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    Carp, one vm machine (master) and one physical machine (secondary)

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    • K Offline
      kejianshi
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      Should be good.  If it suits your power needs and it cranks reliably, why wouldn't it be good for production environment?
      Power is power.

      Battery + generator is great so long as you can start the generator before the battery dies.  Automatic is good.
      I use a battery charger, a 3k Watt sinewave inverter, 4 Exide marine batteries for ups and a xantrex auto transfer switch.  (Built it myself.  The off the shelf stuff was $$$ and didn't have any guts).  I am limited to a 3KW continuous load though.  At full load it would be an hour, but I probably never have more than 1000W on it.

      This last a very long time.  In the event of very long outages, I plug in the generator, and the xantrex auto transfer switch automatically switches to that.

      So long as you have a way to get on from AC to UPS to Backup generator and back to AC without interrupting your power you should be golden.
      I'm not really sure what your production environment is though.

      If things get to be days down, I plug the entire thing into my prius.  (I'm not kidding)

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        kejianshi
        last edited by

        Nice looking generator.  I get a little worried about stuff that is mass peddled at Walmart etc places.  I cant speak to the reliability of generac stuff, but it looks good.  It advertises nice features.  Definitely more well packaged compared to my rack-o-batteries/inverter.

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          Disturbed1
          last edited by

          for me the genny is a new item so i can't speak for it yet, one of the things i liked tho was price compared to portable gen (gas), and autostart…

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            Disturbed1
            last edited by

            any how…. lol enough power talk....

            along with all the vm stuff..... when i did have pfsense on esxi.... i configured it so everything ran thru a single port with using vlans (wans/lans/etc)... can carp be setup over vlan or do i need to use a actual cable between the esxi and secondary?

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              kejianshi
              last edited by

              NIC cards are cheap.

              However:

              http://serverfault.com/questions/353995/is-it-possible-to-assign-a-vlan-to-an-alias-of-network-interface-in-pfsense

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                Disturbed1
                last edited by

                ka, read the link… yeah i'll just add another nic.... lol

                Thank you for the info....

                i think with the concept of using esxi to host everything on it, dns/gate/dhcp/etc is a great way to reduce longterm costs... only other flaw i have now is future hardware upgrades....  but that can be as simple as moving inventory to another temp host i guess...

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                  kejianshi
                  last edited by

                  Strange - Most people take great pleasure in doing things the hard way…
                  I'm surprised.

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                    Disturbed1
                    last edited by

                    lol most everything i have learned is from the hardway… hands on is the only way i say...

                    play with it, break it, fix it...  ;D

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                      kejianshi
                      last edited by

                      Pretty much.

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                        kingxerxes
                        last edited by

                        why not assign a static IP to the management interface of ESX so that you can always connect to ESX.

                        then configure your pfsense to boot first in ESX, and add a startup delay on the other VMs so that when they boot pfsense is already up?

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