Re: [PVE-User] VM stuck in start

2016-04-24 Thread Gerald Brandt
On 2016-04-24 04:59 PM, Lindsay Mathieson wrote: On 25/04/2016 6:38 AM, Gerald Brandt wrote: I have a VM stuck in start. It's not actually starting, and there doesn't seem to be anything I can do to unstick it. 28128 ?Ds 0:00 task

Re: [PVE-User] Proxmox + ZFS: Performance issues

2016-04-24 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On 25/04/2016 8:11 AM, Laurent Dumont wrote: Just to check, since I don't have a key for the Enterprise repositories, should I use the repositories from here ? : http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Package_repositories#Proxmox_VE_No-Subscription_Repository Yes -- Lindsay Mathieson

Re: [PVE-User] Proxmox + ZFS: Performance issues

2016-04-24 Thread Laurent Dumont
Apologies, wrong thread! On 4/24/2016 6:11 PM, Laurent Dumont wrote: Just to check, since I don't have a key for the Enterprise repositories, should I use the repositories from here ? : http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Package_repositories#Proxmox_VE_No-Subscription_Repository Thanks, Laurent

Re: [PVE-User] Proxmox + ZFS: Performance issues

2016-04-24 Thread Laurent Dumont
Just to check, since I don't have a key for the Enterprise repositories, should I use the repositories from here ? : http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Package_repositories#Proxmox_VE_No-Subscription_Repository Thanks, Laurent On 4/24/2016 3:03 PM, Ralf wrote: Some Western Digital Green stuff: [

Re: [PVE-User] VM stuck in start

2016-04-24 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On 25/04/2016 6:38 AM, Gerald Brandt wrote: I have a VM stuck in start. It's not actually starting, and there doesn't seem to be anything I can do to unstick it. 28128 ?Ds 0:00 task UPID:erl-proxmox-1:6DE0:0237B4E5:571D1C86:qmstart:111:root@pam: How do I get this thing to

Re: [PVE-User] VM stuck in start

2016-04-24 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On 25/04/2016 6:38 AM, Gerald Brandt wrote: I have a VM stuck in start. It's not actually starting, and there doesn't seem to be anything I can do to unstick it. 28128 ?Ds 0:00 task UPID:erl-proxmox-1:6DE0:0237B4E5:571D1C86:qmstart:111:root@pam: How do I get this thing to

Re: [PVE-User] Proxmox + ZFS: Performance issues

2016-04-24 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On 25/04/2016 5:03 AM, Ralf wrote: Some Western Digital Green stuff: There's a big part of your problem, never ever use WD greens in servers, especially with ZFS. They are a desktop drive, not suitable for 24/7 operation. They have power saving modes which can't be disabled and slow them

Re: [PVE-User] VM stuck in start

2016-04-24 Thread Gerald Brandt
On 2016-04-24 03:38 PM, Gerald Brandt wrote: Hi, I have a VM stuck in start. It's not actually starting, and there doesn't seem to be anything I can do to unstick it. 28128 ?Ds 0:00 task UPID:erl-proxmox-1:6DE0:0237B4E5:571D1C86:qmstart:111:root@pam: How do I get this

[PVE-User] VM stuck in start

2016-04-24 Thread Gerald Brandt
Hi, I have a VM stuck in start. It's not actually starting, and there doesn't seem to be anything I can do to unstick it. 28128 ?Ds 0:00 task UPID:erl-proxmox-1:6DE0:0237B4E5:571D1C86:qmstart:111:root@pam: How do I get this thing to start. I'm currently remote, so can't

Re: [PVE-User] Proxmox + ZFS: Performance issues

2016-04-24 Thread Christian Kivalo
Am 24. April 2016 19:51:21 MESZ, schrieb Ralf : >Hi, > >zil.. That's an additional ZFS cache, right? >Shouldn't it be slightly faster, even without additional caches? The ZIL is used for writes. Not for reads. That will not help with your slow reads. It should

Re: [PVE-User] Proxmox + ZFS: Performance issues

2016-04-24 Thread Ralf
Hi, zil.. That's an additional ZFS cache, right? Shouldn't it be slightly faster, even without additional caches? Ralf On 04/24/2016 06:49 PM, Robert Fantini wrote: > if those are not ssd drives, then adding a zil drive will most likely help. > > On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Ralf

Re: [PVE-User] Proxmox + ZFS: Performance issues

2016-04-24 Thread Ralf
Hi, I think my SATA cables should be fine, as dumping from the raw block device yields to 100MiB/s. I even tried offlining one disk and then checked performance: Still bad. But I don't get the point. If SATA cables were broken, how can I get good performance on raw block devices? Nevertheless, I

Re: [PVE-User] Proxmox + ZFS: Performance issues

2016-04-24 Thread Adam Thompson
Perhaps irrelevant, but a colleague of mine recently solved a puzzling performance issue merely by replacing the existing SATA cables with new, properly-rated cables. Turns out, much like USB v1 vs USB v2, there's next to nothing distinguishing SATA I cables vs SATA II cables vs SATA III

Re: [PVE-User] Proxmox + ZFS: Performance issues

2016-04-24 Thread Robert Fantini
if those are not ssd drives, then adding a zil drive will most likely help. On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Ralf wrote: > Hi, > > I encounter very bad read/write performance on my mirror-zfs, even on > hypervisor-side. > > After shutting down all VMs, reading

Re: [PVE-User] 3.4 to 4.0 upgrade - non enterprise repo

2016-04-24 Thread Thomas Lamprecht
Hi, On 24.04.2016 10:16, Lindsay Mathieson wrote: > On 24/04/2016 5:58 PM, Laurent Dumont wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I assume that the instructions from here : >> https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_3.x_to_4.0 are still valid? > > > Good question, the latest ver is 4.1 > > I'd presume they are

Re: [PVE-User] 3.4 to 4.0 upgrade - non enterprise repo

2016-04-24 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On 24/04/2016 5:58 PM, Laurent Dumont wrote: Hi! I assume that the instructions from here : https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_3.x_to_4.0 are still valid? Good question, the latest ver is 4.1 I'd presume they are still ok but maybe the Proxmox guys can confirm? -- Lindsay

Re: [PVE-User] 3.4 to 4.0 upgrade - non enterprise repo

2016-04-24 Thread Laurent Dumont
Hi! I assume that the instructions from here : https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_3.x_to_4.0 are still valid? Thanks! On 4/23/2016 6:13 PM, Lindsay Mathieson wrote: On 24/04/2016 7:06 AM, Laurent Dumont wrote: As anyone tried to update from 3.4 to 4.x without an enterprise repo? We