What Are You Doing Right Now
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Awesome news!!!! I just got the green light for project "E-Ring Hyper-V - Virtualize the Infrastructure"!!! Of course, there will be a testing period (hello, test lab!), but I will soon start P2V-ing older boxes and decommissioning them!
I'll probably be asking some stupid questions very soon, stay tuned for all the excitement!
Cool, just remember Type 1 hypervisors get installed to bare metal!
I'm gonna be installing Hyper-V 2016 on the bare metal. I hope that the hypervisor itself doesn't become an issue.
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Do you get new hardware with this too?
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Do you get new hardware with this too?
It's from a test environment, maybe a year old Dell R430, 64GB, Hex core single CPU. We plan to fill it with 8x drives (either 900GB/10k or 1TB/7.2k) and some more RAM. If this goes well initially, I'm sure they will buy a bigger host machine.
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LOL - don't just throw drives at it, design it. Find out what you need for space and IOPs for it's expected load and then buy what you need
I recently posted a thread about IOPs.
https://mangolassi.it/topic/12142/how-to-measure-in-use-iops-in-windows -
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
LOL - don't just throw drives at it, design it. Find out what you need for space and IOPs for it's expected load and then buy what you need
I recently posted a thread about IOPs.
https://mangolassi.it/topic/12142/how-to-measure-in-use-iops-in-windowsGood point, but we need max on board storage. I plan to run that IOPs test (great link btw) on the systems before moving them. I'm leaning towards the 10k drives, because I know we won't be getting any flash for this thing (yet).
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
LOL - don't just throw drives at it, design it.
F*** that!!
MOAR IOPS!
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@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
LOL - don't just throw drives at it, design it.
F*** that!!
MOAR IOPS!
With an R430 as the host, I'm thinking this is a good approach. But there was some talk of adding a second CPU.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
LOL - don't just throw drives at it, design it.
F*** that!!
MOAR IOPS!
With an R430 as the host, I'm thinking this is a good approach. But there was some talk of adding a second CPU.
You'll run out of I/O (or RAM) before you run out of CPU I'd wager - even with 8 drive OBR RAID10 - this has been my experience anyway. FWIW we run lots of small VM's.
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Just fired up a laptop that smelled like burning death.
Happy to find out it was only human slime getting roasted.
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@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
LOL - don't just throw drives at it, design it.
F*** that!!
MOAR IOPS!
With an R430 as the host, I'm thinking this is a good approach. But there was some talk of adding a second CPU.
You'll run out of I/O (or RAM) before you run out of CPU I'd wager - even with 8 drive OBR RAID10 - this has been my experience anyway. FWIW we run lots of small VM's.
yeah I'm in this boat. Dual socket 6 core - I'm out of IOPs and storage space - RAM isn't really an issue.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
LOL - don't just throw drives at it, design it.
F*** that!!
MOAR IOPS!
With an R430 as the host, I'm thinking this is a good approach. But there was some talk of adding a second CPU.
I'd really suggest spending that money on RAM and disk IOPs instead.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
LOL - don't just throw drives at it, design it.
F*** that!!
MOAR IOPS!
With an R430 as the host, I'm thinking this is a good approach. But there was some talk of adding a second CPU.
I'd really suggest spending that money on RAM and disk IOPs instead.
I was thinking the same. I'll be able to dictate the upgrades for it, but it's nice to know I don't really have a hard budget.
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Oldest has a fever. Everyone seems to be a bit sick around here.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Oldest has a fever. Everyone seems to be a bit sick around here.
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Youngest has a fever too. Ugh
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Youngest has a fever too. Ugh
sorry to hear the family is all down. When are you scheduled to depart?
Just found out my niece hit a fever of 105 this week... seems like it's been going around
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Just heard the tale of a friend's uncle (former nasa scientist) who, when applying to work at Northrop Grumman, encrypted his resume and nobody could open it.... He got the job.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just heard the tale of a friend's uncle (former nasa scientist) who, when applying to work at Northrop Grumman, encrypted his resume and nobody could open it.... He got the job.
That one sounds a little farfetched unless there was something else that got him the job in addition to the resume.
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@Kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just heard the tale of a friend's uncle (former nasa scientist) who, when applying to work at Northrop Grumman, encrypted his resume and nobody could open it.... He got the job.
That one sounds a little farfetched unless there was something else that got him the job in addition to the resume.
What do Pokรฉmon have to do with this?
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@Kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just heard the tale of a friend's uncle (former nasa scientist) who, when applying to work at Northrop Grumman, encrypted his resume and nobody could open it.... He got the job.
That one sounds a little farfetched unless there was something else that got him the job in addition to the resume.
Have to agree. You'd just send them gibberish if you wanted to do that. Making something unusable is trivial. This just implies NG is a big joke and will hire anyone.