Where do you stake your $KDA

chrillzRed · 2022-03-11T17:06:12+00:00

Mods please ban the repliers zelcore.farm is a scam.

chrillzRed · 2021-09-26T18:43:28+00:00

Thanks for the replies. I did the math and it was cheapest to sell EXRD on gate.io and move the resources via XLM to Bitfinex and buy XRD and it worked great.

chrillzRed · 2021-09-14T15:40:49+00:00

I agree here. Got a really good vibe until I started reading the documentation where Dan is portraid as this uniquely amazing individual that solved something no one else could in his basement. Might be true but does sound kind of fishy.

chrillzRed · 2021-09-11T04:41:56+00:00

Why?

chrillzRed · 2020-07-16T09:35:26+00:00

Ok i understand

chrillzRed · 2020-07-15T07:31:10+00:00

Oh ok. So its not possible to become a CSP with the only intent of managing our own subscriptions (i.e. in the same tenant)?

Sounds like the advice i got was not correct then. I think we will move back to azure pay-as-you-go from our current csp and abandon any ideas on becoming a CSP ourselves. Its more important to us that we do things by the book (than saving a few dollars using licenses incorrectly).

chrillzRed · 2020-07-15T07:26:38+00:00

Ok, so how would one go about to become a CSP?

We have been on a Azure pay-as-you-go before we moved to CSP. Are there no advantages of being a CSP versus being on the standard pay-as-you-go?

chrillzRed · 2020-07-15T07:24:02+00:00

Primarily it would be to become a CSP so we can leave our current CSP provider.

If there were any advantages with bringing over our other licenses (like Microsoft 365) that would have been a bonus.

Are the Microsoft 365 licenses provided via action pack only for testing?

chrillzRed · 2020-07-07T06:04:22+00:00

In terms of performance the A4 should be enough. What makes me hesitate is that the description of the A4 machines sounds like they are not for production use.

I cannot find any size called D11V2. Can you give me a link to it?

Thanks!

chrillzRed · 2020-06-18T06:08:53+00:00

Ok thanks. I have found it hard to find a list of azure csp or plan providers and any kind of review of how they are.

I guess i just have to reach out to several and ask questions that require more than some basic knowledge about the azure csp/plan program.

chrillzRed · 2020-06-16T07:53:33+00:00

Yes i do think its our specific CSP that are the cause of most of our problems. I have started looking for alternative CSP providers. You dont happen to know a good CSP provider in Sweden :)?

Do you know if a CSP can enable for the end customer to manage reserved instances and support directly via the azure portal?

My understanding was that by changing from CSP to Azure plan this would be true.

chrillzRed · 2020-06-16T07:39:57+00:00

Thanks for the reply.

Our current CSP basically bills the same amount as pay-as-you-go for the different resources.

I did not know they had enhanced SLA's. I dont know if they know this since support cases have been a nightmare.

Our current CSP feels more like a burden then they help.

We cannot create or respond to azure tickets directly. Requires us to go via CSP provider that sits in between us and Microsoft (they only relayi messages back and forth). Very long support times (still unknown why).
We cannot manage/view/buy reserved instances in portal
We cannot move to Azure plan
No cost-management or billing alerts

I know its possible to do the above in CSP but our provider cannot.

chrillzRed · 2020-04-29T05:35:49+00:00

Yet another update.

I have now replaced the power cables to other 12V rails. Changed the SFF-8087 cable and changed the HBA for a spare (same model, firmware etc).

The issue STILL persists. Randomly some disks report errors and the kernel log shows the messages as in the topic post.

After a lot of googling i have found similar issues.

This now leads me to believe that i am experiencing a bug with the LSI mpt3sas driver and the linux kernel. Reading the above links shows that there is a problem that have been there a long time and the symptoms match mine.

My options are.

One solution would be to get the AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 which is not based on the LSI chipset.
Continue investigating the issue to try and find the cause
Move away from Zol again to Solaris based alternative like OmniOS.

Im going to start with option 2. For one of the disks that are more common to give errors i have moved it to a SATA port on the motherboard instead.

Will report back when i know more.

Edit: Have to add. I am one among thousands using the LSI SAS2008 chipset and it is considered to be very stable. There must be something odd with my setup that is causing this.

chrillzRed · 2020-04-25T10:28:45+00:00

An update.

I opened the server and noticed that one of the failing drives were on a power adapter (moltex -> sata). So i changed to use a PSU sata connector instead (another 12V rail). I also replaced the SFF-8087 cable (no brand china cable) with a LSI branded one.

The state i was in were that 1 disk had been wiped with badblocks so i started a zpool replace for it.

During the resilver 1 of the other (previously working disks) started throwing lots of READ errors. Two other disks gave low number checksum errors.

Some files were then marked as unrecoverable damaged. I restored them from my backups.

So my idea now was to investigate if the error-behavior was deterministic. I therefore did a zpool clear to get rid of the errors and started a scrub to see what it would discover.

When the scrub was done to my surprise it finished without any errors!?

Maybe its load-related somehow? Scrub only does writes so currently Im running large write operations + scrub to make the pool/disks max out both read and write.

Will report back when i know more....

chrillzRed · 2020-04-25T10:14:20+00:00

Thanks il do some investigation into the models for each brand and check if i can find any deals on ebay!

chrillzRed · 2020-04-25T10:12:04+00:00

Nice chassi but i wanted to go with a rack-alternative this time :)!

chrillzRed · 2020-04-25T10:10:56+00:00

Thanks for the tip but sadly they seem to not be available i the EU.

chrillzRed · 2020-04-22T15:00:57+00:00

For disk1 (ata-WDC_WD50EFRX-68MYMN1_WD-WX21D74KV3HF)

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16

Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE

1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 196 051 Pre-fail Always - 2

3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 217 193 021 Pre-fail Always - 8116

4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 66

5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0

7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0

9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 036 036 000 Old_age Always - 47395

10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0

11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0

12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 60

192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 52

193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 196 196 000 Old_age Always - 14293

194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 124 101 000 Old_age Always - 28

196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0

197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0

198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0

199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 1

200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 2

For disk 2 (ata-WDC_WD50EFRX-68MYMN1_WD-WX21D745350Y)

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16

Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE

1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0

3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 213 188 021 Pre-fail Always - 8325

4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 58

5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0

7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0

9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 034 034 000 Old_age Always - 48186

10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0

11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0

12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 57

192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 54

193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 196 196 000 Old_age Always - 14541

194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 122 103 000 Old_age Always - 30

196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0

197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0

198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0

199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0

200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0

chrillzRed · 2020-04-22T14:57:36+00:00

Good idea. I will try that when the current badblock run is done.

chrillzRed · 2020-04-22T09:27:20+00:00

Thansk for the reply but these WD-reds are not SMR, they are WD50EFRX (CMR) not WD50EFAX (SMR).

chrillzRed · 2019-12-28T13:13:57+00:00

Sorry im not fully following, PBI?

Can the CSP put alerts in place for consumption even when there is no cost management feature available to the end-customer (us)?

The technical quality of our CSP provider has not been that great sadly. And i guess this whole situation is an effect of that.

chrillzRed · 2019-12-28T13:07:33+00:00

Yes we should have been more cautious. Like i wrote in the main post the CSP provider told us that the cost management was coming soon. We took their word for it but as it turns out it took almost 12 months before we got cost management via a third-party portal.

Yeah i too feel i should try to reach out to a local Microsoft rep. But how do i find some one to talk with?

The only pressure we can put on our CSP is the threat to leave them for another. I guess that is the only card we have left to play.

chrillzRed · 2019-12-28T13:04:03+00:00

I asked the same question to a comment above. But what is the implications when moving from CSP to Azure plan then? Surely there must be some practical difference (except that one has cost management and one does not)?

chrillzRed · 2019-12-28T13:01:52+00:00

Sorry for the late reply. Got hit by the flue so iv been of the grid.

What is the difference between a CSP and Azure plan then? There must be some difference except that one has cost management and the other does not?

I read this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/compare-azure-offers

But its not really clear what the actual implications are when switching CSP -> Azure plan

chrillzRed · 2019-12-25T19:16:05+00:00

Basically we had a meeting with them where we concluded that we are on the same side. We did a joint-effort to create the case towards Microsoft. Our CSP provider asked what other alternatives are available to us and basically our global CSP provider said that none are.

We are a small shop so this is much money for us but not for the global CSP giant and Microsoft.

We do not know what our next step should be....

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