Virtualize or not? And if yes, how?

[IVB]

so you're suggesting to take everything I have working using a tool thats in use by a gazillion people, throw it away, and start over? Sounds like a guy who likes to hire consultants, as employees would revolt at the constant changes in direction ;-)

I suspect the core issue here is less than 100% compatibility between my motherboard and VMWare. I didn't think there even was a hardware compatibility list for VMware, I thought it just ran on whatever. I was wrong.

[SomeWhatLost]

for the record, it appears dockers are pretty popular too... there are dockers for everything it seems...

but yea... research is like hard or something...
(note, just having some fun at IVB's expense...)

[bbrendon]

so you're suggesting to take everything I have working using a tool thats in use by a gazillion people, throw it away, and start over? Sounds like a guy who likes to hire consultants, as employees would revolt at the constant changes in direction ;-)

I suspect the core issue here is less than 100% compatibility between my motherboard and VMWare. I didn't think there even was a hardware compatibility list for VMware, I thought it just ran on whatever. I was wrong.

Your time issue likely has nothing to do with the motherboard. Make sure to install VMware tools. Don't enable the option to sync time to the Esxi host and install ntp daemons on all vms. When you do these things time works fine.

Also, make sure to setup ntp on the esxi host as well.

If you do these things, you will have no time issues.

[IVB]

there's an NTP daemon? And you can set up NTP on the host? Duuuude, that didn't come up in any of the VMWare education articles I read. They all talked about some incredibly arcane solutions, to which I said 'eff it i'm just running w32tm every 5m'

re:dockers, yeah, a buddy of mine is one of the main redhat tech guys and educated me on them. I specifically asked him where I should start. for me to start by pursuing the VM route to get savvy with the concepts of abstracting virtual from physical as he thought going straight to dockers would be too much.

[bbrendon]

Windows has a built in ntp daemon that you usually don't have to tweak.
Linux has a package to install . usually called ntpd.
ESXi has one you have to enable. I think its disabled by default.

[IVB]

Windows has a built in ntp daemon that you usually don't have to tweak.
Linux has a package to install . usually called ntpd.
ESXi has one you have to enable. I think its disabled by default.

ah,yes thats the one set to a weekly poll. Although I just found the registry setting to drop it to every 2m. I already have a manual execution of w32tm but that'll be double covered...

[jkmonroe]

just go into vSphere, Configuration and set the NTP server.

NTP should default to 10 minutes, not once a week.

[IVB]

OMFG why did I start from scratch. SageTV isn't tuning my HDHR, when I looked into why I realized although my HDHR software is scanning and finding channels just fine, the new VM instance isn't. And it seems my new HDHR-Extend is DOA and i'm going to have to RMA it.

Ugh. I guess if I had used unRAID, SageTV would have magically worked with the HDHR. Thats how it works, right?

[IVB]

do youse guys put video cards in your ESXi hosts? I didn't, and am hitting "no openGL" issues for a few things. Plus the text quality via RDP isn't really that great. Wondering if I should spend $50-$100 on an OpenGL savvy card or if that won't help.

[bbrendon]

Sorry. I don't have experience with video cards on esxi. I've heard of it but never even researched it.

I don't have much experience running user machines off esxi. Mostly all servers.