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Network pics thread

dashpuppy said:
Well I exported it from hyper v then copied it to a USB stick launched xen center and tried to import it, it does it and then stops or something..

I have 5 Debian hyper v I want to bring over and try before I make the full on switch...
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I still recommend XenConvert for Windows boxes, I have never pulled a straight VHD from Hyper-V.
 
I totally had to disable HA :eek:

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However I overnighted 128GB worth of RAM yesterday. I'll be coming in tonight to double our RAM capacity in each hypervisor. :)

Hooray for 128GB per HV. :)
 
Red Squirrel said:
Looks nice, except I'm pretty sure there's a electrical code violation right there. :p
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mikeblas said:
Better move the racks away from the service box before you screw them down. As soon as the fire marshal sees that, he'll cancel your occupancy permit (if he's competent and concerned).
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that is an old panel and is going away. It only has a few circuits in it now, its from before we had a whole building UPS/Conditioning system

electrician has already been in to look at it, though there are rumblings that the box may stay even when empty :(
 
MikeTrike said:
I still recommend XenConvert for Windows boxes, I have never pulled a straight VHD from Hyper-V.
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It finally imported, but won't start. I even made a test vm and it wn't start.. Wonder if there is a bios setting im missing..
 
haunter said:
that is an old panel and is going away. It only has a few circuits in it now, its from before we had a whole building UPS/Conditioning system

electrician has already been in to look at it, though there are rumblings that the box may stay even when empty :(
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though now that I am sitting here staring at it. its really starting to bug me

thanks guys.
 
haunter said:
that is an old panel and is going away. It only has a few circuits in it now, its from before we had a whole building UPS/Conditioning system

electrician has already been in to look at it, though there are rumblings that the box may stay even when empty :(
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Just have them demo the load center, cut the EMC where the wall penetration is and cap it with a junction box. Just leave the breaker on the main panel there and label it as spare.

This way the panel is gone, and the circuit and all infrastructure is still there in case you ever want to relocate the panel somewhere else. The labor to go from the junction box to a new panel is way way less than having to re-penetrate a wall.
 
cyr0n_k0r said:
Just have them demo the load center, cut the EMC where the wall penetration is and cap it with a junction box. Just leave the breaker on the main panel there and label it as spare.

This way the panel is gone, and the circuit and all infrastructure is still there in case you ever want to relocate the panel somewhere else. The labor to go from the junction box to a new panel is way way less than having to re-penetrate a wall.
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I am double checking the local coding(2008 NEC) and may shift anyways just in case the removal of live circuits never happens, because well, thats often the case.

its a rather large shock to my boss, as these are sitting right where the old AS400's were for about 15 years
 
dashpuppy said:
Ip KVM....
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No I'm talking bout the black boxes all stacked, they have BNC ports on them, more than likely DS1.

Yep the gallery is extremely old, we have 6 rows of gear, 8 racks wide. I'll grab some pics of the new EMC storage we have coming.

The network is mixed. Most of the public switches are 3560, with 4x 1G uplinks, typically never exceed an average of 30mbit per port, on the high usage servers we use 3560G or Force10 SA series. Cores are 6506-E with SUP720-3BXL. Then some juniper edge routers in front to take the tables.
 



New 4bay eSATA enclosure for my Hyper-V server to store the VHDs on. Each drive is individual for now. I may change it up later. 4 x 500 GB HDDs. So far it's working well.

Getting all the VMs setup. Splitting them across the drives for better performance. Still need to order some more RAM for the 1950.
 
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New 4bay eSATA enclosure for my Hyper-V server to store the VHDs on. Each drive is individual for now. I may change it up later. 4 x 500 GB HDDs. So far it's working well.

Getting all the VMs setup. Splitting them across the drives for better performance. Still need to order some more RAM for the 1950.
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You get that as a bundle with a pci-e esata card from new egg ?
 
Started cleaning up the first of about 40 wiring closets in the complex tonight. Color coded all the network cabling and rearranged all the VLANs into groups on the switch instead of the hodge-podge it was. Sorry switch is hidden by new cable manager, I could not back up any further. And yes every one of those patch panel ports go somewhere they just are not all in use.

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Stanza33 said:
I want to know how you got Xen + that many virtuals and 128gig of ram running on a MD3000i;)

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I've yet to hit any bottlenecks. :)

Jay_oasis said:
The performance of that MD3000i can't be all that good can it?
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It's actually great, 15K SAS does wonders for an I/O-centric environment. Am I limited by the active-passive nature of the MD3000i? Yes, but do I actually ever feel it... not yet, so it's not a problem. It might become a backup array next year, but for now there are no problems. :)
 
I loved the MD3000i at my old job. Thing never cried. Its active-passive but with multiple luns and some manual balancing of the VM's you can utilize each controller well.
 
I am looking at a NetApp 2040 the MD3000i just didn't seem like what we needed.
 
The reason you don't feel it is that your applications aren't demanding enough.
 
RiDDLeRThC said:
I loved the MD3000i at my old job. Thing never cried. Its active-passive but with multiple luns and some manual balancing of the VM's you can utilize each controller well.
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I'll probably do that to squeeze as much out of this thing as possible, because it's otherwise rock solid.

I'm thinking VNXe next time around, price on those should be reasonable on the 2nd hand market I would think. :)
 
I wish we could go the the second hand market at work, even recon stuff but we can't :(
 
Jay_oasis said:
I wish we could go the the second hand market at work, even recon stuff but we can't :(
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We pretty much have no choice, or else I can't get these things approved for purchasing. I'd rather have 2nd hand storage + spare parts vs. having a bunch of old crusty ass servers. :)

However the initial HP DL385's were brand new, and I always buy parts like RAM new. For example the 128GB worth of RAM I added was about $1500 worth of Crucial 8GB DIMM's.
 
schnell said:
Please don't. NetApp is shit. Compellent all the way.
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NetApp is not shit, it's just a pain if you don't specialize in NetApp. Plus they do things their own way. I wish storage was more standardized, however everybody plays by their own rules.

We ditched our FAS2020 FC array because of the trouble it gave us. :(
 
Our Compellent array is the easiest thing in the world to run. Heck I have used some NAS boxes that were harder to provision storage on.
 
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