@r0dISK said in I did a thing, have a quick Linux question:

22TB ? mdadm + RAID6...

That's a lot to have under RAID 6, but for a home lab is fine.

The Linux system gets the use 99% of the time and needs priority as to performance and what not. The Windows install is just for gaming and is not even my main gaming machine. Just a secondary one. And I've lived with zero Windows access for most of a year, not a big deal.

@coliver I know, I wasn't even included in the conversation at the time when we migrated to O365, and I wasn't included in the conversation when they setup Hyper-V.

Nor was I included when they built this VM, or the other reporting VM on Hyper-V to which 16GB of memory and 2 cores assigned to it...

#SweepItLikeAJanitor

@JaredBusch said in NIC teaming on Hyper-V:

Then you make you vSwitch. If you already have your vSwitch setup, make a team with the ports NOT on the vSwitch, move the vSwitch to the team and then add the final NIC to the team.

Not much to add here. SwitchIndependent mode is a big one on Hyper-V. Sure, Windows can easily use LACP and other means, but what if you want to use two or more uplink switches for redundancy? LACP can't handle this and there is just a handful of proprietary protocols that can. SwitchIndependent mode is doing exactly this by "load balancing" VMs and Host traffic between the available links and failover in case something goes south.

This way, like @JaredBusch said above, you can have LACP-like functionality (max single port speed for a single traffic source) over multiple inexpensive switches. In fact, the switch doesn't know anything about that type of teaming, you could even use unmanaged switches (but really, don't do that)

My hosts are running in this mode.

Question: have you tried setting up the DHCP server as the time master, and having the Centos system sync time to the DHCP server (with said DHCP server syncing to NIST or whatever time source you prefer) instead of the NTP Pool? That way theoretically DHCP server and Centos should be at the same time. Just a thought.

Looks great !!

Thanks for the doc.

@Dashrender said:

I agree that it's nothing more than myself boxing myself into incorrect assumption (something that most of us do) - Hey this is GUI-less, therefore anything that requires GUI interaction (at least for install) won't work.

Many Linux installs (not mine, but many) have the GUI libraries there but no GUI running. Meaning that the code is around but the services don't run. So the attack surface remains small and the CPU and memory are not being used unnecessarily but if you need to fire something up with a GUI, you can.

In the Linux world, we do "minimal" server installs and don't install those libraries. But lots of people go for more bloated installs that have that stuff there.

I only have one VM, it is 2012 R2 on my XS.

If it is a restart of the Hyper-V host, then check the services once it fails to respond like that.

@jt1001001 said:

@dafyre I know on one of my Dell machines I did a new driver that seemed to fix the vmq performance issue; on the other I did just completely shut it off.

I'd be less hesitant to leave it enabled if I could trust it to not cause problems.

In case anyone else runs across this same issue, I got this resolved with a simple command:

dracut --regenerate-all -f && grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

After doing this, everything booted up properly.

I then installed hyperv-daemons, rebooted, and everything works great.

@CharlesHTN said in Install Dell OpenManage Server Administrator on Hyper-V Server 2012 R2:

That's why I always change it to "hobbes"!

hahaha, Shaw and Hobbs 😛 but anyway yeah I hear you.

@dafyre said:

Hey Joel,

Have you considered a USB over IP type product? I've just been made aware of them and haven't had a chance to use one yet... but basically it is a USB connection with a Network card, and whatever server you want to use it has to run a software package to do so...

It's worth taking a look at.

Interesting product. What a great idea.

@FATeknollogee said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I'm watching the videos trying to figure out what it does. Looks like a decent product but haven't seen any single pane of glass stuff yet.

Did you at least find one compelling feature?

Not yet.

@LAH3385
Eventually I will end up where you are suggesting - though I currently use Dell's Appassure Replay, not Veeam.

@Dashrender said:

@JaredBusch said:

I am not happy with the amount of the increase. I never said a company should not or cannot raise their costs.

Considering my other theory, I'm not surprised with the hike. Happy, maybe not, but surprised, nah!

Another question - how often are you buying new licenses?

And when you compare prices, what beats it?

Nothing beats it yet on price for paid solutions that work with Hyper-V.

Unitrends free is a possibility for this particular client.

Well - continuing down the fan spin up, spin down saga - Today HP had me send them logs from iLo. Those logs showed that I am using a NIC firmware that they have since pulled (but it was in the service pack DVD ISO - so WTF?). They want me to downgrade the NIC firmware.

Of course, the single install file for NIC firmware is gui based, and even though you can extract the dozen or so files from the installer and run them direct, they don't have instructions for doing so.

So now I'm stuck downloading and old Service Pack DVD ISO so I can boot from that and downgrade my firmware. oh boy!

@JaredBusch said:

@DenisKelley said:

If you are trying to use Veeam, the standard setup would to have a server running a second copy of Veeam B&R at the target site. You'll link the two and configure the replicas. You do not need to purchase a second Veeam license to do this, but you will need a running B&R at the DR site.

That was my understanding of how it works, but it has been almost two years since I talked to Veeam about it.

With what I've seen with v9, you now can do full failover scripted ahead of time to make it a bit more turn-key during a disaster.

@LAH3385 BTW, as I mentioned in the other post to you, we are welcomed to jump with you on the remote session to look deeper into the issue and try to solve it. I'm going to PM you right now.

Going to do so now, thanks.