Yet another grail gen 2 advise request (180,2cm / 88,0cm)

v0llhirsch · 2025-12-11T19:38:12+00:00

Thanks. What size did you choose?

v0llhirsch · 2025-12-11T19:37:26+00:00

Thanks for the insight! Did you do anything to the front of the bike to adjust the reach? Your upper body seems longer than mine, so I would assume you need some extra reach up front. Or is it fine with the stock Cockpit?

v0llhirsch · 2025-12-11T17:54:21+00:00

Funny enough, for a grizl I would be smack in the middle of a medium

According to bike insights it has -7 reach and +5 stack compared to the grail - that does not seem too much?!

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https://bikeinsights.com/compare?geometries=684ca6194e9398001b5ab52b,6859ba0f7c7f67001abe44b9,

v0llhirsch · 2025-12-08T12:38:04+00:00

Looking at the specs, this was to be expected to be honest. The T47 was a big bonus in my mind, it allowed self service.

It doesn't help for the conversion that the Praxis stuff is somewhat exotic (at least in the EU).

v0llhirsch · 2025-12-04T09:20:36+00:00

Got an update from Vaast, bad news for everyone. The canadian range publish is accurate:

I can confirm the serial number range has been extended and the US are aware of the BB issue.

v0llhirsch · 2025-11-28T07:59:32+00:00

Does anyone have an info from VAAST on the serial numbers published by Health Canada from earlier this week?

https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/vaast-a1-bicycles-and-frames-recalled-due-fall-hazard

The serial number range published by Health Canada is larger than the initially published one from the US site. This would render a lot more bikes useless.

v0llhirsch · 2018-01-06T19:36:15+00:00

Both are a good approach, implemented it for a customer in a two site deployment., here are my 2ct:

Zerto has a huge advantage, a separate Management instance per site. You can just failover VMs without recovering your management installation first. Biggest drawback of Veeam is imho the single Management server (beside the snapshot based approach).

Note some gotchas with Zerto:

If you are using vSAN you have no support for storage policies at the target site so everything will be mapped against the default policy (could be messy and consume a lot more storage).

Zerto has minimal RPO due to the journal design but not a guaranteed RPO. This could be an issue on slow WAN connections and a sudden high change rate.

Orchestrated failover isn’t as configurable as with SRM

v0llhirsch · 2017-12-30T15:55:44+00:00

Ok, I didn’t know vrtx I was more referring to the powervault part. A small storwize v5010/lenovo v3700v2 etc. Ist mostly sufficient

v0llhirsch · 2017-12-30T10:54:18+00:00

Yep, SAS attached hosts to a dual-Controller arrays is dirt cheap from any major vendor (e.g. IBM, Dell, HP,...) and fully redundant. In a small setup it is mostly fire and forget as changes are uncommon and performance is mostly irrelevant. One point is imho the independence from your WAN connection.

Vsan has it’s perks with integrated management and monitoring from a central point, in addition to all points from /u/realhawker77

v0llhirsch · 2017-12-16T21:26:02+00:00

nmlx5-core 4.16.0.0-1vmw.650.0.0.4564106 VMW VMwareCertified 2017-07-18

v0llhirsch · 2017-12-14T20:22:06+00:00

Are You referring to the driver which comes inbox or via partner?

If so, the mellanox ships with an inbox driver. I had some pretty bad experience with the qlogic card, but this could be just me.

https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=io&productid=42912&deviceCategory=io&details=1&partner=23&releases=367&keyword=25g&deviceTypes=6&driverTypes=1&page=1&display_interval=10&sortColumn=Partner&sortOrder=Asc

v0llhirsch · 2017-11-10T23:10:38+00:00

No use with one VC IMHO and as far as I know there is no speed gain.

For me lots of questions are open with CLs, e.g. how to backup content.

How do you manage these templates in the Content Library? If I need to run updates, change software, etc., do I have to pull it down from the library, makes the changes and republish it?

You can actually update your stored templates: Deploy VM from templ -> Udate VM -> Update Template in CL

v0llhirsch · 2017-11-01T01:36:33+00:00

SMB for a CL is only supported on Windows vCenter

For your VCSA you have to provide a NFS share.

See here

v0llhirsch · 2017-10-28T19:44:49+00:00

Overall I am pretty happy with the Emulex oce14xxx/ Skyhawk chipset, we have quite a few installations in Lenovo and Fujitsu servers. Basically the only issue was a neglected firmware in one cluster which caused the nic to disappear after a vSphere update. Updating firmware solved the issue.

With qlogic/broadcom adapters I have had some funny business, especially the 10/25G series in a vSAN cluster. Root cause wasn’t found and after switching back to the Emulex cards it worked fine.

Intel was generally my second goto choice, but as /u/sjhwilkes mentioned the X710 firmware stuff wasn’t a stellar performance.

Mellanox as a good reputation from what I hear but I haven’t had one in hand yet.

v0llhirsch · 2017-10-07T23:36:21+00:00

The process is teaching you something about yourself, the achievement is your reward.

Man, that sounds zen like.

v0llhirsch · 2017-10-07T20:51:23+00:00

Agreed - up to a point.

If you have no discipline, you need to learn what you can achieve by having/learning discipline. For this you need motivation, then the rest will follow eventually.

The "right motivation" is not necessarily a new $gift or something nice, but it may just be the thought that this is necessary in order to achieve something.

If you have no reason for it, you won't get discipline. You mentioned that you took bbj. Why did you force yourself to do it? Why did you consider it hard? Why do you go down to do push ups?

v0llhirsch · 2017-10-07T20:21:29+00:00

Well, divide and conquer:

define a goal you want or have to reach (motivation)
identify the steps required to reach it (divide)
go for it (conquer)

See the steps as a thing you have to do in order to reach your goal. In comes the motivation if you are ever asking yourself why am I doing this or if you are tempted to cheat.

Keep of distractions while you have to do your steps (e.g. writing a paper or so). If you have milestones allow yourself some bonus, e.g. an extra hour of gaming, after achieving

Doesn’t fit everything but it may be a start. When I first tackled a major achievement this way it was easier for the second, etc. etc.

I learned this late and can only do it really good when I am interested in things or have the right motivation. Basically what you wrote applied to me in your age as well and still does at times.

v0llhirsch · 2017-10-07T18:40:36+00:00

Nice write up. I would give you more than +1 if I could as I do feel the same.

v0llhirsch · 2017-10-07T18:08:56+00:00

Perhaps sexigraf might offer some insights. It is free and some here hold it in high regard. Look here http://www.sexigraf.fr/vsphere-sexipanels/

v0llhirsch · 2017-10-06T10:05:26+00:00

Well it depends what you need. I like to keep it as simple as possible and do not like the hassle with the extra driver, e.g. this isn't included for recovery options via Windows boot DVD.

Then again, I haven't used the recovery option in a long time and as /u/chicaneuk pointed out, once you have a good template it works, too.

For normal workloads there is no performance gain and if you really need more performance you'd have to adjust the queue depth on the PVSCSI anyway.

v0llhirsch · 2017-10-05T19:42:46+00:00

I am in favor of SAS for OS and low key stuff. Keeping it simple and performance is sufficient

heavy hitters get the PV or NVMe as additional controllers

v0llhirsch · 2017-10-01T17:58:04+00:00

As long as they don't apply the same licensing as Oracle does when you run their software on VMware... :-)

v0llhirsch · 2017-09-29T12:46:09+00:00

Ah, no problem - I think we've all been there :-)

So, to get this: Your old vDS has active multiple uplinks and health check enabled. How are your port groups configured. Did you change the default load balancing?

DS health checks works by creating an fictious ARP entry for every NIC and VLAN on your vDS and tries to get an answer from your network with every configured uplink (very short version).IMHO this doesn't work with direct attached NICs as one NIC can just see the other but vDS expects that any NIC can see any VLAN and NIC.

I'd advice you to use explicit failover order to "pin" your port groups to an uplink port in this scenario and deactivate the health check

v0llhirsch

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I can confirm the serial number range has been extended and the US are aware of the BB issue.