-Spot is fading! JUST PLUG IT IN THE WALL AND FORGET YOUR G-SPOT!"
Seriously, why would you name something like that G-Spot? That's just dumbheaded.
@ewwhite Sure. All the more reason to do it - you know if you configure it their dumbass way it'll only make things worse. Do it, let them see that with their own eyes, and they'll be more open to doing it right. (In my experience.)
@ewwhite It's not giving up, it's building consensus, getting them on-board. Once their idea fails and they can't hold onto it anymore, they'll be more open to other ideas... like doing it the right way. Which you'll provide them.
Yeah, but right now the slot size is probably a few hundred MB, since it's the largest (reservation (0) plus memory overhead) total on a VM
With a 16GB reservation, the HA admission control starts figuring that each slot is 16GB. You'd need hundreds of hosts for admission control to be enabled; you'll have to just disable it.
So can you please reserve the memory for this one VM? And if you have any warning for this host can you please turn them off as no doubt you will see some warning if host doesn’t have enough memory to cater for whatever VM this host have. However if there are production VM was hosted on in host please DO NOT turn of any warning or alerts.
@ewwhite This one's easy, so I've spent the rest of the hours building argument handling and error checking into it. Trying to decide if I should send both and say the first one was whipped out in 15 minutes and the pretty one was about a half hour more.
Ran into a weird scenario.
Installed 5 hotswap HDD drives on a HP SmartArray P410 RAID controller running RAID-5. Went into Gparted and created different partitions. Realized one of the drives was faulty. Removed it. Rebooted into Gparted. It now cannot detect the controller at all, saying 'can...
but when i see people choosing between controllers... or purchasing 3ware... or anything that's not a purpose-built/prebuilt setup, I do suspect that they're taking a more difficult path than necessary.
@MichaelHampton I'm not that motivated to get to 20k. Besides, it's getting harder and harder to find a question to answer that I both know the answer to... and also don't find contemptible.
I've noticed many questions that belong on other sites are just closed as Off-Topic with no comment or explanation as to where in the StackExchange universe they belong. This lead me to assume there is no move (migrate) feature, but in fact there is.
So I saw a question that belongs on ServerFau...
first time on ServerFault, and I've got a nice little conundrum.
Since a few months now, we've been having issues with our internet connectivity.
Environment:
Servers: 2 Terminal Servers as an RDSFarm running Windows Server 2008 R2
Browser: Internet Explorer 9
Test/debug browser: Chrome
AntiVi...
Well, not really as I thought this was the answer, the problem came back after a while. And since the entire process was handled in the comments on that answer I didn't know if deleting that answer would be appropriate
Ah, crap. If you don't want to delete the answer, you should at least edit it to reflect the fact that it's not the answer.... will also bump your question to the front page and get it some attention, so that would be a plus.
Ran into a weird scenario.
Installed 5 hotswap HDD drives on a HP SmartArray P410 RAID controller running RAID-5. Went into Gparted and created different partitions. Realized one of the drives was faulty. Removed it. Rebooted into Gparted. It now cannot detect the controller at all, saying 'can...
first time on ServerFault, and I've got a nice little conundrum.
Since a few months now, we've been having issues with our internet connectivity.
Environment:
Servers: 2 Terminal Servers as an RDSFarm running Windows Server 2008 R2
Browser: Internet Explorer 9
Test/debug browser: Chrome
AntiVi...
