cajx's Posts

Well to be honest I'm new to NFS, but I'll take your advice and start getting comfortable to it. Thanks all.
We're definitely going SAN for the ESX production servers, but for our backup site (just another building) we are half-way between local storage and relying on a NAS we have that isn't on the "ap... See more...
We're definitely going SAN for the ESX production servers, but for our backup site (just another building) we are half-way between local storage and relying on a NAS we have that isn't on the "approved vendor/hardware" list. So I'm kinda thinking the local storage is safer.
Very new to VMware. Need some advice. Assuming for now that everything is on local hard drives... how safe is it to physically, manually move VMs from ESXi 4 to ESX 3.5? The image was made... See more...
Very new to VMware. Need some advice. Assuming for now that everything is on local hard drives... how safe is it to physically, manually move VMs from ESXi 4 to ESX 3.5? The image was made with the backwards compatibility option checked... i forget the exact wording. Can I simply copy and paste the files if I shut down the VMs? Should I use the VM Converter for that? Should I convert anything? And related to this, in a disaster I plan to go from ESX 3.5 (or maybe ESX 4 vsphere4 whatever you want to call it)to ESXi 4. What is the best way to do this? If I use local hard drives for the ESXi servers? What if I use a NAS?
I'm very new to ESX and ESXi. I'm trying to convert a running server (really a Dell PC) to a VM that will run on ESXi (we're in testing phase, about to move all real servers to ESX or ESXi if w... See more...
I'm very new to ESX and ESXi. I'm trying to convert a running server (really a Dell PC) to a VM that will run on ESXi (we're in testing phase, about to move all real servers to ESX or ESXi if we like it). After doing a conversion on the live server, using the agent option in VMware vCenter Coverter Standalone version 4.0.0, I get the following error when trying to edit the VM for "clean up" after this P2V conversion. An IDE controller is found but the virtual machine does not support the option ESXi is version 4. Any ideas? Google is of no help for that exact error.
Sounds similar to a problem if you revert to an old snapshot. Try these, see if it applies. http://www.appdeploy.com/faq/detail.asp?id=46 http://communities.vmware.com/message... See more...
Sounds similar to a problem if you revert to an old snapshot. Try these, see if it applies. http://www.appdeploy.com/faq/detail.asp?id=46 http://communities.vmware.com/message/530254;jsessionid=D234BDF210E3C1D8EF31CF2902DC459D http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q175468
Most of my recent Dell support cases (outside of VMware) were "you have to update the BIOS, drivers for HDD, drivers for xyz". I also call BS, because that usually isn't the problem. If I... See more...
Most of my recent Dell support cases (outside of VMware) were "you have to update the BIOS, drivers for HDD, drivers for xyz". I also call BS, because that usually isn't the problem. If I may add my question... I'm about to buy a blade center and was "told" by IBM that if I buy plenty of IBM support that they will work through VMware and MS problems without having to contact VMware or MS support. From reading this thread, it makes me think it is not true. So is that typical?
I am no SQL expert, but I wonder if some of the queries couldn't be talking to the 29 databases left on the physical server. In that case, you'd see a performance problem I bet. Also, we... See more...
I am no SQL expert, but I wonder if some of the queries couldn't be talking to the 29 databases left on the physical server. In that case, you'd see a performance problem I bet. Also, we have what I would call a fairly large SQL 2005 DB on a win 2003 box, I want to say 15 GB in size, running on a physical box with dual quad cores, 16GB RAM. Way overkill you would think. It still pegs out all 8 "CPUs" at 100% with one particularly nasty crystal report that query the dog out of it. To give our DB admin / crystal person credit, that same report we inherited used to take 10 minutes to run before our person cleaned it up. Now it takes a good minute or 3 depending on what the server is doing otherwise. So my idea would be to move that virtualized DB back to a physical server... but NOT the same one with the other 29 DBs. See if it runs crappy there.