Comments on: Episode 516 – Roll your own VMware ESXi Server and more

By: Glen

Glen — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:12:15 +0000

Do you guys not think to put safety goggles on when you fire up the rotary tool ?
Have you seen how fast those little cut off wheels fly off when they shatter (which they do all the time, they are so brittle)

Geez I sound like my parents, but you CAN’T get a new set of eyeballs.

By: Russ

Russ — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:10:44 +0000

Hey guys. Love the show. I learn a lot from it. I just wanted to comment on avidemux. I use this app all the time on both Linux and Windows for simple video edits and for putting videos that have been chopped up (for whatever reason) back together with the append option on the file menu. I just wanted to let you know that it is actually pronounced Ay Vee Eye Demux after the avi video container and what you do with a multiple stream av file to seperate the streams into individual objects to edit.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:21:42 +0000

Awesome Show! Love the VMware stuff. keep up the good work.

By: Gjmatt

Gjmatt — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:18:27 +0000

I can’t belive that darren said AVID after he couldn’t say “Avid e mux”

By: El Di Pablo

El Di Pablo — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:09:55 +0000

After playing with it a little more, I think I may have been wrong about Open Video Editor. Sure, it is really easy to use, and works great, but I think the BEST open source video editor has to go to kdenlive. I have been messing around with it all day, and in my opinion it is better, and easier to use than Adobe premier Elements 7 once you figure out how to use it. Incidentally, I liked the mods too Darren. The home made camera mount was pretty cool. -EDP

By: AnimeNinja

AnimeNinja — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:13:29 +0000

good show guys !

More mods!

P.S. any more work on the tank mod?

Keep up the great work (especially on vm stuff!)

By: Smoke_007

Smoke_007 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:03:36 +0000

Matt,

I was really hoping you were going to cover building something a little more powerful like a nice multi dual or quad core proc box. That’s what I’m looking to build anyways. I’m still at a toss up of whether I’ll build a RAID right in my ESXi box, like I have now, or put my RAID in a separate OpenFiler SAN box and do iSCSI. I’m really leaning towards the easy way and just keeping my RAID in the ESXi box.

Any thoughts?

Also, anyone know if any 3ware RAID controllers are on the VMware HCL? I don’t see anything on http://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/esx40_whitebox_HCL.php#Storage I’ll have to dig some more for a good cheap card.

http://www.hak5.org/episodes/episode-515-build-your-own-san-psp-hacking-net-grep/comment-page-1#comment-35757

Thanks,
Smoke_007

By: El Di Pablo

El Di Pablo — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:44:06 +0000

Hey guys, great show as usual. For open source video editing, nothing compares to Open Video Editor as far as ease of use, and multiple track editing. Currently it is only available for Linux though. -EDP

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:58:18 +0000

Great show as always!
Lovin’ the VMWare stuff, keep it up. I’ve played around with vm’s for awhile now, but would like to put them to greater use.
I could have used Avidemux a few days ago. I’m sure I’ll have another chance to use it soon.

By: dustin cogburn

dustin cogburn — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:28:01 +0000

Hey, im responsible for 2 networks from two private organizations. I have deployed and revamped both networks to run inside of virtual machines. Currently on one network we are running 3 physical servers pumping out about 15 servers between them. they consume alot of resources (we are talking about constant backup servers from remote sites and clients, mail servers..just about anything with server in the name) compared to our large cooperate competitors (rack space managed hosting) we are also very very cheap (and still managed! yay!) the machines are all running cent os 5 with various virtual machines ranging anywhere from linux to windows. although these machines are extremely powerful (dual socket quad core opterons with a lsi logic raid controller card) we bottleneck at high load (about every thursday, noon) Would we benifit at all by dumping cent os and converting over to vmware esxi? let me know, thanks

By: rabbit

rabbit — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:01:16 +0000

the rabbit has killed the turtle.
because, the short is winning over the long run for now.
look at the market.

Oh, you can also boot from ESXi from USB pen drive and connect through SAS. In case some people don’t want to go buy a new motherboard.

peace.