DATA CENTRE 101 | HYPERVISOR BUILD | EP 2 | VMWARE INSTALL, RAID SETUP 

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"Can it talk v6 or will it be used only offline?"

raid setup must be it touch with disk load of the device. maybe raid 10 is better for this load pattern. raid 5 - more storage, raid 10 - more performance.

Alexandr Oskolkov - raid 10 leaves you with approx 50% storage. Also if you watched, this raid card didn’t offer raid 6. Just raid 0, 1, 5, 10 and 15. You can’t get raid 6 by adding raid 1 + raid 5 = raid 6 😂

@@bofhvp raid 10 - more speed and more redundancy. you can lost 50% of disks in raid 10 (but not 2 in one pair). raid setup must be in touch(!!!) with disk load of the array. if you need speed and safety - raid 10, but it costs 50% of storage capacity.

@Jack Richardson Yes I did. What do you see advanced in their other videos? The way they put servers in the rack or the way the crimp ethernet cables?

@Jack Richardson Show me one datacenter that is not transparent and open then. I worked with several big datacenters in Europe before and they were all open and transparent about everything, because its the way how they make money. That's their selling point. Purpose of the comment was to push them to bring better content to the audience and not for you to try and say something.

If the hardware is already on site and plugged in for your client, how come they need to outsource for the set up?

​@@kevinportillo1971 Well it's various locations across the globe for my organization for example regional offices, factories, storage facilities etc. But everything is controlled and monitored via once single location. So once hardware is connected, I set it up according to our organization standards, integrate it with active directory for management, add it to vSphere, other monitoring tools, move workloads (VMs) etc. There is no client as such. For example we source our hardware from HPE at a location in Europe for example which is a production facility, local technician at that facility works with HPE vendors to get hardware setup then I work with local technician to get that hardware into our ecosystem/vmware environment.

Sharuru I feel like that's half the reason I watch these 😅

shut up... Lol

It isn't always turned on however, so you do need to check the BIOS

I agree, since the Web interface changes between what browsers it want to support, more or less each time you try to log into the damn thing....

Lol C# client was a pain in the ass. H5 UI is the way to go

That depends if the H5 UI will even run on any computer you try to. So far I have had fails on Win 7 + 10 + Mac OSX from Sierra to Mohave. With IE, Edge, Firefox, Chrome and the native OSX browser. Never had any fail on the old client from ESX3.5 to 5.5

Network yes, RAID no as it wipes all the data from the disks.

More reliable than usb sticks in most cases

OS as you say would be better called bare metal. As an os installed directly on a Server without VM is called Bare metal. A VM allows you to install multiple os instances and create vm images that can easily be deleted, restored, tinkered with, etc.. But depending on the deployment bare metal may be better. Like freenas (yes I know it works on vm) is better suited for bare metal. So a VM is easier and more efficient to manage... now into dockers ;P

…but also costs significantly more.

The benefit outweighs the cost on a production system for performance and resilience. Ok for a lab but I wouldn't put anything I care about on RAID 5. If cost is a major concern there are other solutions such as ZFS which don't require large amount of RAM for smaller pools.

@@northernaurora_ Guess everyone has their own way of doing it. I myself also use ZFS in various flavors for most arrays and try to avoid hardware RAID controllers (got bitten 2 times by firmware bugs causing an empty disk being replicated to the whole array after changing a failed one. Also recovery for failed controllers is a PITA if you have to match firmware revisions first). The DC we're buying off-site space from is an IBM/Lenovo shop and follows their SAN-recommendations which is (or was about last year) RAID50.

Victor Shane building a LAB

Polyamorous Router Low storage != cheap or low reliability

@@nick3768 Yea but he uses 300gb drives for a total of ~2tb. Those are old

@@nick3768 and I answered my question. They cost 8 pound a piece on eBay

People watching this video, probably.

And how would you automate this then? Especially as a beginner?

It's his server! He does what he wants. 😉 👀

Btw... The table is probably grounded since it is metal.

@@Bramb0 so spark will flow from hand through the server to the ground, but not from hand to the ground. if the ground wire on hand electric spark will flow to the ground directly, not through electronic components. if they touch ground before operate the HW the spark will go to the ground.

@@alexandroskolkov2231 Pretty sure they've got a a proper ESD flooring inside a datacenter, also most work shoes are ESD-rated, so while maybe not fully "certified" any charge should still disparate before it can do any harm. (Besides: Current devices are pretty resilient and you really have to have a bad day to cause anything with "regular" ESD)

@@BaldurNorddahl yes, it's a simply safety rules. but if this video is a guide for noobs they must take attention about electric safety. like touch grounded metal objects before working with hw or take ground belt on arm. IT hardware in datacenter is an expensive devices

TekIdiots - watch the 1st episode bellend

Im not sure but i think its a 730

Why?

Toby Wells it’s a LAB!

Well, If you want your logs be persistent some drives are perfect. The micro SD will wear pretty fast if you persist the logs on there. Trust me.. I learned the hard way :)

InIMoeK so you didn’t install vcenter appliance?

Marc T which should be built to learn how to do it properly in production. You don’t learn the wrong way then try and adapt in the future

Toby Wells for a lab?!

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