On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:31:14PM +0530, R J wrote: > > Hello Pasi, > > > > Thank you for your email. > > Let me explain the setup more clear, sorry for the confusion. > > > > I have 2 Dell R410 and a shared FC storage, > > I have created a Centos 64 bit VM on this pool and attached a disk. > > The disk comes from shared cloud storage and it was created while > > installing the VM. > > > > I'm sorry but I did not understand this part > > "passing thru HBA VF to the VM ? and using the VF driver in the VM ?" > > > > VF = Virtual Function of SR-IOV device. > Ok so it sounds like you're not using SR-IOV at all, but just regular > storage. > Hmm so this is an expected start, I should read and find on VF. Please share some links if you have :) > > So first benchmark the storage from baremetal Linux, with no > virtualization, > and the compare to the results you get from the XCP VM. > I don't want to compare baremetal linux and XCP VM. I want to compare the XCP VM with SR-IOV to XCP VM without SR-IOV. Also few other questions which may not be related to SR-IOV are listed down. > -- Pasi > > > Thanks for help. > > > > Regards, > > Rushi > > > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <[1][email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:37:15PM +0530, R J wrote: > > > Hello List, > > > > > > > Hello, > > > I'm evaluating current stable release of XCP1 on Fiber Channel > > Storage of > > > Hitachi with 4Gb cache AMS2100. > > > I'm using boniee++ to evaluate the 2TB lun from a Centos VM 2 > vCPU > > / 4GB > > > RAM ( file size 8GB ). The VM runs on a Dell R410. > > > > > > > So the subject mentions SR-IOV so does that mean you're > > passing thru HBA VF to the VM ? and using the VF driver in the VM ? > > > > Also: How does the storage perform without any virtualization, > > ie. from Linux on baremetal. > > > > -- Pasi > These were my original questions > > I'm getting a good speed of 120Mbps at times over 4Gbps FC. > > > My questions are > > > 1) Is it really good speed over a 4Gbps FC ? > > > 2) I start getting rport failure error if I repeat the tests > for > > 3-4 times > > > so is it normal ? > > > 3) To solve above question xenserver forums are asking to > upgrade > > the > > > qlogic drivers, so are there any ? > > > 4) There is no scli command in XCP1 version but as I remember > there > > was > > > "scli" command in XCP0.5, so is there a way to get back it ? > > > 5) If I want to limit the storage access speed of VM what can I > do > > ? > > > > > > Thanks for help. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Rushi > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > xen-api mailing list > > > [2][email protected] > > > [3]http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-api > > > > References > > > > Visible links > > 1. mailto:[email protected] > > 2. mailto:[email protected] > > 3. http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-api >
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