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My original home lab was a collection of Pentium 3 Gateway mini-PCs that I'd install Windows 2000 Server or Fedora Linux onto for practice. Eventually I had a AMD Athlon 64 x2 4400 with 2GB of RAM and would load 3-4 VMs on it with VMware Server. As the years progressed I upgraded to 2x whitebox...

Even easier is to upgrade from the command line with esxcli: esxcli software sources profile list --depot=https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-6.7.0-<latest dated image>-standard -d...

Only announced, GA TBD

I work for an array vendor so my input is biased, but HCI and VSAN in particular just isn't the panacea it claims to be. Long winded post coming up.... 1. Simplicity - I used to manage HP EVAs, EMC VNXs, and other storage products back in the day. They were a management headache and it required...

A 32 node cluster would take an entire day to upgrade? Is this with moving data during each host going into maintenance mode? All flash or hybrid? What FTT? Any data services enabled? What's baseline latency and how is it affected with hosts going offline?

Dude, VSAN is steaming garbage. Just quit banging your head against a wall and buy a cheapo used Synology box or build a FreeNAS box. You'll have far less sleepless nights. Trust me, you've only just started to find all the problems and idiosyncrasies VSAN has to offer.

This is why I avoid VSAN like the plague.

No probably just running around entertaining clients -- dinners, drinks, etc.

I'll be there tonight and tomorrow night.

Yeah, but only because my current employer pays for it and gives me a bonus for it. Otherwise I would let it lapse.

When I first got the VCP3 it didn't help at all. My company had a lot of favoritism and because I was newer others got to focus on VMware even though I knew much more than they did. When I was laid off the VCP did help me get a job at a VAR as a Virtualization Engineer.

What I usually hear is people want HCI for 3 main reasons: 1. Ease of scale 2. Single pane of glass to manage the entire stack 3. Direct access to storage resources by VM and App Admins, no need for Storage Admins to get in the way Most of these reasons are directly related to storage...

What interests you about HCI?

Hybrid or all flash? Nimble's pretty easy to maintain but you'll want to do some planning on how you want to carve up volumes based on the VM's you'll put on them. Nimble has you choose a block size when you create a volume and certain block sizes are optimized for SQL, Exchange, general...

What version of Hyper-V? Could be a CSV ownership issue where metadata is going through a slower 1Gb link between hosts.

Updated my lab with a Pure m20 with 10TB raw. 3.6:1 with about a dozen various VMs on it.

If you want to renew maintenance but wait on getting the included controller upgrade just talk to your sales team. They can help. However, if your renewal isn't until late 2018 or after, I think you'll want the new controllers.

I'll be the first to admit our mix of digital marketing, inside sales, and outside sales ends up being a mess to customers. Each has their own purpose but when all 3 are simultaneously hounding one customer, it's too much. Sorry you had that experience.

I work for Pure and they're worth taking a look at, too. All flash, zero decision making required (no RAID levels, all features always turned on - dedupe, compression, encryption), and a super compelling business model. Maintenance never goes up, lifetime warranty (not until product is EOL but...

Virtualization is pretty much table stakes at this point.

Lack of remote Hyper-V management (you'll have to RDP into the Windows 10 box to get to Hyper-V manager) and clustering are the big ones. Other than that I don't think there's a difference.

When you install the Hyper-V role your OS is now a VM, hence the dip in performance. #Inception

4770k 4x8GB 1TB Crucial BX100 To Ryzen 1800X 4x16GB 1TB Samsung 960 EVO

No time or desire to overclock so I'll buy the 1800X.

Balls to the wall: 8C/16T 95W with 4x8GB of RAM or 4x16GB if I can find it.

Reliability of an all SSD SAN is just fine so long as the array was designed for flash storage from the get go. If it's simply a legacy disk array with SSDs slapped in using legacy RAID and treating the SSDs like they're disks, then I wouldn't expect too much longevity out of it, which...

No, it's fine. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/956893/support-policy-for-microsoft-sql-server-products-that-are-running-in-a-hardware-virtualization-environment SQL Server on Hyper-V Replica is supported provided the EnableWriteOrderPreservationAcrossDisks flag is set. Note To set...

Intel X520-DA2 cards

I had the same issue. Had to ditch the Cisco TwinAx and buy 10GTek 1M TwinAx and those took right off like a champ.

Cisco 3M TwinAx cables

Revamped the lab and happy to be rid of the old AMD Opteron's! These Intel CPUs just scream. Everything is so much more responsive now. 2x hosts - dual booting ESXi 6.5 and Hyper-V Core 2016 - Intel e5-2650 v4 ES - Supermicro X10SRL-F - 4x 32GB DDR4 2133MHZ LRDIMMs - Intel X520-DA2 dual 10Gb...

I don't see why not. Lots of articles and How Tos out there on Hyper-V Replication. https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/virtualization/2013/06/28/save-network-bandwidth-by-using-out-of-band-initial-replication-method-in-hyper-v-replica/

Yes you can tell it to replicate to a local external drive, bring to the remote site, then replicate changes from there.

It will be a clone of the production VM. It won't be turned on unless you stop replication and power up the replicated VM.

How large are they? You could use Hyper-V Replication to send them over the wire. The data will be compressed when it's sent and you can have the machines sync up every few minutes or hours. However, you'll want to keep an eye on the replication. It doesn't natively alert you if replication...

NERD FIGHT!!!!!!!!!

If these reviews are legit looks like I'll be buying three: one for my office PC, two for my VMware lab hosts. Time to retire the Opteron 6376 servers heating up my utility room.

Well aware of that. Holding out hope. If not, I'll nab a 16 core Naples. MOAR RAM.