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    • RojoLocoR
      RojoLoco @Dashrender
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      @Dashrender 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!

      I just spend the last 4 days P2Ving one 2008 R2 box - I have a good thread on here about it.

      https://mangolassi.it/topic/12126/p2v-windows-2008-r2

      I have glanced at that one. I've spun up a couple of 2008R2 P2Vs here in the past, seemed to do OK. But that is a good resource to have handy, I'll be bookmarking it.

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      • DustinB3403D
        DustinB3403 @RojoLoco
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        @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!

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        • RojoLocoR
          RojoLoco @DustinB3403
          last edited by RojoLoco

          @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!

          0_1484259341978_1bu888.jpg

          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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          • DashrenderD
            Dashrender
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            Do you get new hardware with this too?

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            • RojoLocoR
              RojoLoco @Dashrender
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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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              • DashrenderD
                Dashrender
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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

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                • RojoLocoR
                  RojoLoco @Dashrender
                  last edited by

                  @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-windows

                  Good 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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                  • MattSpellerM
                    MattSpeller @Dashrender
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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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                    • RojoLocoR
                      RojoLoco @MattSpeller
                      last edited by

                      @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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                      • MattSpellerM
                        MattSpeller @RojoLoco
                        last edited by MattSpeller

                        @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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                        • MattSpellerM
                          MattSpeller
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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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                          • DashrenderD
                            Dashrender @MattSpeller
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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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                            • DashrenderD
                              Dashrender @RojoLoco
                              last edited by

                              @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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                              • RojoLocoR
                                RojoLoco @Dashrender
                                last edited by

                                @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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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller
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                                  Oldest has a fever. Everyone seems to be a bit sick around here.

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                                  • MattSpellerM
                                    MattSpeller @scottalanmiller
                                    last edited by

                                    @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    Oldest has a fever. Everyone seems to be a bit sick around here.

                                    https://www.amazon.ca/Demron®-Full-Bodysuit-Hazmat-Protection/dp/B007XENNUK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1484266280&sr=8-2&keywords=biohazard+suit

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller
                                      last edited by

                                      Youngest has a fever too. Ugh

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                                      • gjacobseG
                                        gjacobse @scottalanmiller
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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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                                        • RojoLocoR
                                          RojoLoco
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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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                                          • KellyK
                                            Kelly @RojoLoco
                                            last edited by

                                            @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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