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Posted by MaxxTechz-Erick, 08-17-2011, 05:00 PM
Wellllll long story over all im right now at 7 out of 10 support is fast and they have engineers 24/7 so thats good(free phone support). The Over all rateing of the vmware panel on my scale is 4 out of 10 not a good idea to have it on flash and the remote console dosent work with new ver of firefox ony with IE.I think its not %100 because they give you a router and that router is a server with all the ips and if that server is down your vms dont have any acces to the interent so if ur router is down so are your servers, they only have handfull of templates if you whant to install a minimal os with a costum build specs vm u have to upload the iso if its not on the catalog they only have centos iso. But over all im happy with my service since support is fast and they get you fix up quite fast or you can go call their free support number over all rateing 7 out of 10
Posted by sirius, 08-17-2011, 05:17 PM
Might be a good idea for you to take a few minutes, compose your thoughts, write them down, proofread them and then post them here. Your review is a bit hard to follow. Sirius
Posted by MaxxTechz-Erick, 08-17-2011, 08:47 PM
kk il compose a new review thanks for the sugestion i just whanted to say what i thought about them
Posted by SingleHop-TJ, 08-19-2011, 12:33 AM
Thanks for sharing, Erick.
Posted by dotHostel, 08-19-2011, 12:53 AM
The review is perfectly clear and accurate if you have experience with the Gnax vCloud product.
Posted by frmok, 08-19-2011, 01:05 AM
I also use their service and my experience is good. However,vmware panel is quite difficult to use. It takes time to familiarise with it.
Posted by MaxxTechz-Erick, 08-19-2011, 12:49 PM
yea lil bit hard to use
Posted by BeZazz, 08-19-2011, 12:54 PM
I have the same issue. I ended up having to install Windows on my Netbook so I could use the control panel. I did raise the issue but apparently it works fine in Firefox...
Posted by MaxxTechz-Erick, 08-19-2011, 12:56 PM
not in the latest ver it dosent i had to use IE to use the remote console
Posted by panda4uhk, 08-25-2011, 07:55 PM
Their I/O is pretty slow though [root@CentOS ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 46.3253 seconds, 23.2 MB/s
Posted by microsight, 08-25-2011, 11:02 PM
That's not "pretty slow" -- that's downright glacial! For comparison, here's my what my ancient, low-power desktop does. [notroot@mars ~]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 34.6417 seconds, 31.0 MB/s A decent, non-overloaded server should give speeds five to ten times faster than this.
Posted by sailor, 08-26-2011, 10:05 AM
My guess is that you were attached to a cluster that had a bad actor due to a problem controller. this was a real issue that has been resolved. We replaced it and while were at it did some upgrades. this was completed yesterday. you should not be seeing any issues. If you are please open a ticket. We are back to around 200 mbps transfer.
Posted by panda4uhk, 08-26-2011, 10:19 AM
Just test again.... [root@CentOS ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 52.8337 seconds, 20.3 MB/s
Posted by BeZazz, 08-26-2011, 10:28 AM
I just tried just to see and got
Posted by MaxxTechz-Erick, 08-26-2011, 03:56 PM
well i havent had any issues with speed so im quite happy with them i plan on expand
Posted by sailor, 08-27-2011, 07:23 PM
please open a ticket on this so we can take a look at it. we do not have any reported storage issues currently.
Posted by MrPiang, 08-28-2011, 09:29 AM
root@cPanel2 [~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 16.352 seconds, 65.7 MB/s Its seem getting better now. But I wondering this is the best I/O Speed we can expect?
Posted by BeZazz, 08-31-2011, 10:50 PM
Here is the answer I received
Posted by MrPiang, 09-01-2011, 07:44 AM
That what I get too.
Posted by OwlNET, 09-01-2011, 10:50 AM
I tested disk reading using hdtune under winserver 2k8 r2, the result is a crazy 400mb/s to 500mb/s. Really wondering how can they achieve such speed.
Posted by Akisoft, 09-01-2011, 11:04 AM
Well, we're about to place an order for the free trial cluster using the code we were given - I hope it still works! If all goes well, we'll be placing an order in a few weeks .
Posted by any410pin, 09-02-2011, 04:56 PM
On this point I would agree. I'd love to see more templates. Hopefully more will come in due course.
Posted by sailor, 09-03-2011, 11:12 PM
A lot depends on whether you are using 64 or 32 bit os. I am glad you received good results. We are constantly tuning things on our storage as it moves towards more commercial workloads. Its an evolving process.
Posted by sailor, 09-03-2011, 11:14 PM
they are coming. we are doing a major control panel upgrade next week from vcd 1.0 to 1.5 which will resolve a lot of the little nuisance issues. We are also adding templates. If you guys will please let us know which ones you are looking for we will add them.
Posted by OwlNET, 09-04-2011, 03:14 AM
One problem I found while using it is that if I choose to use Windows server 2008 r2 from the public catalog, the 1gb memory vm instance takes 2gb in the control panel so only one of the two 1gb vms can be successfully booted. You'd better have a check.
Posted by sailor, 09-04-2011, 11:55 AM
that is correct. you can still run it though with the free instance - you can just run one. Its an issue of not being able to offer everything to everyone for free. If you like the one vm though you can always expand what you are doing with the resources through paid expansion.
Posted by markb1439, 09-13-2011, 09:05 PM
But if that VM is on the free system, it has lower performance and reliability than a paid VM, right? So we'd be adding paid resources to a less-than-optimal VPS, right? If that's the case I'd feel more comfortable just going all-paid (after trying out the free one to get a feel for the control panel and such).
Posted by dasklney, 09-14-2011, 01:04 AM
My IO Speed with their trial cloud is about 21MB/s. But since it's free so I wouldn't expect more =D
Posted by sailor, 09-14-2011, 09:57 AM
if you start paying for vms you will be moved to the mainstream system.
Posted by dasklney, 09-14-2011, 10:49 AM
My IO speed is better now, more than what I expected a lot =D
Posted by BeZazz, 09-14-2011, 11:29 AM
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 59.9381 seconds, 17.9 MB/s
Posted by Sparrow-Sean, 09-15-2011, 04:02 AM
That is pretty decent, above the average a little. It is not amazing, but it is and will do the jobs at hand
Posted by BeZazz, 09-29-2011, 10:27 AM
My I/O speed has been fixed currently dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 14.0559 seconds, 76.4 MB/s Keep in mind that I am on the Free Cluster.
Posted by eming, 09-29-2011, 12:01 PM
keep in mind that 50 WHT clients all running I/O benchmarks at the same time is enough to kill any well performing san
Posted by BeZazz, 09-29-2011, 02:03 PM
My disk I/O was shot from the very beginning. On the 29/08/11 I submitted a ticket about it.
Posted by MrPiang, 09-30-2011, 04:37 AM
Its seem you're a lucky guy, I am getting the IO from 12-70.
Posted by Cloudstra, 10-01-2011, 03:59 AM
I think you misread what Ditlev posted.
Posted by OwlNET, 10-06-2011, 12:26 AM
So an upgrade in resources (probably ram only) will enable me to migrate to your mainstream system? Actually I've got an email from the sales rep. of your latest offer, but it's not good to see I'm paying for additional resources on the free system as markb1439 said, I need a confirmation before I can purchase additional resources. Thanks.
Posted by sailor, 10-06-2011, 08:59 AM
yes that is correct.
Posted by OwlNET, 10-06-2011, 09:08 AM
Thanks, then I want to know how to order individual upgrade? I didn't find an option to order additional ram only in your order form.

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