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  1. #1
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    HP Cloud Services

    One could notice that HP announced their cloud services going to public beta.

    I started to use those. So far, VPS (cloud servers) and storage services are of most interest - API-supported, with easy interface. Very good for a start.

    I will post longer description to my blog, but there's only one thing that makes me surprised: the IOPS ratings of their cloud servers.

    Short stats:

    xsmall (1 GB RAM, 1 CPU core): UnixBench 1199.3, IOPS random read: 23739, IOPS random write: 1487.
    small (2 GB RAM, 2 CPU cores): UnixBench 1977.0, IOPS random read: 38267, IOPS random write: 225.
    large (4 GB RAM, 4 CPU cores): UnixBench 3097.4, IOPS random read: 40840, IOPS random write: 182.

    Random write results are very strange, but tests were ran in several batches, with significant random delays between subsequent read/write runs.

    However, the servers are very robust, cost/performance is quite good. I will continue testing the servers for real, first results are interesting.

    Perhaps someone else here has already tried these services?
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    Update: when I asked the tech.person in a chat window, I was told the low write IOPS are known problem, it's being solved.
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    IF you count in their 50% discount during beta period then it is very good value. Otherwise their Bandwidth pricing sucks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by masterbo View Post
    Update: when I asked the tech.person in a chat window, I was told the low write IOPS are known problem, it's being solved.
    That's weird too but it's still in Beta and based on Open-Stack but it's a smart move by HP only confirming what they see coming in the next 5 years if you read the press release carefully you'll get an idea of their market research CDN Storage PaaS will be big... but they are not cheap when you look deeper into their extensive long never ending pricing list on their website maybe a little too late to market by HP to be doing this now...

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    standard.2xlarge – 8 vCPU / 32 GB RAM / 960 GB HD

    [root@server---02012-05-13-12:46:36-+0000 /]# 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, 38.7315 s, 27.7 MB/s

    Very slow performance for now.. maybe in the future will be better. =)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alex Papadakis View Post
    standard.2xlarge – 8 vCPU / 32 GB RAM / 960 GB HD

    [root@server---02012-05-13-12:46:36-+0000 /]# 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, 38.7315 s, 27.7 MB/s

    Very slow performance for now.. maybe in the future will be better. =)
    that's pretty slow!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alex Papadakis View Post
    standard.2xlarge – 8 vCPU / 32 GB RAM / 960 GB HD

    [root@server---02012-05-13-12:46:36-+0000 /]# 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, 38.7315 s, 27.7 MB/s

    Very slow performance for now.. maybe in the future will be better. =)
    Strange thing is when I ran similar dd command to measure sequential write, I was getting very different results for the same server, it could vary from 27 to 200 MB/sec.

    Looks like technicians do experiment/debug right now.
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    What pricing?

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    Quote Originally Posted by dediserve View Post
    What pricing?
    www hpcloud com/pricing

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