What's Your Current Project?

David.Scammell

Seeing that we just moved into a new house in February, I have lots of projects. This past weekend is was landscaping the front yard.

Turns out the previous owners had a rock garden. So my next project is to put together the "Gorilla Cart" I bought at Home Depot, make a sifting table, and then go through the piles of rock-laden dirt I now have in my backyard (from the front yard). Will re-use the rocks as borders around the different landscaping elements and spread the extra dirt around the yard.

I know, not really IT projects, but this is where my extra time is going right now.

bout time

scottalanmiller

There you go!

JaredBusch

@Bill-Kindle said:

@scottalanmiller Well some of the "newer" ones that I see have been cleaned up. They set variables at the very begging, use comments and curly braces appropriately. But the original that I'm supposed to work with to 'learn' from, is not. And on top of that, no formal documentation exists to show anyone how this is done, other than go bug someone to pick their brain. And even then it doesn't quite make sense.

I got in to Perl via the EverQuest Emulator project because the quests were all wrote in Perl. Right as I got comfortable with using it, the project implemented Lua for the quest system. I love this language. It is some much better to write in. The server source code is all C++. This is what I do for a hobby to expand my programming skills beyond VB.Net

Dashrender

Current projects:
Deploy new DL380 G8 with ESXi 5.5 u1
Migrate VMs from old host
Migrate from Server 2003 R2 to 2012 R2

and replace 40 workstations running XP with win7 and win 8.1

@Dashrender had one similar to this last year. was a nice lil project

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

Current projects:
Deploy new DL380 G8 with ESXi 5.5 u1
Migrate VMs from old host
Migrate from Server 2003 R2 to 2012 R2

and replace 40 workstations running XP with win7 and win 8.1

Sounds like a good project. Finally someone deploying something current.

JaredBusch

I rolled a client in Kansas from XP to 8 last February. Last week I updated them to 8.1. Their server is SBS 2008 on a VMWare 5.0 host, so it will be a couple years before they update the server hardware.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

Current projects:
Deploy new DL380 G8 with ESXi 5.5 u1
Migrate VMs from old host
Migrate from Server 2003 R2 to 2012 R2

and replace 40 workstations running XP with win7 and win 8.1

Sounds like a good project. Finally someone deploying something current.

The sad thing is, I have two DL380 G5's and the VMWare HCL says they only support to up to ESXi 4.1 i was really hoping I'd have some lab boxes.

DenisKelley

Swapping out CAD systems for new people and migrating mailboxes between two mail servers.

DenisKelley

@Dashrender said:

The sad thing is, I have two DL380 G5's and the VMWare HCL says they only support to up to ESXi 4.1 i was really hoping I'd have some lab boxes.

I have some DL350 G5's and they run ESXi 5.0. Sure not, 5.5, but close. I'm surprised the DL380 only does 4.1

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

Current projects:
Deploy new DL380 G8 with ESXi 5.5 u1
Migrate VMs from old host
Migrate from Server 2003 R2 to 2012 R2

and replace 40 workstations running XP with win7 and win 8.1

Sounds like a good project. Finally someone deploying something current.

The sad thing is, I have two DL380 G5's and the VMWare HCL says they only support to up to ESXi 4.1 i was really hoping I'd have some lab boxes.

I just set two dl360 g5's with 5.5 why can't you lab with the 380s?

Dashrender

Hubtech - your server is a DL 360, not a DL 380.

@Hubtech said:

I just set two dl360 g5's with 5.5 why can't you lab with the 380s?

I probably can, but the HCL does not support 5.5 on the DL 380 G5. G6 sure, but not the G5.

guess i assumed 380s were "newer" than 360s

scottalanmiller

@Hubtech said:

guess i assumed 380s were "newer" than 360s

Nope. The G denotes age. The 3 denotes the level of the server. The 6/8 denotes 1u or 2u. The 0/5 denotes Intel/AMD.

DL360 and DL380 share a motherboard. Just one has a double sized chassis to hold more drives.

JaredBusch

@Dashrender said:

Hubtech - your server is a DL 360, not a DL 380.

@Hubtech said:

I just set two dl360 g5's with 5.5 why can't you lab with the 380s?

I probably can, but the HCL does not support 5.5 on the DL 380 G5. G6 sure, but not the G5.

If it is a lab, why do you care about the HCL?

Dashrender

@jaredbusch Only in so much as I hope it works. I've read several posts where people haven't been able to install newer versions of ESXi on old hardware (nothing specific to the DL series though).

I've always planned to still try it, I'm simply disappointed that it's not on the list, but I can understand why.

scottalanmiller

Working via the HCL can save a lot of time versus finding out later that drivers are not available.

JaredBusch

@scottalanmiller said:

Working via the HCL can save a lot of time versus finding out later that drivers are not available.

That is a given, but when you are wanting to spin up a lab on old gear just for testing, the HCL is not something I even think ot look at unless something does not work. Instead I just install it first. It is alab setup, it is not expected to be production quality.