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Knackered at the moment: energy going on motorcycling stuff - selling /trading in/new to me bike. :-)
By the time I sit down for a rest my brain is woozy, like the rest of me.
Nice one, @skorous
@FrankZ said: @theloafingone - I expect it was delivered without an O/S installed. With a 4TB VM I would install from an ISO so as to make at least three partitions, one for boot, one for the O/S, and one for data. You can do this by going to the billing panel and selecting the VM, then select the "VPS Control Panel" button. This will take you to the SolusVM panel. Click "Manage" on the line with your VM (this should be the only VM available). On the next page ensure that the "Boot Order" shows "(1) CDROM (2) Hard Disk", if not, select this option. Then select "CDROM" from the line above that,. and below the buttons. This will take you to a new display on the bottom of the page where you can use the select box to select the ISO for the O/S you wish to install. After selected, click the mount button. Now click the "Reboot" button. After your VM restarts you should be able to enter into the VM via VNC and see the prompts for the ISO install.
This worked like a charm. I'll keep it in mind for the future. Hope it helps anyone else who runs into this issue. Thanks again!
I want to keep this deal all to myself, but against my better judgement I'll post the YABS here for LAX Quadranet:
Thu 18 May 2023 12:01:43 AM PDT
Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime : 0 days, 0 hours, 46 minutes
Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz
CPU cores : 2 @ 2594.206 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 1.9 GiB
Swap : 977.0 MiB
Disk : 3.8 TiB
Distro : Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Kernel : 5.10.0-23-amd64
VM Type : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline
IPv4 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP : Alibaba.com LLC
ASN : AS8100 QuadraNet Enterprises LLC
Host : Zenlayer Inc
Location : Los Angeles, California (CA)
Country : United States
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 18.41 MB/s (4.6k) | 77.57 MB/s (1.2k)
Write | 18.43 MB/s (4.6k) | 77.98 MB/s (1.2k)
Total | 36.85 MB/s (9.2k) | 155.55 MB/s (2.4k)
| |
Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 377.68 MB/s (737) | 991.00 MB/s (967)
Write | 397.74 MB/s (776) | 1.05 GB/s (1.0k)
Total | 775.42 MB/s (1.5k) | 2.04 GB/s (1.9k)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
----- | ----- | ---- | ---- | ----
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 658 Mbits/sec | 689 Mbits/sec | 189 ms
Scaleway | Paris, FR (10G) | 1.09 Gbits/sec | busy | 160 ms
NovoServe | North Holland, NL (40G) | 1.14 Gbits/sec | 1.23 Gbits/sec | 151 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 1.97 Gbits/sec | 422 Mbits/sec | 239 ms
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 2.97 Gbits/sec | 2.03 Gbits/sec | 87.1 ms
Clouvider | Dallas, TX, US (10G) | 4.66 Gbits/sec | 2.22 Gbits/sec | 35.0 ms
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1.22 Gbits/sec | 5.56 Gbits/sec | 61.4 ms
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
|
Single Core | 620
Multi Core | 1196
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/1294597
YABS completed in 29 min 31 sec
@theloafingone - I am happy that it worked out well and you were able to get your VM going !!
Thank you for the yabs as I am trying to decide where to buy my new storage server, Los Angeles or New York, and seeing that helped me out.
Does anyone have a recent yabs from the New York storage server or can offer an opinion on it ?
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@FrankZ said: @JBB - You're not alone as it seems that all of Chicago DC #1 (CHIZ001, CHIZ002, CHIZ003, CHIZ004) has dropped. I'm on CHIZ003 and am getting the same "Operation Timed Out ..." error as you are. I expect it may be a DC network issue, or maybe someone unplugged the cable to VirMach's rack because you know VirMach does not have the best luck when it comes to DC hands.
Nothing's unplugged, servers are online, IPMI functional so it seems like networking itself is probably fine. Looks like an announcement issue, and based on what I'm seeing it looks like another DC just randomly decided to announce these QN blocks? My mistake on the last part
I'll have to look into it a little further but I'm working on those NYC nodes and this was obviously not expected in the way it happened on basically the day I've been doing that. Nicely timed as usual.
@FrankZ said: @JBB - You're not alone as it seems that all of Chicago DC #1 (CHIZ001, CHIZ002, CHIZ003, CHIZ004) has dropped. I'm on CHIZ003 and am getting the same "Operation Timed Out ..." error as you are. I expect it may be a DC network issue, or maybe someone unplugged the cable to VirMach's rack because you know VirMach does not have the best luck when it comes to DC hands.
Even better. Thanks for commenting this by the way I realized it probably had to do more with this honestly, and it did, you saved me a lot of time probably.
They nullrouted the entire /22 in Chicago QN because of an alleged DDoS attack, and they just left it like that. They opened the ticket as if I had opened it with blank text so I missed it the first time around. Not sure why/how. And uhhh, my graphs definitely didn't resemble anything like an attack which is why I didn't even go down that route but QN's definition of that has been proven to be different. Never would I have guessed their solution would be to nullroute an entire /22 though, that's a new surprise.
Allow me to show you what they probably called a DDoS attack. My genuine guess is some engineer saw some bad alert go off and thought hmm I'll just nullroute the whole /22 because the above 100Mbps utilization appears to be happening on more than one IPv4.
Now we have a dilemma, do I move Hive Chicago to QN Chicago because they're threatening to de-announce our IPv4 or do I move QN Chicago to Hive Chicago because QN actually basically effectively did it?
(edit) By the way that image is the highest spike out of any server, didn't feel like showing you the others but they're lower.
By the way taking all recommendations for datacenters in Chicago at this point. Can be in the same facility as these people we've already tried, just maybe under different management/company.
We've already tried out Psychz, Hivelocity, QuadraNet. So that ends up being these actual facilities:
Digital Realty, 600 S Federal St, Chicago, IL 60605
Digital Realty, 350 E. Cermak Road, Chicago, IL 60616
Equinix CH3, 1905 Lunt Avenue, Elk Grove Village, IL, USA
I actually have a contact with CoreSite for their facility in Chicago since QuadraNet told us to send our servers there and then remembered that they moved out of that facility multiple years ago and we had to try to locate our servers. They (CoreSite) also seem to be used by DataPacket so maybe we can get something going under them. Either way that might end up being good, either getting power and space from CoreSite then transit with DP or going straight through DP.
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@FrankZ said: If it shows something like "No boot device available" in VNC, do not reinstall the operating system. This thing has happened to me before. It will get fixed automatically by VirMach if you do not reinstall, otherwise IIRC it needs to be fixed manually which takes longer.
yes, exactly like you described. already put a ticket with them. hope it gets resolved soon. this is the first major problem with the VPS, otherwise, it's been stable for me.
hi @VirMach , I know you are very busy with another thing, but if you could spend a little time to take a look at my ticket #518513, I would be very grateful. the disk is missing from VPS. I'm on TYO-C005 node.
thankyou!
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@VirMach said:
Now we have a dilemma, do I move Hive Chicago to QN Chicago because they're threatening to de-announce our IPv4 or do I move QN Chicago to Hive Chicago because QN actually basically effectively did it?
So are you in any DC which isn't staffed by incompetent hamsters, so I know where to transfer my servers?
@VirMach said:
Now we have a dilemma, do I move Hive Chicago to QN Chicago because they're threatening to de-announce our IPv4 or do I move QN Chicago to Hive Chicago because QN actually basically effectively did it?
So are you in any DC which isn't staffed by incompetent hamsters, so I know where to transfer my servers?
xTom is the only one I can confidently say that about, hands down, every situation. Doesn't necessarily mean others don't also employ some intelligent people but I've never ever had a situation with xTom where I have to roll my eyes or tear out my hair.
They've also gone above and beyond in helping us when we run into big problems. Like more than expected. With things like the Psychz Amsterdam scenario, obtaining IPv4, and many others.
I just wish we could afford to use all their locations.
@FrankZ said: Does anyone have a recent yabs from the New York storage server or can offer an opinion on it ?
That one's my favorite. Threadripper, it ended up getting the best configuration too, it's 32 disks in RAID10 and then 4 hot spares. It also technically has like 30Gbps or something set up on it and could technically go that high. Plus we have like another 4x 1Gbps connected to it. I look forward to not having to touch it.
It also got the best mix of drives, different batches how I wanted to do all of them.
The Achilles heel on that one is the motherboard, they don't manufacture it anymore but as long as a replacement has PCIe we should be good.
(edit) It also has like 3x NVMe or something like that, Samsung Pro I think, for swap, OS, templates and such.
Sounds like a beast. I hope it will be one of my favorites too.
Any chance you are going to run a "post your order number for double RAM" on storage servers next week ?
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It's a "STORAGE-2T" plan, which I bought on sale in one of the other threads. It's specs don't quite match what is shown over here: https://virmach.com/cloud-storage-servers/
@VirMach said: By the way taking all recommendations for datacenters in Chicago at this point.
What are you looking for on space/power/bandwidth? You can DM me or message me on Skype/Discord/Telegram.
Do you have options without Path's protection? I looked at your stuff a bit ago and passed up on recommending you to several people due to your use of Path.
Is there a best guess estimate guesstimate when Chicago networking issues might be resolved? Have website (very non critical) in ChiTown and if it's most likely going to be up again shortly don't want to shuffle things around. Yes I am lazy
@JDMcPea said:
Is there a best guess estimate guesstimate when Chicago networking issues might be resolved? Have website (very non critical) in ChiTown and if it's most likely going to be up again shortly don't want to shuffle things around. Yes I am lazy
THNAKX!
Ditto; I mean I could shift it to a more production-y server but if CHI is likely to come back in the next day or two I have better things to be doing (mostly involving beer)
@fluttershy said: Do you have options without Path's protection? I looked at your stuff a bit ago and passed up on recommending you to several people due to your use of Path.
We only use Path if you order it - it's an add-on service only.
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skorous - Good to see that you are picking up the slack while the Skint one is on hiatus.
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Knackered at the moment: energy going on motorcycling stuff - selling /trading in/new to me bike. :-)
By the time I sit down for a rest my brain is woozy, like the rest of me.
Nice one, @skorous
It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away.
NVMe2G for life! until death (the end is nigh)
This worked like a charm. I'll keep it in mind for the future. Hope it helps anyone else who runs into this issue. Thanks again!
I want to keep this deal all to myself, but against my better judgement I'll post the YABS here for LAX Quadranet:
@theloafingone - I am happy that it worked out well and you were able to get your VM going !!
Thank you for the yabs as I am trying to decide where to buy my new storage server, Los Angeles or New York, and seeing that helped me out.
Does anyone have a recent yabs from the New York storage server or can offer an opinion on it ?
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Nothing's unplugged, servers are online, IPMI functional so it seems like networking itself is probably fine. Looks like an announcement issue, and based on what I'm seeing it looks like another DC just randomly decided to announce these QN blocks? My mistake on the last part
I'll have to look into it a little further but I'm working on those NYC nodes and this was obviously not expected in the way it happened on basically the day I've been doing that. Nicely timed as usual.
Even better. Thanks for commenting this by the way I realized it probably had to do more with this honestly, and it did, you saved me a lot of time probably.
They nullrouted the entire /22 in Chicago QN because of an alleged DDoS attack, and they just left it like that. They opened the ticket as if I had opened it with blank text so I missed it the first time around. Not sure why/how. And uhhh, my graphs definitely didn't resemble anything like an attack which is why I didn't even go down that route but QN's definition of that has been proven to be different. Never would I have guessed their solution would be to nullroute an entire /22 though, that's a new surprise.
Allow me to show you what they probably called a DDoS attack. My genuine guess is some engineer saw some bad alert go off and thought hmm I'll just nullroute the whole /22 because the above 100Mbps utilization appears to be happening on more than one IPv4.
Now we have a dilemma, do I move Hive Chicago to QN Chicago because they're threatening to de-announce our IPv4 or do I move QN Chicago to Hive Chicago because QN actually basically effectively did it?
(edit) By the way that image is the highest spike out of any server, didn't feel like showing you the others but they're lower.
VirMach owned dcs when
By the way taking all recommendations for datacenters in Chicago at this point. Can be in the same facility as these people we've already tried, just maybe under different management/company.
We've already tried out Psychz, Hivelocity, QuadraNet. So that ends up being these actual facilities:
I actually have a contact with CoreSite for their facility in Chicago since QuadraNet told us to send our servers there and then remembered that they moved out of that facility multiple years ago and we had to try to locate our servers. They (CoreSite) also seem to be used by DataPacket so maybe we can get something going under them. Either way that might end up being good, either getting power and space from CoreSite then transit with DP or going straight through DP.
Using our current timeline sometime after my death.
@fluttershy
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hi @VirMach , I know you are very busy with another thing, but if you could spend a little time to take a look at my ticket #518513, I would be very grateful. the disk is missing from VPS. I'm on TYO-C005 node.
thankyou!
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Colocleansign strikes back.
Free NAT KVM | Free NAT LXC
Can ya let your sorry fellas decide which madhouse they will reside when they order or migrate?
Yo @VirMach storage or Tokyo or Tokyo storage promo any time soon?
smartass shitposting satirist
So are you in any DC which isn't staffed by incompetent hamsters, so I know where to transfer my servers?
After contemplating a while, personally QN i dare say, can't wait to get rid of the loathing 47.87.0.0/16 Alibaba IP block!
smartass shitposting satirist
xTom is the only one I can confidently say that about, hands down, every situation. Doesn't necessarily mean others don't also employ some intelligent people but I've never ever had a situation with xTom where I have to roll my eyes or tear out my hair.
They've also gone above and beyond in helping us when we run into big problems. Like more than expected. With things like the Psychz Amsterdam scenario, obtaining IPv4, and many others.
I just wish we could afford to use all their locations.
You have an interest in getting some direct experience? Toss me a public key and I'll let you poke around on the one I just picked up.
That one's my favorite. Threadripper, it ended up getting the best configuration too, it's 32 disks in RAID10 and then 4 hot spares. It also technically has like 30Gbps or something set up on it and could technically go that high. Plus we have like another 4x 1Gbps connected to it. I look forward to not having to touch it.
It also got the best mix of drives, different batches how I wanted to do all of them.
The Achilles heel on that one is the motherboard, they don't manufacture it anymore but as long as a replacement has PCIe we should be good.
(edit) It also has like 3x NVMe or something like that, Samsung Pro I think, for swap, OS, templates and such.
Thank you @skorous for the offer, but I think I am just going to pick one up in New York.
Sounds like a beast. I hope it will be one of my favorites too.
Any chance you are going to run a "post your order number for double RAM" on storage servers next week ?
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Quite welcome, sir. I've been quite happy with mine thus far.
Also very happy with mine!
Just ran YABS for you, @FrankZ:
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Yet-Another-Bench-Script
v2023-04-23
https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script
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Fri May 19 02:08:52 PM EDT 2023
Basic System Information:
Uptime : 0 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes
Processor : AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core Processor
CPU cores : 3 @ 3799.946 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 3.8 GiB
Swap : 4.0 GiB
Disk : 1.8 TiB
Distro : Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS
Kernel : 5.15.0-72-generic
VM Type : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline
IPv4 Network Information:
ISP : Alibaba.com LLC
ASN : AS35913 DediPath
Host : Zenlayer Inc, Virtual Machine Solutions LLC
Location : Secaucus, New Jersey (NJ)
Country : United States
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
Test | Value
|
Single Core | 1098
Multi Core | 3054
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/21222092
@Wonder_Woman which plan is this? Can you share a link?
The Ultimate Speedtest Script | Get Instant Alerts on new LES/LET deals | Cheap VPS Deals
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It's a "STORAGE-2T" plan, which I bought on sale in one of the other threads. It's specs don't quite match what is shown over here: https://virmach.com/cloud-storage-servers/
What are you looking for on space/power/bandwidth? You can DM me or message me on Skype/Discord/Telegram.
Do you have options without Path's protection? I looked at your stuff a bit ago and passed up on recommending you to several people due to your use of Path.
Is there a best guess estimate guesstimate when Chicago networking issues might be resolved? Have website (very non critical) in ChiTown and if it's most likely going to be up again shortly don't want to shuffle things around. Yes I am lazy
THNAKX!
Ditto; I mean I could shift it to a more production-y server but if CHI is likely to come back in the next day or two I have better things to be doing (mostly involving beer)
We only use Path if you order it - it's an add-on service only.
VirMach now has 3 people who replies on this forum!!!
If it’s not broken, keep fixing it until it is. Blink twice if you agree.
Waiting for Chicago network back to online. Two hosts are down.