RE: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's.

2014-02-27 Thread John Matteson
To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's. We don't reboot servers just for the sake of rebooting servers. Cheers Ken From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com

RE: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's.

2014-02-27 Thread Webster
, 2014 5:18 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's. We don't reboot servers just for the sake of rebooting servers. Cheers Ken From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com

RE: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's.

2014-02-27 Thread Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 5:18 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.commailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's. We don't reboot servers just for the sake of rebooting servers. Cheers Ken From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad

RE: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's.

2014-02-27 Thread Charles Sullivan
Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's. ​In the real world, I have never seen a XenApp/TS/RDS environment where the servers were not rebooted on a scheduled basis. I have seen daily, weekly, monthly and everything in between reboot schedules. It really depends on the apps

RE: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's.

2014-02-27 Thread Charles Sullivan
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:09 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's. What version of Exchange? From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad

RE: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's.

2014-02-27 Thread Michael B. Smith
@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's. Exchange 2010, but I believe they are behind on SPs by a couple. Actually, the command shown below was sent to us just to show that the DC was unavailable to Exchange, which really means nothing. The real error

[NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's.

2014-02-25 Thread John Matteson
I'm trying to get some straight information on doing maintenance reboots of virtual systems. Some people I've talked to say yes, others say no. I've been doing systems admin work for a long time now, but only recently have had to get up close and personal with VM's on ESX hosts. Yes? No?

Re: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's.

2014-02-25 Thread geoff taylor
They are no different in my opinion to physical systems. There should be no compelling reason to reboot just to reboot. gt On 25/02/2014 7:35 AM, John Matteson wrote: I'm trying to get some straight information on doing maintenance reboots of virtual systems. Some people I've talked to

Re: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's.

2014-02-25 Thread Michael Leone
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:35 AM, John Matteson john.matte...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to get some straight information on doing maintenance reboots of virtual systems. Some people I've talked to say yes, others say no. If by maintenance reboot, you mean reboot the VM every so many days, just

[Exchange] RE: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's.

2014-02-25 Thread J- P
no reboots scheduled From: john.matte...@gmail.com To: excha...@lists.myitforum.com CC: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's. Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 07:35:26 -0500 I’m trying to get some straight information on doing maintenance reboots of virtual

Re: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's.

2014-02-25 Thread James Rankin
...@lists.myitforum.com CC: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's. Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 07:35:26 -0500 I'm trying to get some straight information on doing maintenance reboots of virtual systems. Some people I've talked to say yes, others say no. I've been

RE: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's.

2014-02-25 Thread J- P
is this your M.O. for XenApp only, or all TS servers? I ask because I have XA fundamentals XA PS4 , 2008r2 RDS and 2012 RDS servers I maintain. Thanks Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:54:13 + Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's. From: kz2...@googlemail.com To: ntsysadm

RE: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's.

2014-02-25 Thread Webster
/ From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com listsad...@lists.myitforum.com on behalf of J- P jnat...@hotmail.com Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 9:26 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's. is this your M.O. for XenApp only, or all

Re: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's.

2014-02-25 Thread James Rankin
/ -- *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com listsad...@lists.myitforum.com on behalf of J- P jnat...@hotmail.com *Sent:* Tuesday, February 25, 2014 9:26 AM *To:* ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com *Subject:* RE: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's. is this your

Re: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's.

2014-02-25 Thread James Rankin
: Re: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's. From: kz2...@googlemail.com To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com On a XenApp server, a weekly reboot is probably not enough. Most I've seen are on 48-hour or even 24-hour reboot schedules. The multi-user nature of the things (which means users

RE: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's.

2014-02-25 Thread Webster
://www.carlwebster.com/ From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com listsad...@lists.myitforum.com on behalf of James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 9:44 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's

RE: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's.

2014-02-25 Thread Charles Sullivan
Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's. On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:35 AM, John Matteson john.matte...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to get some straight information on doing maintenance reboots of virtual systems. Some people I've talked to say yes, others say

Re: [NTSysADM] Maintenance Reboots of Guest VM's.

2014-02-25 Thread Michael Leone
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Charles Sullivan charles.sulliva...@bc.edu wrote: Since we have a maintenance window of opportunity when we patch where we are free to reboot at will, we reboot all servers that are scheduled to get the automated patch process, hoping that it will minimize