@storageninja

Thanks so much, I will read in the mean time those blogs:

https://www.codyhosterman.com/
https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/author/cormac_hogan

@luismc said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:

@dashrender said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:

As for Sharepoint - You don't get that much storage in Sharepoint in O365, so you'll likely be paying for more storage there. Sharepoint also has a number of files per site limit, just something else to watch out for.

For future reference to anyone wondering, I spoke to three different O365 reps today and they said the limit has been bumped to 1 million items so we'll be good for a while!

That's a bit more!

@emad-r

NVM, forgot about VMware Remote Console (VMRC), which is the optimized way of connection to VM GUI console, download it now.

I think vsphere C# client currently is VMRC in some minimal way. At least one is still actively developed. (You cant connect to an .iso file using webclient flex without uploading the whole .iso file to the host, however with the older C# client and newer method VMRC this can be still done).

That said, we lost the export to .ova or .ovf easier method compared to web ui export which gives you the .vmdk file as is.

@scottalanmiller said in ESXi and Xen Orchestra - Licensing models that are eerily similar:

@brrabill just people who like beating horses.

Well that's just cruel.

What questions and answers brought you to use ESXi? Did you purchase ESXi or are you using the free version?

@Tim_G said in Caching Needs and SSDs:

you have something on I/O path going wrong ;(

What do you mean? Everything looks good and appears to be going smooth according to all monitoring. No errors or performance issues.

It's been doing a very good job the past couple years. I keep it fairly updated. So if something recent broke something on it, let me know and I'll hold off on updating.

@beta said in SW Port - New Server for virtual host - Sanity Check:

Oh, one thing I was really curious about too, would it make sense to get an extra drive as a hot spare? Normally with OBR10 and spinning HDD, I'd put every spindle into the array, but since SSDs are going to give me plenty of IOPS and capacity, I didn't know if it is a good/bad idea with OBR5.

The rule of "no hot spare ever" for RAID 5 still applies. If you were going to do this, you would do OBR 6. OBR6 can make loads of sense here, but OBR5 + HS does not.

But it is up to you, depends on cost and risk aversion.

Not worth the effort for the case.

Thanks for the help guys.

@TheDeepStorage said in Deploying a 2-node StarWind VSAN Free for VMware ESXi 6.5:

@hobbit666 said in Deploying a 2-node StarWind VSAN Free for VMware ESXi 6.5:

Thanks just that I might have some kit becoming available but they are all different Dell models, just wondered if the Hard Drive space/RAID matched that would be OK for a test lab,

e.g.
R610, 64GB RAM with 4x 600GB SAS
R410, 64GB RAM with 4x 600GB SAS

Sounds like it will work just fine for a test lab, anyways, once you get down to testing, DM me and I'll get you in touch with an engineer, who will review your environment to make sure everything will work perfectly.

See now I want to purchase more lab equipment to test this. . . .

Just saw this...

If you have a PSOD you generally want to take picture of it, and pull the crash dumps and open a ticket with Vmware GSS.

The other useful thing to do is check the syslog (LogInisght is part of vROPS).

I have imported all the critical VM's over with 0 issues. I only have like 3 left that aren't that big of a deal. Then I'm wiping my VMWare Host and rebuilding it from scratch and then taking my Synology NAS and redoing it's storage.

@scottalanmiller And Starwind ships their ready nodes armed with RAID https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-hyperconverged-appliance so i think they still keep doing RAID and i am sure it is for a reason some of them I've mentioned above.