[ngw] Antw: GW in Vm environment

Tue Jul 4 15:00:56 UTC 2017

You probably don't want to do independent disks.  Those disks aren't
included in snapshots, and snapshots are useful for many things such as
preparing for upgrades or even for regular backups.  Keep in mind I work
for Veeam, but regardless, there are various backup solutions which use
VMware snapshots.  That shouldn't be a concern for things such as GW or
eDir as there are ways to address these applications, such as shutting down
the POA before taking the snapshot and firing it back up as soon as the
snapshot is taken.  I actually wrote about this in a Cool Solutions article
a little ways back.

https://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/veeam-adds-oes-2015-support/

Joe

On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 6:19 AM, Thys de Beer <Thys at nwpg.gov.za> wrote:

> HI Thomas,
>
>
> Thanx ... so you say no Independent? , not for OS nor for gw data
> disk?... not planning to restore VM, but one never knows right, but i
> can't think it will be days before i restore if i ever do?.. but will
> this always be an issue even few hours donw the line
>
> That's why i wondered because i see that for  Independant - Persistent
> disk changes are immediate and written to disk, and they are not
> effected by snaphosts?..
>
> I want to have this right, don't want to hear afterwards...oooooo shoot
> you should have done this or that on the disks...
>
> 10% on the read cache .. so on my 1.2tb po data disk i do 120gb?...
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Thys de Beer
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>
> >>> "Thomas Stimper" <tstimper at nmedv.de> 2017/07/04 12:40 PM >>>
> Hi Thys,
>
> >1. Disks should i do "Independent" / "Independent -Persistent" or
> "Independent - Non-Persistent" .. sorry about this i just want to be
> sure .. heard horrible things about snaphosts and edir
> do not do any Independent, but i would not put e eDir replica on this
> servers if you plan to restore the VM from days ago.
>
> >2. Then also it talks about  "Sharing"?  ... "no=sharing" or
> "multi-writer" or " unspecified"  this is all new.. remember this is
> in
> a vSAN all flash setup for storage..if it matters....
> No sharing, if you do not want to build a OES cluster whithin Vmware
>
> >3. "Virtual flash read Cache"? .. do i enable? and how big do i make
> this? 4Gb 8GB 10 or nothing?..
> yes, enable, i  configure 10% of the actual data on the VMdisk.
>
> Best regards
>
> Thomas
>
>
>
>
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> >>> "Thys de Beer" <Thys at nwpg.gov.za> 04.07.2017 09:58 >>>
> HI All,
>
>
> Ok we have a new vce/dell vxrail setup, vsan the whole thing .. so now
> my first time for GW and oes/edir for that matter .. when i try to
> create here are some new questions (not had this before on my small
> esxi
> hosts before ..what do i select?for now gw2012, will upgrade to gw2014
> once on new solution
>
>
> A few questions on VM creations... vCentre  vxrails ..... and this an
> All flash solution,,
>
> For my normal OES/Linux boxes .. i know filr specify some these
> following questions but for my sles/oes/gw boxes what do i do?
>
> 1. Disks should i do "Independent" / "Independent -Persistent" or
> "Independent - Non-Persistent" .. sorry about this i just want to be
> sure .. heard horrible things about snaphosts and edir
>
> 2. Then also it talks about  "Sharing"?  ... "no=sharing" or
> "multi-writer" or " unspecified"  this is all new.. remember this is
> in
> a vSAN all flash setup for storage..if it matters....
>
> 3. "Virtual flash read Cache"? .. do i enable? and how big do i make
> this? 4Gb 8GB 10 or nothing?..
>
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Thys de Beer
> NWPG Office of the Premier
> GITO: Infrastructure
> Deputy Dir: Server Administration
> http://www.waytag.com/!ThysdeBeer.tag
> 018 388 3828
> ------------------
> Novell -- CNE
> Microsoft -- MCITP- Enterprise Administrator
> Microsoft -- MCSE- Private Cloud
> Vmware -- VCP5
> Cobit5
>
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