Re: Solaris 10 VMs extremely slow in KVM on Ceph RBD Devices

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Hi Christoph,

Am 12.11.2014 17:29, schrieb Christoph Adomeit:
> Hi,
> 
> i installed a Ceph Cluster with 50 OSDs on 4 Hosts and finally I am really happy with it.
> 
> Linux and Windows VMs run really fast in KVM on the Ceph Storage.
> 
> Only my Solaris 10 guests are terribly slow on ceph rbd storage. A solaris on Ceph Storage needs 15 Minutes to boot. When I move the Solaris Image to the old nexenta nfs storage and start it on the same kvm host it will fly and boot in 1,5 Minutes.
> 
> I have tested ceph firefly and giant and the Problem is with both ceph versions.
> 
> The performance problem is not only with booting. The problem continues when the server is up. EVerything is terribly slow.
> 
> So the only difference here is ceph vs. nexenta nfs storage that causes the big performance problems.
> 
> The solaris guests have zfs root standard installation.
> 
> Does anybody have an idea or a hint what might go on here and what I should try to make solaris 10 Guests faster on ceph storage ?


zfs uses copy-on-write which i think is the reason why it is so slow on rbd.
have you tried ufs?



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