Server Porn

[Clart]

Today i have been mostly building Clusters, Sans and ESX hosts - Fcuk yeah!

[Daniel]

Oh, you're a dull cnut?

If i'd have known that I wouldn't have bothered talking to you.

[Cookie]

No bladecentres? Old hat

[Clart]

Yeah well at least im not ginger.

[Greeny.]

HP are to expensive for us :P

[Daniel]

Yeah well at least im not ginger.

Sorry.

Phillip Schofield...

[Jay_G]

Cabling is a mess!

[Clart]

Cabling is a mess!

You sound like my boss!

[Clart]

Sorry.

Phillip Schofield...

Scofe hater.

[Jay_G]

You sound like my boss!

Haha, i used to install data cabling. Difference is i make it all nice and neat, and you just want it to f**king work.

Function over form, or something..

[cava83]

Nice, what ESXi hosts are you running and how do you have it set up ?

Just about to purchase 3 x R515's with dual Hex's or 3 x R720's for a small ESXi environment

[ChrisR]

All my years in IT and I still fail to get that excited about kit, tin is tin to me, but then I was never really a through and through techy even when in those sorts of jobs.

Still looks like a fun little toy to play with, where are the proper racks?

I jest, last time I got near racks of any kit they were in rather large data centres so my view of things is a bit skewed lol.

Alright mate, I sell IBM servers and storage - do you sell hardware? Would love to speak to you about IBM if so..

Work for IBM or a reseller?

[Clart]

Nice, what ESXi hosts are you running and how do you have it set up ?

Just about to purchase 3 x R515's with dual Hex's or 3 x R720's for a small ESXi environment

3 x DL380 G6/7 64gb ram each, 3 datacentre 2008 licenses which should be good for about 50 virtual machines.

A fcuk load of TBs in storage 20 odd i think. Tbh i dont know a lot about vmware, we have a company doing it all for us. Vmcentre and veam will be running on windows server 2008. Arcserve r16 disk to tape backups.

[dk]

Do the servers only have 1 processor in them?

And it's vCenter and Veeam

Is the p2000 fc or iscsi?

With esxi, you should have just used an sd card in the server rather than buying hard drives, no need for hdds these days, slap a 4gb card in, bobs your uncle. San disk shelves have a fault too

[milez89]

I wish that my server room looked anything like that, nightmare to trace anything!

[Rob]

FYI I build the server rooms for a living, how's the APC kit treating you?

Just installed a fair bit of UPS kit from them, not too shabby at all.

[Silent_Scone]

I can reflow a GPU and fix practically anything that has an electrical current under the sun.

And this s**t even bores me.

[Darren S]

This s**t has its appeal. It's the software side that's about as interesting as white emulsion......

D.

[Rob]

I do sometimes wonder if any of you server geeks are on any of our sites TBH. There's so many engineers etc that turn up, it could quite easily be one of you.

Funnily enough after chatting to Sy at the weekend, turns out he's worked where I have.

[cava83]

3 x DL380 G6/7 64gb ram each, 3 datacentre 2008 licenses which should be good for about 50 virtual machines.

A fcuk load of TBs in storage 20 odd i think. Tbh i dont know a lot about vmware, we have a company doing it all for us. Vmcentre and veam will be running on windows server 2008. Arcserve r16 disk to tape backups.

Awesome

DC licenses are based per processor and with 2008, you need a minimum of two per server, so in this instance you will require 6 licenses but yes, it's great as you can really scale up. There are many other advantages with the datacentre licenses.

That is a lot of storage, what raid are you using?

Great stuff