What Are You Doing Right Now
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@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
SR-IOV issue got me again. Built a new VM a couple weeks ago and for the past 2 days it has been losing network connectivity. I totally forgot to check it. Host is running 2012 R2. I thought MS fixed this a long time ago, but I still had to disable it.
Don't use E1000 if it's vmware.
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@Grey Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 is the host (no gui).
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Early morning Zoom meeting. M&A stuff.
Really enjoying my morning coffee.
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@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 is the host (no gui).
Yay for no GUI but.... 2012 R2?
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@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
SR-IOV issue got me again. Built a new VM a couple weeks ago and for the past 2 days it has been losing network connectivity. I totally forgot to check it. Host is running 2012 R2. I thought MS fixed this a long time ago, but I still had to disable it.
Don't use E1000 if it's vmware.
If it's anything!
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Don't use E1000 if it's vmware.
If it's anything!
What's wrong with E1000? I use them with no issues (well E1000e).
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Don't use E1000 if it's vmware.
If it's anything!
What's wrong with E1000? I use them with no issues (well E1000e).
You shouldn't. It's an emulated interface that is unable to take advantage of all the modern virtualization advances for the past 20-ish years.
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@scottalanmiller Yes, I know.... Waiting on permission to upgrade. Most of the VMs are 2012 R2 also with the exception of 2 that are on 2016. Need to export all of them and re-load the hosts with HV 2019 but need approval to do so. I don't own the servers.
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@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Yes, I know.... Waiting on permission to upgrade. Most of the VMs are 2012 R2 also with the exception of 2 that are on 2016. Need to export all of them and re-load the hosts with HV 2019 but need approval to do so. I don't own the servers.
You can in place upgrade from HV 2012 R2 to HV 2016. I've done it a few times with no issues.
I wold assume you can also go from 2016 to 2019.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Yes, I know.... Waiting on permission to upgrade. Most of the VMs are 2012 R2 also with the exception of 2 that are on 2016. Need to export all of them and re-load the hosts with HV 2019 but need approval to do so. I don't own the servers.
You can in place upgrade from HV 2012 R2 to HV 2016. I've done it a few times with no issues.
I wold assume you can also go from 2016 to 2019.
Providing the hardware supports it you can.
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@JaredBusch I was going to export the VMs and reload the new OS. I may just have to do the upgrade. I hardly every do upgrades like that on MS stuff.
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@coliver The hosts are HP DL380 G9 (identical specs) and I don't foresee any issues. They have been running for about 5 years now.
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@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch I was going to export the VMs and reload the new OS. I may just have to do the upgrade. I hardly every do upgrades like that on MS stuff.
You do it every 6 months now if you run Windows 10.
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@JaredBusch True. Never thought of it that way.... I do it that way on my Fedora boxes and never really worried about it.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
You shouldn't. It's an emulated interface that is unable to take advantage of all the modern virtualization advances for the past 20-ish years.
So what should one use? On VMware and Proxmox?
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
You shouldn't. It's an emulated interface that is unable to take advantage of all the modern virtualization advances for the past 20-ish years.
So what should one use? On VMware and Proxmox?
VMWare, VMXNet3 is the modern interface that you should be using almost exclusively. The VirtIO interface in ProxMox I think is the most recent one.
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@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver The hosts are HP DL380 G9 (identical specs) and I don't foresee any issues. They have been running for about 5 years now.
We're running G8s and they aren't, I know the G9s are.
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Patching all the things!
Also, disappointed that my solar installation failed inspection.
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So many number 1 priority problems today. >(
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
You shouldn't. It's an emulated interface that is unable to take advantage of all the modern virtualization advances for the past 20-ish years.
So what should one use? On VMware and Proxmox?
The PV driver, whatever that is for your platform. E1000 is the fallback non-paravirtualized driver for emergency compatibility needs only.
