Don,

Sorry, I wasn’t clear in my previous e-mail. My comment about small disks 
actually is about how much disk space you have currently in use, not the 
virtual disk size.
For example, I have a 200GB virtual disk VM with only 4,6 GB in use. It takes 
about 40 sec to transfer the disk to an NFS share in my lab reaching 128MiB/sec 
on a 1Gbps network connection.

Marcos

From: Don Dupuis <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2024 11:32 AM
To: Marcos Sungaila <[email protected]>
Cc: users <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [External] : [ovirt-users] oVirt slow backups from ISCSI storage 
domain to nfs target

Marcos,
These are not small files, the files I am talking about are about 400GB or 
bigger. If I do the same thing on another DE6000 with SAS disks, I don't see 
this issue. Thin provisioned disks are ok on both storage systems, But the 
6600F has NVME interfaced SSDs and runs this slow on preallocated disks. For 
the short term we are just going to go back to thin provisioned as we can't get 
the backups to finish in the allocated time windows.

Don

On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 5:23 AM Marcos Sungaila 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Don,

When transferring small files to an NFS share, many times, they can fit the 
in-memory cache, leading to high transfer rates. For bigger files, the remote 
NFS storage will need to commit data to the disk once the cache is filled.
In general, it is common to see the initial data transfer at high numbers, 
slowing down as the transfer continues. This behavior is not only with NFS 
shares; you may face the same behavior using scp.
Anyway, it is recommended that a transfer test be run using other methods to 
confirm this is the cause.

Marcos

From: Don Dupuis <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Sent: Friday, November 8, 2024 5:06 PM
To: users <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: [External] : [ovirt-users] oVirt slow backups from ISCSI storage 
domain to nfs target

Hi
I am using oVirt 4.4.10.7 with vms on iscsi Lenovo DE-6600F(nvme interfaced 
ssds). Backing up thin vms performance is fine, but with preallocated disks, 
backups to nfs storage with 200Gb interface is only transferring qcow2 image to 
nfs at 140MiB per sec. Why is qemu-nbd so slow with preallocated images? Does 
anyone have any issues related to this? Any help would be appreciated. I have 
made iscsid.conf changes, linux kernel boot changes, and still the same 
performance.

Thanks
Don
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