@MDMarra I will, as soon I can get my GF to agree to it... she might as well be my wife... and she's picky about where she wants to live, which is funny considering that we live in the armpit of DFW Texas right now. Worst. Suburb. Ever.
@pauska If the SQL server is the outlier, you can do two things. You can reserve or your can set priority. Since this is one key VM, I would just set custom share values at the VM level.
And you can check this by viewing the worst-case allocation.
I wouldn't do resource pools in this case, unless you're prepared to do the math to keep everything balanced as the composition of the lab environment changes.
@pauska No... I only do reservations on VMs that either are running a heavy java application or where I need to guarantee a minimum about of RAM to the VM.
@MDMarra is supposed to expand it with a gateway sometime soon
I'll take "Technology Tabloids for $400 Alex. The answer: "Getting ready to run VMPlayer on a hosted VM." {ding} Cleaner? TheCleaner: What is "things you do when you are desperate in IT?"
@pauska Go flat and just start by setting the shares of the SQL server to high. Shares are evaluated on the sibling level, so it needs to be all VMs or all resource pools, but not a mix.
@MDMarra I still need them to agree not to try to create file shares on their own
@pauska I have two different customers with the same project going on now (SCSM and SCORCH implementation). One is going to virtualize everything (including 16 vCPU database servers) and the other one won't virtualize anything with more than 2 vCPUs.
@TheCleaner Yeah, we may have had ESXi consume NFS storage provided by a VM on the same host for a little while. We were temporarily desparate for space.
@pauska Setting the shares alone will take care of your server. But if you want to do some cool stuff with custom HA slot sizing, that could be fun, too...
@ScottPack an inventory. What is in what rack in what room, should it be there, should it be warrantied, is is warrantied, is it active/spare/? , should it be scrapped, etc.
@RobM Biggest thing I noticed was that, in 2008 onwards, you can type a command into any explorer window and it'll run, or just "cmd" to get a command window. You can't do that in 2003 and it starts a bloody IE window and tries to search
@MikeyB This one is more of a "we have plenty of storage assigned to this VM and it has plenty of hardware resources assigned...so instead of paying for another VM, we are going to host a VM within a VM" :)
@MDMarra I'm not sure what our current status is actually - we were once, at least. Immaterial now anyway - if they pay for anything I'll wind up being liable to pay em back when I jump
@MDMarra Oh right - cool. No, it's not - don't think I'm good enough though and not sure I have the time to really put in the work. I may take a look when I'm in the office, though
It's been about a year since I got that book, actually. It was a great read, though
Yeah nothing pisses me off more than half-assing and band-aiding shit together to try to get something done for cheaply, and get it done yesterday, and that will solve all your problems
Is there a defentive list for RAM/board compatability for HP Machines? One site I'm looking at says it does support the RAM I have and another site says it doesn't.
@RyanRies so, long story short, I'm the only one on staff with enough PKI knowledge to do this and I don't even have a ton of AD CS experience...and I'm booked into March
@Dan You should be careful and not just create every VM with 4 vcpu's, cause that could lead to severe locking (all the servers start their antivirus scan at the same time etc)
I'm confused...user is having weird permissions problems.
We have user folders for everyone ...they have "full control" over this folder and all subfolders. But, when someone creates say User Folder -> Folder -> Folder, they don't have access to that 3rd level folder...permissions don't carry
Full control allows users to set permission and owner. This sucks because sometimes applications set owner and permissions and if the user has full control it will work
Give them modify, no need for full control 99% of the time
If they literally just went "right click, new folder" and it didn't inherit properly, then theres something fucked up in your upper-level permissions somewhere
@MDMarra Ah, fair enough. I have to audit our "Users" folder since permissions are wonky
some users have "Everyone" set to readonly but not themselves as modify...when I started "Everyone" was being inherited at the root folder so anyone could view anyones folder if they knew how to get to it
Full control is a set of permissions that I see granted quite, perhaps more frequently than it needs to be. For example, I see quite a large number of customers with the full control NTFS permission for each user set on their network home folders, or a group will full control to their departmental network shares. I'm a firm believer of using modify permission inste…
@NathanC in most cases Creator Owner isn't required for anything. The exception is if you're doing stuff like "Subfolders only" permission to "write/append data" or whatever it is to automatically create redirected folders with least permission
In most cases, you don't need Creator Owner and in fact, shouldn't have it unless you know what you're doing.
Customer: "We need you to get us 50x400GB 1.8" SSDs in 2 days." Us: *What? The fuck you think we have in stock? You should be ordering that shit WEEKS in advance!* "Sigh... we'll see what we can do."
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Yesterday I did a bunch of yard work. Namely, I cut down a bunch of branches that were hanging low enough to scratch my car. While doing so, I sustained a fair number of small lacerations... Including on my face! That'll look great in the interview today! ;)
I currently have Solaris 11 Express running on bare metal. I'd like to convert the machine to an ESXI host and run the existing os as a virtual machine.
I have ESXI setup, the virtual machine made, if I boot the vm from the recovery disk the drives and lsi2008 controller is visible. Everything l...
Pretty sure I violated space-time causality the other day. I mucked with the phone-system 2 hours after it suddenly started acting up.
@ewwhite LOL... as it turns out this is EXACTLY what I want to do at home. I have an LSI2008 IT controller with drives attached and I want to boot FreeBSD to do ZFS in a VM with the LSI card attached to the VM.
@ewwhite potentially, but probably not. I'd be moving it to my libvirt server so I could do something like ensure the storage pool is started after the VM is started. In reality, probably not, I'd probably just keep using it for media and backup, but I'd get rid of a computer.
Is possible to install VMware ESXi Server on a HP ProLiant DL360 G3 ?
