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Stupid freaking remote severs. Stupid freaking Hyper-V. Now I got to wait for the thing to get fixed by the tech support people.

Why the hell am I working on Sunday?

4 Spice ups
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Sorry man :frowning:

What happened to your Hyper-V server?

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Was trying to route some public IPs over to the private internal network via ISA. Flipped to the wrong NIC and it all came crashing down. Can’t ping it. The host doesn’t have a remote KVM I can connect to, although I can get one ordered and installed by Tuesday. Power cycling the server does nothing.

At least my servers are complete and installed. Friday’s fun of the AD enviornment not properly creating the default user at least worked on Saturday. So once the server comes back up, the only thing I have to do is fix the network somehow. Add to the fun is the hosting company is using funny subnetting, so I am not sure what goes where.

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OK, tech support went ahead and fixed me up. Just pulled the plug on the NIC that went nuts, fired up the other one. Went the cheap and easy way to route, RRAS on the host server, NAT to the private network. Ain’t about to try ISA any more with Hyper-V. Just have to map the IPs across, which should be pretty straight forward. Stupid, STUPID Hyper-V virtual network stuff.

Now, to finish up my installs of Sharepoint 2007, 2010, and SQL server.

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Sounds like a ‘greaaat’ way to spend a Sunday…

Good luck the rest of the way!

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HAHA.

but we know your pain it happens to the best of us. Don’t fix what ain’t broke.

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Hope everything is still working for you today and you enjoyed that beer yesterday.

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Sad part is that this is something Vmware does easy as pie. I was trying to do it that way, by spawing a new virtual mahcine and assigning it a physical NIC to the real world and a virtual NIC to the private network. The way Hyper-V does it’s networking is goofball in comparison. Just had to rethink the way it works.

I’m in the middle of making a writeup on it. Hopefully others will learn from my pain.

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If you get HP Proliants you get ILO which gives you remote access without KVM hardware. :slight_smile: Enterprise systems to the rescue.

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I got Dell’s with DRACs.

This is with my host in Montreal for a guy I do work for. The IP KVM is a feature they turn on for only a day. You can get a dedicated KVM, but it’s $75 a month.

Unfortunately, this is what happens when you don’t have full control over the hardware. Found out what the problem was when this happened again. One of the NICs had info on it that was getting reenabled after reboot. They completely disabled the NIC now, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it will find its way back on. Since I can’t do massive changes to the box, I don’t know what is going to happen next.

Oh well, as long as my Hyper-V environment stays up, I couldn’t care less.

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DRAC should be able to handle that too. Did they maybe not plug in all of the cables for your server? Maybe you need more enterprise class hosting. Let me know, we have a datacenter in Toronto that doesn’t have any problem giving us our out of band management for free.

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The DRACs are on my local servers here. The remote server, from iweb.com, is one of their big ass generic servers.

Aint too bad in the grand scheme of things. Very powerful servers for not a lot of money with a big ass pipe to boot. That’s the main thing we needed, something to host somewhere where we could have a VM network setup for what we needed.

We thought about just buying some 4U unit and slapping it in a datacenter somewhere, but this process is much cheaper for us.

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Cheaper if downtime isn’t a concern :wink: