<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I’ve been migrating some very large VMs, using export/import, and have noticed this behavior, I now has been reported and maybe answered, but would like to know the logic/reason behind this.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The command to import (convert) from a qcow2 to a raw (LVM) device on FC.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div> /usr/bin/nice -n 19 /usr/bin/ionice -c 3 /usr/bin/qemu-img convert -t none -T none -f qcow2 /rhev/data-center/333f0407-ace1-4cb3-8147-39931c4942c5/92f8390f-812e-4872-b2dc-44433f53146a/images/6c5986df-65d2-41cb-9901-1c9ade164b55/5e24f52c-c8eb-4f9d-8eeb-5e3f0982add1 -O raw /rhev/data-center/mnt/blockSD/1c4b3226-b530-4554-81e9-ead20c1512c5/images/6c5986df-65d2-41cb-9901-1c9ade164b55/5e24f52c-c8eb-4f9d-8eeb-5e3f0982add1<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The best BW achieved with this on a 1Gbps link was from 15 to 30MB/s.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I tried modifying ionice, priority, and nice, and got almost the same values, after spending must of the night up.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I stop the process and tried to to this without the import.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Just activated the LVM using the ID of the VM Disk image, and executing without the -t and -T option, that I understand it’s related to the cache of the source and destination.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But could use almost entire Gb link 120MB/s.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is there any reason, for doing this this way ?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> </div><div class="">Greetings,<br class=""><div class="">
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