Recent content by gimp

wat it can, as shown in the first screenshot I posted. 4 CPU with 4 cores per socket, so Sockets = 1 screenshot from the ESXi host web console CPU = total core count, regardless of cores per socket or number of sockets. you then expand CPU configuration to configure Cores per Socket. Set...

CPU needs to be set to the total number of cores you want, regardless of vCore or vCPU count. Then you adjust Cores per Socket to get what you want. In your case you need to set CPU to 4, then you should be able to set Cores per Socket to 4. If I wanted total of 4 vCPU but 2 sockets, I just...

you changed CPU to 2 first, and Cores per Socket is still greyed out? VM powered off if Enable CPU Hot Add is not enabled?

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/142c3191-596b-4210-8b41-1cdc541d1489/azure-file-sync-job-fails-to-start-2147024894?forum=windowsazuredata Microsoft employee posted that it's safe to delete. granted that's a >2yr old thread. That looks to be related to the Azure File...

got another NUC, so 3. Recently'ish picked up a Ubiquiti ES-16-XG 10Gb switch. Picked up 3x QNAP QNA-T130G1S (TB3 to SFP+) as Aquantia does have ESXi drivers that support the AQC-100 chip. Rebuilt my homelab, using vSAN. No issues. Figured out how to silence the compliance pieces. There's a...

fyi, newshosting appears to have the same deal but they're a reseller rather than a provider like usenetserver https://controlpanel.newshosting.com/signup/index.php?promo=best-usenet-deal-ever&utm_campaign=July4th2019_167&utm_source=winback&utm_medium=email&utm_content=v2_hero in case you...

been using it for years, and rarely every any issues. I hear other state the same though. oh I don't disagree. I've also heard similar about newsgroup ninja; or is it the same parent company behind both?

I dunno, astraweb survived despite not charging a bunch of people for years, myself included. I think I paid for 1 year. Got 6. And... back to it again. Finally got a renewal notice over a year ago, paid a year. Still working, despite being at like 18 months.

NSX is a whole different beast altogether. I got to attend a presentation a few weeks back. It allows massive micro-segmentation even within VLANs. In essence, it's a per-port firewall. You can group VMs via tags and apply rules to the tags, for example. There's quite a bit more than it...

spare parts I had lying around. 4 hdds, 3 different sizes (2tb, 3tb, 4tb) celeron 8gb RAM

no, just using it for NFS storage. One of these days I want to do iSCSI boot for ESXi hosts. But... I need a proper NAS. Not the thing I hobbled together that has garbage performance.

Related to my topic... :p since I destroyed the vSAN cluster, node2 no longer complains of "degrading" health on the SSD. ended up piecing together some old drives and mobo and loaded up FreeNAS until I can build myself a proper NAS. Was hoping to hack together my old MediaSmart Server, but...

considering the host itself is reporting issues with my disk but no testing reports any issues, me thinks it's not vsan related. and, as I want to get some experience with it just because, well... your solution is not a solution.

well I just fucked up. I forgot I had disabled the vmw_ahci module one host 1, but never rebooted it. oops. vsan is back up. still not sure what's goin gon with host 2. even badblocks non-destructive read-write test came back with 0 errors, but host is still barking about the drive "degrading"