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planned outage Jan 11-12
Hey people.... If all goes well, I will be doing some more improvements on the infrastructure stack for the weekend of January 11-12. So if the network is down, check Facebook for status posts. I finally got tired of backups stalling and deleting VMware snapshots taking hours. So the storage network is being upgraded from 1 gig to 10 gig.
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-- Chris Founder/Administrator SVX World Network ECU Tune (stage 1), PWR (prototype aluminum radiator) Amateur Radio - General Class - K7SVX #1 92 Teal LSl 246k (Dedicated SVX Race Car, now with 4.44 speed) #2 92 Teal LSl 125k (Retired, car rescued from a field of weeds) 2007 Impreza 2.5i Special Edition, Obsidian Black Pearl (Daily driver) 2001 Dodge Ram 2500 quad cab, Cummins turbo diesel 4x4 (race car & RV hauler) 1985 Honda VF500 Interceptor (fair weather fun commuter) Going on 11 years of NHRA bracket racing NHRA Div 6 Car/Driver # T654 (site being rebuilt, new name is www.teamsvxracing.com) 2000 1st Place Club Challenge Series 2002 3rd Place Season Track Champion, Import Racing (Firebird Raceway) 2003 4th Place Season Track Champion, Import Racing (Firebird Raceway) 2003 1st Place NW Regional Import Shootout (July 5th) 2004 1st Place Club Challenge #1 (Firebird Raceway) 2004 1st Place NHRA "King of the Track" race 2004 NHRA Gold Cup 2nd place season win 2004 Import/Sport Compact 3rd place season win 2004 Division 6 Summit/ET NHRA Race of Champions finalist competitor (Mission, BC) 2007 1st Place Import Survival #3 2007 1st Place Track Champion Import Summer Jam (Wild Street Class) 2007 1st Place Import Survival #5 2008 Club season 1st place win, Club Champion 2008 2nd Place Season Import Final. 2008 Division 6 Summit/ET NHRA Import Finals (Woodburn, Or) 2009 2nd Place Import Summer Jam (Wild Street Class) 2010 1st Place Club race #2 - 1st place Sport Compact race #1 & #2 |
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Re: planned outage Jan 11-12
Special Chris,
Your ongoing diligent efforts of such long standing deserve a thank you from all the participants of this forum. Unfortunately there will be many who who do not know pf the length and depth of your involvement and generosity. I for one am absolutely amazed that yo have personally kept the site running for so long and at your own expense. There can not be anything comparable within cyberspace. Money could not have bought what you have provided. We can only very much hope, that you have gained huge satisfaction as a result of your selfless hard work. You more than deserve a happy and prosperous New Year. I will be there before you so expect is a sincere welcome. LOL Trevor.
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Trevor, New Zealand. As a child, on cold mornings I gladly stood in cowpats to warm my bare feet, but I detest bull$hit! |
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Re: planned outage Jan 11-12
Thank you for the continued hard work and lets hope for a smooth transition.
Was the snapshot consolidation due to network latency? Wouldn't that be related to disk performance instead? This is without knowing how long/old they are but just a question.
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1994 SVX LSi JDM Tailbar and Grill, Clear Corners, 15min-mod, Nevin Blue RSB, G-FORCE SPORT COMP-2 Tires, Phenolic Spacers (Manifold & Throttle Body), SS Brake Lines, Maniac Electric Motors 160A Alternator 2008 Legacy 3.0R |
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Re: planned outage Jan 11-12
I'd like to offer my thanks as well. Seeing other forums being bought up by that crap company verticlescope is disheartening. I'm really glad this site is still unchanged and going strong. Thank you Chris!
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Re: planned outage Jan 11-12
I too would like to thank Chris for his efforts. I am relatively new in these parts, but I certainly would never have bought my SVX without knowing that this resource was available. My thanks also to the many members past and present whom have contributed to this valuable resource.
Happy new year to all!
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Re: planned outage Jan 11-12
Thanks Chris.
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Rick 1996 SVX LSI Bordeaux Pearl 222.600 and going |
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Re: planned outage Jan 11-12
In short, the SVXWN runs as a VM on a Cisco UCS-C220m4 server. It does not use local disk, but the storage LUNs are presented as block storage via iSCSI from a QNAP SAN over a network to the Cisco server. The network speed is 1gbps but the theoretical storage speed limit in megabytes is 125MBps, and we average 117MBps. The issue is snapshot management and weekly backups as this limit is rather slow vs local disk that would average 300-500MBps or more. So, the network transport that is being used at 1gbps i being upgraded to 10gbps to eliminate the bottleneck. As users, you will likely never see the the bottleneck, but it would be nice to make sure it never becomes an issue. What I am trying to do is make backups take less time because spooling to tape becomes an issue if the data hitches. Also moving large packets of data around in VMs gets troublesome at the slower speed. Hope this helps.
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-- Chris Founder/Administrator SVX World Network ECU Tune (stage 1), PWR (prototype aluminum radiator) Amateur Radio - General Class - K7SVX #1 92 Teal LSl 246k (Dedicated SVX Race Car, now with 4.44 speed) #2 92 Teal LSl 125k (Retired, car rescued from a field of weeds) 2007 Impreza 2.5i Special Edition, Obsidian Black Pearl (Daily driver) 2001 Dodge Ram 2500 quad cab, Cummins turbo diesel 4x4 (race car & RV hauler) 1985 Honda VF500 Interceptor (fair weather fun commuter) Going on 11 years of NHRA bracket racing NHRA Div 6 Car/Driver # T654 (site being rebuilt, new name is www.teamsvxracing.com) 2000 1st Place Club Challenge Series 2002 3rd Place Season Track Champion, Import Racing (Firebird Raceway) 2003 4th Place Season Track Champion, Import Racing (Firebird Raceway) 2003 1st Place NW Regional Import Shootout (July 5th) 2004 1st Place Club Challenge #1 (Firebird Raceway) 2004 1st Place NHRA "King of the Track" race 2004 NHRA Gold Cup 2nd place season win 2004 Import/Sport Compact 3rd place season win 2004 Division 6 Summit/ET NHRA Race of Champions finalist competitor (Mission, BC) 2007 1st Place Import Survival #3 2007 1st Place Track Champion Import Summer Jam (Wild Street Class) 2007 1st Place Import Survival #5 2008 Club season 1st place win, Club Champion 2008 2nd Place Season Import Final. 2008 Division 6 Summit/ET NHRA Import Finals (Woodburn, Or) 2009 2nd Place Import Summer Jam (Wild Street Class) 2010 1st Place Club race #2 - 1st place Sport Compact race #1 & #2 |
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Re: planned outage Jan 11-12
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1994 SVX LSi JDM Tailbar and Grill, Clear Corners, 15min-mod, Nevin Blue RSB, G-FORCE SPORT COMP-2 Tires, Phenolic Spacers (Manifold & Throttle Body), SS Brake Lines, Maniac Electric Motors 160A Alternator 2008 Legacy 3.0R |
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Re: planned outage Jan 11-12
Image of the infrastructure running the SVXWN
Tour for anyone that is interested.... or bored Top down:
Questions welcomed
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-- Chris Founder/Administrator SVX World Network ECU Tune (stage 1), PWR (prototype aluminum radiator) Amateur Radio - General Class - K7SVX #1 92 Teal LSl 246k (Dedicated SVX Race Car, now with 4.44 speed) #2 92 Teal LSl 125k (Retired, car rescued from a field of weeds) 2007 Impreza 2.5i Special Edition, Obsidian Black Pearl (Daily driver) 2001 Dodge Ram 2500 quad cab, Cummins turbo diesel 4x4 (race car & RV hauler) 1985 Honda VF500 Interceptor (fair weather fun commuter) Going on 11 years of NHRA bracket racing NHRA Div 6 Car/Driver # T654 (site being rebuilt, new name is www.teamsvxracing.com) 2000 1st Place Club Challenge Series 2002 3rd Place Season Track Champion, Import Racing (Firebird Raceway) 2003 4th Place Season Track Champion, Import Racing (Firebird Raceway) 2003 1st Place NW Regional Import Shootout (July 5th) 2004 1st Place Club Challenge #1 (Firebird Raceway) 2004 1st Place NHRA "King of the Track" race 2004 NHRA Gold Cup 2nd place season win 2004 Import/Sport Compact 3rd place season win 2004 Division 6 Summit/ET NHRA Race of Champions finalist competitor (Mission, BC) 2007 1st Place Import Survival #3 2007 1st Place Track Champion Import Summer Jam (Wild Street Class) 2007 1st Place Import Survival #5 2008 Club season 1st place win, Club Champion 2008 2nd Place Season Import Final. 2008 Division 6 Summit/ET NHRA Import Finals (Woodburn, Or) 2009 2nd Place Import Summer Jam (Wild Street Class) 2010 1st Place Club race #2 - 1st place Sport Compact race #1 & #2 Last edited by Chris; 01-17-2020 at 11:20 PM. Reason: more info |
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Re: planned outage Jan 11-12
What's that in English?
But seriously folks! I work in a variety of locations, all of which have rooms full of stuff like that. Some of the rooms are very large, have multiple floors, and signs for people who might be crawling around in them. I visit them but tend not to spend much time there; my work is mostly at the keyboard.
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1995 Caterham 7 Twincam 2002 Porsche 911 targa -- now with FSI 4.0L power! 2007 BMW 328i Cabriolet 2012 Tacoma 4wd v6 Access Cab 2013 Mercedes E350 4Matic Wagon 2005 STi - totaled after 10 great years 1994 SVX LSi 5spd - sold but not forgotten 2000 Legacy GT 5spd sedan - gone after 150K miles of bliss |
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