#arpnetworks 2012-07-19,Thu

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up_the_ironsmercutio: you hailed [08:29]
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In just the last couple days, we've received two orders from IPv6 addresses. This is unprecedented. IPv6 is starting to take! [08:46]
milkilol [08:48]
up_the_ironsit's not a laughing matter ;) [08:58]
arenloreup_the_irons: Nitrous Oxide is no laughing matter. [08:58]
up_the_irons... [08:59]
arenloreup_the_irons: Too painful for you? [08:59]
up_the_irons___ [09:00]
milkisounds like dark matter now [09:05]
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jdoewould be nice if I thought I'd ever get ipv6 from my ISP
and that if I did, it was more than a single address :P
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rykdoes anyne have any recommendations for a windows vps host?
ryk shudders
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up_the_ironsI can put a Windows ISO into a VPS' CD-ROM if u like... (and I will feel dirty doing so too) [09:43]
rykaside from amazon
up_the_irons: have you tested it?
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up_the_ironsryk: no [09:44]
rykit would be fine for me, if i wanted windows.
but i need to recommend something good to a client
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up_the_ironsah ok [09:45]
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rykup_the_irons: you'll probably think this is crazy talk
but it might be a good idea to get a windows datacenter edition and offer that to clients
i have a SMB customer who wants to move their whole internal infrastructure to Amazon
I am trying to find something to recommend to them other than AWS, but can't really find anything that offers private vlans
there are only a few windows vps providers out there, and none of them seem to allow you to create a private network.
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up_the_ironsryk: HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.... [10:14]
rykwhile also allowing the VPS's to be on different hosts. [10:14]
up_the_ironsryk: do you have a link to the license I need? does your SMB customer have their own licenses?
ryk: yeah, my infrastructure totally lets you do that :)
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rykI think they have their own licensing, yes.
it is actually a customer of a customer. :)
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up_the_ironsryk: see, if they have their own licenses, I believe it is legal for me to pop a Windows ISO onto a blank VM and let them install with their own license
ryk: do you know how many hosts we're talkin' about?
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rykthere actually is a dedicated virtual license that microsoft has
just two hosts, so they can have some level of redundancy
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up_the_ironsryk: their data center license seems to be tied to Hyper-V [10:19]
ryki wish i knew more about it.
trying to read up myself now.
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up_the_ironsaccording to this, http://www.michaeldolan.com/1034, Win Server 2008 runs fine on KVM/QEMU, and this post is way old... :) [10:19]
rykyeah i know of another kvm provider that lets customers do it [10:20]
up_the_ironsryk: which one? [10:21]
rykBlueVM
they are one of the cheapie reseller types
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up_the_ironsah [10:21]
rykI really wouldn't trust any important infrastructure on them. [10:22]
up_the_ironsryk: i'd be happy to let them trial my setup. I've ran Win 2008 on KVM on a customer's host once, so i know it works [10:23]
rykOk. well that might be a good option then.
What raid level do you have again on your hosts?
you might want to figure out how to indemnify yourself against licensing violations :)
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up_the_ironsryk: 8x RAID 10 [10:24]
ryki am almost positive that the datacenter edition does not require you to use the hyper-v hypervisor in order for the 'unlimited instances' licensing to be in effect.
here is something old that suggests that: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/ms_licensing_faqs.pdf
this is what you would need, i think. http://www.provantage.com/microsoft-p71-06484~7WWFF6M9.htm
if you were to offer it on your licensing.
i don't know how the CALs would be handled, though.
btw up_the_irons i discovered that NexentaStor commercial licensing has software that can do an automatic failover between the SuperMicro Twin SBB two-node hardware.
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up_the_ironsryk: oh nice
ryk: is that like a san?
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rykexactly. what i was talking about before. [10:41]
up_the_ironsryk: wow, $3600 for that data center license. i'd have to sell a lot of VMs to make that worth it [10:41]
rykyeah :/
but the smb type customers should already have their own licensing
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up_the_ironsfuck that.. BYOL (bring your own license :) [10:41]
rykjust put it in your terms [10:42]
up_the_ironsyeah [10:43]
rykwhat i eneded up proposing for our san this:
two of these (one a spare) for the front-end: http://www.siliconmechanics.com/i28372/single-xeon-1U.php
the HBA: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816118147
the JBOD canister: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004IY1N32/
two of each of those, too
plus disks, switches, etc
and just do the manual failover thing.
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up_the_ironsryk: oh, very nice. silicon mechanics is expensive though. try abmx.com [10:51]
ryki did, but they didn't have the ratios of hardware i wanted [10:52]
up_the_ironsryk: ratios? [10:52]
rykwell i have measured my VM resource usage internally here
right now I am sucking up memory but wasting CPU
so I had some particular specs requirements in order to get the best value
plus I need lots of NICs. that one I liked to, it has two PCIe, so I could put in a 4-port NIC, plus the 4-port on the mobo, plus the HBA
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up_the_ironsryk: if you just call abmx and tell them that's what you want, they'll build it [10:54]
ryki only put the links in because you asked at one point [10:54]
up_the_ironsthey are pretty easy to work with [10:54]
rykdidn't know, thanks! [10:54]
up_the_irons:)
ryk: yeah, tnx for the links too
ryk: nice canister; cheap, simple
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rykthis is for ZFS. You would want actual RAID cards instead of HBA for Linux storage.
yeah, there is a model with dual power supplies
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up_the_ironsryk: yeah was gonna say, no dual power?! [10:55]
rykbut a friend of mine had a jbod with dual power supplies, and the part that went out on Christmas day was the part between the disks and the power supplies, that was not redundant. [10:56]
up_the_ironsryk: holy.shit. [10:56]
rykit was an electronic component
yeah so fuck that, just get two of em :)
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up_the_ironsthe power bus, i assume [10:56]
rykok, i didn't know what it was called [10:56]
up_the_ironsryk: that's always what i fear about single chassis things
much better to just have two
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rykthe one with dual power supply cost 2x as much anyway [10:57]
up_the_ironsryk: so the manual failover, is that part of nexentastor? [10:57]
rykhttp://www.amazon.com/DS-24DR-External-Rackmount-Enclosure-Redundant/dp/B007Z5TE9G/
no, nexentastor has a plugin that gives you HA/failover
it's commercial. not part of the free edition.
I'm not going with that.
it seems to have been specifically written for the supermicro SBB
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up_the_ironsryk: ah ok [10:58]
rykthis thing. http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/sbb.cfm [10:59]
up_the_ironsryk: how many disks can be put on one SFF-8088 cable? [10:59]
rykwhere each node can can access the disks
tons.
i don't even know. it expands out in the jbod
it's in the specs there but i have to go
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up_the_ironsryk: ok, tnx for the info, later [10:59]
rykas far as sans go, nexenta's pricing is extraordinarly reasonable for the high availability. http://nexenta.com/corp/store?page=shop.browse&category_id=3 [11:00]
up_the_ironsryk: as far as redundant power goes though, while it can't protect against the power bus failing, what you really want is to protect against the UPS, panel, power strip or otherwise circuit failure. it's more of an external failure thing [11:03]
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jdoeor the psu itself failing. [11:24]
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up_the_ironsyeah [11:39]
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amdprophetup_the_irons: is there a network issue by any chance?
can't reach two of our servers
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up_the_ironsamdprophet: doesn't appear to be, i'm on several VMs now [12:19]
amdprophethmm maybe it's dns [12:19]
up_the_ironsamdprophet: figure it out? [12:30]
amdprophetup_the_irons: think the machine hosting our dns kernel panic'd [12:37]
up_the_ironsamdprophet: roger [12:38]
mercutiotinydns makes it quite simple to have redundant dns servers :)
ie, you can just scp data and data.cdb around...
data in case you want to modify ..
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amdprophetmercutio: actually looking at using route 53 on amazon instead of hosting our own
up_the_irons: I can't get to the kvr10 vnc server
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mercutiosounds scary to me amd :)
but each to their own
i wouldn't trust amazon with something critical like dns?
when not redundant..
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amdprophetit is redundant [12:50]
mercutioonly across their network?
which means if they screw something up ?
maybe it's ok i dunno
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up_the_ironsamdprophet: each VM hosts its own VNC, so if you can't reach it, then you need to give it a hard reboot [12:51]
mercutioit looks like anycast [12:51]
amdprophetup_the_irons: ack, I'll try giving it another hard reboot
wait, I see what the issue is now, I need to click boot after shutting down :)
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up_the_ironsyes :) [12:52]
amdprophetwasn't there a reboot button before? [12:52]
mercutioi want to do my own anycast system heh [12:52]
up_the_ironsamdprophet: never had a reboot button [13:00]
mercutioso yeh this direct vps peering thing up_the_irons ... [13:00]
amdprophetup_the_irons: my memory must just be going :P, everything is working now [13:01]
mercutiodoes that mean i could advertise a /24 to you and you can advertise it out? [13:01]
up_the_ironsamdprophet: cool :)
mercutio: yes
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mercutiowould i also be able to tunnel traffic back to me?
i setup a gre tunnel last night as a little play, although then there is smaller mtu
although in my little checks it seems that 256mb is used on full route tables on 32 bit, 512mb on 64 bit.
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up_the_ironsmercutio: tunnel traffic back? [13:04]
mercutiomm.. well i want to have some stuff terminate locally
and other stuff travel back to another location.
and advertise the same subnet in another loctation too
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up_the_ironsmercutio: you advertise a /24, it gets propagated to my peers / transits, that's it :) w/e you want to do beyond that is your choice [13:05]
mercutiowhich also means tunneling the other wya
cool :)
when it said about 5 megabit commit or something
does that mean vps's can either have commited bandwidth or per gig charging?
that said.. i thought i might be doing heaps of traffic.. cos it say like 300 gig or something
then i realised that was over like a year
with like 1.5 megabit or something peaks over any of the diff measuring periods.
(i'm sure peak is higher than that on a shorter meausuring period)
i just figured out the serial console thing heh
it is actually kind of nicer being able to get in via ssh for oob over vnc
instead of vnc
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up_the_ironsmercutio: you _can_ have 95% billing with a vps, it's just that nobody understands 95% billing in the vps world and they prefer to see "per GB" pricing [13:10]
mercutioahh ok, 95% is what's showing atm?
in cacti?
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up_the_ironsmercutio: 95% and total GB are both shown on the graphs [13:11]
mercutioyeh
i think total gb is cheaper for me atm :)
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up_the_ironsin general, 95% is cheaper [13:11]
mercutiowith low traffic volumes it noramlly is
hmm
1.5 is charged at 2?
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up_the_ironswut? [13:12]
mercutiooh hangon
my 95th percentile is low
it's my burst that's high
my 95th percentile is 0.15 megabit :)
on monthly
and 0.8 megabit on daily
i mean you pay per megabit don't you?
so if you're 1.5 then you pay for 2?
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up_the_ironsif your commit was 1 mbps and 95th is 1.5, then you pay for 0.5 [13:15]
mercutiobizzarely last about 8 hours ago there was a burst.
oh real?
so that'd be uhh
$30?
is it weekly graph i should look at for what it's worked out on?
it seems to show 4 weks
and that says 0.43
graphs are always weird with hardly any traffic though
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up_the_ironsit's the monthly graph (we billing monthly) [13:18]
mercutiobut monthly seems to show year?
oh hangon
yeh you're right
it's above not below
monthly is 0.43 megabit
heh
i'm sure it'd go up just by having more ip's
with all the random scanning etc that happens now days
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amdprophetup_the_irons: I see ads for arp all over the place now
pretty neat, it surprised me
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jdoecongrats, you're eating his ad budget :P [16:41]
jpalmeryou don't generally pay for impressions. you pay when they click. [16:42]
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mercutiodon't you pay less if there are more impressions without click through? [17:01]
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up_the_ironsmercutio: it's usually click thrus [18:42]
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up_the_ironsamdprophet: :) [18:43]
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mercutioup: yeh, but don't you pay less if there's a lower % of click through for the adword?
err less per impression
or is it just on click through direct
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up_the_ironsmercutio: just click thrus [18:52]
mercutioahh ok
i've never seen one of the ads myself, but i use adblock.
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up_the_ironsmercutio: you won't see anything with adblock :) [18:56]
mercutioyeh, i don't really like random flash ads
or blinky things
animated gifs.
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