I need to add RAM to a web server on a production environment.
The server is a Windows 2008 server VM running on ESXi 5 that does not support hot plugging of memory.
I want to add RAM to it and it has to be done outside working hours. I am wondering if it's possible to schedule a task to add th...
@ScottPack Cascade tastes more citrusy than piney to me...
There's a local brewer that actually makes a beer with redwood tips, because it can't just be muddled pine needles, it has to be a specific varietal of young muddled pine needles. ;)
Though when you start talking about marrying things all bets are off - there's actually still a state constitutional amendment barring gay marriage, to say nothing of marrying hops. So it's "civil unions" instead.
To use the wake on LAN feature of my onboard network interface, I had to enable "Wake on PCI-Express" in my BIOS settings. WOL works fine now.
The only problem is that my computer turns itself on without me sending a MagicPacket. Sometimes it happens only a few seconds after I shut it down using ...
@ShaneMadden Same here. Hell, based on the wording that was on the ballot it could easily have invalidated my marriage since it was performed by a judge instead of a religious person.
@ShaneMadden I may have tried to propose marriage to the best beer I'd ever had a year or two ago, but to be fair it was after drinking several of them...
@ScottPack In addition to an eclectic collection of IPAs and other hoppy beers in my fridge, I also have sour beer, fruity beer, dark malty beer and at least one pilsner... The common element here: I like beer.
@ShaneMadden It's never bottled, only kegged. Very limited release in their own pub and with accounts that regularly sell their other beers. The "Elder" version is bottled and a lot easier to find.
This is a Canonical Question about RAID levels.
What are:
the RAID levels typically used (including the RAID-Z family)?
deployments are they commonly found in?
benefits and pitfalls of each?
Hey, speaking of VMware, @ewwhite how do you (or do you) get vCenter to not bitch about SSH being enabled on your hosts? (With the warning icon and the "configuration issues" thing in the host summary page.)
@ewwhite Now that I've got a former VMware employee in the office I've gotten some historical context. Apparently after the absolute disaster of SSO in 5.1, they have just completely restructured their development cycles to be a lot more focused on actually releasing a product that works well.
For instance, you can't set a format change to thin provisioning when you're doing a mass storage vMotion in the web client.
It's a good direction for them to move in, but it seems like it's been at the cost of some of the interface predictability that made them successful in the first place.
@ewwhite losing what? percentage? it was inevitable, what was once rare in IT always becomes commodity, why do you think they're constantly buying other products to bolt on
@ewwhite Been a bad year for your preferred solutions, hasn't it? This, HP's firmware debacle... at this rate, you'll be admitting Windows is superior to Linux by May.
@HopelessN00b VMware is dying to me... Their VSAN cock-tease has run its course, and I've had to move on. Nexenta is dead. HP is disappointing... Red Hat hasn't been too hot... I'm giving up on IT.
Yeah, the more experience I get in IT, the less I like it. Seems that information and technology are only peripherally related to the actual job/career.
@ewwhite Yeah, I usually like solutions. Water-ethanol solutions in particular, but technical solutions too.
... just seems that more and more problems are people problems, or management problems, or stupid corporate insanity problems, where technical solutions aren't applicable.
@ewwhite Maybe. Kinda makes it hard to get my geek on. Plus, my disdain for stupidity... and people in general... make the non-technical parts of IT pretty unpalatable.
I am going to start printing out copies of hier(7) for the various operating systems on little wooden crosses, and crucifying people to them when I catch them ignoring the hierarchy convention for their system...
Oh, dammit. So EMC wrote their Unisphere Service Manager app in Java... so much for my plan to avoid using Java by getting away from the web management console. >:/
> VMware and Puppet Labs have co-developed modules for managing VMware virtual environments. Much of this work is discussed in a personal blog entry written by Nick Weaver, an automation architect at VMware.
I'm 22 pages into Limoncelli's book (hadn't read it before) and I've already found over a dozen things I don't agree with. This does not bode well for my temper :)
@ewwhite I won't. There's lots of good stuff in there too (at least in the first 20 pages :)) - just don't take anything for granted, apply common sense
and some things I disagree with are specific to how we work (e.g. we don't do maintenance windows. Just make sure everything is redundant and you can take things down without service downtime)
@ShaneMadden Yeah, kind of an overlap, but not a complete one. Honestly, the perversion of a being a Windows-focused SA with puppet skills appeals to me.
When I'm upgrading to 5.5 I might take a look at if the module is easily ported, but the main serious problem with the process is the command line arguments needed for a silent install of all of the various vCenter components were poorly (or not at all) documented
@ewwhite Yeah, yeah... I know that know. Puppet had released a module for 5.0 (forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/vcenter), I was like "How hard can it be to switch to 5.1 and add linked mode support?"
Oh, I suddenly remembered why we don't use host profiles.
Call "HostProfileManager.CreateProfile" for object "HostProfileManager" on vCenter Server "[redacted]" failed. The VMware vSphere 5 Standard license for Host [redacted] does not include vSphere Host Profiles. Upgrade the license.
@DennisKaarsemaker No offense to the guy, but he never met our managers. And I suspect he didn't have the misfortune of working in an environment where managers actually outnumber workers.
I need to add RAM to a web server on a production environment.
The server is a Windows 2008 server VM running on ESXi 5 that does not support hot plugging of memory.
I want to add RAM to it and it has to be done outside working hours. I am wondering if it's possible to schedule a task to add th...
This is a Canonical Question about RAID levels.
What are:
the RAID levels typically used (including the RAID-Z family)?
deployments are they commonly found in?
benefits and pitfalls of each?
