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eva2000 · Apr 9, 2017

sounds like maybe like @RoldanLT you have motherboard/hardware issues preventing install sometimes ?

Later on I'm looking into building my own CentOS 7 iso images with custom 4.11 Kernel eventually - as that Kernel is needed for AMD Ryzen 7/Zen Naples cpus Maybe preinstall Centmin Mod's required yum packages too

Jimmy · Apr 9, 2017

13th hour of the intervention on the NVMe server... locked out of everything. Can't even use the IPMI to access the server. They won't reply to my support ticket. Maybe they're replacing hardware?

eva2000 · Apr 9, 2017

Jimmy said: ↑

13th hour of the intervention on the NVMe server... locked out of everything. Can't even use the IPMI to access the server. They won't reply to my support ticket. Maybe they're replacing hardware?
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It's weekend too. OVH ain't known for fast support so probably just need to wait unfortunately.

Jimmy · Apr 9, 2017

I don't think the weekend really matters they're a 24/7 operation. I'm getting an account credit for the other SATA server I purchased and that's rolling along smooth, even during the weekend... it just got approved and they're moving the credits over to the NVMe server.

The weird thing is that the server does have a functioning OS installed. I can ssh into the server, but I don't have the password to gain entry. The partitions also have changed from the Centos ISO install.

eva2000 · Apr 9, 2017

maybe they're just locking you out to troubleshoot stuff ?

Jimmy · Apr 9, 2017

You'd think they'd let me know what was going on via replying to the support ticket. They've been good in the past about updating the ticket. It's been like 15 hours. That's a lot of time considering it's an enterprise server and the SLA for those servers. Of course, they could just credit time back when they're done and I don't have anything on the server yet, which they probably figured out.

Jimmy · Apr 9, 2017

Finally got a non-OVH kernel install of Centos 7. They must have updated the OVH Centos 7 image or looked into why it wasn't installing after my multiple tickets and my tweet to the CEO, IDK.

Code:

# uname -r
3.10.0-514.10.2.el7.x86_64

Code:

# hdparm -Tt /dev/nvme0n1

/dev/nvme0n1:
 Timing cached reads:   25572 MB in  2.00 seconds = 12802.37 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 6552 MB in  3.00 seconds = 2183.91 MB/sec

Code:

# hdparm -Tt /dev/nvme1n1

/dev/nvme1n1:
 Timing cached reads:   25690 MB in  2.00 seconds = 12861.84 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 6578 MB in  3.00 seconds = 2192.28 MB/sec

Code:

# modinfo nvme
filename:       /lib/modules/3.10.0-514.10.2.el7.x86_64/kernel/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.ko
version:        1.0
license:        GPL
author:         Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
rhelversion:    7.3
srcversion:     80C25968F401246C1527FF3
alias:          pci:v*d*sv*sd*bc01sc08i02*
alias:          pci:v00001C58d00000003sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00005845sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00000A54sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00000A53sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00000953sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
depends:    
intree:         Y
vermagic:       3.10.0-514.10.2.el7.x86_64 SMP mod_unload modversions
signer:         CentOS Linux kernel signing key
sig_key:        27:F2:04:85:EB:EB:3B:2D:54:AD:D6:1E:57:B3:08:FA:E0:70:F4:1F
sig_hashalgo:   sha256
parm:           admin_timeout:timeout in seconds for admin commands (byte)
parm:           io_timeout:timeout in seconds for I/O (byte)
parm:           shutdown_timeout:timeout in seconds for controller shutdown (byte)
parm:           use_threaded_interrupts:int
parm:           use_cmb_sqes:use controller's memory buffer for I/O SQes (bool)
parm:           nvme_major:int
parm:           nvme_char_major:int

Code:

# lsmod | grep nvme
nvme                   61785  7

Code:

# ls -lahR /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/nvme
/lib/modules/3.10.0-514.10.2.el7.x86_64/kernel/drivers/nvme:
total 4.0K
drwxr-xr-x.  3 root root   25 Apr  8 17:18 .
drwxr-xr-x. 67 root root 4.0K Apr  8 17:18 ..
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root   28 Apr  8 17:18 host

/lib/modules/3.10.0-514.10.2.el7.x86_64/kernel/drivers/nvme/host:
total 112K
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root   28 Apr  8 17:18 .
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root   25 Apr  8 17:18 ..
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 110K Mar  2 19:51 nvme.ko

Code:

# cat /boot/config-$(uname -r) | grep -i nvme
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NVME=m

eva2000 · Apr 9, 2017

nice great to know and thanks for the update.. maybe one day when my budget can justify it, I'll try a OVH NVMe powered server heh

Love to see when OVH provides AMD Ryzen 7 16 cpu / 32 cpu thread server with NVMe disks and Gaming range like prices hehe

rdan · Apr 12, 2017

Jimmy said: ↑

I contacted OVH about cancelling a server and having that server price applied to another server. Here is the reply. Useful info.
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About this:

The destination server must have been delivered in the last 30 days.
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So I can only transfer a credit if a new server has been delivered below 30 days?
I'm planning of testing new Singapore Server now.

Jimmy · Apr 12, 2017

I would submit a support ticket first stating that you've decided to get another server and you want X server time to be applied to Y new server. That way there won't be any question about the credit being applied.

Jimmy · Apr 13, 2017

In the end, everything worked out. Got the NVMe server working with the original kernel, got credit for 1 of my gaming servers, and got credit for the second 6 core, 12 thread machine I purchased because the NVMe wouldn't work.

Also, learned:

You can transfer FO IPs across servers. I have so many static IPs for my new machine, I'm not sure what to do with them all.

You can access the bios via IPMI, which is really nice.

OVH has really worked out. Just be nice to the customer support people when starting a ticket and be patient.

Jimmy · Apr 17, 2017

Just an FYI...

If you look in the bios boot options via IPMI you'll notice that the server is set to boot to the network versus the hd first. This makes reboot times really long on my machine. It's a lot faster on my gaming server versus my enterprise server. I went into the bios and removed the network boot and it really sped things up.

Just be aware, it seems that the network boot is used for a system reinstall. You're going to need to switch it back if you want to reinstall the system.

For my enterprise server it was taking ~2 minutes to reboot the system with the network as the first boot item.

Jimmy · Apr 17, 2017

SP-128

Code:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total Curl Installer YUM or DNF Time: 69.8384 seconds
Total YUM Time: 15.117822703 seconds
Total YUM or DNF + Source Download Time: 39.2117
Total Nginx First Time Install Time: 46.4828
Total PHP First Time Install Time: 135.6163
Download Zip From Github Time: 1.8374
Total Time Other eg. source compiles: 272.8549
Total Centmin Mod Install Time: 494.1657
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total Install Time (curl yum + cm install + zip download): 565.8415 seconds
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

rdan · Apr 17, 2017

Jimmy said: ↑

If you look in the bios boot options via IPMI you'll notice that the server is set to boot to the network versus the hd first. This makes reboot times really long on my machine. It's a lot faster on my gaming server versus my enterprise server. I went into the bios and removed the network boot and it really sped things up.
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Via java Applet?

eva2000 · Apr 17, 2017

nice times..for OVH SP-128

Jimmy · Apr 17, 2017

I was looking at the bios and noticed that is was 1 version back - bios is from 2015 and the newest is 2016. Sent in a support ticket to get my bios updated. They're actually going to check it out and update it. I was surprised that they'd actually do that.

eva2000 · Apr 18, 2017

Jimmy said: ↑

I was looking at the bios and noticed that is was 1 version back - bios is from 2015 and the newest is 2016. Sent in a support ticket to get my bios updated. They're actually going to check it out and update it. I was surprised that they'd actually do that.
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nice good to know

seems OVH has an IP address shortage as well http://status.ovh.com/?do=details&id=14520

We are facing to a delivery slow-down on FailOver IP and RIPE blocks.

A few hours to a few days can be necessary to deliver the IP depending on the number you ordered.
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eva2000 · Apr 18, 2017

Also a reminder for OVH users paying monthly - you price guarantee is only for the month you paid for. So if OVH raises prices, you'd be subject to the increased price in the next monthly billing cycle. So if you want some price certainty, you'd prepaid for at least 3 months or more

eva2000 · Apr 18, 2017

LOL, just ordered additional IPs for my OVH server, 8 minutes later they were assigned to me ! Must be shortages else where ?

as per Network IP Aliasing | OVH Docs add as ip alias setup

quick script to add ips to my OVH server

dry run debug mode output before live run

Code (Text):

./addips.sh

--------------------------------------------------------
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0
--------------------------------------------------------
# /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0
DEVICE=eth0:0
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=xxx.xxx.xxx.116
NETMASK=255.255.255.255
ONBOOT=yes
GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.254   
--------------------------------------------------------
ifup eth0:0
--------------------------------------------------------

--------------------------------------------------------
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:1
--------------------------------------------------------
# /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:1
DEVICE=eth0:1
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=xxx.xxx.xxx.117
NETMASK=255.255.255.255
ONBOOT=yes
GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.254   
--------------------------------------------------------
ifup eth0:1
--------------------------------------------------------

--------------------------------------------------------
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:2
--------------------------------------------------------
# /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:2
DEVICE=eth0:2
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=xxx.xxx.xxx.118
NETMASK=255.255.255.255
ONBOOT=yes
GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.254   
--------------------------------------------------------
ifup eth0:2
--------------------------------------------------------

--------------------------------------------------------
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:3
--------------------------------------------------------
# /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:3
DEVICE=eth0:3
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=xxx.xxx.xxx.119
NETMASK=255.255.255.255
ONBOOT=yes
GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.254   
--------------------------------------------------------
ifup eth0:3
--------------------------------------------------------

--------------------------------------------------------
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:4
--------------------------------------------------------
# /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:4
DEVICE=eth0:4
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=xxx.xxx.xxx.120
NETMASK=255.255.255.255
ONBOOT=yes
GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.254   
--------------------------------------------------------
ifup eth0:4
--------------------------------------------------------

--------------------------------------------------------
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:5
--------------------------------------------------------
# /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:5
DEVICE=eth0:5
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=xxx.xxx.xxx.121
NETMASK=255.255.255.255
ONBOOT=yes
GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.254   
--------------------------------------------------------
ifup eth0:5
--------------------------------------------------------

--------------------------------------------------------
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:6
--------------------------------------------------------
# /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:6
DEVICE=eth0:6
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=xxx.xxx.xxx.122
NETMASK=255.255.255.255
ONBOOT=yes
GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.254   
--------------------------------------------------------
ifup eth0:6
--------------------------------------------------------

--------------------------------------------------------
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:7
--------------------------------------------------------
# /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:7
DEVICE=eth0:7
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=xxx.xxx.xxx.123
NETMASK=255.255.255.255
ONBOOT=yes
GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.254   
--------------------------------------------------------
ifup eth0:7
--------------------------------------------------------

then edit your nginx vhost config file i.e. domain.com.conf and/or domain.com.ssl.conf and change or add listen line if it doesn't exist

for HTTP port 80 in domain.com.conf

Code (Text):

server {
  listen xxx.xxx.xxx.116:80;
  server_name domain.com www.domain.com;

for HTTPS port 443 in domain.com.ssl.conf

Code (Text):

server {
  listen xxx.xxx.xxx.116:443 ssl http2;
  server_name domain.com www.domain.com;

restart nginx server

eva2000 · Apr 19, 2017

@Matt @RoldanLT for folks using additional IPs on OVH, is it possible to move selected IPs to a new OVH server or do I need to move the entire ordered block of IPs as one ?

seems with additional ips, OVH starts to ping check the server from 213.186.33.13?
Code (Text):
curl ipinfo.io/213.186.33.13
{
  "ip": "213.186.33.13",
  "hostname": "No Hostname",
  "city": "",
  "region": "",
  "country": "FR",
  "loc": "48.8582,2.3387",
  "org": "AS16276 OVH SAS"
}
get email alerts which i didn't get before adding additional ips
Code (Text):
Dear Customer,

Our monitoring system has just detected a fault on your server ns533xxx.ip-xxx-xx-xxx.net.
The fault was noticed on 2017-04-18 10:34:09

Our team of technicians on site (operational 24/7), has been informed
of the fault and will intervene on your machine.

Please be aware that other interventions may currently be in progress and
an intervention lasts on average 30 minutes per machine.

We are therefore not able to give you more details on the starting time
of the intervention.

You can see a general display of the machines currently in fault and
in intervention across our network at the following address:

  http://status.ovh.com/vms/

Your server is in rack T05DXX

You will receive an email as soon as a technician takes charge of your
server. Meanwhile, you have can reboot it via your manager.

Logs:
----------------------
PING ns533xxx.ip-xxx-xx-xxx.net (xxx.xx.xxx.xx) from 213.186.33.13 : 56(84) bytes of data.
From 213.186.33.13: Destination Host Unreachable
From 213.186.33.13: Destination Host Unreachable
From 213.186.33.13: Destination Host Unreachable

--- xxx.xx.xxx.xx ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, +6 errors, 100% packet loss
Code (Text):
On 2017-04-18 10:34:09, we noticed a fault on your server and we have
scheduled an intervention in order to fix this fault.

However, on 2017-04-18 10:38:07 our monitoring system did not detect any fault on
your dedicated server ns533xxx.ip-xxx-xx-xxx.net

We did not intervene on your machine. We do not know the origin of this
fault.

The scheduled intervention has been cancelled from our list.

Logs:
----------------------
PING ns533xxx.ip-xxx-xx-xxx.net (xxx.xx.xxx.xx) from 213.186.33.13 : 56(84) bytes of data.
From 213.186.33.13: Host is alive
From 213.186.33.13: Host is alive
From 213.186.33.13: Host is alive

--- xxx.xx.xxx.xx ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0 errors, 0% packet loss
so csf firewall whitelist ???
Code (Text):
csf -a 213.186.33.13 ovhreverse
http://help.ovh.com/Firewall#link2 strange didn't have to do this before adding additional ips
If you want to block the ICMP protocol (Ping requests), you have to let at least ping.ovh.net, proxy.p19.ovh.net, proxy.rbx.ovh.net, proxy.ovh.net and proxy.rbx2.ovh.net to ping your server. It enables to OVH teams to check the status of your server.

In addition, you have to let the Ip address as the following example:

The Ip address of your server is aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd You have to pass: aaa.bbb.ccc.250 Example: 213.186.57.153 must pass 213.186.57.250 for the SLA server and 213.186.57.251 for the MRTG server so that it can use the RTM.

If you are an owner of HG server, pass Ip adress aaa.bbb.ccc.249 (temporary rule).
Code (Text):
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p icmp --source proxy.ovh.net -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p icmp --source proxy.p19.ovh.net -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p icmp --source proxy.rbx.ovh.net -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p icmp --source proxy.sbg.ovh.net -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p icmp --source proxy.bhs.ovh.net -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p icmp --source ping.ovh.net -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p icmp --source IP.250 -j ACCEPT # IP = aaa.bbb.ccc according to the previous rule
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p icmp --source IP.249 -j ACCEPT # temporary, only for HG server
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sounds like for CSF Firewall easier to put these rules in to a created /etc/csf/csfpre.sh bash shell script to load them

in /etc/csf/csfpre.sh replace IP.250 and IP.249 with your specific ip so if ip = aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd use aaa.bbb.ccc.250 and only for OVH HG server products add aaa.bbb.ccc.249
Code (Text):
#!/bin/bash
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p icmp --source proxy.ovh.net -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p icmp --source proxy.p19.ovh.net -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p icmp --source proxy.rbx.ovh.net -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p icmp --source proxy.sbg.ovh.net -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p icmp --source proxy.bhs.ovh.net -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p icmp --source ping.ovh.net -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p icmp --source IP.250 -j ACCEPT # IP = aaa.bbb.ccc according to the previous rule
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p icmp --source IP.249 -j ACCEPT # temporary, only for HG server
make executable and restart CSF Firewalll
Code (Text):
chmod +x /etc/csf/csfpre.sh
csf -r
edit: seems there's even more OVH end sources to whitelist https://community.centminmod.com/threads/ovh-dedicated-servers.456/page-22#post-48507

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