| strong | ahemz | 15:48 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminus_ | heya strong. =) | 15:51 |
| strong | yow.. | 15:51 |
| strong | howdy? :) | 15:51 |
| Terminus_ | strong: can't sleep but at the same time, i want to be at the office early tomorrow. i have a new toy. dell r410 with an x5675 xeon and 32GB RAM. 4x 1TB SAS nearline. =D | 15:52 |
| Terminus_ | how about you? | 15:52 |
| strong | wow.. nice toy!!! :) | 15:52 |
| strong | nah.. kinda stagnant :( hehe | 15:53 |
| Terminus_ | yep. 6 cores at 3GHz. =D | 15:53 |
| Terminus_ | awww... | 15:53 |
| strong | hehe.. | 15:53 |
| Terminus_ | the specs actually seem overkill already but i sometimes wonder, what if i went with dual x5675, 128GB RAM, and 8x 15k SAS? =D | 15:54 |
| strong | hahaha | 15:54 |
| Terminus_ | whoops. bathroom break. | 15:54 |
| strong | then.. you can virtualize then :) | 15:54 |
| Terminus_ | haha. this IS alrady meant for VMs. =D | 15:54 |
| strong | nice.. :) | 15:55 |
| strong | do you RHEV? | 15:55 |
| Terminus_ | strong: nah... vmware esxi. | 16:14 |
| strong | ahh | 16:26 |
| strong | alright.. vmware.. | 16:26 |
| strong | i do maintain vmware infra.. :) | 16:27 |
| strong | about.. 6 vcenters (2 each region --- 1 vCenter per DC/region) | 16:27 |
| strong | about.. thousands of VM's... mixed. | 16:28 |
| Terminus_ | esxi was the nicest when i was evaluating around 3 years ago so i just stuck with it. | 16:28 |
| strong | we currently use 4.1 | 16:28 |
| strong | but.. looks like.. we will be upgrading soon.. depends on the budget :) | 16:28 |
| Terminus_ | i'm on 4.1 as well but i'm gonna install 5 on the r410. if it doesn't work out, i can always go back to 4.1. XD | 16:28 |
| strong | ahh.. | 16:28 |
| strong | yeah.. you need to check compats. | 16:29 |
| strong | it worked well on HP blades.. hehe | 16:29 |
| Terminus_ | i'm pretty sure it's compatible. i meant the whole vram thingy. i doubt we'll run into those limits though. | 16:29 |
| strong | i see.. :) | 16:30 |
| strong | cool! | 16:30 |
| Terminus_ | while reading the manual, i found out there are internal ports for usb. sweet. i placed a usb drive there for vmware so that all the HDDs go to the datastore. =) | 16:30 |
| strong | hehe.. | 16:31 |
| Terminus_ | also, the RAID card has 512MB NVRAM with battery backup. i was surprised. didn't think they still put a battery considering it's NVRAM. =D | 16:31 |
| strong | careful on those accessories.. they're a potential issue specially if you.... vmotion. | 16:32 |
| Terminus_ | strong: what kind of caching issues are there? i'm not using vmotion though. we're cheapskates. XD | 16:32 |
| strong | hmm.. not really a caching issue.. but.. you need to have a standards across nodes. | 16:33 |
| strong | specially if it's clustered. | 16:33 |
| Terminus_ | strong: you're talking about the RAID card right? | 16:33 |
| strong | nope.. i'm talking about vmotion :) hehehe | 16:33 |
| strong | clustered nodes.. | 16:34 |
| Terminus_ | strong: but you were talking about it in the context of accessories. what kind of accessories? =P | 16:34 |
| strong | ahhh.. accessories for VM's. | 16:34 |
| strong | attaching accessories.. :) | 16:34 |
| Terminus_ | strong: you mean the usb drive? it's for booting esxi. not an accessory. =) | 16:35 |
| strong | hmm.. but when you create VM's inside your esx.. | 16:35 |
| strong | you have options to attach accessories.. e.g. cdrom... | 16:35 |
| Terminus_ | strong: yeah, but it's not gonna offer it's own boot drive as an option. | 16:36 |
| strong | yeps.. | 16:36 |
| Terminus_ | i just realized i'll have to move opennms to it's own physical box now. =| | 16:36 |
| strong | but.. just ensure that those accessories are also present on other nodes.. if you do clustering. | 16:37 |
| Terminus_ | we don't attach accessories. CPU, RAM, network, HDD. that's it. | 16:37 |
| strong | ahhh nice :) | 16:38 |
| Terminus_ | except for opennms. gotta move it to it's own box since it uses a GSM modem. =D | 16:39 |
| strong | ahh.. | 16:39 |
| strong | hehe. | 16:39 |
| Terminus_ | 300 pesos a month for out of band alarms. XD | 16:40 |
| strong | ow.. | 16:40 |
| strong | nice.. | 16:40 |
| strong | unlimited? | 16:42 |
| Terminus_ | i don't get to see the bill. i just requested for the cheapest globe plan since it rarely sends a text message anyway. could actually be lower than 300. hehe | 16:46 |
| strong | ahhh | 16:47 |
| strong | that's good.... hehe.. meaning, alarms are rare... hence stable infra :) | 16:47 |
| Terminus_ | yep. =) | 16:47 |
| strong | ;) | 16:48 |
| Terminus_ | if we actually consume 300 pesos in a month for alerts, that's a bad month. haha | 16:49 |
| strong | yes.. | 16:50 |
| strong | Terminus, tulog na muna ako :) | 17:13 |
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