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The primary reason for running vpxd with a service account is using windows based authentication to SQL server; in that case the service would run under the account that has permissions to the database. If you're using non-windows (SQL auth) or Oracle, it doesn't make a difference and local...

We had similar experiences as others did with EVO:RAIL, it is not well executed. That said, that doesn't mean you couldn't find VSAN ready nodes and achieve HCI greatness that way. Most are probably opting that route. We were immediately turned off by the whole "make it stupid simple" UI...

Since the death of heartbeat, the new way is to use windows server failover clustering. Not exactly any better IMO. I would say given everything I've seen so far that the appliances are probably going to be future direction. VMware has never done this before with multiple platforms (ESX...

To be clear, 6.0u1 completely fixes the issue correct? This sounds more like the ESXi side of it than it does the vCenter Server. So... I assume when you say it is fixed in 6.0u1 you mean ESXi? We'll do both, but our hosts will lag by some amount.

I think brain dumps are cheating, pure and simple. Like, looking over the smart kid in class taking the test is a "gray" area. I never felt entirely prepared for any exam I've taken. If you fail it, it isn't he end of the world. You may lose a little bit of money, but don't lose your...

Yes, I did, and it just isn't that interesting so far. Some of the futures for the appliances I found interesting. I saw product naming futures, and I think talking about that product in much more detail would be better :).

So far this year has sucked, absolutely nothing to be excited about and the sessions have provided very little under NDA to provide value to the trip. This year may kill any hope of us returning. Maybe there will be some wow factor today at the general session. I have no hope of that, but...

I'm here, this party can now begin.

I'll be there and a coworker of mine. We'll stop by the Tintri booth, we can make fun of the afore mentioned co-worker for failing to properly configure jumbo frames on every switch. Make sure you dig it in really good :)

Sorry, didn't say... FC. Thank you... I guess I should have just tried it.

So our ESXi hosts are booting from SAN. We've got some methods to migrate the LUNs from the old storage to the new, but politically and team silo's make doing this ourselves appealing. It was suggested that we present the boot lun from one host to another, then mount it as an RDM and do a dd...

The problem with Tintri... well there isn't a problem there is a political one I'm not going to solve by using a discrete array of any kind. Even if you spin the shit out of it and call it virtaulization only. In the end it is going to be managed by our Storage side of the house and it just...

Yeah they're annoying me too. I don't think it is as great as they say, but I'm sure it is actually a perfectly suitable platform for hyperconverged. What really pisses me off is the twitter swarming and blog comment section hounding they do. I mean its like flies on shit just as soon as...

I kind of wish I was. I've been following the Chuck v. Josh thing playing out on twitter and their blogs. Hell, check is writing directly about Nutanix on the VMware blog. Talk about going for the throat. I cannot tell who I should root for, both? Being such a VMware nerd leans me into VSAN...

Damns.

You have any clue when we will see the VCIX-DCV become available? I'd love to take one while at VMworld. I haven't failed one yet while there, I think there is a SF magic in the air :). I already have the dcd and dca, so one pass would get me to the vcix-dcv. I would probably take the design...

I can remember when we were building the ESX 2.5 hosts and started doing P2Vs of workload using all kinds of crazy hacks and crap to get it done. That was on production workload! Perhaps, you have to ask, where did our balls go? I don't know how to answer the question, especially with large...

That's fair, I guess I make the assumption it is about like our circuits. Rarely if ever is there no competition for throughput. That said, 80% of line speed is probably the realistic throughput. The math pans out that a raw copy would complete or be VERY close within 45 minutes as you showed.

wtf on a 1gb link? Holy moly, that is insane.

So I'll have to bow out on the conversations related to how our storage guys handle their pool provisioning thresholds and the tools they use to monitor such things, but I understand they order disk for the pools at ~80% of capacity. I think that is just a general threshold and is actually a...

We're thin on thin everywhere. I don't think the monitoring is that difficult and there were some definite issues and catch 22s. I think it is learning HOW to do it and what to watch for, especially around thresholds and reaction times. Just a single site can have multiple enterprise class...

We do. Very little of it isn't implemented, there are a few things we cannot do. For instance you cannot set the four character type password complexity and get the vcloud director agent to work. Always a little bit of give and take based on operational needs. Related to linked mode in 6...

getting our demo t880 up and online. Got a couple of tintri dudes coming to town next week... its a lab... Cisco gave us two FIs and we're using those with ports in application mode to run the 10gb interfaces for the Tintri. Problem is, upstream switch is a POS 1gb netgear thing. We're going...

VSAN doesn't scale? Not true. You can argue maturity or what not, but scalability isn't a problem. The amount you can (EASILY!) get out of a single server node is very high. It all depends on what you want to do and how you want to do it. Scalability isn't the problem. The question SHOULD...

T880 showed up today. Headed over there to get fiddling :)

We've been promised over and over that vRA is going to be the holy grail thing and it will ultimately be able to replace vCD at feature parity (or very close). I don't get VMware's decisions on this and I've yet to see vRA not be a rube goldberg machine to do something stupidly simple. Are...

With your problems, I would suggest you look at onapp... They make a portal that sits on top of vCloud Director. We've not used it, but the demos look really cool and we're talking about a pilot perhaps.

I want to know the results of those tests and how it works out for you. Lop -- we're getting a demo unit sent to us. I may hit you up on some things if you're available.

Yeah the webclient is fine, but we still use the fat client a lot. Just one more reason not to use it, but I found the lack of information on the limitation silly.

Just making sure my observations are correct, because (at least so far) I haven't read it in the documentation. I'm hunting it down now. I can see all of my linked mode appliances in the web client, but I can not see them in the fat client. My guess is this is because of the changes to...

Not to resurrect too old of a thread, but I found this enlightening :) http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/300076326/deja-vu-paypal-once-again-denies-its-dumping-vmware-for-openstack.htm

I don't mind being called wrong, but saying that vSphere Integrated OpenStack isn't their own distribution is a farce. http://readwrite.com/2014/12/18/vmware-openstack-vendors-mirantis-boris-renski

I guess you suggest that it is OpenStack NOT running on top of vSphere? Just because someone didn't go down the vCloud Director path or vRA / vCloud Suite... doesn't mean VMware is gasping. If they're running OpenStack on top of vSphere, then there is a lot of grandstanding. VMware is...

OK how about with a design partner, like 3Par? We can wait, it isn't the end of the world, but we're moving to 3Par arrays it appears -- Given that we have many petabytes, I don't want to do it TWICE.

Preview feature? I'd say they're doing a pretty bad job calling it that, it looks released to prime time to me if the array vendor supports it. The upsides are enormous, I know several shops that are waiting to deploy this with baited breath -- ours included. If the risks are high they need...

You mean VSAN customers? No way VMware only has 1200 customers.

from the ESXi host web page, https://esxihostname, there's a link to the vSphere Client.

Yeah except it shouldn't have been beta code :o. I downloaded the client by clicking the link from my fresh GA install of ESXi 6. Perhaps they just hadn't updated the vsphereclient link. Don't know. In either case, glad I have it figured out.

Thick client is there, but it only lets me connect to my ESXi 6 server. If you try and connect to vCenter I get told it will not work for that, only a host direct. That made me giggle. That said, the web client does seem to kick a lot of ass compared to what a pile it was before. VERY happy...

VMXNET3 is paravirtualized, so lower CPU utilization and virtualization overhead... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paravirtualization I'm probably doing it a disservice by suggesting its only paravirtualization. Here' s a whitepaper (a bit older, but still) that explains more of the benefits in...