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10-04-2013, 10:13 PM #26WHT Addict
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Hmmm. Can someone please confirm how MS licensing works?
Can I not grab a copy of DC 2012 and a bunch of regular CALs and RDS CALs for each server for a flat fee licensing model?
Or must I use the SLPA to license 2012? What else would I need in addition to this?
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10-06-2013, 04:57 AM #27Disabled
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Only SPLA can be used in a hosting environment. MS rules are very specific.
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10-06-2013, 06:36 AM #28WHT Addict
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Do you mean that I don't need to purchase DC edition?
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10-06-2013, 06:48 AM #29Disabled
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Microsoft can give you more details (or your regional SPLA vendor)
The short version is that you can buy SALs and OS licenses per VM, or you can buy DC edition per hypervisor (but still buy the SALs). All costs are monthly under SPLA.
HTH
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10-06-2013, 09:47 PM #30Web Hosting Master
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10-08-2013, 11:28 AM #31Junior Guru Wannabe
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Being new to colocation and Onapp, I have been quite pleased that I made a decision to go with Onapp.
I do have a question though. How do you know if you are coming near to oversaturating your cpus? Memory usage is easy to see but trying to understand how much of the cpu is being utilized on average is eluding me. I know Onapp provides some numbers but I really do not understand what they mean.
Thanks for any assistance.
Brian
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10-08-2013, 03:45 PM #32Location = SoapBox
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Hi Brian,
the hypervisor graphs and data I have seen dont seem to be onapp generated. looks like we are using 3rd party solutions to monitor the overall hypervisor health. its why we started going more dense (ie up to 256GB RAM per hypervisor at this point) - our CPU utilization was never over 20% on the hypervisors, and this seemed like a serious waste of resources. I have not seen the data on the newer hypervisor nodes with the increased RAM density - but, I would expect that CPU utilization metric to go up. I am hoping for 50%, which to me, would indicate a proper utilization metric for that resource (which is over allocated) when compared to RAM, which is ultimately the limiting resource. Worth mentioning, IOPs are something we track as well, and I have never seen an issue with SAS/SSD drives - especially if you have adequate number of spindles. On SATA drives, you really need to monitor shared usage properly and identify/move certain users to higher IOP spindles. Other then that, from what we have experienced - if you arent over-allocating RAM, and you are properly building out nodes, IOPs and CPU, for the most part (obviously always exceptions), are fairly maintenance freewww.cartika.com
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10-08-2013, 04:07 PM #33Junior Guru Wannabe
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Thanks Andrew. If you don't mind can you share that 3rd party solution? Feel free to PM it if that suits you better. I am running 64GB of ram right now and I run SAS drives in an Equallogic SAN. It just seems the CPU utilization would be my blind spot.
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10-08-2013, 04:21 PM #34Location = SoapBox
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Hi Brian,
sure, drop me a PM and Ill check with our team to see what they are using thats generating those pretty reports I see
I can say that we run both local disk (ie what we call VPS) and SAN storage (ie what we call cloud). CPU metrics seem pretty consistent. If you are using modern quad/hex/octa core CPU's - I cant see you having a CPU utilization issue with 64GB RAM (obviously just a wild guess without knowing your environment - but, assuming "typical" usage, you should be fine). we would typically run dual quad/hex/octa core - we obviously improved our base CPU spec, each time we increased ram density.
anyway, drop me a PM and Ill get you some details
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10-08-2013, 05:40 PM #35Disabled
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We use zabbix which also lets you distribute the monitoring proxies across multiple clouds and locations.
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10-08-2013, 06:27 PM #36Location = SoapBox
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10-08-2013, 09:10 PM #37Newbie
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10-08-2013, 11:57 PM #38Location = SoapBox
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I knew we were using nagios - I just didnt know what was producing the reports - its an opsview install along with some other graphing utilities which pull data from nagios...
our install is distributed between our nocs and data is pulled via our WAN and Management networkswww.cartika.com
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10-09-2013, 12:49 AM #39WHT Addict
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Anyone has a good 2U SAN to recommend? Preferrably iSCSI over 10G
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10-09-2013, 08:47 AM #40Web Hosting Master
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10-09-2013, 10:14 AM #41Web Hosting Evangelist
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10-09-2013, 06:03 PM #42Junior Guru Wannabe
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Just my two cents - if you've got deep pockets, look at VCE. They build a tightly integrated hypervisor/compute/storage stack with a great management interface to rule all of it.
At my current position, we currently use VMware, Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus, and EMC VNX for our setup, vCloud director for provisioning, and custom integration into our internal portals for chargeback. We have VM's that run the gamut from 2GB per VM to 128GB per VM. Storage from 40GB per VM to 5TB per VM.ZFS Storage Blog - http://www.zfsbuild.com/
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10-09-2013, 08:38 PM #43Junior Guru Wannabe
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10-11-2013, 01:22 AM #45WHT Addict
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Something that serves 500 VMs so 10G or multiple 10Gs are preferred. Capacity is a free float, something expandable. Is there such a thing as a clustering SAN?
Budget is flexible.
Comparison would be against OnApp storage with 3x2TB RE4 per node (as that's the maximum each blade node can take)
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10-11-2013, 01:59 AM #46Newbie
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I would recommend you look into ZFS SAN from Nexenta. But this is a Dedicated SAN though nothing like OnApp Integrated Storage.
Paul at Pogo Linux is a good contact that can maybe help you more on ZFS SAN depending on your requirements. http://www.pogolinux.com/support/contact.php
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10-11-2013, 02:31 PM #47WHT Addict
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Anyone tried using Velociraptors? Entertain me for a while but this is a last ditch attempt considering my blade nodes can only proc 3xSATA drives each. All these on a OnApp integrated SAN.
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