In the switch, set static address binding: MAC - IP - switchport.
In every VM, set CIDR to be /32 and force gateway to be on-link.
In every VM, use ip neigh command to set static MAC address of the gateway.
VM-to-VM traffic goes through the gateway, hairpin.
If the switch is ever replaced, set to old MAC address so that VMs don't need to be reconfigured.
This is knowledge from a long time ago and it's based on hearsay from someone who used to work for us, but in the past, we couldn't do static routing with SolusVM. I don't remember the specific nor do I want to dive into it right now to verify. VM-specific configuration, not even going to begin diving into that one with SolusVM. Otherwise there's a dozen other configuration improvements I have in mind. I believe that was a feature request someone put in half a decade ago that they're still working on. I know we can do it outside of SolusVM but I don't want to get into that.
Switch-related configuration changes, we already have enough problems trying to get the DC to even provide us with functional VLANs mapped to the right port. Although it's a realistic possibility in the future when I take over management for locations where we own the switch. But that requires a few hours of reading the manual.
I hope you have a staff of writers, or use speech to text.
Otherwise your hands will be a wreck in no time
Unless you have a goal of typing a million words a year.
But then.. wrong forum
Cheers
I can usually type faster than I can think. Wait, I should've though that through before typing it, now I just sound like I can't think.
Actually now that I think about it, I've been typing slower and slower every day but I used to be able to type 140wpm. Now it's closer to 100 and I think it's because I have like 5 open cuts on my fingers at any given time and my hands are probably wrecked already from all the typing and building/packing servers.
Text to speech would definitely be slower, I'm definitely below average when it comes to speaking. I guess that's the perks of spending 20 years of my life on the computer instead of socializing.
I hope you will be able to fix you issues soon ^^. I have several servers with you on NYC, i'm lucky only one is affected by your actual issue. I really hope you will find your way to stabilise the whole service as, regarding the incident dashboard, there is few things unstable.
Good luck VirMach !
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Opinions are my own.
@tototo said: @VirMach You are a service provider, but firstly that you are a human so I hope you can get some rest...
I'm lucky enough to still have my parents around and every time we speak they remind me of this, and even though I'm a grown man now I still get a kick out of their reaction when I say something along the lines of "okay, I'm taking a two month vacation. I'm sure everything will be there when I get back!"
@risturiz said:
At the end, if you need perfect setup you can't use SolusVM... That's why we see BuyVM and HostHatch selfmade panels
This is honestly one of my unfulfilled fantasies. I also like to imagine myself getting that in-depth into software development to where I could do something like that but I had the unfortunate turn of events in my life where I majored in something completely different, never had time for it, and then got into hosting (and never had time for it.)
I wish I could have a self-made panel and then name it something semi-weird and unrelated to hosting that I'm into. On second though it'd be a pretty good joke to name ours "Mare."
At this point though I'd probably go the Ramnode route and use something like Fleio, and focus on replacing WHMCS. I think there's a level of disdain I have for it that can't be matched by any other piece of software.
Oh by the way, we signed on for Chicago, Tampa, and Los Angeles with Hivelocity. Pretty excited about that. Basically it happened the second QN made me lose my mind over the nullroutes. Not that we're moving all of LA to Hivelocity, it'd just be nice to have since we needed more space anyway.
Chicago we're going with QN as well, half and half.
(edit) And no you don't get to pick which one you get, mwuhahaha. I did all this just to hear people complain about the grass being greener on the other side.
Is there someone in this discussion who actually works for Virmach? If so I would love a little help. Needless to say there is no ticket support. I believe my VPS is offline. I changed my password and it say the password is wrong. It is not. I need some data that is only on my VPS for one of my clients. I downloaded TurboVNC thinking that might work, but when I put in control alt delete and did the password again it did not work. If there was any way to access info on my VPS that would be great.
Or do you only work for Virmach? I have also read rumours that you are a bot. But that’s okay
Client data = p0rn ??
Nobody otherwise would register and ask tech support questions right away
@morphite said:
Is there someone in this discussion who actually works for Virmach? If so I would love a little help. Needless to say there is no ticket support. I believe my VPS is offline. I changed my password and it say the password is wrong. It is not. I need some data that is only on my VPS for one of my clients. I downloaded TurboVNC thinking that might work, but when I put in control alt delete and did the password again it did not work. If there was any way to access info on my VPS that would be great.
@VirMach said:
we signed on for Chicago, Tampa, and Los Angeles with Hivelocity.
(edit) And no you don't get to pick which one you get, mwuhahaha. I did all this just to hear people complain about the grass being greener on the other side.
Miami beach club - QN.
Tampa beach club - Hivelocity.
All of NYC has also had this applied. DC had wrong ports labeled for about 7 servers so those are currently offline (networking-wise.) Around 6 can be fixed more quickly, one definitely can't because it has to wait on network engineer.
@cybertech said:
spoke too soon, seems like tokyo is fixed (!!!)
Yep, it's actually crazy how much of a massive improvements it made for Tokyo. Other regions improved maybe 20-30% after the change but Tokyo is probably an easy 70% across the board, that's lower load, CPU usage, improved ping and transfer speeds. It was also the smoothest change by far, xTom is pretty amazing.
Meanwhile we have a third of NYC still down because they had the port numbers wrong.
It's crazy how hard the NIC was trying to keep up with the previous network configuration, this screenshot says it all. I almost had to check and make sure the change didn't just knock everyone offline or crash something.
@cybertech said:
spoke too soon, seems like tokyo is fixed (!!!)
Yep, it's actually crazy how much of a massive improvements it made for Tokyo.
Could you possibly ask them to fix the IPv6 routing they just broke?
Expected. This is one of the reasons I said IPv6 may break and it's not yet officially delivered and we put it on the backburner for some locations. It was only set up to function on the same VLAN, we have to go through and split it up now, probably re-assigning a lot of them, and we can't focus on that right now.
@cybertech said:
spoke too soon, seems like tokyo is fixed (!!!)
Yep, it's actually crazy how much of a massive improvements it made for Tokyo. Other regions improved maybe 20-30% after the change but Tokyo is probably an easy 70% across the board, that's lower load, CPU usage, improved ping and transfer speeds. It was also the smoothest change by far, xTom is pretty amazing.
Meanwhile we have a third of NYC still down because they had the port numbers wrong.
amazing.
-------------------- A Bench.sh Script By Teddysun -------------------
Version : v2022-06-01
Usage : wget -qO- bench.sh | bash
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CPU Model : AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core Processor
CPU Cores : 2 @ 3693.018 MHz
CPU Cache : 512 KB
AES-NI : Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : Enabled
Total Disk : 49.9 GB (5.6 GB Used)
Total Mem : 2.4 GB (363.7 MB Used)
Total Swap : 30.0 MB (0 Used)
System uptime : 0 days, 0 hour 3 min
Load average : 0.07, 0.06, 0.02
OS : Debian GNU/Linux 11
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 5.18.0-2-amd64
TCP CC : bbr
Virtualization : KVM
Organization : AS23959 Owl Limited
Location : Tokyo / JP
Region : Tokyo
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I/O Speed(1st run) : 1.2 GB/s
I/O Speed(2nd run) : 1.4 GB/s
I/O Speed(3rd run) : 1.4 GB/s
I/O Speed(average) : 1365.3 MB/s
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Node Name Upload Speed Download Speed Latency
Speedtest.net 898.38 Mbps 879.10 Mbps 0.96 ms
Los Angeles, US 768.14 Mbps 501.71 Mbps 99.67 ms
Dallas, US 610.45 Mbps 642.25 Mbps 137.25 ms
Montreal, CA 364.90 Mbps 518.56 Mbps 166.56 ms
Paris, FR 327.35 Mbps 470.75 Mbps 255.16 ms
Amsterdam, NL 339.21 Mbps 480.36 Mbps 230.89 ms
Shanghai, CN 557.24 Mbps 542.38 Mbps 146.51 ms
Nanjing, CN 836.14 Mbps 827.50 Mbps 34.08 ms
Hongkong, CN 441.77 Mbps 942.63 Mbps 100.05 ms
Seoul, KR 751.58 Mbps 682.92 Mbps 66.73 ms
Singapore, SG 739.55 Mbps 833.40 Mbps 68.42 ms
Tokyo, JP 900.31 Mbps 916.73 Mbps 0.95 ms
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Finished in : 5 min 38 sec
Timestamp : 2022-07-18 17:16:56 +08
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Looks like my vpsshared site is down, not responding to pings. It's a super low traffic personal site, so I'll survive, but it sounds like things are probably backlogged there.
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@VirMach
I hope you have a staff of writers, or use speech to text.
Otherwise your hands will be a wreck in no time
Unless you have a goal of typing a million words a year.
But then.. wrong forum
Cheers
VPS reviews | | MicroLXC | English is my nth language.
This is knowledge from a long time ago and it's based on hearsay from someone who used to work for us, but in the past, we couldn't do static routing with SolusVM. I don't remember the specific nor do I want to dive into it right now to verify. VM-specific configuration, not even going to begin diving into that one with SolusVM. Otherwise there's a dozen other configuration improvements I have in mind. I believe that was a feature request someone put in half a decade ago that they're still working on. I know we can do it outside of SolusVM but I don't want to get into that.
Switch-related configuration changes, we already have enough problems trying to get the DC to even provide us with functional VLANs mapped to the right port. Although it's a realistic possibility in the future when I take over management for locations where we own the switch. But that requires a few hours of reading the manual.
I can usually type faster than I can think. Wait, I should've though that through before typing it, now I just sound like I can't think.
Actually now that I think about it, I've been typing slower and slower every day but I used to be able to type 140wpm. Now it's closer to 100 and I think it's because I have like 5 open cuts on my fingers at any given time and my hands are probably wrecked already from all the typing and building/packing servers.
Text to speech would definitely be slower, I'm definitely below average when it comes to speaking. I guess that's the perks of spending 20 years of my life on the computer instead of socializing.
@VirMach You are a service provider, but firstly that you are a human so I hope you can get some rest...
At the end, if you need perfect setup you can't use SolusVM... That's why we see BuyVM and HostHatch selfmade panels
Be careful, man, you'll end up like me!
Look out for the RSI issues. 
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Ngl, you should get some more employees if budget allows, and also do some mental health break (but not the way Nexusbytes did it)
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Associated with. Not very creative acronym as it turns out, but stands for
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I hope you will be able to fix you issues soon ^^. I have several servers with you on NYC, i'm lucky only one is affected by your actual issue. I really hope you will find your way to stabilise the whole service as, regarding the incident dashboard, there is few things unstable.
!
Good luck VirMach
Site Reliability Engineer using DevOps mindset. High interest in so many hosting companies (VPN, Drive, Web, VPS, etc.) and believe in privacy.
Opinions are my own.
@vyas I have SWEFEN (made up) - Shoulder, Wrist, Elbow, Finger, Eyes, Neck.
Mind has always been "no' right".
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SWEFEN = NEWFES = NEWFACE :-)
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^ He's loosin' it! Bless 'im. :-D
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I'm lucky enough to still have my parents around and every time we speak they remind me of this, and even though I'm a grown man now I still get a kick out of their reaction when I say something along the lines of "okay, I'm taking a two month vacation. I'm sure everything will be there when I get back!"
This is honestly one of my unfulfilled fantasies. I also like to imagine myself getting that in-depth into software development to where I could do something like that but I had the unfortunate turn of events in my life where I majored in something completely different, never had time for it, and then got into hosting (and never had time for it.)
I wish I could have a self-made panel and then name it something semi-weird and unrelated to hosting that I'm into. On second though it'd be a pretty good joke to name ours "Mare."
At this point though I'd probably go the Ramnode route and use something like Fleio, and focus on replacing WHMCS. I think there's a level of disdain I have for it that can't be matched by any other piece of software.
I think I'm developing arthritis but luckily no carpel tunnel or RSI for me.
Oh by the way, we signed on for Chicago, Tampa, and Los Angeles with Hivelocity. Pretty excited about that. Basically it happened the second QN made me lose my mind over the nullroutes. Not that we're moving all of LA to Hivelocity, it'd just be nice to have since we needed more space anyway.
Chicago we're going with QN as well, half and half.
(edit) And no you don't get to pick which one you get, mwuhahaha. I did all this just to hear people complain about the grass being greener on the other side.
i want Hivelocity!!!!
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
Is there someone in this discussion who actually works for Virmach? If so I would love a little help. Needless to say there is no ticket support. I believe my VPS is offline. I changed my password and it say the password is wrong. It is not. I need some data that is only on my VPS for one of my clients. I downloaded TurboVNC thinking that might work, but when I put in control alt delete and did the password again it did not work. If there was any way to access info on my VPS that would be great.
@VirMach
Per the pertinent question below
Do you actually work for
Virmach
Or do you only work for Virmach? I have also read rumours that you are a bot. But that’s okay
Client data = p0rn ??
Nobody otherwise would register and ask tech support questions right away
VPS reviews | | MicroLXC | English is my nth language.
Miami beach club - QN.
Tampa beach club - Hivelocity.
So if I pick Tempa, the sand is grainer?
Tampa = real sand, Miami = bits of your own packets ground up and spit back at you
Network monitor detected MAC change yesterday and BOOM! Dallas Fixed!
Thanks @VirMach !
All of NYC has also had this applied. DC had wrong ports labeled for about 7 servers so those are currently offline (networking-wise.) Around 6 can be fixed more quickly, one definitely can't because it has to wait on network engineer.
Japan network still not changed
because today Japan holiday
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
Something™ has changed network-wise...
Need a free NAT LXC? -> https://microlxc.net/
spoke too soon, seems like tokyo is fixed (!!!)
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
Yep, it's actually crazy how much of a massive improvements it made for Tokyo. Other regions improved maybe 20-30% after the change but Tokyo is probably an easy 70% across the board, that's lower load, CPU usage, improved ping and transfer speeds. It was also the smoothest change by far, xTom is pretty amazing.
Meanwhile we have a third of NYC still down because they had the port numbers wrong.
It's crazy how hard the NIC was trying to keep up with the previous network configuration, this screenshot says it all. I almost had to check and make sure the change didn't just knock everyone offline or crash something.
Could you possibly ask them to fix the IPv6 routing they just broke?
Need a free NAT LXC? -> https://microlxc.net/
Expected. This is one of the reasons I said IPv6 may break and it's not yet officially delivered and we put it on the backburner for some locations. It was only set up to function on the same VLAN, we have to go through and split it up now, probably re-assigning a lot of them, and we can't focus on that right now.
Or we have to go through and do tagged VLANs.
amazing.
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
By Jove, @Virmach, looks like you've cracked it!
A (mostly idling) New York node:
Let's hope this speeds along the ISO replications, in Solus. Here comes rDNS and multi-IP.
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Looks like my vpsshared site is down, not responding to pings. It's a super low traffic personal site, so I'll survive, but it sounds like things are probably backlogged there.