Re-purposing Dell Poweredge 2900 as Hypervisor box - Need suggestions
If you can afford SSD's then that is the way to go. Drives ARE the bottleneck now and there is no standard drive array that will come close to the performance of SSD.MS Hyper-V "core" is free and as I...
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I am in the process of setting up my home lab, and I decided to go with ESXi over Hyper-V because all of my virtualization experience has been on Hyper-V, and I want to learn the basics to see if the...
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Buy a nicer USB drive if you do install ESXi on it. You may have to play around with the BIOS settings to get the server to boot to USB as my R200 had a time with it at first. I would also not advise...
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Gabrielle.L wrote:If you decide to go with ESXi, just install it on a USB thumb drive rather than to the internal datastore. It's light and has virtually no read/write activity other than at boot time,...
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Another thing to consider is backup. To use most software like veeam on ESXi you need a license to get to the api stuff. Hyperv you can use a lot of options.Personally after setting up a production...
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kfberns wrote:If you can afford SSD's then that is the way to go. Drives ARE the bottleneck now and there is no standard drive array that will come close to the performance of SSD.MS Hyper-V "core" is...
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kfberns wrote:If you can afford SSD's then that is the way to go. Drives ARE the bottleneck now and there is no standard drive array that will come close to the performance of SSD.MS Hyper-V "core" is...
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jonludwig wrote:Gabrielle.L wrote:If you decide to go with ESXi, just install it on a USB thumb drive rather than to the internal datastore. It's light and has virtually no read/write activity other...
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Comparing HyperV to VMware is near worthless when simply looking at charts that show thier maximum specs unless you are planning on running a catastrophic monster of a VM. Simply put, when you start...
View ArticleRe-purposing Dell Poweredge 2900 as Hypervisor box - Need suggestions
Thanks, guys. I'm going to stick with ESXi. I'd like to learn Hyper-V, but can't justify deploying it just to do so. I'm going to find the best 2GB flash drive Microcenter sells and use it to host...
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tleavit wrote: I have heard of virtually no business's that use HyperV in clusters over 100 hosts. Mostly all VMware and there is a reason for that and should say a lot as to which version you should...
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CrimsonKidA wrote:Just one last question; after installing ESXi to the flash drive, could I clone it to a second flash drive and leave it in the server to use as a failsafe?Absolutely. In fact, i would...
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CrimsonKidA wrote:Thanks, guys. I'm going to stick with ESXi. I'd like to learn Hyper-V, but can't justify deploying it just to do so. I'm going to find the best 2GB flash drive Microcenter sells and...
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i have a 2950 running as a host to mess with, make sure you get all the firmware on it up to date, dell support will send you a link to an ISO or you can use dell repository manager to build one as...
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Is the ISO you're talking about the Dell System Build Utility?
View ArticleRe-purposing Dell Poweredge 2900 as Hypervisor box - Need suggestions
No, it's this. Free download.http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/1767.dell-repository-manager.aspx Opens a new window
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I've gone down the router of learning / soon to deploy Hyper-VI got a nice new server to become the Hyper-V host, and plan to use an old server as a Replica server, although very much underpowered, it...
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nick8010 wrote:No, it's this. Free download.http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/1767.dell-repository-manager.aspx Opens a new windowThere's no OS on the server...
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CrimsonKidA wrote:nick8010 wrote:No, it's this. Free download.http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/1767.dell-repository-manager.aspx Opens a new windowThere's no OS on the...
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We just loaded our old 2900s up with Xenserver. They work great that way and you get a bare metal hypervisor in the process.
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