Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2011-01-03 Thread David Sommerseth
On 24/12/10 06:35, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On 12/23/2010 10:02 AM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: >> The licensed vCenter stuff refers to a single app that is >> simultaneously aware of all of your ESXi servers and their guest

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-23 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 12/23/2010 10:02 AM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > The licensed vCenter stuff refers to a single app that is > simultaneously aware of all of your ESXi servers and their guests and > can move/fail resources across servers - concepts

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On 12/23/2010 10:02 AM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > >> The ESX/ESXi host is limited to a maximum of 32 logical (sockets x >> cores x hyperthreading) CPUs. The free license only allows access >> through the vSphere client and all other features such as >> vMotion/vStorage/HA are disabled. Otherwise th

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-23 Thread Alexander Dalloz
>>> I can confirm the socket/cpu limitation is at least 8, at least on >>> ESXi 3.x. I have an 8 core IBM x445 running on a free license. :-) >> >> The free and essentials licensing is restricted to max 2 sockets, max 6 >> cores a socket. > > The vSphere Essentials license is limited to 3 servers o

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-23 Thread Drew
>> I can confirm the socket/cpu limitation is at least 8, at least on >> ESXi 3.x. I have an 8 core IBM x445 running on a free license. :-) > > The free and essentials licensing is restricted to max 2 sockets, max 6 cores > a socket. The vSphere Essentials license is limited to 3 servers of 2 soc

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-21 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 21, 2010, at 9:41 AM, Drew wrote: > > > On 12/19/2010, John R Pierce wrote: >> On 12/19/10 8:40 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> >>> But the ESXi version isn't exactly fair to someone who would deploy on the >>> hardware intended. Also, the restriction to 1 CPU isn't built-in - >>> there's

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-21 Thread Drew
I can confirm the socket/cpu limitation is at least 8, at least on ESXi 3.x. I have an 8 core IBM x445 running on a free license. :-) -- Drew On 12/19/2010, John R Pierce wrote: > On 12/19/10 8:40 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> >> But the ESXi version isn't exactly fair to someone who would deploy

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-19 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/19/10 8:40 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > > But the ESXi version isn't exactly fair to someone who would deploy on the > hardware intended. Also, the restriction to 1 CPU isn't built-in - there's a > place where you select the number of CPUs you will use when you are > registering > for the free

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On 12/19/10 9:33 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Stephen Harris wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 10:12:09PM -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >>> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Ross Walker wrote: >>> There is XenServer from Citrix and I think there is a commu

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-19 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 10:12:09PM -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Ross Walker wrote: >> >> > There is XenServer from Citrix and I think there is a community version >> > too. >> > >> > -Ross >> >> I'd w

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-19 Thread Stephen Harris
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 10:12:09PM -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > > > There is XenServer from Citrix and I think there is a community version too. > > > > -Ross > > I'd welcome your opinion. I did a bunch of integration with > CentOS/RHEL

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-18 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > There is XenServer from Citrix and I think there is a community version too. > > -Ross I'd welcome your opinion. I did a bunch of integration with CentOS/RHEL 4 with the older, open source Xen utilities. __

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-18 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Peter Larsen wrote: > Have you considered looking into redhat enterprise virtualization? If you are > interested I can put you in touch with a redhat rhev representative? I've looked at it, though not extensively. Given the difficulties I encountered with KVM, it

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-18 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 18, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Saturday, December 18, 2010 04:19:25 am Gerhard Schneider wrote: >> The problem with VMWare Server is that it is a discontinued product for >> longer time and they don't provide us with a suitable replacement. > > VMware wants more people to g

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-18 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, December 18, 2010 02:56:12 pm Peter Larsen wrote: > Have you considered looking into redhat enterprise virtualization? If you are > interested I can put you in touch with a redhat rhev representative? Yes, I have. It's not in the budget right now using the current Red Hat pricing m

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-18 Thread Peter Larsen
Have you considered looking into redhat enterprise virtualization? If you are interested I can put you in touch with a redhat rhev representative? Lamar Owen wrote: >On Saturday, December 18, 2010 04:19:25 am Gerhard Schneider wrote: >> The problem with VMWare Server is that it is a discontinue

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-18 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Saturday, December 18, 2010 04:19:25 am Gerhard Schneider wrote: > So I'm very seriously considering transitioning from VI3 to CentOS 6 KVM; for > my situation it might be doable, but I have a lot to learn about KVM > before I ca

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On 12/18/10 3:19 AM, Gerhard Schneider wrote: > > The problem with VMWare Server is that it is a discontinued product for > longer time and they don't provide us with a suitable replacement. Do you need something that the 1.x series won't do? If something works and serves your purpose it doesn't

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-18 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, December 18, 2010 04:19:25 am Gerhard Schneider wrote: > The problem with VMWare Server is that it is a discontinued product for > longer time and they don't provide us with a suitable replacement. VMware wants more people to get hooked on vSphere, so their 'suggested' VMware GSX^H^H

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-18 Thread Gerhard Schneider
The problem with VMWare Server is that it is a discontinued product for longer time and they don't provide us with a suitable replacement. So our institute had to switch to VMWare workstation that can be run as a server, too. I'm running CentOS 5.5 as the Host OS and 5.5 and RHEL6beta as guests.

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-17 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 13:23 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 12/17/10 12:36 PM, JohnS wrote: > > > > Mine is not broken. The web Admin works like it should. > > Just to be clear - do you mean you are running vmware 2.x server under post > 5.2 > Centos without the library issues that everyone el

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On 12/17/10 12:36 PM, JohnS wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 11:11 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On 12/17/10 10:21 AM, Helmut Drodofsky wrote: >> The 2.x series of vmware server are badly broken with respect to RHEL/Centos >> - >> plus the change to the web based console is horrible. > > Mine is n

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-17 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 11:11 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 12/17/10 10:21 AM, Helmut Drodofsky wrote: > The 2.x series of vmware server are badly broken with respect to RHEL/Centos > - > plus the change to the web based console is horrible. Mine is not broken. The web Admin works like it sh

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On 12/17/10 10:21 AM, Helmut Drodofsky wrote: > - I'm using 5.2 or 5.3 as a host. > - my expierince: 5.4 is not stable with vmware as a host. > > The hosts are completely behind firewall. > > Vmware server 2.0.2-203138 > > With 5.3 my problem was solved. The 2.x series of vmware server are badly b

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-17 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, December 17, 2010 11:21:29 am Helmut Drodofsky wrote: > Vmware server 2.0.2-203138 And that would be the most recent build. > With 5.3 my problem was solved. Have you tried 5.5 yet? For grins and giggles I'm going to play with it on a box I have, but it will be a little while before

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-17 Thread Helmut Drodofsky
-boun...@centos.org] Im Auftrag von Lamar Owen Gesendet: Freitag, 17. Dezember 2010 15:31 An: CentOS mailing list Betreff: Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC On Friday, December 17, 2010 02:44:46 am Helmut Drodofsky wrote: > Hallo, > > actual Intel Ethernet cards PCI-E > - Are normal recogni

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-17 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, December 17, 2010 02:44:46 am Helmut Drodofsky wrote: > Hallo, > > actual Intel Ethernet cards PCI-E > - Are normal recognized by Centos 5.5 Live CD > - Not recognized by 5.2 > Because of vmware, I will use 5.2 Why? Are you wanting it as a VMware host or guest? As

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-17 Thread Peter Kjellström
On Friday, December 17, 2010 08:44:46 am Helmut Drodofsky wrote: > Hallo, > > actual Intel Ethernet cards PCI-E > - Are normal recognized by Centos 5.5 Live CD > - Not recognized by 5.2 > Because of vmware, I will use 5.2 It's not recommended to run CentOS-5.2 (many serious secu

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-16 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:44:46 +0100 "Helmut Drodofsky" wrote: > Hallo, Hi, > > actual Intel Ethernet cards PCI-E > - Are normal recognized by Centos 5.5 Live CD > - Not recognized by 5.2 > Because of vmware, I will use 5.2 Can't you use Xen or KVM ? That way, you,ll have an up

Re: [CentOS] intel nic vanished with 5.3

2009-06-18 Thread Tom Brown
> > Maybe an IRQ conflict or something? I don't recall ever > seeing a situation where lspci wouldn't show a device that > was actually present and working. Try a different PCI > slot? > > yes its rather odd - i will ask the DC guys to check but i am working on second hand info regarding this

Re: [CentOS] intel nic vanished with 5.3

2009-06-18 Thread nate
Tom Brown wrote: > so the OS cant see the card at all Maybe an IRQ conflict or something? I don't recall ever seeing a situation where lspci wouldn't show a device that was actually present and working. Try a different PCI slot? nate ___ CentOS mail

Re: [CentOS] intel nic vanished with 5.3

2009-06-18 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:11:13 +0100 Tom Brown wrote: > so the OS cant see the card at all Are you sure it's still there?Try re-seating it, or move it to a different slot and see if anything changes. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

Re: [CentOS] intel nic vanished with 5.3

2009-06-18 Thread Tom Brown
> > try modprobe e1000 and see if it comes back? (there's also the > e1000e driver as well I think that is for the latest cards mostly > PCIe) > > Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.20-k2-NAPI Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation. > Check lspci to verify it's still there? >

Re: [CentOS] intel nic vanished with 5.3

2009-06-18 Thread nate
Tom Brown wrote: > Hi > > I have boxes with a quad card that shows up with > > e1000 e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection > > However since rebuilding a box from 4.7 to 5.3 this card has vanished - > I would have thought this card is pretty generic so i dont believe there > are not dri