Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-26 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-23 7:11 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-06-22 12:26 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: OK, I missed that piece. I presumed there would be writes to the hard disk. Any reason you can't have these guys netboot? Only that I've never done that before with

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-22 12:26 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: OK, I missed that piece. I presumed there would be writes to the hard disk. Any reason you can't have these guys netboot? Only that I've never done that before with servers, and my only experience with netbooting at all was with

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-22 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-22 12:04 AM, Matthew Marlowe m...@professionalsysadmin.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:47 AM, Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: I could get 2 of these for each server, each with a mirrored pair of CF (or SD) cards (mirror mode is defined by a jumper or switch on the

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-22 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-22 12:04 AM, Matthew Marlowe m...@professionalsysadmin.com wrote: But, there is nothing keeping you from getting mirrored CF/SD cards for the hypervisor boot Also, my questions was more just to which cards are considered best/most stable - SD or CF...

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-06-22 12:04 AM, Matthew Marlowe m...@professionalsysadmin.com wrote: But, there is nothing keeping you from getting mirrored CF/SD cards for the hypervisor boot Also, my questions was more just to which

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-22 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-22 11:00 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Also, my questions was more just to which cards are considered best/most stable - SD or CF... Ultimately they both probably have the same

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-22 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-06-22 11:00 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org  wrote: Also, my questions was more just to which cards are considered

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-21 Thread Matthew Marlowe
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:47 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: I could get 2 of these for each server, each with a mirrored pair of CF (or SD) cards (mirror mode is defined by a jumper or switch on the adapter), then mirror those (in the BIOS), which would result in a total of FOUR

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-20 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-19 10:28 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: CF is really behind the times. Really? Nothing I've read indicates that - can you point me to something that discusses how/why Cf is 'behind the times'? I'm serious, I just ordered the CF adapter/cards, but I'm fully prepared to

[gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-19 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi everyone, Ok, here's my dilemma... I have some new Dell R515 servers (12 bay versions). These do not have any Dell supported internal SD (or CF) card options for the hypervisor, but they do have an internal 2.5 dual SATA/SAS drive cage, for running a bootable OS (in my case the ESXi

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Hi everyone, Ok, here's my dilemma... I have some new Dell R515 servers (12 bay versions). These do not have any Dell supported internal SD (or CF) card options for the hypervisor, but they do have an internal 2.5

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 07:47:10 -0400 Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Hi everyone, Ok, here's my dilemma... I have some new Dell R515 servers (12 bay versions). These do not have any Dell supported internal SD (or CF) card options for the hypervisor, but they do have an internal

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-19 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-19 9:56 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: With my last batch of ESX hosts, someone forgot to order the R710 SD internal add-on. But it has 8 x 600M SAS drives So what I did is configured all drives as a RAID 10 and let ESX grab enough for the hypervisor and leave

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-06-19 9:56 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: With my last batch of ESX hosts, someone forgot to order the R710 SD internal add-on. But it has 8 x 600M SAS drives So what I did is