Haggis Veteran Posted January 9, 2015 Author Veteran Share Posted January 9, 2015 ok i got you, will have another look over the next few days I think i may have an old Nic in a computer in the attic, will check that later too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aergan Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 is this PCIe 1x? http://www.ebuyer.com/263123-tp-link-tg-3468-pcie-gigabit-network-card-tg-3468 I've sent 3 of those TP-Link cards back as they have massive packet loss issues when they get warm. Their UK support (TP-Link) is an "office" portacab within a warehouse in some industrial estate. Buy the Intel Gigabit CT PCI-E 1x as budman originally suggested if you want any reliability under a virtual environment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praetor Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 I've sent 3 of those TP-Link cards back as they have massive packet loss issues when they get warm. Their UK support (TP-Link) is an "office" portacab within a warehouse in some industrial estate. Buy the Intel Gigabit CT PCI-E 1x as budman originally suggested if you want any reliability under a virtual environment. that's the problem with those cheap NICs; they lack the good passive heatsink because the OEM jams too much into a very tiny piece of silicon; also the fact that the microserver is pretty tight doesn't help. Aergan 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intersect Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 is this PCIe 1x? http://www.ebuyer.com/263123-tp-link-tg-3468-pcie-gigabit-network-card-tg-3468 Yes it is but for future reference, please refer to the link below if you want to know what pcix type a given card is. https://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/pci-pci-x-pci-express-oh-boy/ Aergan 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggis Veteran Posted January 9, 2015 Author Veteran Share Posted January 9, 2015 Guys on auto start of your VM what time limit do you put on there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Fahim S. MVC Posted January 9, 2015 MVC Share Posted January 9, 2015 Guys on auto start of your VM what time limit do you put on there 0 for my pfSense VM, usually 30 second increments thereafter between tiers. Aergan and Haggis 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praetor Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 As to different networks - first one to break off would be your wifi. But sure your dmz can be only vms, that is how i have it setup as well. I never understand the cost difference to be honest, if that card sells for $30 USD, then in the UK it should be like 20 quid. It's the law of supply and demand: high demand in Europe, prices go up. For example i'm considering buying a HP 4 port NIC, because brand new in Amazon costs 4x less then in my country; even with taxes and costumes it still will be cheaper. It's just disgusting, TBH. Guys on auto start of your VM what time limit do you put on there also if you have an DC be sure that one is one of the first if not the first one to boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted January 10, 2015 MVC Share Posted January 10, 2015 I don't think it has anything to do with supply and demand to be honest.. It getting what price they can get.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praetor Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 I don't think it has anything to do with supply and demand to be honest.. It getting what price they can get.. It is: most of the stuff i get is from US companies and they export into other countries, there for the prices will rise (distribution is always more expensive the more far from the HQ it is); yet i can buy stuff directly from US companies and is much, much cheaper then to buy locally or even from EU. Again, the problem is distribution chain that increases prices into hell; I've dealt with some hardware contracts from some top companies (IBM, Toshiba, etc.) and sometimes it was more cheaper to buy directly from the factory in Japan (Toshiba) in volumes or to buy from another country (IBM) then to buy locally, even with costumes and taxes. Heck, last year i bought a switch from Spain because the same switch costed 3x more in my country (Portugal) and why? Because there was a huge demand for that switch from many companies, turned to be very popular...It's nuts. Having said that, i've had huge discounts when companies lower their profit margin when they want to grab the client, many times as much as 3x or even 4x less. People are kind of locked into what they can buy locally and companies ripoff them because there is a huge demand; when same companies are faced with heavy competition, prices go down. That's why i like to shop internationally, i can get heavy discounts; the sad part of this is the fact that that doesn't help our local economy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggis Veteran Posted January 10, 2015 Author Veteran Share Posted January 10, 2015 Well getting on fine so far, i managed to get plex working fine and it now takes over for my old install I also started playing about with Arch again and got that all up and working, so far so good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted January 10, 2015 MVC Share Posted January 10, 2015 what are you doing with arch that its using 42GB? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aergan Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 what are you doing with arch that its using 42GB? I'd like to know that as well. 32GB /swap ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggis Veteran Posted January 10, 2015 Author Veteran Share Posted January 10, 2015 not sure being honest lol when i ssh into the vm and do df -h i get this Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 40G 1.2G 37G 4% / not sure whats going on lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggis Veteran Posted January 11, 2015 Author Veteran Share Posted January 11, 2015 question for you all should i create a new datastore for each vm? I cant work out why my arch VM says its using all the space Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted January 11, 2015 MVC Share Posted January 11, 2015 No you would not create a datastore for each PM.. Did you thick, thin provision the disk? When you setup the vm.. What did you set for the disk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggis Veteran Posted January 11, 2015 Author Veteran Share Posted January 11, 2015 Virtual disk size I picked 40 and then thick provision lazy zeroed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Fahim S. MVC Posted January 11, 2015 MVC Share Posted January 11, 2015 thick provisioning will do that - reserve the space on the disk that you configured as the size for the virtual drive, that is. Two questions to ask yourself - 1) Do you really need thick provisioning 2) Do you really need a disk that big You can add more virtual disks to the VM later. Aergan 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggis Veteran Posted January 11, 2015 Author Veteran Share Posted January 11, 2015 so if i tell it to use 40gb max for example but use thin provrovision it wont reserve that space? You know i had arch working last night now the networking is broken again lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Fahim S. MVC Posted January 11, 2015 MVC Share Posted January 11, 2015 ^ basically yes, it will consume the disk as and when it is needed. I personally thick provision everything, but I keep the system disks on all of my VMs as small as I can get them (10GB or so on Linux) and then connect additional space from the NAS VM via iSCSI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggis Veteran Posted January 11, 2015 Author Veteran Share Posted January 11, 2015 Thanks for that i will play about and see what i can do and them prob reboot it and start again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
binaryzero Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 I'd thin provision your VMs going forward - it's always possible to expand the disk when you need too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
binaryzero Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Guys on auto start of your VM what time limit do you put on there Depends what dependencies your VMs require, if they don't require any, 30 seconds between each one is fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
binaryzero Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Just an FYI - typically in a production environment, your data store is either on a NAS or a SAN, connected to the vSphere farm via iSCSI or Fibre to the hosts. This also allows you to use some of the cool technologies in VMware like vMotion. (I make my bread and butter from VMware and Microsoft products) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggis Veteran Posted January 12, 2015 Author Veteran Share Posted January 12, 2015 This is just in my house lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
binaryzero Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 It was just an FYI? OrangesOfCourse 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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