Re: [ovirt-users] Bad performance with Windows 2012 guests

2015-05-19 Thread Vadim Rozenfeld
 -device usb-tablet,id=input0 
  -vnc 172.16.1.14:2,password -k en-us -vga cirrus -device 
  virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x8 -msg timestamp=on
  
  Sven 
  
 
 Thanks a lot.
 I will try trace this issue on my local setup.
 Best regards,
 Vadim.
 
  -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
  Von: Vadim Rozenfeld [mailto:vroze...@redhat.com] 
  Gesendet: Montag, 4. Mai 2015 05:00
  An: Sven Achtelik
  Cc: Doron Fediuck; Martijn Grendelman; Karen Noel; users@ovirt.org
  Betreff: Re: AW: AW: Bad performance with Windows 2012 guests
  
  On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 07:46 -0500, Sven Achtelik wrote:
   Hi Vadim,
   
   I've tested the performance with CrystalDiskMark from inside the Windows 
   guest. Using Win2k8 R2 I got expected values for my system, about 88 MB/s 
   on 4k random with 32 queues and 500MB/s + sequential writes with 32 
   queues. Using a Windows 2012 VM on the same system it's only 33MB/s on 4k 
   random with 32 queues and 300MB/s sequential writes. Similar tests with a 
   linux VM show a bit better values than the Win2k8 R2 and respond 
   ultra-fast.
   
   My hosts are connected via iSCSI using a 10 GbE link and a ZFS appliance 
   as the storage system. All tests have been run several times with the 
   same results.
  
  Sven,
  Can I ask you to post the Windows 2012 VM qemu command line?
  
  Thanks,
  Vadim.
  
   
   Sven
   
   -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
   Von: Vadim Rozenfeld [mailto:vroze...@redhat.com]
   Gesendet: Sonntag, 3. Mai 2015 14:35
   An: Sven Achtelik
   Cc: Doron Fediuck; Martijn Grendelman; Karen Noel; users@ovirt.org
   Betreff: Re: AW: Bad performance with Windows 2012 guests
   
   On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 06:48 -0500, Sven Achtelik wrote:
Hi Doron,

I've also noticed that there seems to be a difference in performance 
between Win2k8 R2/Linux and Windows Server 2012. After reading Martijns 
post I've done some speed test regarding the drive speeds and was 
looking for a way to compare the VMs on a more professional way. My 
tests showed, that on the same hardware, the Win2k8 R2 was faster in 
response and throughput on the disks. I found a utility that somehow 
measures the latency on a system and that also showed a significant 
difference. What is the correct way to do a performance test on a VM 
running in KVM ? 

Sven

   Hi Sven,
   
   Can you specify the type of disk on your system - ide, virtio-blk, or 
   virtio-scsi?
   We usually use iometer for disk performance profiling. Sequential 
   read/write, block size from 4K up to 256K, queue depth from 1 to 64.

   Vadim.
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Auftrag von Doron Fediuck
Gesendet: Samstag, 2. Mai 2015 10:50
An: Martijn Grendelman
Cc: Karen Noel; users@ovirt.org; Vadim Rozenfeld
Betreff: Re: [ovirt-users] Bad performance with Windows 2012 guests


On Apr 30, 2015 14:03, Martijn Grendelman martijn.grendel...@isaac.nl 
wrote:

 Hi,

 Ever since our first Windows Server 2012 deployment on oVirt (3.4 
 back then, now 3.5.1), I have noticed that working on these VMs 
 via RDP or on the console via VNC is noticeably slower than on 
 Windows
 2008 guests on the same oVirt environment.

 Basic things like starting an application (even the Server Manager 
 that get started automatically on login) take a very long time, 
 sometimes minutes. Everything is just... slow.

 We have recently deployed Microsoft Exchange on a Windows Server
 2012 guest on RHEV, and it doesn't perform well at all.

 I haven't been able to find the cause for this slowness; CPU usage 
 is not excessive and it doesn't seem I/O related. Moreover, other 
 types of guests (Linux and even Windows 2008) do not have this 
 problem.

 We have 3 different environments: 
 - oVirt 3.5.1, on old Dell servers with Penryn Family CPUs with 
 fairly slow storage on replicated GlusterFS, running CentOS 6.6
 - oVirt 3.5.1, on modern 6-core SandyBridge servers with local 
 storage via NFS, running CentOS 7.0)
 - RHEV 3.4.4 on modern 10-core SandyBridge servers with an iSCSI 
 SAN behind it, running on RHEV Hypervisor 6.5

 All of these -very different- environments expose the same behaviour: 
 Linux, Windows 2008 fast (or as fast as can be expected given the 
 hardware), Windows 2012 painfully slow.

 All Windows 2012 servers use VirtIO disk and network. I think all 
 drivers are from the virtio-win-0.1-74 ISO.

 Does anyone share this experience? 
 Any idea why this could happen and how it can be fixed? 
 Any other information I should share to get a better idea? 

 Btw, for the guests on the RHEV environment, we have a case with 
 RedHat support, but that doesn't seem to lead to a quick solution, 
 hence I'm

Re: [ovirt-users] Bad performance with Windows 2012 guests

2015-05-18 Thread Sven Achtelik
 noticed that there seems to be a difference in performance 
   between Win2k8 R2/Linux and Windows Server 2012. After reading Martijns 
   post I've done some speed test regarding the drive speeds and was looking 
   for a way to compare the VMs on a more professional way. My tests showed, 
   that on the same hardware, the Win2k8 R2 was faster in response and 
   throughput on the disks. I found a utility that somehow measures the 
   latency on a system and that also showed a significant difference. What 
   is the correct way to do a performance test on a VM running in KVM ? 
   
   Sven
   
  Hi Sven,
  
  Can you specify the type of disk on your system - ide, virtio-blk, or 
  virtio-scsi?
  We usually use iometer for disk performance profiling. Sequential 
  read/write, block size from 4K up to 256K, queue depth from 1 to 64.
   
  Vadim.
   -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
   Von: users-boun...@ovirt.org [mailto:users-boun...@ovirt.org] Im 
   Auftrag von Doron Fediuck
   Gesendet: Samstag, 2. Mai 2015 10:50
   An: Martijn Grendelman
   Cc: Karen Noel; users@ovirt.org; Vadim Rozenfeld
   Betreff: Re: [ovirt-users] Bad performance with Windows 2012 guests
   
   
   On Apr 30, 2015 14:03, Martijn Grendelman martijn.grendel...@isaac.nl 
   wrote:
   
Hi,
   
Ever since our first Windows Server 2012 deployment on oVirt (3.4 
back then, now 3.5.1), I have noticed that working on these VMs 
via RDP or on the console via VNC is noticeably slower than on 
Windows
2008 guests on the same oVirt environment.
   
Basic things like starting an application (even the Server Manager 
that get started automatically on login) take a very long time, 
sometimes minutes. Everything is just... slow.
   
We have recently deployed Microsoft Exchange on a Windows Server
2012 guest on RHEV, and it doesn't perform well at all.
   
I haven't been able to find the cause for this slowness; CPU usage 
is not excessive and it doesn't seem I/O related. Moreover, other 
types of guests (Linux and even Windows 2008) do not have this problem.
   
We have 3 different environments: 
- oVirt 3.5.1, on old Dell servers with Penryn Family CPUs with 
fairly slow storage on replicated GlusterFS, running CentOS 6.6
- oVirt 3.5.1, on modern 6-core SandyBridge servers with local 
storage via NFS, running CentOS 7.0)
- RHEV 3.4.4 on modern 10-core SandyBridge servers with an iSCSI 
SAN behind it, running on RHEV Hypervisor 6.5
   
All of these -very different- environments expose the same behaviour: 
Linux, Windows 2008 fast (or as fast as can be expected given the 
hardware), Windows 2012 painfully slow.
   
All Windows 2012 servers use VirtIO disk and network. I think all 
drivers are from the virtio-win-0.1-74 ISO.
   
Does anyone share this experience? 
Any idea why this could happen and how it can be fixed? 
Any other information I should share to get a better idea? 
   
Btw, for the guests on the RHEV environment, we have a case with 
RedHat support, but that doesn't seem to lead to a quick solution, 
hence I'm writing here, too.
   
Thanks for any help. 
   
Regards,
Martijn Grendelman
   
   Hi Martijn,
   Can you please provide the QEMU command line, together with kvm and qemu 
   version?
   
   This information will be helpful for reproducing the problem. However, if 
   the problem is not reproducible on a local setup, we will probably need 
   to ask collecting some performance information with xperf tool. 
   
   Doron
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Re: [ovirt-users] Bad performance with Windows 2012 guests

2015-05-04 Thread Martijn Grendelman

Hi,



Ever since our first Windows Server 2012 deployment on oVirt (3.4 back
then, now 3.5.1), I have noticed that working on these VMs via RDP or on
the console via VNC is noticeably slower than on Windows 2008 guests on
the same oVirt environment.

[snip]


Does anyone share this experience?
Any idea why this could happen and how it can be fixed?
Any other information I should share to get a better idea?


Hi Martijn,
Can you please provide the QEMU command line, together with kvm and qemu 
version?

This information will be helpful for reproducing the problem.
However, if the problem is not reproducible on a local setup, we will
probably need to ask collecting some performance information with
xperf tool.


Sure!

Command line is this:

/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -name Getafix -S -M rhel6.5.0 -cpu 
Penryn,hv_relaxed -enable-kvm -m 2048 -realtime mlock=off -smp 
2,maxcpus=16,sockets=16,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid 
34951c25-9a37-4712-a16a-fdfc98f4febc -smbios 
type=1,manufacturer=oVirt,product=oVirt 
Node,version=6-6.el6.centos.12.2,serial=44454C4C-3400-1058-804C-B1C04F42344A,uuid=34951c25-9a37-4712-a16a-fdfc98f4febc 
-nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev 
socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/Getafix.monitor,server,nowait 
-mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc 
base=2015-01-12T11:14:02,clock=vm,driftfix=slew -no-kvm-pit-reinjection 
-no-shutdown -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 
-device 
virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,max_ports=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 
-drive 
if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw,serial= 
-device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 
-drive 
file=/rhev/data-center/aefd5844-6e01-4070-b3b9-c0d73cc40c78/52678e67-a202-4306-b7ed-5fed8df10edf/images/28cc9a6c-6f2e-4b09-b361-f2a09f27dbc5/4c7b571e-4b29-47b9-ab4b-5799d64f28f9,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw,serial=28cc9a6c-6f2e-4b09-b361-f2a09f27dbc5,cache=none,werror=stop,rerror=stop,aio=threads 
-device 
virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1 
-netdev tap,fd=41,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=43 -device 
virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=00:1a:4a:74:59:a2,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 
-chardev 
socket,id=charchannel0,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channels/34951c25-9a37-4712-a16a-fdfc98f4febc.com.redhat.rhevm.vdsm,server,nowait 
-device 
virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,id=channel0,name=com.redhat.rhevm.vdsm 
-chardev 
socket,id=charchannel1,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channels/34951c25-9a37-4712-a16a-fdfc98f4febc.org.qemu.guest_agent.0,server,nowait 
-device 
virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=2,chardev=charchannel1,id=channel1,name=org.qemu.guest_agent.0 
-device usb-tablet,id=input0 -vnc 172.17.6.14:7,password -k en-us -vga 
cirrus -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6 -msg 
timestamp=on


Qemu version:

qemu-kvm-rhev-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.14.x86_64

Please let me know if I can do more to help!

Best regards,
Martijn.
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Re: [ovirt-users] Bad performance with Windows 2012 guests

2015-05-04 Thread Sven Achtelik
 system - ide, virtio-blk, or 
 virtio-scsi?
 We usually use iometer for disk performance profiling. Sequential read/write, 
 block size from 4K up to 256K, queue depth from 1 to 64.
  
 Vadim.
  -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
  Von: users-boun...@ovirt.org [mailto:users-boun...@ovirt.org] Im 
  Auftrag von Doron Fediuck
  Gesendet: Samstag, 2. Mai 2015 10:50
  An: Martijn Grendelman
  Cc: Karen Noel; users@ovirt.org; Vadim Rozenfeld
  Betreff: Re: [ovirt-users] Bad performance with Windows 2012 guests
  
  
  On Apr 30, 2015 14:03, Martijn Grendelman martijn.grendel...@isaac.nl 
  wrote:
  
   Hi,
  
   Ever since our first Windows Server 2012 deployment on oVirt (3.4 
   back then, now 3.5.1), I have noticed that working on these VMs 
   via RDP or on the console via VNC is noticeably slower than on 
   Windows
   2008 guests on the same oVirt environment.
  
   Basic things like starting an application (even the Server Manager 
   that get started automatically on login) take a very long time, 
   sometimes minutes. Everything is just... slow.
  
   We have recently deployed Microsoft Exchange on a Windows Server
   2012 guest on RHEV, and it doesn't perform well at all.
  
   I haven't been able to find the cause for this slowness; CPU usage 
   is not excessive and it doesn't seem I/O related. Moreover, other 
   types of guests (Linux and even Windows 2008) do not have this problem.
  
   We have 3 different environments: 
   - oVirt 3.5.1, on old Dell servers with Penryn Family CPUs with 
   fairly slow storage on replicated GlusterFS, running CentOS 6.6
   - oVirt 3.5.1, on modern 6-core SandyBridge servers with local 
   storage via NFS, running CentOS 7.0)
   - RHEV 3.4.4 on modern 10-core SandyBridge servers with an iSCSI 
   SAN behind it, running on RHEV Hypervisor 6.5
  
   All of these -very different- environments expose the same behaviour: 
   Linux, Windows 2008 fast (or as fast as can be expected given the 
   hardware), Windows 2012 painfully slow.
  
   All Windows 2012 servers use VirtIO disk and network. I think all 
   drivers are from the virtio-win-0.1-74 ISO.
  
   Does anyone share this experience? 
   Any idea why this could happen and how it can be fixed? 
   Any other information I should share to get a better idea? 
  
   Btw, for the guests on the RHEV environment, we have a case with 
   RedHat support, but that doesn't seem to lead to a quick solution, 
   hence I'm writing here, too.
  
   Thanks for any help. 
  
   Regards,
   Martijn Grendelman
  
  Hi Martijn,
  Can you please provide the QEMU command line, together with kvm and qemu 
  version?
  
  This information will be helpful for reproducing the problem. However, if 
  the problem is not reproducible on a local setup, we will probably need to 
  ask collecting some performance information with xperf tool. 
  
  Doron
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Re: [ovirt-users] Bad performance with Windows 2012 guests

2015-05-04 Thread Michal Skrivanek


On 4 May 2015, at 09:35, Martijn Grendelman martijn.grendel...@isaac.nl wrote:

 Hi,
 
 
 Ever since our first Windows Server 2012 deployment on oVirt (3.4 back
 then, now 3.5.1), I have noticed that working on these VMs via RDP or on
 the console via VNC is noticeably slower than on Windows 2008 guests on
 the same oVirt environment.
 [snip]
 
 Does anyone share this experience?
 Any idea why this could happen and how it can be fixed?
 Any other information I should share to get a better idea?
 Hi Martijn,
 Can you please provide the QEMU command line, together with kvm and qemu 
 version?
 
 This information will be helpful for reproducing the problem.
 However, if the problem is not reproducible on a local setup, we will
 probably need to ask collecting some performance information with
 xperf tool.
 
 Sure!
 
 Command line is this:
 
 /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -name Getafix -S -M rhel6.5.0 -cpu Penryn,hv_relaxed 
 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -realtime mlock=off -smp 
 2,maxcpus=16,sockets=16,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid 
 34951c25-9a37-4712-a16a-fdfc98f4febc -smbios 
 type=1,manufacturer=oVirt,product=oVirt 
 Node,version=6-6.el6.centos.12.2,serial=44454C4C-3400-1058-804C-B1C04F42344A,uuid=34951c25-9a37-4712-a16a-fdfc98f4febc
  -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev 
 socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/Getafix.monitor,server,nowait
  -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc 
 base=2015-01-12T11:14:02,clock=vm,driftfix=slew -no-kvm-pit-reinjection 
 -no-shutdown -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -device 
 virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,max_ports=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -drive 
 if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw,serial= -device 
 ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -drive 
 file=/rhev/data-center/aefd5844-6e01-4070-b3b9-c0d73cc40c78/52678e67-a202-4306-b7ed-
 
5fed8df10edf/images/28cc9a6c-6f2e-4b09-b361-f2a09f27dbc5/4c7b571e-4b29-47b9-ab4b-5799d64f28f9,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw,serial=28cc9a6c-6f2e-4b09-b361-f2a09f27dbc5,cache=none,werror=stop,rerror=stop,aio=threads
 -device 
virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1
 -netdev tap,fd=41,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=43 -device 
virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=00:1a:4a:74:59:a2,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 
-chardev 
socket,id=charchannel0,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channels/34951c25-9a37-4712-a16a-fdfc98f4febc.com.redhat.rhevm.vdsm,server,nowait
 -device 
virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,id=channel0,name=com.redhat.rhevm.vdsm
 -chardev 
socket,id=charchannel1,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channels/34951c25-9a37-4712-a16a-fdfc98f4febc.org.qemu.guest_agent.0,server,nowait
 -device 
virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=2,chardev=charchannel1,id=channel1,name=org.qemu.guest_agent.0
 -device usb-tablet,
 id=input0 -vnc 172.17.6.14:7,password -k en-us -vga cirrus -device 
virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6 -msg timestamp=on
 
 Qemu version:
 
 qemu-kvm-rhev-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.14.x86_64
 
 Please let me know if I can do more to help!

How about trying virtio-scsi? Same difference?

We'll be supporting virtio blk dataplane in 3.6, that may affect the 
performance significantly. 
Also a EL7 hypervisor could change results a lot. Do you have any at hand to 
give it a try?
Well, also hyperv enlightnment? Not sure, but worth a try. It's currently 
disabled in osinfo entry for Win8/2012, can you try that?(on a non-production 
VM;)

Thanks,
michal

 
 Best regards,
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Re: [ovirt-users] Bad performance with Windows 2012 guests

2015-05-04 Thread Vadim Rozenfeld
 measures the 
   latency on a system and that also showed a significant difference. What 
   is the correct way to do a performance test on a VM running in KVM ? 
   
   Sven
   
  Hi Sven,
  
  Can you specify the type of disk on your system - ide, virtio-blk, or 
  virtio-scsi?
  We usually use iometer for disk performance profiling. Sequential 
  read/write, block size from 4K up to 256K, queue depth from 1 to 64.
   
  Vadim.
   -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
   Von: users-boun...@ovirt.org [mailto:users-boun...@ovirt.org] Im 
   Auftrag von Doron Fediuck
   Gesendet: Samstag, 2. Mai 2015 10:50
   An: Martijn Grendelman
   Cc: Karen Noel; users@ovirt.org; Vadim Rozenfeld
   Betreff: Re: [ovirt-users] Bad performance with Windows 2012 guests
   
   
   On Apr 30, 2015 14:03, Martijn Grendelman martijn.grendel...@isaac.nl 
   wrote:
   
Hi,
   
Ever since our first Windows Server 2012 deployment on oVirt (3.4 
back then, now 3.5.1), I have noticed that working on these VMs 
via RDP or on the console via VNC is noticeably slower than on 
Windows
2008 guests on the same oVirt environment.
   
Basic things like starting an application (even the Server Manager 
that get started automatically on login) take a very long time, 
sometimes minutes. Everything is just... slow.
   
We have recently deployed Microsoft Exchange on a Windows Server
2012 guest on RHEV, and it doesn't perform well at all.
   
I haven't been able to find the cause for this slowness; CPU usage 
is not excessive and it doesn't seem I/O related. Moreover, other 
types of guests (Linux and even Windows 2008) do not have this problem.
   
We have 3 different environments: 
- oVirt 3.5.1, on old Dell servers with Penryn Family CPUs with 
fairly slow storage on replicated GlusterFS, running CentOS 6.6
- oVirt 3.5.1, on modern 6-core SandyBridge servers with local 
storage via NFS, running CentOS 7.0)
- RHEV 3.4.4 on modern 10-core SandyBridge servers with an iSCSI 
SAN behind it, running on RHEV Hypervisor 6.5
   
All of these -very different- environments expose the same behaviour: 
Linux, Windows 2008 fast (or as fast as can be expected given the 
hardware), Windows 2012 painfully slow.
   
All Windows 2012 servers use VirtIO disk and network. I think all 
drivers are from the virtio-win-0.1-74 ISO.
   
Does anyone share this experience? 
Any idea why this could happen and how it can be fixed? 
Any other information I should share to get a better idea? 
   
Btw, for the guests on the RHEV environment, we have a case with 
RedHat support, but that doesn't seem to lead to a quick solution, 
hence I'm writing here, too.
   
Thanks for any help. 
   
Regards,
Martijn Grendelman
   
   Hi Martijn,
   Can you please provide the QEMU command line, together with kvm and qemu 
   version?
   
   This information will be helpful for reproducing the problem. However, if 
   the problem is not reproducible on a local setup, we will probably need 
   to ask collecting some performance information with xperf tool. 
   
   Doron
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Re: [ovirt-users] Bad performance with Windows 2012 guests

2015-05-04 Thread Vadim Rozenfeld
On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 09:34 +0200, Martijn Grendelman wrote:
 Hi,
 
 
  Ever since our first Windows Server 2012 deployment on oVirt (3.4 back
  then, now 3.5.1), I have noticed that working on these VMs via RDP or on
  the console via VNC is noticeably slower than on Windows 2008 guests on
  the same oVirt environment.
 [snip]
 
  Does anyone share this experience?
  Any idea why this could happen and how it can be fixed?
  Any other information I should share to get a better idea?
 
  Hi Martijn,
  Can you please provide the QEMU command line, together with kvm and qemu 
  version?
 
  This information will be helpful for reproducing the problem.
  However, if the problem is not reproducible on a local setup, we will
  probably need to ask collecting some performance information with
  xperf tool.
 
 Sure!
 
 Command line is this:
 
 /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -name Getafix -S -M rhel6.5.0 -cpu 
 Penryn,hv_relaxed -enable-kvm -m 2048 -realtime mlock=off -smp 
 2,maxcpus=16,sockets=16,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid 
 34951c25-9a37-4712-a16a-fdfc98f4febc -smbios 
 type=1,manufacturer=oVirt,product=oVirt 
 Node,version=6-6.el6.centos.12.2,serial=44454C4C-3400-1058-804C-B1C04F42344A,uuid=34951c25-9a37-4712-a16a-fdfc98f4febc
  
 -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev 
 socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/Getafix.monitor,server,nowait
  
 -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc 
 base=2015-01-12T11:14:02,clock=vm,driftfix=slew -no-kvm-pit-reinjection 
 -no-shutdown -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 
 -device 
 virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,max_ports=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 
 -drive 
 if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw,serial= 
 -device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 
 -drive 
 file=/rhev/data-center/aefd5844-6e01-4070-b3b9-c0d73cc40c78/52678e67-a202-4306-b7ed-5fed8df10edf/images/28cc9a6c-6f2e-4b09-b361-f2a09f27dbc5/4c7b571e-4b29-47b9-ab4b-5799d64f28f9,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw,serial=28cc9a6c-6f2e-4b09-b361-f2a09f27dbc5,cache=none,werror=stop,rerror=stop,aio=threads
  
 -device 
 virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1
  
 -netdev tap,fd=41,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=43 -device 
 virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=00:1a:4a:74:59:a2,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3
  
 -chardev 
 socket,id=charchannel0,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channels/34951c25-9a37-4712-a16a-fdfc98f4febc.com.redhat.rhevm.vdsm,server,nowait
  
 -device 
 virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,id=channel0,name=com.redhat.rhevm.vdsm
  
 -chardev 
 socket,id=charchannel1,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channels/34951c25-9a37-4712-a16a-fdfc98f4febc.org.qemu.guest_agent.0,server,nowait
  
 -device 
 virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=2,chardev=charchannel1,id=channel1,name=org.qemu.guest_agent.0
  
 -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -vnc 172.17.6.14:7,password -k en-us -vga 
 cirrus -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6 -msg 
 timestamp=on
 
 Qemu version:
 
 qemu-kvm-rhev-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.14.x86_64
 
 Please let me know if I can do more to help!
 

Thank you Martijn,

Just curious, when opening Device Manager dialog, do you see High
precision event timer device under System devices category?

Best regards,
Vadim.
 
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Re: [ovirt-users] Bad performance with Windows 2012 guests

2015-05-04 Thread Vadim Rozenfeld
On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 08:28 -0400, Michal Skrivanek wrote:
 
 On 4 May 2015, at 09:35, Martijn Grendelman martijn.grendel...@isaac.nl 
 wrote:
 
  Hi,
  
  
  Ever since our first Windows Server 2012 deployment on oVirt (3.4 back
  then, now 3.5.1), I have noticed that working on these VMs via RDP or on
  the console via VNC is noticeably slower than on Windows 2008 guests on
  the same oVirt environment.
  [snip]
  
  Does anyone share this experience?
  Any idea why this could happen and how it can be fixed?
  Any other information I should share to get a better idea?
  Hi Martijn,
  Can you please provide the QEMU command line, together with kvm and qemu 
  version?
  
  This information will be helpful for reproducing the problem.
  However, if the problem is not reproducible on a local setup, we will
  probably need to ask collecting some performance information with
  xperf tool.
  
  Sure!
  
  Command line is this:
  
  /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -name Getafix -S -M rhel6.5.0 -cpu Penryn,hv_relaxed 
  -enable-kvm -m 2048 -realtime mlock=off -smp 
  2,maxcpus=16,sockets=16,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid 
  34951c25-9a37-4712-a16a-fdfc98f4febc -smbios 
  type=1,manufacturer=oVirt,product=oVirt 
  Node,version=6-6.el6.centos.12.2,serial=44454C4C-3400-1058-804C-B1C04F42344A,uuid=34951c25-9a37-4712-a16a-fdfc98f4febc
   -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev 
  socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/Getafix.monitor,server,nowait
   -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc 
  base=2015-01-12T11:14:02,clock=vm,driftfix=slew -no-kvm-pit-reinjection 
  -no-shutdown -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -device 
  virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,max_ports=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -drive 
  if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw,serial= 
  -device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -drive 
  file=/rhev/data-center/aefd5844-6e01-4070-b3b9-c0d73cc40c78/52678e67-a202-4306-b7e
 
d-5fed8df10edf/images/28cc9a6c-6f2e-4b09-b361-f2a09f27dbc5/4c7b571e-4b29-47b9-ab4b-5799d64f28f9,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw,serial=28cc9a6c-6f2e-4b09-b361-f2a09f27dbc5,cache=none,werror=stop,rerror=stop,aio=threads
 -device 
virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1
 -netdev tap,fd=41,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=43 -device 
virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=00:1a:4a:74:59:a2,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 
-chardev 
socket,id=charchannel0,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channels/34951c25-9a37-4712-a16a-fdfc98f4febc.com.redhat.rhevm.vdsm,server,nowait
 -device 
virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,id=channel0,name=com.redhat.rhevm.vdsm
 -chardev 
socket,id=charchannel1,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channels/34951c25-9a37-4712-a16a-fdfc98f4febc.org.qemu.guest_agent.0,server,nowait
 -device 
virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=2,chardev=charchannel1,id=channel1,name=org.qemu.guest_agent.0
 -device usb-table
 t,id=input0 -vnc 172.17.6.14:7,password -k en-us -vga cirrus -device 
virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6 -msg timestamp=on
  
  Qemu version:
  
  qemu-kvm-rhev-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.14.x86_64
  
  Please let me know if I can do more to help!
 
 How about trying virtio-scsi? Same difference?
 
 We'll be supporting virtio blk dataplane in 3.6, that may affect the 
 performance significantly. 
 Also a EL7 hypervisor could change results a lot. Do you have any at hand to 
 give it a try?
 Well, also hyperv enlightnment? Not sure, but worth a try. It's currently 
 disabled in osinfo entry for Win8/2012, can you try that?(on a non-production 
 VM;)

It worth trying, especially hv_time flag.

Vadim.

 Thanks,
 michal
 
  
  Best regards,
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Re: [ovirt-users] Bad performance with Windows 2012 guests

2015-05-03 Thread Sven Achtelik
Hi Doron,

I've also noticed that there seems to be a difference in performance between 
Win2k8 R2/Linux and Windows Server 2012. After reading Martijns post I've done 
some speed test regarding the drive speeds and was looking for a way to compare 
the VMs on a more professional way. My tests showed, that on the same hardware, 
the Win2k8 R2 was faster in response and throughput on the disks. I found a 
utility that somehow measures the latency on a system and that also showed a 
significant difference. What is the correct way to do a performance test on a 
VM running in KVM ? 

Sven

-Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
Von: users-boun...@ovirt.org [mailto:users-boun...@ovirt.org] Im Auftrag von 
Doron Fediuck
Gesendet: Samstag, 2. Mai 2015 10:50
An: Martijn Grendelman
Cc: Karen Noel; users@ovirt.org; Vadim Rozenfeld
Betreff: Re: [ovirt-users] Bad performance with Windows 2012 guests


On Apr 30, 2015 14:03, Martijn Grendelman martijn.grendel...@isaac.nl wrote:

 Hi,

 Ever since our first Windows Server 2012 deployment on oVirt (3.4 back 
 then, now 3.5.1), I have noticed that working on these VMs via RDP or 
 on the console via VNC is noticeably slower than on Windows 2008 
 guests on the same oVirt environment.

 Basic things like starting an application (even the Server Manager 
 that get started automatically on login) take a very long time, 
 sometimes minutes. Everything is just... slow.

 We have recently deployed Microsoft Exchange on a Windows Server 2012 
 guest on RHEV, and it doesn't perform well at all.

 I haven't been able to find the cause for this slowness; CPU usage is 
 not excessive and it doesn't seem I/O related. Moreover, other types 
 of guests (Linux and even Windows 2008) do not have this problem.

 We have 3 different environments: 
 - oVirt 3.5.1, on old Dell servers with Penryn Family CPUs with fairly 
 slow storage on replicated GlusterFS, running CentOS 6.6
 - oVirt 3.5.1, on modern 6-core SandyBridge servers with local storage 
 via NFS, running CentOS 7.0)
 - RHEV 3.4.4 on modern 10-core SandyBridge servers with an iSCSI SAN 
 behind it, running on RHEV Hypervisor 6.5

 All of these -very different- environments expose the same behaviour: 
 Linux, Windows 2008 fast (or as fast as can be expected given the 
 hardware), Windows 2012 painfully slow.

 All Windows 2012 servers use VirtIO disk and network. I think all 
 drivers are from the virtio-win-0.1-74 ISO.

 Does anyone share this experience? 
 Any idea why this could happen and how it can be fixed? 
 Any other information I should share to get a better idea? 

 Btw, for the guests on the RHEV environment, we have a case with 
 RedHat support, but that doesn't seem to lead to a quick solution, 
 hence I'm writing here, too.

 Thanks for any help. 

 Regards,
 Martijn Grendelman

Hi Martijn,
Can you please provide the QEMU command line, together with kvm and qemu 
version?

This information will be helpful for reproducing the problem. However, if the 
problem is not reproducible on a local setup, we will probably need to ask 
collecting some performance information with xperf tool. 

Doron
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Re: [ovirt-users] Bad performance with Windows 2012 guests

2015-05-03 Thread Vadim Rozenfeld
On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 07:46 -0500, Sven Achtelik wrote:
 Hi Vadim, 
 
 I've tested the performance with CrystalDiskMark from inside the Windows 
 guest. Using Win2k8 R2 I got expected values for my system, about 88 MB/s on 
 4k random with 32 queues and 500MB/s + sequential writes with 32 queues. 
 Using a Windows 2012 VM on the same system it's only 33MB/s on 4k random with 
 32 queues and 300MB/s sequential writes. Similar tests with a linux VM show a 
 bit better values than the Win2k8 R2 and respond ultra-fast.
 
 My hosts are connected via iSCSI using a 10 GbE link and a ZFS appliance as 
 the storage system. All tests have been run several times with the same 
 results.

Sven,
Can I ask you to post the Windows 2012 VM qemu command line?

Thanks,
Vadim.

 
 Sven
 
 -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
 Von: Vadim Rozenfeld [mailto:vroze...@redhat.com] 
 Gesendet: Sonntag, 3. Mai 2015 14:35
 An: Sven Achtelik
 Cc: Doron Fediuck; Martijn Grendelman; Karen Noel; users@ovirt.org
 Betreff: Re: AW: Bad performance with Windows 2012 guests
 
 On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 06:48 -0500, Sven Achtelik wrote:
  Hi Doron,
  
  I've also noticed that there seems to be a difference in performance 
  between Win2k8 R2/Linux and Windows Server 2012. After reading Martijns 
  post I've done some speed test regarding the drive speeds and was looking 
  for a way to compare the VMs on a more professional way. My tests showed, 
  that on the same hardware, the Win2k8 R2 was faster in response and 
  throughput on the disks. I found a utility that somehow measures the 
  latency on a system and that also showed a significant difference. What is 
  the correct way to do a performance test on a VM running in KVM ? 
  
  Sven
  
 Hi Sven,
 
 Can you specify the type of disk on your system - ide, virtio-blk, or 
 virtio-scsi?
 We usually use iometer for disk performance profiling. Sequential read/write, 
 block size from 4K up to 256K, queue depth from 1 to 64.
  
 Vadim.
  -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
  Von: users-boun...@ovirt.org [mailto:users-boun...@ovirt.org] Im 
  Auftrag von Doron Fediuck
  Gesendet: Samstag, 2. Mai 2015 10:50
  An: Martijn Grendelman
  Cc: Karen Noel; users@ovirt.org; Vadim Rozenfeld
  Betreff: Re: [ovirt-users] Bad performance with Windows 2012 guests
  
  
  On Apr 30, 2015 14:03, Martijn Grendelman martijn.grendel...@isaac.nl 
  wrote:
  
   Hi,
  
   Ever since our first Windows Server 2012 deployment on oVirt (3.4 
   back then, now 3.5.1), I have noticed that working on these VMs via 
   RDP or on the console via VNC is noticeably slower than on Windows 
   2008 guests on the same oVirt environment.
  
   Basic things like starting an application (even the Server Manager 
   that get started automatically on login) take a very long time, 
   sometimes minutes. Everything is just... slow.
  
   We have recently deployed Microsoft Exchange on a Windows Server 
   2012 guest on RHEV, and it doesn't perform well at all.
  
   I haven't been able to find the cause for this slowness; CPU usage 
   is not excessive and it doesn't seem I/O related. Moreover, other 
   types of guests (Linux and even Windows 2008) do not have this problem.
  
   We have 3 different environments: 
   - oVirt 3.5.1, on old Dell servers with Penryn Family CPUs with 
   fairly slow storage on replicated GlusterFS, running CentOS 6.6
   - oVirt 3.5.1, on modern 6-core SandyBridge servers with local 
   storage via NFS, running CentOS 7.0)
   - RHEV 3.4.4 on modern 10-core SandyBridge servers with an iSCSI SAN 
   behind it, running on RHEV Hypervisor 6.5
  
   All of these -very different- environments expose the same behaviour: 
   Linux, Windows 2008 fast (or as fast as can be expected given the 
   hardware), Windows 2012 painfully slow.
  
   All Windows 2012 servers use VirtIO disk and network. I think all 
   drivers are from the virtio-win-0.1-74 ISO.
  
   Does anyone share this experience? 
   Any idea why this could happen and how it can be fixed? 
   Any other information I should share to get a better idea? 
  
   Btw, for the guests on the RHEV environment, we have a case with 
   RedHat support, but that doesn't seem to lead to a quick solution, 
   hence I'm writing here, too.
  
   Thanks for any help. 
  
   Regards,
   Martijn Grendelman
  
  Hi Martijn,
  Can you please provide the QEMU command line, together with kvm and qemu 
  version?
  
  This information will be helpful for reproducing the problem. However, if 
  the problem is not reproducible on a local setup, we will probably need to 
  ask collecting some performance information with xperf tool. 
  
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Re: [ovirt-users] Bad performance with Windows 2012 guests

2015-05-03 Thread Vadim Rozenfeld
On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 06:48 -0500, Sven Achtelik wrote:
 Hi Doron,
 
 I've also noticed that there seems to be a difference in performance between 
 Win2k8 R2/Linux and Windows Server 2012. After reading Martijns post I've 
 done some speed test regarding the drive speeds and was looking for a way to 
 compare the VMs on a more professional way. My tests showed, that on the same 
 hardware, the Win2k8 R2 was faster in response and throughput on the disks. I 
 found a utility that somehow measures the latency on a system and that also 
 showed a significant difference. What is the correct way to do a performance 
 test on a VM running in KVM ? 
 
 Sven
 
Hi Sven,

Can you specify the type of disk on your system - ide, virtio-blk, or
virtio-scsi?
We usually use iometer for disk performance profiling. Sequential
read/write, block size from 4K up to 256K, queue depth from 1 to 64.
 
Vadim.
 -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
 Von: users-boun...@ovirt.org [mailto:users-boun...@ovirt.org] Im Auftrag von 
 Doron Fediuck
 Gesendet: Samstag, 2. Mai 2015 10:50
 An: Martijn Grendelman
 Cc: Karen Noel; users@ovirt.org; Vadim Rozenfeld
 Betreff: Re: [ovirt-users] Bad performance with Windows 2012 guests
 
 
 On Apr 30, 2015 14:03, Martijn Grendelman martijn.grendel...@isaac.nl wrote:
 
  Hi,
 
  Ever since our first Windows Server 2012 deployment on oVirt (3.4 back 
  then, now 3.5.1), I have noticed that working on these VMs via RDP or 
  on the console via VNC is noticeably slower than on Windows 2008 
  guests on the same oVirt environment.
 
  Basic things like starting an application (even the Server Manager 
  that get started automatically on login) take a very long time, 
  sometimes minutes. Everything is just... slow.
 
  We have recently deployed Microsoft Exchange on a Windows Server 2012 
  guest on RHEV, and it doesn't perform well at all.
 
  I haven't been able to find the cause for this slowness; CPU usage is 
  not excessive and it doesn't seem I/O related. Moreover, other types 
  of guests (Linux and even Windows 2008) do not have this problem.
 
  We have 3 different environments: 
  - oVirt 3.5.1, on old Dell servers with Penryn Family CPUs with fairly 
  slow storage on replicated GlusterFS, running CentOS 6.6
  - oVirt 3.5.1, on modern 6-core SandyBridge servers with local storage 
  via NFS, running CentOS 7.0)
  - RHEV 3.4.4 on modern 10-core SandyBridge servers with an iSCSI SAN 
  behind it, running on RHEV Hypervisor 6.5
 
  All of these -very different- environments expose the same behaviour: 
  Linux, Windows 2008 fast (or as fast as can be expected given the 
  hardware), Windows 2012 painfully slow.
 
  All Windows 2012 servers use VirtIO disk and network. I think all 
  drivers are from the virtio-win-0.1-74 ISO.
 
  Does anyone share this experience? 
  Any idea why this could happen and how it can be fixed? 
  Any other information I should share to get a better idea? 
 
  Btw, for the guests on the RHEV environment, we have a case with 
  RedHat support, but that doesn't seem to lead to a quick solution, 
  hence I'm writing here, too.
 
  Thanks for any help. 
 
  Regards,
  Martijn Grendelman
 
 Hi Martijn,
 Can you please provide the QEMU command line, together with kvm and qemu 
 version?
 
 This information will be helpful for reproducing the problem. However, if the 
 problem is not reproducible on a local setup, we will probably need to ask 
 collecting some performance information with xperf tool. 
 
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Re: [ovirt-users] Bad performance with Windows 2012 guests

2015-05-03 Thread Sven Achtelik
Hi Vadim, 

I've tested the performance with CrystalDiskMark from inside the Windows guest. 
Using Win2k8 R2 I got expected values for my system, about 88 MB/s on 4k random 
with 32 queues and 500MB/s + sequential writes with 32 queues. Using a Windows 
2012 VM on the same system it's only 33MB/s on 4k random with 32 queues and 
300MB/s sequential writes. Similar tests with a linux VM show a bit better 
values than the Win2k8 R2 and respond ultra-fast.

My hosts are connected via iSCSI using a 10 GbE link and a ZFS appliance as the 
storage system. All tests have been run several times with the same results.

Sven

-Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
Von: Vadim Rozenfeld [mailto:vroze...@redhat.com] 
Gesendet: Sonntag, 3. Mai 2015 14:35
An: Sven Achtelik
Cc: Doron Fediuck; Martijn Grendelman; Karen Noel; users@ovirt.org
Betreff: Re: AW: Bad performance with Windows 2012 guests

On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 06:48 -0500, Sven Achtelik wrote:
 Hi Doron,
 
 I've also noticed that there seems to be a difference in performance between 
 Win2k8 R2/Linux and Windows Server 2012. After reading Martijns post I've 
 done some speed test regarding the drive speeds and was looking for a way to 
 compare the VMs on a more professional way. My tests showed, that on the same 
 hardware, the Win2k8 R2 was faster in response and throughput on the disks. I 
 found a utility that somehow measures the latency on a system and that also 
 showed a significant difference. What is the correct way to do a performance 
 test on a VM running in KVM ? 
 
 Sven
 
Hi Sven,

Can you specify the type of disk on your system - ide, virtio-blk, or 
virtio-scsi?
We usually use iometer for disk performance profiling. Sequential read/write, 
block size from 4K up to 256K, queue depth from 1 to 64.
 
Vadim.
 -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
 Von: users-boun...@ovirt.org [mailto:users-boun...@ovirt.org] Im 
 Auftrag von Doron Fediuck
 Gesendet: Samstag, 2. Mai 2015 10:50
 An: Martijn Grendelman
 Cc: Karen Noel; users@ovirt.org; Vadim Rozenfeld
 Betreff: Re: [ovirt-users] Bad performance with Windows 2012 guests
 
 
 On Apr 30, 2015 14:03, Martijn Grendelman martijn.grendel...@isaac.nl wrote:
 
  Hi,
 
  Ever since our first Windows Server 2012 deployment on oVirt (3.4 
  back then, now 3.5.1), I have noticed that working on these VMs via 
  RDP or on the console via VNC is noticeably slower than on Windows 
  2008 guests on the same oVirt environment.
 
  Basic things like starting an application (even the Server Manager 
  that get started automatically on login) take a very long time, 
  sometimes minutes. Everything is just... slow.
 
  We have recently deployed Microsoft Exchange on a Windows Server 
  2012 guest on RHEV, and it doesn't perform well at all.
 
  I haven't been able to find the cause for this slowness; CPU usage 
  is not excessive and it doesn't seem I/O related. Moreover, other 
  types of guests (Linux and even Windows 2008) do not have this problem.
 
  We have 3 different environments: 
  - oVirt 3.5.1, on old Dell servers with Penryn Family CPUs with 
  fairly slow storage on replicated GlusterFS, running CentOS 6.6
  - oVirt 3.5.1, on modern 6-core SandyBridge servers with local 
  storage via NFS, running CentOS 7.0)
  - RHEV 3.4.4 on modern 10-core SandyBridge servers with an iSCSI SAN 
  behind it, running on RHEV Hypervisor 6.5
 
  All of these -very different- environments expose the same behaviour: 
  Linux, Windows 2008 fast (or as fast as can be expected given the 
  hardware), Windows 2012 painfully slow.
 
  All Windows 2012 servers use VirtIO disk and network. I think all 
  drivers are from the virtio-win-0.1-74 ISO.
 
  Does anyone share this experience? 
  Any idea why this could happen and how it can be fixed? 
  Any other information I should share to get a better idea? 
 
  Btw, for the guests on the RHEV environment, we have a case with 
  RedHat support, but that doesn't seem to lead to a quick solution, 
  hence I'm writing here, too.
 
  Thanks for any help. 
 
  Regards,
  Martijn Grendelman
 
 Hi Martijn,
 Can you please provide the QEMU command line, together with kvm and qemu 
 version?
 
 This information will be helpful for reproducing the problem. However, if the 
 problem is not reproducible on a local setup, we will probably need to ask 
 collecting some performance information with xperf tool. 
 
 Doron
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Re: [ovirt-users] Bad performance with Windows 2012 guests

2015-05-02 Thread Doron Fediuck

On Apr 30, 2015 14:03, Martijn Grendelman martijn.grendel...@isaac.nl wrote:

 Hi, 

 Ever since our first Windows Server 2012 deployment on oVirt (3.4 back 
 then, now 3.5.1), I have noticed that working on these VMs via RDP or on 
 the console via VNC is noticeably slower than on Windows 2008 guests on 
 the same oVirt environment. 

 Basic things like starting an application (even the Server Manager that 
 get started automatically on login) take a very long time, sometimes 
 minutes. Everything is just... slow. 

 We have recently deployed Microsoft Exchange on a Windows Server 2012 
 guest on RHEV, and it doesn't perform well at all. 

 I haven't been able to find the cause for this slowness; CPU usage is 
 not excessive and it doesn't seem I/O related. Moreover, other types of 
 guests (Linux and even Windows 2008) do not have this problem. 

 We have 3 different environments: 
 - oVirt 3.5.1, on old Dell servers with Penryn Family CPUs with fairly 
 slow storage on replicated GlusterFS, running CentOS 6.6 
 - oVirt 3.5.1, on modern 6-core SandyBridge servers with local storage 
 via NFS, running CentOS 7.0) 
 - RHEV 3.4.4 on modern 10-core SandyBridge servers with an iSCSI SAN 
 behind it, running on RHEV Hypervisor 6.5 

 All of these -very different- environments expose the same behaviour: 
 Linux, Windows 2008 fast (or as fast as can be expected given the 
 hardware), Windows 2012 painfully slow. 

 All Windows 2012 servers use VirtIO disk and network. I think all 
 drivers are from the virtio-win-0.1-74 ISO. 

 Does anyone share this experience? 
 Any idea why this could happen and how it can be fixed? 
 Any other information I should share to get a better idea? 

 Btw, for the guests on the RHEV environment, we have a case with RedHat 
 support, but that doesn't seem to lead to a quick solution, hence I'm 
 writing here, too. 

 Thanks for any help. 

 Regards, 
 Martijn Grendelman 

Hi Martijn,
Can you please provide the QEMU command line, together with kvm and qemu 
version?

This information will be helpful for reproducing the problem. However, if the 
problem is not reproducible on a local setup, we will probably need to ask 
collecting some performance information with xperf tool. 

Doron
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[ovirt-users] Bad performance with Windows 2012 guests

2015-04-30 Thread Martijn Grendelman

Hi,

Ever since our first Windows Server 2012 deployment on oVirt (3.4 back 
then, now 3.5.1), I have noticed that working on these VMs via RDP or on 
the console via VNC is noticeably slower than on Windows 2008 guests on 
the same oVirt environment.


Basic things like starting an application (even the Server Manager that 
get started automatically on login) take a very long time, sometimes 
minutes. Everything is just... slow.


We have recently deployed Microsoft Exchange on a Windows Server 2012 
guest on RHEV, and it doesn't perform well at all.


I haven't been able to find the cause for this slowness; CPU usage is 
not excessive and it doesn't seem I/O related. Moreover, other types of 
guests (Linux and even Windows 2008) do not have this problem.


We have 3 different environments:
- oVirt 3.5.1, on old Dell servers with Penryn Family CPUs with fairly 
slow storage on replicated GlusterFS, running CentOS 6.6
- oVirt 3.5.1, on modern 6-core SandyBridge servers with local storage 
via NFS, running CentOS 7.0)
- RHEV 3.4.4 on modern 10-core SandyBridge servers with an iSCSI SAN 
behind it, running on RHEV Hypervisor 6.5


All of these -very different- environments expose the same behaviour: 
Linux, Windows 2008 fast (or as fast as can be expected given the 
hardware), Windows 2012 painfully slow.


All Windows 2012 servers use VirtIO disk and network. I think all 
drivers are from the virtio-win-0.1-74 ISO.


Does anyone share this experience?
Any idea why this could happen and how it can be fixed?
Any other information I should share to get a better idea?

Btw, for the guests on the RHEV environment, we have a case with RedHat 
support, but that doesn't seem to lead to a quick solution, hence I'm 
writing here, too.


Thanks for any help.

Regards,
Martijn Grendelman
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