> Von: [email protected] [[email protected]]" im Auftrag von
> "Darrell Budic [[email protected]]
> Gesendet: Freitag, 13. Februar 2015 19:03
> An: Nicolas Ecarnot
> Cc: users
> Betreff: Re: [ovirt-users] How long do your migrations last?
>
> I’m under the impression it depends more on the hosts memory assignment
> than disk size. libvirt has to synchronize that over your networking setup.
> Your
> times sound like mine over 1G ethernet with a 9000 MTU, most of my machines
> are 1-4GB ram. I’ve another setup with a 10G backend that can migrate larger
> machines much faster. Things that do a lot of memory access (databases, say)
> or use more of their allocated memory, tend to take longer to migrate as it’s
> more work for libvirt to get it synchronized.
>
> A 10G+ backend is the best way to speed this up, and there are libvirt
> variables
> you can tweak to allocate more bandwidth to a migration (and the # of
> simultaneous
> migrations you allow). I think the defaults are 3 at max of 30% of your
> available
> bandwidth. I don’t think this takes bonds into account, so if you have bonded
> connections, you may be able to allocate more % or allow more simultaneous
> migrations. Keep in mind that if you’re sharing bandwidth/media with iSCSI,
> that
> some bandwidth will be needed there as well, how much depends on your storage
> load. A dedicated NIC could definitely help, especially if you’re trying to
> tune libvirt for this.
>
> -Darrell
>
> > On Feb 13, 2015, at 8:53 AM, Nicolas Ecarnot <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hello list,
> >
> > Our storage domains are iSCSI on dedicated network, and when migrating VMs,
> > the duration varies according to the size of the vDisks.
> >
> > The smallest VMs are migrated in about 20 seconds, while the biggest one
> > may take more than 5 or 10 minutes.
> > The average duration is 90 seconds.
> >
> > Questions :
> >
> > 1- Though I may have understood that the task of migration was made by the
> > SPM, I don't know what it actually does? (which bytes goes where)
> >
> > 2- Do our times sound OK, or does it look like improvable?
> >
> > 3- What bottleneck should I investigate? I'm thinking about the dedicated
> > hardware NICs setup of the hosts, the SAN, the MTU has already been setup
> > at 9000...
> >
> > Any ideas welcomed.
> >
> > --
> Nicolas Ecarnot
If we speak about migration of VMs - relocating qemu process -
than speed depends mostly on memory change pressure. The
more changes per second the more restart the process needs.
Best solution to speed it up is to enlarge migration_max_bandwidth
in /etc/vdsm/vdsm.conf from default 30MB/s to something higher.
We use 150Mb/s in 10Gbit network. With default we have seen
migrations that will not come to an end.
When talking about disks. It depends on how many disks you
have attached to a single VM. The more disks and the more
similar their sizes they are the faster you can migrate/operate
on them.
For example take a SAP system with 3 disks of 20GB system
20 GB executables and 300GB database. When issung disk
operations (like snapshots) they will start in parallel for each disk.
Disk operations will finish earlier for smaller disks. So in the end
you will have only one operation left that may take hours.
E.g. delete snapshot will start at ~220MB/s when running with
three disks and end at ~60MB/s when only one disk snapshot
deletion is active.
Best regards.
Markus
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