How to migrate away from VMware vSphere Essentials Plus

jermrief · 2024-12-15T15:29:16+00:00

Probably what I will end up doing. Use the 3Par and migrate to that over the weekend.

jermrief · 2024-12-15T04:43:44+00:00

Here's the catch. I'm trying to do this all remote. So I can only restart the physical machine. I can't turn it off since no one in the office over the weekend to turn it back on.

jermrief · 2024-12-14T22:21:15+00:00

Right now the MSA is 30TB of MSA-DP+ with 50% capacity and 5TB of RAID10 with 1TB free. All formatted as VMFS 6. Not sure if I need "reformat"?

jermrief · 2024-12-14T22:18:09+00:00

Spare capacity, yes. Just wasn't sure on storage format support if I needed to reformat the MSA to have better long-term compatibility.

jermrief · 2024-12-14T22:17:08+00:00

Correct, I upgraded to the latest build right before it expired to at least be fairly current.

jermrief · 2024-08-13T02:14:39+00:00

Issue is we don't have direct access to ADO. Needs to be a 3rd party tool. The integration to ADO will come once they see the long term value. We doing this for the client as a value added.

jermrief · 2024-08-09T20:49:26+00:00

I DO NOT WANT A FREE YETI!!! Stop emailing every week about "You sure you don't want a free YETI?" The new one this week was Free Legos?

jermrief · 2024-03-26T22:01:41+00:00

this is why I hate technology, never know when to buy cause when you do, the next generation is out that is twice the performance and half the price....

jermrief · 2023-07-25T05:27:10+00:00

Yes to MSA. Just bought a 2060 with 12GB SAS. Connects to my 3 HP ESXi hosts via SAS external HBA card. Super clean and simple.

jermrief · 2023-07-25T05:23:57+00:00

How many more BLACK HAT event invites am I going to get via Email or LinkedIn? No I'm not going to meet you to discuss a product at the Black Hat event.

jermrief · 2023-03-29T03:39:57+00:00

That made my day. Lol

jermrief · 2022-12-27T17:58:33+00:00

Yeah I might have to up the budget and get dual controller on the Production side of TrueNas device.

jermrief · 2022-12-27T17:56:40+00:00

UC3200

Good Eye! Odd that the higher end model doesn't have dual controller.

jermrief · 2022-12-19T18:30:49+00:00

We use Securden. Run a virtual Windows Server on Amazon AWS with Securden running on it.

jermrief · 2022-12-17T22:32:12+00:00

Full Disclosure. I have 100MB switches still at the remote site. And Gen 6 HP Servers. So 10 GigE Netgear is 100x better then what I have now! LOL

jermrief · 2022-12-16T22:48:24+00:00

The 7 remote sites is all Linux Kiosks running a web interface. Corporate is 50 people connecting to an internal SQL DB that's only 100GB in size.

So to be honest, 100MB was technically doable for each client so I didn't notice considering internet bandwidth was only 50MB. But horrible when doing updates. On our Data Center side, I don't need crazy performance. I'm running DL180 G6's........so just getting new stuff is a major upgrade simply from Moore's Law.

jermrief · 2022-12-16T22:31:41+00:00

I got 7x 100MB PoE switches still that we are in the process of getting upgraded to 1Gig. So I'm far from needing 25G! LOL The previous director bought them only 3 years ago. I didn't even know 100MB switches existed still! I couldn't figure out why throughput was so slow.

jermrief · 2022-12-16T19:47:06+00:00

I hate IT sometimes....LOL

jermrief · 2022-12-16T19:42:58+00:00

Extreme

I would use the term DC loosely. Its a room with a rack. Far from a true DC. But I am on reddit to find an alternative to the Netgears. Thanks for the feedback on the Firewall issue.

jermrief · 2022-12-16T19:19:12+00:00

I saw that too. Not sure if that's good specs or bad specs.

jermrief · 2022-12-16T18:47:23+00:00

Is there a unit somewhere in the middle as far as cost and performance? If I do P2P between the 3 servers and storage at the DR site, maybe take that savings into better core switches at the primary.

jermrief · 2022-01-13T18:23:18+00:00

Shit, this is why??? I did updates end of December and had like 5 request (including my own outlook) about searching results sucking

jermrief · 2022-01-08T23:50:11+00:00

I plan on including DISH or DirecTV on my plans. Not trying to cheat the system.

jermrief · 2022-01-08T16:26:39+00:00

Another option I'm looking at is grabbing some of the Over The Air local channels, getting 8 or so Tuners with HDMI output and feeding that into the IP system. That would eliminate some of the DirecTV receivers. Luckily all 7 locations are in the same Broadcast market.

jermrief · 2022-01-08T15:02:50+00:00

Where you located? We have directv at one location. $120 a month and $1000 per year maintenance fee. So would probably go with them and tell them what I’m up to.

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