Help choosing replacement Hyper-V host machines and connected storage
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@ryan-from-xbyte said:
It's good to see this thread with more legs over here on Mango than on SW.
Here is the interesting thing going on with the Dell generations now. We see the 11th gen still popular (R510s and R710s) if you only need 6-core CPUs. If you need 8-cores, then we see people skipping the 12th generation and going on to the 13th generation servers like the R730xd. The newer CPUs are so powerful at the low end and therefore so inexpensive, it is hard to justify other the 12th generation. There are some exceptions if you are okay with E5-2600 version 1 CPUs. That market is crashing and you can find some deals.
This is why we encourage people to call us so we can walk through the options in the secondary market. It is very different than buying directly through Dell.
Thank you @ryan-from-xbyte, can you send me your email so I can get in touch with you?
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Paging @xByteSean and @BradfromxByte too.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@JohnFromSTL said:
Is DPACK the best tool to use? And would you happen to have a contact name for someone at NTG? I've spoken with someone from Dell but their lousy tool keeps dropping connections to the DPACK Web Service and this gentleman isn't very responsive at all.
Several @ntg people right here in the thread
I have several DPACK results uploaded, should I just post them here?
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Sure
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I suppose, this one time, we can accept that excuse. But only with a doctor's note.
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[https://files.secureserver.net/0sxI5pJa5UT5Ux](22_oct_ (17_hr_25_min)-official_report_10_30_2015)
https://files.secureserver.net/0she5PgIAN9ho5 30_oct_[(12_hour)-official_report_10_30_2015] -
@JohnFromSTL said:
[https://files.secureserver.net/0sxI5pJa5UT5Ux](22_oct_ (17_hr_25_min)-official_report_10_30_2015)
https://files.secureserver.net/0she5PgIAN9ho5 30_oct_[(12_hour)-official_report_10_30_2015]Awesome, thanks for sharing.
Man, you have some IOPs to spare. 95% at 457 IOPs, and a peak of 4165.
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@JohnFromSTL said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Sure
I've slacked off a bit since having knee surgery this Tuesday.
How are you doing now?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@JohnFromSTL said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Sure
I've slacked off a bit since having knee surgery this Tuesday.
How are you doing now?
Thanks for asking. I'm doing okay, it's still sore (of course I pushed too far too soon by coming back to work earlier than I should have) but it feels better than it did before the surgery. I had a complex tear in lateral meniscus of my left knee, a cyst on the meniscus due to the tear and Grade IV chondrosis (http://www.cartilagehealth.com/acr.html) of the tibial plateau. I nearly lost my leg in a forklift accident when I was 17. I've had over 40 surgeries as a result of the accident. It's pretty trashed, but at least I can walk. I'm not complaining, there are others who haven't been as fortunate, so I'm grateful for what I can do. I should post pics from the surgery when I return next week for a follow up appointment.
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@Dashrender said:
@JohnFromSTL said:
[https://files.secureserver.net/0sxI5pJa5UT5Ux](22_oct_ (17_hr_25_min)-official_report_10_30_2015)
https://files.secureserver.net/0she5PgIAN9ho5 30_oct_[(12_hour)-official_report_10_30_2015]Awesome, thanks for sharing.
Man, you have some IOPs to spare. 95% at 457 IOPs, and a peak of 4165.
Does it make a difference that I didn't select the individual VMs when running the DPACK analysis but selected the Hyper-V hosts instead? Our heavy usage is sporadic. The VMs which give us the most grief are SQL 2005 and Oracle 11g.
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@JohnFromSTL It will matter as far as getting granular data and figuring out which VM is doing what. But for overall capacity it will be fine.
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I can't find a download link for DPACK.
Isn't is free software?
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@DustinB3403 said:
I can't find a download link for DPACK.
Isn't is free software?
Nope, it's provided by Dell (and prehaps other vendors)
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@DustinB3403 said:
I can't find a download link for DPACK.
Isn't is free software?
Free, yes. Public, no.
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@Dashrender said:
Nope, it's provided by Dell (and prehaps other vendors)
Dell internal app. Only Dell can provide it and only Dell can decrypt the output. Only Dell and select partners (NTG was the first and may remain the only) that can read them back for you. NTG reads back from non-sales engineering, Dell reads back from a sales channel capacity planning person who specs a 3-2-1 system for you from the details.
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So NTG has both the DPACK installers and the decryption software, so no need to talk to Dell at all?
@Minion-Queen ? -
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Nope, it's provided by Dell (and prehaps other vendors)
Dell internal app. Only Dell can provide it and only Dell can decrypt the output.
Seems some people have cracked it.
https://www.freelancer.co.uk/projects/C-Programming/Decode-the-Dell-dpack-file/ -
@Breffni-Potter said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Nope, it's provided by Dell (and prehaps other vendors)
Dell internal app. Only Dell can provide it and only Dell can decrypt the output.
Seems some people have cracked it.
https://www.freelancer.co.uk/projects/C-Programming/Decode-the-Dell-dpack-file/Interesting.. I wonder if the solution is for sale or going to be publicly posted?
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@Dashrender said:
Interesting.. I wonder if the solution is for sale or going to be publicly posted?
Pretty sure Dell's T&Cs prohibit selling the solution and their lawyers will come after anyone who tries it.
Now, if the soloution just ended up being distributed outside the control of anyone one individual, they would have a hard time. DPACK is a major tool in their sales arsenal for products. Maybe the engineering guys will re-write DPACK to counter it.
