[15:48] ahemz [15:51] heya strong. =) [15:51] yow.. [15:51] howdy? :) [15:52] 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] how about you? [15:52] wow.. nice toy!!! :) [15:53] nah.. kinda stagnant :( hehe [15:53] yep. 6 cores at 3GHz. =D [15:53] awww... [15:53] hehe.. [15:54] 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] hahaha [15:54] whoops. bathroom break. [15:54] then.. you can virtualize then :) [15:54] haha. this IS alrady meant for VMs. =D [15:55] nice.. :) [15:55] do you RHEV? [16:14] strong: nah... vmware esxi. [16:26] ahh [16:26] alright.. vmware.. [16:27] i do maintain vmware infra.. :) [16:27] about.. 6 vcenters (2 each region --- 1 vCenter per DC/region) [16:28] about.. thousands of VM's... mixed. [16:28] esxi was the nicest when i was evaluating around 3 years ago so i just stuck with it. [16:28] we currently use 4.1 [16:28] but.. looks like.. we will be upgrading soon.. depends on the budget :) [16:28] 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] ahh.. [16:29] yeah.. you need to check compats. [16:29] it worked well on HP blades.. hehe [16:29] i'm pretty sure it's compatible. i meant the whole vram thingy. i doubt we'll run into those limits though. [16:30] i see.. :) [16:30] cool! [16:30] 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] hehe.. [16:31] 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] careful on those accessories.. they're a potential issue specially if you.... vmotion. [16:32] strong: what kind of caching issues are there? i'm not using vmotion though. we're cheapskates. XD [16:33] hmm.. not really a caching issue.. but.. you need to have a standards across nodes. [16:33] specially if it's clustered. [16:33] strong: you're talking about the RAID card right? [16:33] nope.. i'm talking about vmotion :) hehehe [16:34] clustered nodes.. [16:34] strong: but you were talking about it in the context of accessories. what kind of accessories? =P [16:34] ahhh.. accessories for VM's. [16:34] attaching accessories.. :) [16:35] strong: you mean the usb drive? it's for booting esxi. not an accessory. =) [16:35] hmm.. but when you create VM's inside your esx.. [16:35] you have options to attach accessories.. e.g. cdrom... [16:36] strong: yeah, but it's not gonna offer it's own boot drive as an option. [16:36] yeps.. [16:36] i just realized i'll have to move opennms to it's own physical box now. =| [16:37] but.. just ensure that those accessories are also present on other nodes.. if you do clustering. [16:37] we don't attach accessories. CPU, RAM, network, HDD. that's it. [16:38] ahhh nice :) [16:39] except for opennms. gotta move it to it's own box since it uses a GSM modem. =D [16:39] ahh.. [16:39] hehe. [16:40] 300 pesos a month for out of band alarms. XD [16:40] ow.. [16:40] nice.. [16:42] unlimited? [16:46] 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] ahhh [16:47] that's good.... hehe.. meaning, alarms are rare... hence stable infra :) [16:47] yep. =) [16:48] ;) [16:49] if we actually consume 300 pesos in a month for alerts, that's a bad month. haha [16:50] yes.. [17:13] Terminus, tulog na muna ako :)