On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Gilles Mocellin < [email protected]> wrote:
> Le 06/11/2013 18:50, Muhammad Yousuf Khan a écrit : > [...] > > I hope you use virtio drivers, for storage and for network, inside >> your VM ? > > > NOPE! i am not using virtio neither disk nor in Ethernet. is it > important to use virtio when using storage box? because i have never used > External boxesbefore i only used local storage with RAID1 (mdadm) and used > same old RAW and QCOW images. and they were perfectly fine for me. > > > It's not because you use an external storage, but différences can be more > visible, because external storage is often slower than local storage, at > least for latency. > > > Please advice. > > > I always try to use virtio drivers, as in theory, they must be better, > lower latency and better throughput. > But you must test, it can depend on the version and your OS. > > After testing local disk I/O in your VM, to test Windows driver/KVM/NFS > storage, you could test network without disk I/O, using iperf between your > VM and your samba box. > I think you can find iperf for Windows. Here for example : > http://linhost.info/2010/02/iperf-on-windows/ > > Thanks for sharing i will try that one too and share the stats thanks > > > _______________________________________________ > pve-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user > >
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