ESXi Setup!

[HeeroYuy84]

actually about 1k+..

i7 1k+?

what casing u use?

 

[voldermord]

i7 1k+?

what casing u use?

super slim casing. 50$ only

 

[HeeroYuy84]

anyone interested in my intel pcie nic? open for test only, $50

 

[kkelvin]

anyone interested in my intel pcie nic? open for test only, $50

erm.... Single Port or Dual Port?
Can let me know the model?

Anyone got Dual Port NICs? PCI-E ones..... Intel or Broadcom also can....

 

[crypster]

Been long time i enter this forum to realize so many whitebox player.

Just to share my setup.

Asus P5Q-E mainboard.
1 x Intel single port nic
Manage to get my onboard marvell nic to work with some tweaks
2 x 500GB WD HDD.
16GB DDR2 RAM
XFX 92000
Silver 550W PSU (giving me lots of prob will be changing it. One of HDD cannot be detected but with external power is ok. Anyone with this prob?)
OS: ESXi 4.1U1 one 2GB thumbdrive boot from USB

VMs running:
openfiler
vyatta
1 x w2k8r2 DC
1 x w2k8r2 vCenter
1 x w2k8r2 View Manager
1 x w2k8r2 View Security Server
1 x w2k8r2 View transfer Server
3 x ESXi 4.1 servers


Will be building another box this month. Anyone have tried any of the Rampage III board?

 

[HeeroYuy84]

erm.... Single Port or Dual Port?
Can let me know the model?

Anyone got Dual Port NICs? PCI-E ones..... Intel or Broadcom also can....

ask seowbin , mines single port, intel nic, confirm will work

 

[HeeroYuy84]

Been long time i enter this forum to realize so many whitebox player.

Just to share my setup.

Asus P5Q-E mainboard.
1 x Intel single port nic
Manage to get my onboard marvell nic to work with some tweaks
2 x 500GB WD HDD.
16GB DDR2 RAM
XFX 92000
Silver 550W PSU (giving me lots of prob will be changing it. One of HDD cannot be detected but with external power is ok. Anyone with this prob?)
OS: ESXi 4.1U1 one 2GB thumbdrive boot from USB

VMs running:
openfiler
vyatta
1 x w2k8r2 DC
1 x w2k8r2 vCenter
1 x w2k8r2 View Manager
1 x w2k8r2 View Security Server
1 x w2k8r2 View transfer Server
3 x ESXi 4.1 servers


Will be building another box this month. Anyone have tried any of the Rampage III board?

welcome to the club lol u interested in my setup? lol

 

[takeshi_umuro]

my setup


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[seowbin]

wah, u are back

i like when i was much younger, you was my idol

u got a rack at home or something right? is it still around?

 

[takeshi_umuro]

wah, u are back

i like when i was much younger, you was my idol

u got a rack at home or something right? is it still around?

aiyo wat idol lar.... hehe ... always been around just that I'm not posting that much. Been busy with my work and car though (sort of change hobby)

yup it's still around except it's virtualised into 2 ESX servers with vcenter cluster setup with thecus NAS. Also it's supported by my 1U MGE UPS and a backup server on 2 x LTO2 tape drives. Was thinking of getting synology 1511+ or setting up a Openfiler SAN (yes FC SAN by SCST module).

I rem you are working in Cisco when u are intern? Still in Cisco?

 

[seowbin]

aiyo wat idol lar.... hehe ... always been around just that I'm not posting that much. Been busy with my work and car though (sort of change hobby)

yup it's still around except it's virtualised into 2 ESX servers with vcenter cluster setup with thecus NAS. Also it's supported by my 1U MGE UPS and a backup server on 2 x LTO2 tape drives. Was thinking of getting synology 1511+ or setting up a Openfiler SAN (yes FC SAN by SCST module).

I rem you are working in Cisco when u are intern? Still in Cisco?

i see... synology 1511+ seems good...

i invested qnap ts-439 last time, so far so good as well but when kanjiong (i'm impatient) that time, can only blame traditional HDD low IOPS

nope ... now working for a cisco gold partner instead

not sure why but no plan to work for principle yet...

 

[takeshi_umuro]

i see... synology 1511+ seems good...

i invested qnap ts-439 last time, so far so good as well but when kanjiong (i'm impatient) that time, can only blame traditional HDD low IOPS

nope ... now working for a cisco gold partner instead

not sure why but no plan to work for principle yet...

lol i got myself 2 thecus as well but now wanna try other brands ...

Used to work for principal for 7 years.... can be quite sianz when it comes to solutioning so it's not a bad thing not to work in it as well

U dun happened to be in D***C**** or now DD?

 

[HeeroYuy84]

Lol I dint notice my thread got people reply the more the merrier lol

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[seowbin]

lol i got myself 2 thecus as well but now wanna try other brands ...

Used to work for principal for 7 years.... can be quite sianz when it comes to solutioning so it's not a bad thing not to work in it as well

U dun happened to be in D***C**** or now DD?

nope, not there

 

[blackie83]

Btw how you all backup this device? Down the device and copy the image out?

 

[HeeroYuy84]

Btw how you all backup this device? Down the device and copy the image out?

What u mean? The OS inside the vm or?

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[takeshi_umuro]

Btw how you all backup this device? Down the device and copy the image out?

vstorage api or use export to ova if you can shutdown

 

[SKinny86]

Glad there's this thread in hwc. I've just setup ESXi on a AMD Opteron server and i've a few puzzling questions.

1) I understand that in order to use the OS, I have to log on to vm sphere client and access through console. Is there anyway that I can access the OS without having use client?

2) with prior to qtn1, i've thought of using vnc, must my vnc use a different ip? meaning vmware on ip1, guest1 on ip2, guest2 on ip3 etc.. all must use different nic ports?

Hope someone can help me with this. I tried configuring guest with the different ip as hypervisor but on the same nic and it crashed -_- cant log in now tsk.

 

[takeshi_umuro]

1) I understand that in order to use the OS, I have to log on to vm sphere client and access through console. Is there anyway that I can access the OS without having use client?

-> vCLI but what do you want to do within the hypervisor console?
** edited: i get your qn.. u want to access the OS console of the VM. Yes you've to use vSphere client or install a 3rd party remote software on OS level to manage the VM

2) with prior to qtn1, i've thought of using vnc, must my vnc use a different ip? meaning vmware on ip1, guest1 on ip2, guest2 on ip3 etc.. all must use different nic ports?

-> use VNC? there isn't any GUI in the first place for service console
** edited: the VMs are all connected to the default vswitch/portgroup which I assume that your management nic is connected and hence, yes you've to use different IPs for the VMs as well as VMkernel. You can use the same nic port like what i mentioned previously

Hope someone can help me with this. I tried configuring guest with the different ip as hypervisor but on the same nic

-> it shldn't. VM crash as in?

I strongly suggest that you take a look at the user guide to start off first

 

[SKinny86]

1) I understand that in order to use the OS, I have to log on to vm sphere client and access through console. Is there anyway that I can access the OS without having use client?

-> vCLI but what do you want to do within the hypervisor console?
** edited: i get your qn.. u want to access the OS console of the VM. Yes you've to use vSphere client or install a 3rd party remote software on OS level to manage the VM

2) with prior to qtn1, i've thought of using vnc, must my vnc use a different ip? meaning vmware on ip1, guest1 on ip2, guest2 on ip3 etc.. all must use different nic ports?

-> use VNC? there isn't any GUI in the first place for service console
** edited: the VMs are all connected to the default vswitch/portgroup which I assume that your management nic is connected and hence, yes you've to use different IPs for the VMs as well as VMkernel. You can use the same nic port like what i mentioned previously

Hope someone can help me with this. I tried configuring guest with the different ip as hypervisor but on the same nic

-> it shldn't. VM crash as in?

I strongly suggest that you take a look at the user guide to start off first

takeshi thanks for the reply.

1) ** edited: i get your qn.. u want to access the OS console of the VM. Yes you've to use vSphere client or install a 3rd party remote software on OS level to manage the VM
=> so the only way is remote software. hmm so i've decided to use VNC Server to remotely connect to the guestOS. That's what i meant for question 2.

2) the VMs are all connected to the default vswitch/portgroup which I assume that your management nic is connected and hence, yes you've to use different IPs for the VMs as well as VMkernel. You can use the same nic port like what i mentioned previously
=>hmm. for example i've connected my eth0 to 10.0.0.1 for the management network. and i want to assign 10.0.0.2 to guest0S1, can i just use eth0 or must i use eth1 for the guestOS. Is each IP dedicated to 1 ethernet port only?

edit:can i vswitch management and production network together?