[15:48] <strong> ahemz
[15:51] <Terminus_> heya strong. =)
[15:51] <strong> yow..
[15:51] <strong> howdy? :)
[15:52] <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!!! :)
[15:53] <strong> nah..  kinda stagnant :( hehe
[15:53] <Terminus_> yep. 6 cores at 3GHz. =D
[15:53] <Terminus_> awww...
[15:53] <strong> hehe..
[15:54] <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
[15:55] <strong> nice.. :)
[15:55] <strong> do you RHEV?
[16:14] <Terminus_> strong: nah... vmware esxi.
[16:26] <strong> ahh
[16:26] <strong> alright.. vmware..
[16:27] <strong> i do maintain vmware infra.. :)
[16:27] <strong> about.. 6 vcenters (2 each region --- 1 vCenter per DC/region)
[16:28] <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..
[16:29] <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.
[16:30] <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. =)
[16:31] <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
[16:32] <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
[16:33] <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
[16:34] <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.. :)
[16:35] <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...
[16:36] <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. =|
[16:37] <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.
[16:38] <strong> ahhh nice :)
[16:39] <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.
[16:40] <Terminus_> 300 pesos a month for out of band alarms. XD
[16:40] <strong> ow..
[16:40] <strong> nice..
[16:42] <strong> unlimited?
[16:46] <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
[16:47] <strong> ahhh
[16:47] <strong> that's good.... hehe.. meaning, alarms are rare... hence stable infra :)
[16:47] <Terminus_> yep. =)
[16:48] <strong> ;)
[16:49] <Terminus_> if we actually consume 300 pesos in a month for alerts, that's a bad month. haha
[16:50] <strong> yes..
[17:13] <strong> Terminus, tulog na muna ako :)