Today's plan is to get everyone else's dedicated servers up for those that expressed interest in a customized configuration, and then to try to get the KVM switch working remotely. Then, assuming it all goes well, getting all the servers put into the system, fixing any issues as they pop up, and if there's any time left over, finishing up all the VPS nodes including those on VirtFusion. Hello it is me 8 hours in the future and it is not all going well, so I've crossed out what we're definitely not going to be able to do today.
PDUs and switches have already been ordered in for the incoming dual E5's. I still need to get more ethernet cables and power cables for them. Three cabinets have been ordered, these are longer depth and can hold lots of Epyc nodes, but the deal for those in bulk didn't go through yet. The vendor we used for the drive trays for the E5's sent us blanks instead, so once I get home I'll have to 3D print something for them instead otherwise it'll automatically push everything for the E5's a week out. I already have a design I did for other E5's that I can modify and I have 3 or 4 printers that can chug them out pretty quickly.
UPDATE --
KVM switch technically works remotely, just not with the server control panel.
PXE only works once. So beta testers will have to pick their OS and they get one shot to install it.
I assumed the software we're using would have PXE profiles that handle the last bullet point but it doesn't, at least not in our case with our motherboards. I'll mess around with BIOS versions, everything I know about how it works means we need to make our own profiles. Basically for anyone interested or who knows about this and can maybe help out, PXE works, once it installs an OS, it switches to the OS as first boot option instead of PXE. Feel free to make fun of me in your response.
@imok said:
So how many hours you said? Will it happen before I go to sleep?
I'll be waiting.
Edit: wait I think I run out of money already and again.
Yours is at the bottom of the rack on the second cab, so it'll be done last. Server 37 is first, server 10 (yours) is last. For some reason I started at 37 or else yours would have been first, I think it's because I didn't feel like squatting.
It'll be set up without payment, you have a week to pay before the system maybe does something about it
@imok@bakageta your servers are ready, I just need to assign them to your account. I've learned some things from deploying @Kris so it's just going to be a bit longer so I can do it a little cleaner.
The PXE issue I described earlier also seems resolved, at least on these and so far.
We definitely uhhh have IPv6, you don't think we have it? It's 2025. Why wouldn't we have it you're being ridiculous, Here I'll prove it just close your eyes, see?
We definitely uhhh have IPv6, you don't think we have it? It's 2025. Why wouldn't we have it you're being ridiculous, Here I'll prove it just close your eyes, see?
No IPv6 at home, so I don't care about my provider's IPv6 :P
KVM switch is fully functional (for now, anyway.) Works pretty nicely.
@imok I'll probably let you figure this out on your own, but your configuration has some problems with the automated installations, it runs into problems related to how many disks you have or whatever, likely related to multipathing and such. Confirmed all of them stall out or crash or something happens, at least for the three different operating systems I tried out. PXE is working well though, on the BIOS version you're on.
The 2600's will likely just need to be phased out already, since we need to do the BIOS update. Also potential issue with memory. I haven't decided if we're going to replace them with 3500's which are the performance equivalent or if I want to be a saint and upgrade them to 3600. Not really my decision to make, it'll be based on available inventory.
I'm adding in IPv6, finishing up the configurator, and mostly trying to figure out how to properly have it assign IP addresses how we want and get them isolated without breaking networking. If I give up then for the beta test at least it'll be how it is, I'll give it another 2 hours before I give up and just start deploying these for beta testers in a less tidy way.
All of the above means I think we're pretty much as solid as can be with all the critical issues we had so far (KVM, PXE.)
Then I'll go into the datacenter if that doesn't drag out and focus on getting the rest of the motherboards flashed, and hopefully also have some time to deploy at least one VirtFusion server.
Here's a screenshot of @imok's server. Only annoying thing with it is it doesn't sync the mouse properly, I'll have to see if we have the appropriate "permission" to fix it ourselves, I already know how, unless I'm locked away from it.
I do also need to improve the security on the KVM switch, I won't get into the details but I don't like how it works by default when integrated with the control panel. EDIT -- I don't mean basic lockdown, that's already done, it's a step further.
Oh, I wonder if I can get the ISO mounting to work, I know it doesn't work through the KVM switch itself but perhaps this is a control panel feature. That'd be awesome.
Edit: Betty fell down to the floor from the stairs near to the 3rd floor. We are at the vet right now but things are looking better than we thought. Will check the server tomorrow after work.
Ooh, I have an invoice and something in my panel! It looks like my server is still getting ready for server-ing, I don't like that there's so many options for me to cancel everything, time to close out this page and go wait patiently.
In other providers using the same control panel, this is where I find the ISOs.
The automated installation isn’t working. The one you started (CentOS) hung while creating a partition, and the one I tried (Proxmox) also failed, though I don’t remember the exact error.
@VirMach said: Oh, I wonder if I can get the ISO mounting to work, I know it doesn't work through the KVM switch itself but perhaps this is a control panel feature. That'd be awesome.
Want to wish Virmach, Virbot, Virmacl, FrankZ, and the entire LES community a happy 4th of July. My Virmach VPSs have been problem free for quite a long stretch now. Thank ya'all for all ya do.
Things delivered WOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO
KVM WORKING (mostly) WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO.
VirMach back from dead WOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO @imok fucked (as always) WOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO
We back on track this year I see!
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Also make sure to reference drives by UUID, I restarted and /etc/fstab was pissed when my root fs was on /dev/sde, but that was hardcoded to a drive. Changed to UUID (get via lsblk -f) and all good.
@imok said: @VirMach is it possible to have the latest Proxmox ISO here? I like to manually install my servers 😋
Yeah, as soon as I figure out where to add them.
@bakageta said: Ooh, I have an invoice and something in my panel! It looks like my server is still getting ready for server-ing, I don't like that there's so many options for me to cancel everything, time to close out this page and go wait patiently.
If I figure out how to modify the page I'll add in more options for cancelling the process.
You made so many jokes about dedicated servers for $6 a year or whatever than my brain doesn't remember if you actually wanted one anymore or not. @skorous is next in line but I have to check DM with him or wherever we communicated to see if I'm remembering correctly.
@Kris said:
If you get LSI MegaRAID you're going to want to use Unified_storcli_all_os.zip, then ln -s /opt/MegaRAID/storcli/storcli64 /usr/local/bin/storcli
Also make sure to reference drives by UUID, I restarted and /etc/fstab was pissed when my root fs was on /dev/sde, but that was hardcoded to a drive. Changed to UUID (get via lsblk -f) and all good.
Adding it to my mental note to-do list to definitely figure out something that doesn't require people do all that manually, but huge thanks for sharing what you had to go through so everyone else doesn't have to go through it!
@VirMach said: You made so many jokes about dedicated servers for $6 a year or whatever than my brain doesn't remember if you actually wanted one anymore or not. @skorous is next in line but I have to check DM with him or wherever we communicated to see if I'm remembering correctly.
I don't remember talking about the order of delivery but I'm in line somewhere, yes. Though that's for a 2600 if that matters since an earlier comment talked about them possibly needing to be swapped out.
EDIT: I don't think we DM'ed anywhere. You wanted me to declare it publicly in the thread.
I've been wasting a lot of time on finishing up the configurator. I'm finally doing it how I've always wanted to do it, thanks to AI (it'd take way too long to figure out how to do it myself, but I'm getting the hang of it and reading through/fixing the base version.)
Remember, I said how I've always wanted to do it, that doesn't mean it'll be an enjoyable experience.
The last part which I may not get to is having it check against inventory and tell you if we have anything close in stock, or let you proceed as configured and potentially pay a setup fee for customization and confirm you want to wait a few days for the exact configuration you want instead. There's already some built in logic to give you something "close enough" to avoid all that where possible, aka, a free small upgrade. Use that information how you wish if you want to gamble. Not that any of this matters for the sale really, for that I need to figure out how to do the coupons which is probably going to be even more annoying.
I'm reworking pricing now for basically that reason although I have to stay realistic with it, that just means we might not hit the exact price points we want unless I build an entire custom coupon system for it.
@VirMach said: You made so many jokes about dedicated servers for $6 a year or whatever than my brain doesn't remember if you actually wanted one anymore or not. @skorous is next in line but I have to check DM with him or wherever we communicated to see if I'm remembering correctly.
I don't remember talking about the order of delivery but I'm in line somewhere, yes. Though that's for a 2600 if that matters since an earlier comment talked about them possibly needing to be swapped out.
EDIT: I don't think we DM'ed anywhere. You wanted me to declare it publicly in the thread.
Okay I remember, wow that was an awful idea on my part. Time to go figure out what was agreed, I vaguely remember it being like $300 a year or $500 per 2 years or something for some 2600 option, yeah. Okay give me a moment.
You made so many jokes about dedicated servers for $6 a year or whatever than my brain doesn't remember if you actually wanted one anymore or not. @skorous is next in line but I have to check DM with him or wherever we communicated to see if I'm remembering correctly.
I might have to end up giving up and create several different products but I generally don't like having a bunch of split up products especially for one type of server in one location. I'd tell you guys not to order, I doubt you will at the MSRP prices for no reason.
If you guys could take a look and let me know what's still bugged out with it that would be greatly appreciated.
Of course if you hate the way it's done, you can just click "Show Overview" and do it normally. For the configurator you'd use the usual buttons to zoom, pan, rotate. If anything breaks, check Chrome console and provide the debugging although it might be useless from how excessive the logs are right now. Mobile was a PITA to do, I've only gotten so far with that. And of course as I'm posting this I've already found a bug.. and fixed, I'm sure that didn't just break another part.
Current known bugs which I just also found and don't feel like fixing:
When you switch to "None" after picking disk, it doesn't update back to "None" in the view but does actually change it Fixed at least for disk
Says "Monthly" for other terms even though it does calculate the right price for selected term. Fixed
No longer shows setup fee for send your own disk, it did work in an earlier version so has to be restored. Nevermind I forgot I just removed the setup fee for this for annual, it still works.
Number of RAM sticks don't show properly, I'm not fixing this, I made it worse then gave up.
After fixing the above, I broke the checkmarks for selected parts
You made so many jokes about dedicated servers for $6 a year or whatever than my brain doesn't remember if you actually wanted one anymore or not. @skorous is next in line but I have to check DM with him or wherever we communicated to see if I'm remembering correctly.
Yeah
I've always wanted one...
I can crank up more jokes 😃
Genuinely still don't know what this means. At this point if you wanted one, private message me an explicit confirmation of what it was you wanted so I can actually get it to you.
You made so many jokes about dedicated servers for $6 a year or whatever than my brain doesn't remember if you actually wanted one anymore or not. @skorous is next in line but I have to check DM with him or wherever we communicated to see if I'm remembering correctly.
Yeah
I've always wanted one...
I can crank up more jokes 😃
Genuinely still don't know what this means. At this point if you wanted one, private message me an explicit confirmation of what it was you wanted so I can actually get it to you.
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The lady in the back... The arms going opposite ways... stuff of nightmares...
Double-jointed? I guess we can snicker about the possibilities...
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@VirMach
My service will be due at 2025/07/04. I have waited until now to message you again. Can you unsuspend my service now? It has been months.
She easily can handle 2 servers in opposite directions at the same time.
Can @VirMach do that? I doubt.
@Kris how is it going? Is the server servering?
Ask him in about 10 minutes.
Today's plan is to get everyone else's dedicated servers up for those that expressed interest in a customized configuration, and then to try to get the KVM switch working remotely. Then, assuming it all goes well, getting all the servers put into the system, fixing any issues as they pop up, and if there's any time left over, finishing up all the VPS nodes including those on VirtFusion. Hello it is me 8 hours in the future and it is not all going well, so I've crossed out what we're definitely not going to be able to do today.
PDUs and switches have already been ordered in for the incoming dual E5's. I still need to get more ethernet cables and power cables for them. Three cabinets have been ordered, these are longer depth and can hold lots of Epyc nodes, but the deal for those in bulk didn't go through yet. The vendor we used for the drive trays for the E5's sent us blanks instead, so once I get home I'll have to 3D print something for them instead otherwise it'll automatically push everything for the E5's a week out. I already have a design I did for other E5's that I can modify and I have 3 or 4 printers that can chug them out pretty quickly.
UPDATE --
I assumed the software we're using would have PXE profiles that handle the last bullet point but it doesn't, at least not in our case with our motherboards. I'll mess around with BIOS versions, everything I know about how it works means we need to make our own profiles. Basically for anyone interested or who knows about this and can maybe help out, PXE works, once it installs an OS, it switches to the OS as first boot option instead of PXE. Feel free to make fun of me in your response.
So how many hours you said? Will it happen before I go to sleep?
I'll be waiting.
Edit: wait I think I run out of money already and again.
Yours is at the bottom of the rack on the second cab, so it'll be done last. Server 37 is first, server 10 (yours) is last. For some reason I started at 37 or else yours would have been first, I think it's because I didn't feel like squatting.
It'll be set up without payment, you have a week to pay before the system maybe does something about it
I probably need a new job
She's up!
@imok @bakageta your servers are ready, I just need to assign them to your account. I've learned some things from deploying @Kris so it's just going to be a bit longer so I can do it a little cleaner.
The PXE issue I described earlier also seems resolved, at least on these and so far.
Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.
We definitely uhhh have IPv6, you don't think we have it? It's 2025. Why wouldn't we have it you're being ridiculous, Here I'll prove it just close your eyes, see?
do not close your eyes.
what ever you do.
@VirMach where's my dedi on the rack
@VirMach
Please reply to my ticket. My service will be due at 2025/07/04.
i read it Wheres my dick on the rack.
What's going on there?
I think that's liquid cooling
I don't like the guy with the gray shirt. Same character in every movie: the one that says a lot of gibberish.
I agree 100%
O thanks for the note.
That was what I supposed to say.
Damn auto correct.
Works for all genders
No IPv6 at home, so I don't care about my provider's IPv6 :P
i am not gonna say a word
Free NAT KVM | Free NAT LXC
KVM switch is fully functional (for now, anyway.) Works pretty nicely.
@imok I'll probably let you figure this out on your own, but your configuration has some problems with the automated installations, it runs into problems related to how many disks you have or whatever, likely related to multipathing and such. Confirmed all of them stall out or crash or something happens, at least for the three different operating systems I tried out. PXE is working well though, on the BIOS version you're on.
The 2600's will likely just need to be phased out already, since we need to do the BIOS update. Also potential issue with memory. I haven't decided if we're going to replace them with 3500's which are the performance equivalent or if I want to be a saint and upgrade them to 3600. Not really my decision to make, it'll be based on available inventory.
I'm adding in IPv6, finishing up the configurator, and mostly trying to figure out how to properly have it assign IP addresses how we want and get them isolated without breaking networking. If I give up then for the beta test at least it'll be how it is, I'll give it another 2 hours before I give up and just start deploying these for beta testers in a less tidy way.
All of the above means I think we're pretty much as solid as can be with all the critical issues we had so far (KVM, PXE.)
Then I'll go into the datacenter if that doesn't drag out and focus on getting the rest of the motherboards flashed, and hopefully also have some time to deploy at least one VirtFusion server.
Here's a screenshot of @imok's server. Only annoying thing with it is it doesn't sync the mouse properly, I'll have to see if we have the appropriate "permission" to fix it ourselves, I already know how, unless I'm locked away from it.
I do also need to improve the security on the KVM switch, I won't get into the details but I don't like how it works by default when integrated with the control panel. EDIT -- I don't mean basic lockdown, that's already done, it's a step further.
Oh, I wonder if I can get the ISO mounting to work, I know it doesn't work through the KVM switch itself but perhaps this is a control panel feature. That'd be awesome.
Oh so niiicee. Thank you Mr Virmach!
Edit: Betty fell down to the floor from the stairs near to the 3rd floor. We are at the vet right now but things are looking better than we thought. Will check the server tomorrow after work.
Saw the panel from my mobile and looks good. Nice work!
Also noticed the mouse out of sync 😂 the good news is I don't need it. This one will be a Proxmox server.
Ooh, I have an invoice and something in my panel! It looks like my server is still getting ready for server-ing, I don't like that there's so many options for me to cancel everything, time to close out this page and go wait patiently.
@VirMach is it possible to have the latest Proxmox ISO here? I like to manually install my servers 😋
In other providers using the same control panel, this is where I find the ISOs.
The automated installation isn’t working. The one you started (CentOS) hung while creating a partition, and the one I tried (Proxmox) also failed, though I don’t remember the exact error.
Or is this issue is related to my request?
Sigh
Guess I don't have a dedicated server provisioned to my account 😕
@VirMach hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Want to wish Virmach, Virbot, Virmacl, FrankZ, and the entire LES community a happy 4th of July. My Virmach VPSs have been problem free for quite a long stretch now. Thank ya'all for all ya do.
Things delivered WOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO
KVM WORKING (mostly) WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO.
VirMach back from dead WOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
@imok fucked (as always) WOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO
We back on track this year I see!
Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.
I always confuse @ehab with @jab
I read ehab in English and jab in Spanish
So "hab" and "jab" sound the same to me, it's just one has an "e" at front.
I see we both getting old - just do what I do - look at avatars!
And if someone is rocking default one just skip, not worth to read /s
Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.
If you get LSI MegaRAID you're going to want to use Unified_storcli_all_os.zip, then ln -s /opt/MegaRAID/storcli/storcli64 /usr/local/bin/storcli
For JBOD, the old RAID0 one drive workaround.
Also make sure to reference drives by UUID, I restarted and /etc/fstab was pissed when my root fs was on /dev/sde, but that was hardcoded to a drive. Changed to UUID (get via lsblk -f) and all good.
That's some advanced stuff.
@VirMach so our servers have hardware RAID enabled? Because I will prefer to disable it, I've read ZFS and HW RAID is not recommended.
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Yeah, as soon as I figure out where to add them.
If I figure out how to modify the page I'll add in more options for cancelling the process.
You made so many jokes about dedicated servers for $6 a year or whatever than my brain doesn't remember if you actually wanted one anymore or not. @skorous is next in line but I have to check DM with him or wherever we communicated to see if I'm remembering correctly.
Adding it to my mental note to-do list to definitely figure out something that doesn't require people do all that manually, but huge thanks for sharing what you had to go through so everyone else doesn't have to go through it!
Yours doesn't have it per your request, it also wouldn't fit even if you wanted, next to your two massive NVMe 4TB disks.
Hopefully, you know how it is around here.
I don't remember talking about the order of delivery but I'm in line somewhere, yes. Though that's for a 2600 if that matters since an earlier comment talked about them possibly needing to be swapped out.
EDIT: I don't think we DM'ed anywhere. You wanted me to declare it publicly in the thread.
I've been wasting a lot of time on finishing up the configurator. I'm finally doing it how I've always wanted to do it, thanks to AI (it'd take way too long to figure out how to do it myself, but I'm getting the hang of it and reading through/fixing the base version.)
Remember, I said how I've always wanted to do it, that doesn't mean it'll be an enjoyable experience.
The last part which I may not get to is having it check against inventory and tell you if we have anything close in stock, or let you proceed as configured and potentially pay a setup fee for customization and confirm you want to wait a few days for the exact configuration you want instead. There's already some built in logic to give you something "close enough" to avoid all that where possible, aka, a free small upgrade. Use that information how you wish if you want to gamble. Not that any of this matters for the sale really, for that I need to figure out how to do the coupons which is probably going to be even more annoying.
I'm reworking pricing now for basically that reason although I have to stay realistic with it, that just means we might not hit the exact price points we want unless I build an entire custom coupon system for it.
Okay I remember, wow that was an awful idea on my part. Time to go figure out what was agreed, I vaguely remember it being like $300 a year or $500 per 2 years or something for some 2600 option, yeah. Okay give me a moment.
Yeah
I've always wanted one...
I can crank up more jokes 😃
Alright here's the configurator:
https://billing.virmach.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=269
I might have to end up giving up and create several different products but I generally don't like having a bunch of split up products especially for one type of server in one location. I'd tell you guys not to order, I doubt you will at the MSRP prices for no reason.
If you guys could take a look and let me know what's still bugged out with it that would be greatly appreciated.
Of course if you hate the way it's done, you can just click "Show Overview" and do it normally. For the configurator you'd use the usual buttons to zoom, pan, rotate. If anything breaks, check Chrome console and provide the debugging although it might be useless from how excessive the logs are right now. Mobile was a PITA to do, I've only gotten so far with that. And of course as I'm posting this I've already found a bug.. and fixed, I'm sure that didn't just break another part.
Current known bugs which I just also found and don't feel like fixing:
Genuinely still don't know what this means. At this point if you wanted one, private message me an explicit confirmation of what it was you wanted so I can actually get it to you.
This, is fancy stuff. Looks great. Sure some prices need to be fixed (like 3rd hot swapped hdd for 3tb is higher)
Sent dm. Danke