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Is anyone here attending? if so, I would love to connect.

Yeah, the migrate feature using local storage works great. Just turn off the VM and click on the migrate button. Over a 1 gbps link, it should take about 2.5-3 hrs to move a 400 GB VM to another host. I tried using the Veeam quick migration feature but that actually takes a lot longer.

In the end, I left domain services running (VSS does not work if this service is turned off) and converted the box. I made sure there were no incoming connections and 500 GB server took about 2 hours and 45 minutes to convert. After I got it to a VM, i booted in DSRM mode and took care of the...

So when I tried the P2V, converter tells me vss snapshot failed. Apparently you can't do VSS snapshot in DSRM mode. Any ideas? This is SBS 2011 box.

Thanks. So after the conversion is complete, do I edit the VM add a NIC, and then boot into AD Restore mode, and finally delete the converted NICS and setup the new NIC?

VMWare. Did you do a hot or cold migration? I will be using VMware Converter.

Has anyone had experience P2V'ing SBS 2008/2011 servers? If so, I would love to hear any gotchas/overall experience. I'm a little worried in P2V'ing the box as its a DC as well.

We were seeing latency on most of our hosts that went beyond 100 ms and peaked at almost a second. Called up VMWare and they stated that local disk controller was showing high latency (although there's no VM's on there). We are using a VNX 5300 via ISCSI for storage connectivity. Now my...

Thanks, how sure are you that when I clone the VM to the new ESXi host, that it will be formatted with the 1MB block allowing my virtual hard disk to reach up to 2 GB?

Sorry I wasn't clear enough. The reason why I'm moving the Exchange server is that the disk on the VM is almost full. Unfortunately I can't expand it anymore (it's at 250 GB now) or start moving mailboxes because there is barely any storage left on the server. The goal is to get the...

I have a Exchange VM in particualr that lives on a local datastore and by default was formatted so that the most space I can allocate to each hard disk is 256 GB (it's running ESXi 4) I'm planning to deploy a new host and install ESXi 5 which has lots of storage and use Veeam to replicate the...

I'm looking to replace my stock hard drive on my Macbook Pro (Spring 2011) with an SSD. Does anyone have recommendations or can tell me which SSD they use for their macbook pro?

Two host cluster running ESXi 5 using Synology for storage. Exchange 2007 & 2010 running in coexistence mode. View 5 Xen App 6.5 Two DC's SQL Server (2012) Web Server (IIS) SRM

Good point, let me put that in context. We deal mostly with SMB's in the NYC area and when the SAN is needed for a small business in, we used to recommend the Dell Equallogics which are pretty expensive. In the last few month's we've been recommending the VNXe which compared to the Equallogics...

Depends on the business but I would go with an enterprise solution as opposed to any Synology/QNAP devices (Don't get me wrong they work great). Check out the VNXe, it's easy to setup & affordable.

When I try to take a snapshot of a VM that is running ESXi 4.1 I get an error saying that Error: File <unspecified filename> is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore '<unspecified datastore> After doing some research VMware states this is an error that you get if your VMDK...

What does the 2 in the 4+2 RAID 6 or the 1 in the 4+1 RAID 5 stand for?

So I ended up going with the VNX VSA to test out SRM 5. I'm having an issue which I am hoping someone can help me with: Network Info: Protected Site: 192.168.1.0/24 Recovery Site: 10.20.10/24 The two sites are connected via a VPN Tunnel. I'm trying to setup the replication between...

Trying out the HP VSA for an SRM lab. For iSCSI traffic, i can route this via a vpn tunnel right?

Buy 10K+ SAS drives for your storage. All depends on your existing work load though; have you measured IOPS, bandwidth, etc?

On the VNXe you can only have 1 iscsi server per SP, and you can only have two NICS assigned to the iSCSI server. Two Questions: If I have two nics bound to two vmkernel ports, whats the max paths that I can have per volume/LUN? Would it be 4? I have a weird scenario where my first host sees 4...

So I decided to upgrade to latest firmware for VNXe that was released a few days ago. One of my datastores that i created became listed as inactive in Vsphere. THink the issue is with host access for the datastore. If I go to the storage on the the VNXe, it shows that my ESXi host iQN has "no...

1tb. looks like i have another issue both sps are blinking blue. cant reach the management ip for some reason

Doing my first vnxe install. Looks like i can only do a RAID 6 with two six pack NL drives. Is this true?

I just assumed that it would run on all editions of VMware as well. I was thinking of getting two essentials plus licenses for both sites (since you need VCenter licensed in both locations). Now the cost doubles with learning thsi new piece of information.

Looks like you need VSphere Standard, Enterprise or Enterprise Plus. Well that sucks!

Can SRM run with Essentials/Essentials Plus kits or does it need Enterprise or higher licensing?

perfect, thanks.

Would there be any issues with creating a VM template for an OS on one ESXi host, exporting it, and then importing it to another ESXi host. Basically I want to create a master OS template in my home lab and use it at clients when necessary. I'm assuming not, but just checking.

Anywhere know when i can find visio stencils for vnxe?

It's a pretty good product for what it's meant to do. Extending it beyond it's means, you're asking for disaster. I would deploy this product in an environment with less than 100 users and where the majority of the desktops are kiosk type.

It's a vdi solution from Citrix that's selling point is that you dont need a complicated infrastructure to do VDI. It takes about an hour to setup including the baseimage. It works with local storage and you simply add more hosts to scale. Licensing is cheaper as well. Anyone deployed this yet?

Make sure you are up to date with firmware on your SAN and and also make sure you get the ESXi build with the patch that fixes the ISCSI boot delay problem when using multipathing.

caveats are: you need to install VCenter on another server not in the VSA cluster. You can support up to 25 VM's on 2 hosts, 35 VM's with 3 hosts. There huge disk overhead: you need to configure your disks to RAID 10. So if you start off with 10 GB, you have 5 Usable, and then you have to...

Anyone deployed this yet? If so, want to hear their thoughts. Looks like a perfect SMB Solution.

Get a trial version of VEEAM and take backups of all your VM's to an external hard drive or NAS, install ESXi 5.0, restore your VM's from backup.

Never tried it but I assume it won't work. I would move the VEEAM server to a physical box since it is best practice.

Setup VEEAM on a physical server.

Not sure if I understand correctly, but why would you need multiple exchange servers for 10 users?

I'll be honest. I purchased my Macbook Pro out of curiosity sake; I wanted something different. I use my MBP on a daily basis now. There are issues like the fact my console to USB converter does not work with my MAC. I have to power on my Win7 VM to get it to work. This is why I also have a...