Re: Virtual drives performance

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also sprach TooMeeK <toomeek_85@xxxxx> [2011.09.07.0025 +0200]:
> Partition type is Linux RAID autodetect

This is not really necessary, presuming that you are doing what
everyone is doing nowadays and assemble the RAID from the initrd or
the init scripts.

> I find that way it's not possible to direct attach PARTITION from
> host to VM using virt-manager, this only works for whole device (like
> /dev/sdc).

You could/should be using LVM instead of partitions, IMHO.

> Anyway, any storage advices for performance?

Unfortunately, no. I have seen similar things happen. I think that
the problem is Linux I/O. Your drive may be able to handle high,
sustained read/write rates, but the Linux I/O scheduler, in
combination with random-access reads/writes, makes these performance
data inaccurate.

The only way I found to decently increase performance of drives:

  - 10k and 15k drives
  - external NAS or fibrechannel SAN, which do not use Linux

Yes, it's sad, and I would love to be proven wrong!

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