Is anyone using Aria Operations for Logs, and can give me an average of how much data is being ingested per day for your ESXi hosts? I'm trying to work out potential costs might be above the limit w...
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Is anyone using Aria Operations for Logs, and can give me an average of how much data is being ingested per day for your ESXi hosts? I'm trying to work out potential costs might be above the limit we have been given with the licensing we purchased. Thanks!
Yes we have switches that will do the static MAC address. Did you disable that option or do you have it enabled? I'm asking as I'm seeing conflicting statements on that.
A further question, have you disabled the "Notify switches" option in the NIC teaming? Or did you create a separate port group for the NLB machines and disable it on there as per this: http://www...
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A further question, have you disabled the "Notify switches" option in the NIC teaming? Or did you create a separate port group for the NLB machines and disable it on there as per this: http://www.vankeyenberg.be/?p=119
Thanks for replying. I have found quite a few articles that mention using 2 NICs ... is there any benefit to using 2? I'm trying to find something around best practice on this setup, do you...
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Thanks for replying. I have found quite a few articles that mention using 2 NICs ... is there any benefit to using 2? I'm trying to find something around best practice on this setup, do you have any URLs or official VMware / Microsoft docs saying use 1 NIC or 2 NICs? Thanks
Is anyone here running a Microsoft NLB cluster in ESXi? We want to load balance a web site with two virtual servers, using Microsoft NLB. I have seen these articles. so it looks like Multic...
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Is anyone here running a Microsoft NLB cluster in ESXi? We want to load balance a web site with two virtual servers, using Microsoft NLB. I have seen these articles. so it looks like Multicast is the way: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1556 http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&externalId=1006558 I am interested to know how many NICs you have assigned to each virtual machine? How did you set them up, both NICs on the same subnet with regards to IP addressing, with the 2nd NIC hosting the virtual load balanced IP? Thanks in advance
We do have VAAI. I'm interested in the 500gb limit though, where can I read more about this, are there any blogs/official docs/helpful URLs that talk about this? Thanks for your replies.
The solution we used was to ensure the firewall allowed access out to the NTP servers on the internet, and then used our switch core to sync with the internet servers. We then set the ESXi hosts ...
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The solution we used was to ensure the firewall allowed access out to the NTP servers on the internet, and then used our switch core to sync with the internet servers. We then set the ESXi hosts to sync with the switch core, and ensured that the correct services and ports were open on the ESXi hosts security profile. It all works perfectly now.
Consider a fiber channel SAN (EMC CLARiiON for example), and the limits around SCSI reservations, queue limits etc. per LUN. What are you guys doing with regards to the number of VMs you are p...
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Consider a fiber channel SAN (EMC CLARiiON for example), and the limits around SCSI reservations, queue limits etc. per LUN. What are you guys doing with regards to the number of VMs you are placing per a LUN? How about the max sizes of your LUNs (in vSphere 5.0). I am interested to hear your thoughts, advice and recommendations around this.
Thanks for the reply. We have an IBM BladeCenter. It does have two 1Gb NICs as well, but we not planning to use that as the two 10Gb NICs should be more than enough for our environment. Yes...
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Thanks for the reply. We have an IBM BladeCenter. It does have two 1Gb NICs as well, but we not planning to use that as the two 10Gb NICs should be more than enough for our environment. Yes that's true, I forgot that the pNICs can only be assigned to one vSwitch at a time. That makes it simple then, one vSwitch it is. We do have a Microsoft NLB cluster on two virtual machines in multicast mode, so what do you recommend for the settings such as notify switches, promiscuous mode, forged transits etc. considering all of the above?
We have a Blade chassis with two 10Gb NICs (vmnic0 and vmnic1), using Standard vSwitches, and Enterprise licensing (no distributed vSwitch), running vSphere 5u1. What would you recommend in or...
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We have a Blade chassis with two 10Gb NICs (vmnic0 and vmnic1), using Standard vSwitches, and Enterprise licensing (no distributed vSwitch), running vSphere 5u1. What would you recommend in order to set this up considering we need only these 3 networks (they are in separate VLANs): vSphere Management vMotion VM Network Would you have a single vSwitch with 3 port groups, or 2/3 separate vSwitches for each network? What NIC settings would you recommend for failover, teaming etc.? Thanks
Hi guys, Great script, works well, but I was wondering if it's possible to get the size of the VMDK file added to the output as well? How would I do this?
We are moving to a new SAN, and was hoping for some advice on how we should structure the sizing of the LUN's. Everything on the new SAN will be in a large RAID 10 pool. We have a mixture o...
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We are moving to a new SAN, and was hoping for some advice on how we should structure the sizing of the LUN's. Everything on the new SAN will be in a large RAID 10 pool. We have a mixture of Windows 2003 and 2008 guests, doing everything from domain controllers, file and print, web services, Exchange and SQL. I was wondering if there was a rule of thumb for how many guests should share a LUN? How big should LUN's be? Lots of smaller LUN's, or a few large ones? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks in advance
We have ESXi 4.1, with a Server 2008 guest that needs to have a virtual soundcard for an application that it is running. Is this possible to do considering the configuration above? Is there so...
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We have ESXi 4.1, with a Server 2008 guest that needs to have a virtual soundcard for an application that it is running. Is this possible to do considering the configuration above? Is there some way to install a virtual soundcard in Server 2008 for example, without adding a usb passthrough soundcard? Thanks