BuyVM announces free SSD upgrades on all 256MB+ OpenVZ plans!

[drmike]

Do the math... That's $50k in SSD's

 

[fisle]

Holy shit. Now that's what I call porn

 

[HalfEatenPie]

I feel a tingle.

Kidding.  But seriously excited for these SSDs! 

 

[Ivan]

I demand more hardware/server porn!!

 

[raindog308]

Do the math... That's $50k in SSD's

 

[Aldryic C'boas]

Spoiler

HAH. And we were just talking about starting the Dias Crime Family due to our new hats

 

[mikho]

as well as our intentions to get into Europe before Christmas. Right now we're sniffing around Romania since I can work on getting some DDOS filtering, but I'll likely add NL and DE to the list.


Francisco

Hoping for Sweden.

 

[Ruchirablog]

Hoping for Sweden.

amen

 

[drmike]

Folks might be getting even grander upgrades in Vegas  These guys are playing around.

 

[JackDoan]

That's an unholy amount of disks. I'd love to see them all laid out, without packaging.

 

[drmike]

That's an unholy amount of disks. I'd love to see them all laid out, without packaging.

Hehe, I doubt we are going to get that sort of server porn.  Just ungodly accident waiting to happen.  Superfranman trips and falls, knocks stuff to the floor.

All I can say is I expect these new installs to fly.

 

[JackDoan]

Hehe, I doubt we are going to get that sort of server porn.  Just ungodly accident waiting to happen.  Superfranman trips and falls, knocks stuff to the floor.

All I can say is I expect these new installs to fly.

Knocking an SSD down isn't nearly as bad as dropping an HDD.

 

[mojeda]

I want to see this, but with the ssds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWImFYczibc

 

[Magiobiwan]

I want to see this, but with the ssds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWImFYczibc

I flinched seeing that. 

 

[nunim]

I was okay with the hard drives, but watching the rack mount dominos made me want to cry....

 

[bauhaus]

I'm not a BuyVM consumer, but I must have to say: Congratulations for such smooth upgrade; well done, sirs!  Truly respect for your level of professionalism, I wish every leb provider were a BuyVM copycat

 

VPSboard downtime was all MannDude's fault (Well okey, also MySQL )

 

opcorn:  Also, more datacenter pr0n, please.

 

[MannDude]

VPSboard downtime was all MannDude's fault (Well okey, also MySQL )

 

Only 2/3rds of the total length of downtime was my fault

 

Glad the maintenance is over though. All three of my BuyVM VPSes are all on different nodes and each node has been upgraded so I don't need to stress over that anymore.

 

[Francisco]

I'm not a BuyVM consumer, but I must have to say: Congratulations for such smooth upgrade; well done, sirs!  Truly respect for your level of professionalism, I wish every leb provider were a BuyVM copycat

VPSboard downtime was all MannDude's fault (Well okey, also MySQL )

opcorn:  Also, more datacenter pr0n, please.

This trip was....OK. I got screwed out of quite a few days of SSD migrations due to confusing DD results we were seeing. In the end we found out that DD is CPU bound at the ~1GB/sec mark when using a 2Ghz or so core. If we had E3's in our OVZ nodes we'd have seen the 1.4 - 1.8GB/sec I was expecting, but E3's just don't work around our parts.

The KVM's are all upgraded and I'm happy about that. I know some people really liked the E3's but they simply got slammed too hard. The L5639's, while eating more power, have been a good investment for us since we also increased the amount of RAM in those nodes from 32GB -> 48GB. We just have a few changes to stallion to support KVM upgrading.

The storage upgrades were a bomb. After I fixed some GRUB issues in storage07 (the initial node), we found out the heatsinks we had on site didn't cool enough and the damn thing was throttling the cores.

I'm likely going to make a day trip back to vegas in the coming month or two and ship in the massive 2U active heatsinks we use in the OVZ nodes.

Thanks everyone for the continued support as we work to tune the SSD's as well. Results are positive so far but we still have a lot more tuning to get done to improve things fully.

Francisco

 

[mitsuhashi]

date;dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync;rm test
Fri Nov  8 10:46:54 ChST 2013
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.99667 s, 538 MB/s




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ioping disk I/O test
(custom 4 32 64 256 (KB) request size)
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[/] ioping disk I/O test: 4K test
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--- / (simfs /vz/private/51625) ioping statistics ---
5 requests completed in 4002.0 ms, 4521 iops, 17.7 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.2/0.2/0.3/0.0 ms


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[/] ioping disk I/O test: 32K test
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--- / (simfs /vz/private/51625) ioping statistics ---
5 requests completed in 4002.6 ms, 3027 iops, 94.6 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.2/0.3/0.5/0.1 ms


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[/] ioping disk I/O test: 64K test
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--- / (simfs /vz/private/51625) ioping statistics ---
5 requests completed in 4002.7 ms, 2634 iops, 164.6 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.3/0.4/0.4/0.1 ms


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[/] ioping disk I/O test: 256K test
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--- / (simfs /vz/private/51625) ioping statistics ---
5 requests completed in 4003.7 ms, 1820 iops, 455.0 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.5/0.5/0.6/0.1 ms


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ioping seek rate test
(custom 4 32 64 256 (KB) request size)
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[/] ioping seek rate test: 4K test
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--- / (simfs /vz/private/51625) ioping statistics ---
10283 requests completed in 3000.0 ms, 5165 iops, 20.2 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.1/0.2/4.3/0.1 ms


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[/] ioping seek rate test: 32K test
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--- / (simfs /vz/private/51625) ioping statistics ---
8907 requests completed in 3000.2 ms, 4276 iops, 133.6 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.0/0.2/1.7/0.1 ms


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[/] ioping seek rate test: 64K test
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--- / (simfs /vz/private/51625) ioping statistics ---
7893 requests completed in 3000.2 ms, 3701 iops, 231.3 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.1/0.3/2.2/0.1 ms


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[/] ioping seek rate test: 256K test
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--- / (simfs /vz/private/51625) ioping statistics ---
4373 requests completed in 3000.1 ms, 1843 iops, 460.9 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.3/0.5/4.8/0.2 ms


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ioping.sh 0.9.8 - http://vbtechsupport.com
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Node 16.  

 

[Francisco]

There is still plenty more tuning on the way

For now we're just getting things in place then I'll start fiddling around a bit in some test beds.

So far I'm pretty happy with the results but would like to see things get into the 800 - 1GB/sec range again. I'm not sure if that's going to be possible due to CPU usage, though.

Francisco