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2009-01-02 Thread Eric E Eskam
"Webb, Brian (Corp)" wrote on 01/02/2009 05:25:25 PM: > There were several sessions on security at VMWorld this past > year and the people leading those sessions would definitely say > there are security issues that come about from using > virtualization. In some ways the security picture get

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2009-01-02 Thread Tim Evans
Oh, I just thought you were happy to see me ...Tim From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 2:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Virtualization Questions - More Q's One thing about a VM vs a physical server - a LOT easier to walk out the bui

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2009-01-02 Thread David Lum
David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Webb, Brian (Corp) [mailto:brian.w...@teldta.com] Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 2:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Virtualization Questions - More Q's There were seve

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2009-01-02 Thread Webb, Brian (Corp)
the "keys to the kingdom" -Brian From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 5:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Virtualization Questions - More Q's Most people have said "no" to

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2008-12-31 Thread Ken Schaefer
al Message- From: S Conn. [mailto:sysadminli...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 31 December 2008 7:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Virtualization Questions - More Q's On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Ken Schaefer wrote: > -Original Message- > From: S Conn. [mailto:sy

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2008-12-30 Thread Fogarty, Richard R Mr CTR USA USASOC
hat environment. Just my $0.02. From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 12:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Virtualization Questions - More Q's From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Subject: RE: Virtualization

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2008-12-30 Thread S Conn.
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Ken Schaefer wrote: > -Original Message- > From: S Conn. [mailto:sysadminli...@gmail.com] > Subject: Re: Virtualization Questions - More Q's > >> I don't see a lot of difference here between virtual environment vs physical.

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2008-12-30 Thread Christopher Bodnar
6003 _ From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 12:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Virtualization Questions - More Q's From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Subject: RE: Virtualization Questions - More Q's No, you don

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2008-12-30 Thread Joe Heaton
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2008-12-30 Thread Webster
From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Subject: RE: Virtualization Questions - More Q's No, you don't that type of experience. But when you have 1000 IT personnel, they can't all be AD people, or even domain admins. I did some AD/GPO/WSUS troubleshooting f

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2008-12-30 Thread Ken Schaefer
-Original Message- From: S Conn. [mailto:sysadminli...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: Virtualization Questions - More Q's On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 5:33 AM, Ken Schaefer wrote: >> Most people have said "no" to question #2. >> >> I would say that there is a def

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2008-12-30 Thread Ken Schaefer
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2008-12-30 Thread Joe Heaton
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2008-12-30 Thread S Conn.
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 5:33 AM, Ken Schaefer wrote: > Most people have said "no" to question #2. > > > > I would say that there is a definite impact. Your virtualisation team are > pretty much now an additional "god" in the organisation. For smaller shops > this isn't an issue. For bigger shops,

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2008-12-30 Thread Ken Schaefer
nesday, 31 December 2008 12:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Virtualization Questions - More Q's That's an interesting point. Have you actually seen this in practice? What I mean is, in every shop I've been in, the virtualization group is composed of the same people w

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2008-12-30 Thread Christopher Bodnar
610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 _ From: k...@adopenstatic.com [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 6:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Virtualization Questions - More Q's Most people have said "no" to question #2. I would say that there i

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2008-12-30 Thread Andy Shook
Good point, Ken. Thanks for chiming in... Shook From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 6:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Virtualization Questions - More Q's Most people have said "no" to question #2. I would say

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2008-12-30 Thread Ken Schaefer
trol are important, then this is another layer of people who have significant privileges, who must be worked into your change control process. Cheers Ken From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Tuesday, 30 December 2008 2:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Virtualiza

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2008-12-29 Thread Andy Ognenoff
> Correct but I was only thinking of the sever licenses. I am in an EDU > environment where CALs are "free" under our agreement with Microsoft so I > frequeny forget about this and you caught me in a senior moment. :) No problem. I just wanted to clear that up because in our situation we a

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2008-12-29 Thread Jon Harris
Correct but I was only thinking of the sever licenses. I am in an EDU environment where CALs are "free" under our agreement with Microsoft so I frequeny forget about this and you caught me in a senior moment. Jon On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Andy Ognenoff wrote: > > If you use Hyper-V and

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2008-12-29 Thread Chad Leeper
As far as MS goes, you do get a break on licensing since the allow you to license by the socket. > Great responses so far! You've all given me even more to think about. > > > > A few other questions: > > > > 1. From a DR perspective, or perhaps just for rebalancing the load > on a

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2008-12-29 Thread Andy Ognenoff
>A. Yes. The use rights apply regardless of the virtualization product being >used. However, any non-Microsoft software virtualization technologies are >not supported by Microsoft. And to clarify the support aspect of that statement, they are saying they will not support the actual 3rd party virtu

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2008-12-29 Thread S Conn.
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Andy Shook wrote: > 1. As long as the resources are available for the VM, then > transparent. I know in the past that processors had to be in the same > family as well as the same brand for Vmotion but I heard that this has > changed with (ESX) update 3. I

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2008-12-29 Thread Ziots, Edward
: Re: Virtualization Questions - More Q's 1) With VMotion it's tranparent and the VM doesn't miss a beat 2) No that I've seen 3) That's not a simple question to answer, it depends on the network load of the VMs. If you're consolidating some infrequently-used machines

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2008-12-29 Thread Ziots, Edward
l.com] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 11:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Virtualization Questions - More Q's for #3 With ESX server you can do both or whatever you want. If you have enough physical nic's you can dedicate a nic to each VM if you want or if you VM will have hig

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2008-12-29 Thread Andy Ognenoff
> If you use Hyper-V and purchase the Enterprise license you get one > Physical machine license and 4 VM licenses, Data Center gets even better > but with VMware you get no licenses. That is not correct. MS doesn’t differentiate between an MS hypervisor and any other when it comes to the virtual

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2008-12-29 Thread Phil Labonte
for #3 With ESX server you can do both or whatever you want. If you have enough physical nic's you can dedicate a nic to each VM if you want or if you VM will have high utilization. Or you can hsre one nic across multiple VM's... Phil On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Roger Wright wrote: > Great

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2008-12-29 Thread Christopher Bodnar
ight [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 10:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Virtualization Questions - More Q's Great responses so far! You've all given me even more to think about. A few other questions: 1. From a DR perspe

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2008-12-29 Thread Andy Shook
Shook From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 10:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Virtualization Questions - More Q's Great responses so far! You've all given me even more to think about. A few other questions: 1. From a DR

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2008-12-29 Thread Jon Harris
That would depend on which of the host systems you choose and how much money you want to spend. Not really but again it does depend on the host system. I would prefer to have the host outside the domain so that it is not looking for the domain on booting. VMware and Hyper-V support this. Shared

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2008-12-29 Thread Phil Brutsche
1) With VMotion it's tranparent and the VM doesn't miss a beat 2) No that I've seen 3) That's not a simple question to answer, it depends on the network load of the VMs. If you're consolidating some infrequently-used machines then shared NICs aren't a big deal, but if you're going to virtualize a

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2008-12-29 Thread Roger Wright
Great responses so far! You've all given me even more to think about. A few other questions: 1. From a DR perspective, or perhaps just for rebalancing the load on a host machine, how does moving from one host to another with different HW impact the VM, or is it transparent? 2.