Sure thing. I need something for a blog post anyway, it's been to long :)
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]>wrote: > When you decide to set up your OF box, let’s talk. > > > > -sc > > > > *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Monday, May 09, 2011 4:29 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 > > > > I am thinking of getting something like OpenFiler setup to play with on the > backend of my HyperV lab at home. I am not running the bare metal HyperV at > the moment though. > > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Bob Fronk <[email protected]> wrote: > > My issue is geography. Not all my VM hosts are in one place, but are > spread across many sites, making deployment on a SAN a bit difficult. I > could scale at our main center, which we will at some point in the future, > but many of the remote servers are file/print servers, DCs or specialized > for a specific function at remote sites. Many of our remote sites support a > relatively small number of users, so there is a limit to the hardware I can > throw at these sites, and a SAN is just too expensive in some of these > cases. > > > > BF > > > > > > *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Monday, May 09, 2011 3:50 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 > > > > No, I get you, I just am thinking out loud (and was on my iPhone, so typing > was difficult) > > You can likely scale, with a SAN, more virtual machines on fewer hosts use > vMotion for your fault tolerence and redundancy and still be in the same > ballpark for costs as all of the iron and operating costs for said iron. > > > > Haven't you hired someone, yet? :-) > > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Bob Fronk <[email protected]> wrote: > > No VMWare here, just HyperV. Not on SAN. (but hoping to migrate some to > SAN in the future) > > BF > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 3:24 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Re: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 > > vMotion and VMware licensing > of equipment and operations? Or are these > vm's not on a SAN? > > On Monday, May 9, 2011, Bob Fronk <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not looking for scale in all cases. Many of these servers I am looking > for reliability, performance and failure tolerance. > > > > BF. > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Brian Desmond [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 2:06 PM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: RE: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 > > > > You're not going to get much scale if you're dedicating NICs and spindles > to ever single VM regardless of whether they need that kind of resource > allocation... > > > > Thanks, > > Brian Desmond > > [email protected] > > > > c - 312.731.3132 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bob Fronk [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 12:52 PM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: RE: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 > > > > Jim, > > > > A few things I do. (Running many HyperV hosts, each with two VMs. - A > > couple have more, but they are all very low resource) > > > > I like to have a dedicated NIC per each VM. You set this in the Virtual > Network Manager. I do not share them with the OS. Remote management of the > Host is done via a separate NIC. > > > > I like to have dedicated disk for each VM to keep the IO limited to that > VM. I use servers that allow me to create a RAID1 with dedicated volume and > place each VM on its own volume. > > > > All my hosts have at least 48GB Ram, and I share this fairly equally > between OS and VMs. Some of the Hosts have more CPU available, but I try to > judge the number of CPUs per VM based off the hardware available. Most of > mine are at least dual CPU, dual core. Some have more due to the host > having greater CPU numbers and cores. > > > > Is this the kind of information you are asking? > > > > BF > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 11:54 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 > > > > I'm starting my trip into the world of hyper-visors, and because of my > company status as a Microsoft partner and costs involve I chose Microsoft > Hyper-V Server R2 as my hyper-visor platform of choice. > > I've got to say the documentation on the software leaves a bit it be > desired. I realize I'm getting what I paid for it here, but I can't > actually find squat about how to actually configure the base hardware beyond > the basic install. > > > > I've downloaded, read and used "Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Getting > Started Guide", "Hyper-V Server 2008 Setup and Configuration Tool Guide" and > made great use of John Howard's "Hyper-V Remote Management Configuration > Utility" and the blogs surrounding it, but I can't find squat about how to > work with hardware after the software is installed. > > > > Do I really have to use DISKPART to setup and configure additional drive > volumes? How would I address iSCSI and/or SAS volumes? > > > > I thought when I first set this up I'd be able to use a Remote Management > GUI, which I admit, I am really kinda used to, but unfortunately I get the > "RPC server is unavailable" message. Is this because I'm using the server > in Workgroup mode? > > > > I'd rather not use Hyper-V on top of Windows 2008 R2 if I don't have too. > I don't think that layer is necessary anymore, but I can't seem to find > documentation that is helping me do what I want here. > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ < > http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
