Yeah, I may actually replace all my little home-based switches and get one decent managed switch and just do 1Q myself. ________________________________________ From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of J T [jtr...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 2:36 AM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] [SPAM] RE: VMware Advise
I was setting up ESXi at work. Its pretty kick ass, I love that fact that it supports 802.1Q VLAN Tagging. On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Rick Payton <r...@mai-hawaii.com> wrote: > While I hardly do anything really intense, on one host I run separate > VM's for: > > Microsoft Search Server w/ SQL Server 2005 (off topic: this product is > GREAT) > Symantec Endpoint Protection (off topic: this product SUCKS - we're > moving to NOD32 soon) > Exchange 2003 > Realtime backup server > 1 of 2 Active Directory servers > > Ok, the AD server doesn't really count but it's just one more thing on > there. There's no way I could've ran all this on the same box under > vmware server. > > /me pets his esxi boxes. Again, srcds/hlds runs awesome in an esx/esxi > vm, at least under linux. I've yet to run it under Windows. > > OT: re-arrange ESXi and you get .. SEXi ... Which it is. > > -mauirixxx > > -----Original Message----- > From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com > [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Chad Austin > Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 1:05 PM > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > Subject: Re: [hlds] VMware Advise > > I managed to get it set up under ESXI and while running an application > on another VM that previously severly degraded the game servers, there > is no longer any negative affect. The servers run great. > > Karl Weckstrom wrote: > > [Snip] > > > > PS: Karl, I actually found your instructions on setting up ESXi with > > FreeNAS and iSCSI last week when I tackled that very subject here at > > work - it was a very interesting read. I really think you can expand > > on it that though, if you ever get time :P > > > > [/Snip] > > > > Mauirixxx, > > > > Sorry, I missed this the first time around until someone else asked me > about FreeNAS/ESX/ESXi and iSCSI and mentioned your post. > > > > Anyway, sure - i'm always down for nerdspeak, Grab me via email or via > IM sometime... But for what it's worth, FreeNAS is a dog compared to > OpenFiler for Cheap iSCSI :) Our entire infrastructure at > TrashedGamers.com is built on ESXI & VI3, and we can do pretty much > everything with openfiler twice as fast than with FreeNAS (even the > exotic stuff like vmotion/storage vmotion). > > > > The only reason I kept plugging away at FreeNAS and ESXI was because > everywhere I read, people said it couldn't be done because of how it was > implemented in bsd. While i'm an aging Unix guy at heart, there's no > question that Openfiler (which is based on rpath linux) is way faster. > > > > As for anyone else on this list, if you've ever considered doing a > > full bare-metal esxi + iscsi implementation , I'll be more than happy > > to help anyone out. It's pretty amazing how much stuff you can do with > > > the lowly q6600 CPU :) > > > > -Karl > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > -- --------- jtr...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
