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djn

I put a ticket in to try and enable AES with a bit of a strange reply

Hello,
Thanks for your email.
Unfortunately, we don't support the AES-NI.
If you have further questions or problems, please do not hesitate to contact our technical department.
Many Thanks

I take it's ment to say "This server does not support AES-NI"
Still a good server for the money

cochon

@djn said:
I put a ticket in to try and enable AES with a bit of a strange reply

Hello,
Thanks for your email.
Unfortunately, we don't support the AES-NI.
If you have further questions or problems, please do not hesitate to contact our technical department.
Many Thanks

I take it's ment to say "This server does not support AES-NI"
Still a good server for the money

That sounds a bit doubtful, I snagged one of the 1TB on impulse (can't have too many fallback options) and...

Basic System Information:
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Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 0 @ 2.20GHz
CPU cores  : 1 @ 2199.998 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 1.9 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 984.2 GiB

The server would have to be prehistoric not to support AES these days. I would just ask them to expose the host CPU in your VM, sounds like a config glitch.

I have several Inception instances and have never seem them configure the generic QEMU/KVM CPU before.

djn

The server would have to be prehistoric not to support AES these days. I would just ask them to expose the host CPU in your VM, sounds like a config glitch.

I have several Inception instances and have never seem them configure the generic QEMU/KVM CPU before.

Someone has reviewed the ticket and was indeed a config error
Updated yabs

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Thu  5 Aug 14:48:24 BST 2021

Basic System Information:
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Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 0 @ 2.20GHz
CPU cores  : 1 @ 2199.998 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 1.9 GiB
Swap       : 975.0 MiB
Disk       : 982.4 GiB

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 3.98 MB/s      (997) | 74.72 MB/s    (1.1k)
Write      | 4.01 MB/s     (1.0k) | 75.11 MB/s    (1.1k)
Total      | 7.99 MB/s     (1.9k) | 149.84 MB/s   (2.3k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 87.40 MB/s     (170) | 110.71 MB/s    (108)
Write      | 92.04 MB/s     (179) | 118.09 MB/s    (115)
Total      | 179.45 MB/s    (349) | 228.80 MB/s    (223)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed
                |                           |                 |
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 858 Mbits/sec   | 356 Mbits/sec
Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 853 Mbits/sec   | 204 Mbits/sec
WorldStream     | The Netherlands (10G)     | 830 Mbits/sec   | 393 Mbits/sec
Biznet          | Jakarta, Indonesia (1G)   | 515 Mbits/sec   | 52.7 Mbits/sec
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 911 Mbits/sec   | 526 Mbits/sec
Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 901 Mbits/sec   | 590 Mbits/sec
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 932 Mbits/sec   | 931 Mbits/sec
Iveloz Telecom  | Sao Paulo, BR (2G)        | 822 Mbits/sec   | 331 Mbits/sec

Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 461
Multi Core      | 464

risharde

Will this be auto fixed for all vps assuming its a config error? Or should I ticket in to check?

djn

@risharde said:
Will this be auto fixed for all vps assuming its a config error? Or should I ticket in to check?

Reboot and if it's still showing as QEMU Virtual CPU I would put in a ticket

Teucrus

@jugganuts said:
Who doesn't setup CPU passthrough and aes in this great age of 2021

CPU passthrough is bad news if you have multinode clusters with mixed CPUs
This means that in case of an issue if you migrate the VPS to a node with a different CPU some issues may occur.

E.g. Some licenses may invalidate if they check hardware hash or the OS may be incompatible with the said cpu.

We are in 2021 but you will be amazed to find out how many people insist to use outdated/legacy systems that may break if for some reason the CPU is changed.

jugganuts

@Teucrus said:

@jugganuts said:
Who doesn't setup CPU passthrough and aes in this great age of 2021

CPU passthrough is bad news if you have multinode clusters with mixed CPUs
This means that in case of an issue if you migrate the VPS to a node with a different CPU some issues may occur.

E.g. Some licenses may invalidate if they check hardware hash or the OS may be incompatible with the said cpu.

We are in 2021 but you will be amazed to find out how many people insist to use outdated/legacy systems that may break if for some reason the CPU is changed.

Interesting thank you for the information. It's definitely not a aspect I had thought about.