<div dir="ltr">IDE is just as slow. Just over 2 hours for 2008R2 install.<div><br></div><div>Is this what you mean by kvm?</div><div><div>lsmod | grep kvm</div><div>kvm_intel 54285 3 </div><div>kvm 332980 1 kvm_intel</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Vadim Rozenfeld <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vrozenfe@redhat.com" target="_blank">vrozenfe@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Fri, 2014-01-31 at 11:37 -0500, Steve Dainard wrote:<br>
> I've reconfigured my setup (good succes below, but need clarity on<br>
> gluster option):<br>
><br>
><br>
> Two nodes total, both running virt and glusterfs storage (2 node<br>
> replica, quorum).<br>
><br>
><br>
> I've created an NFS storage domain, pointed at the first nodes IP<br>
> address. I've launched a 2008 R2 SP1 install with a virtio-scsi disk,<br>
> and the SCSI pass-through driver on the same node as the NFS domain is<br>
> pointing at.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Windows guest install has been running for roughly 1.5 hours, still<br>
> "Expanding Windows files (55%) ..."<br>
<br>
</div>[VR]<br>
Does it work faster with IDE?<br>
Do you have kvm enabled?<br>
Thanks,<br>
Vadim.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
><br>
><br>
> top is showing:<br>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND<br>
><br>
> 3609 root 20 0 1380m 33m 2604 S 35.4 0.1 231:39.75<br>
> glusterfsd<br>
> 21444 qemu 20 0 6362m 4.1g 6592 S 10.3 8.7 10:11.53 qemu-kvm<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> This is a 2 socket, 6 core xeon machine with 48GB of RAM, and 6x<br>
> 7200rpm enterprise sata disks in RAID5 so I don't think we're hitting<br>
> hardware limitations.<br>
><br>
><br>
> dd on xfs (no gluster)<br>
><br>
><br>
> time dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1M count=2048<br>
> 2048+0 records in<br>
> 2048+0 records out<br>
> 2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 4.15787 s, 516 MB/s<br>
><br>
><br>
> real 0m4.351s<br>
> user 0m0.000s<br>
> sys 0m1.661s<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> time dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1k count=2000000<br>
> 2000000+0 records in<br>
> 2000000+0 records out<br>
> 2048000000 bytes (2.0 GB) copied, 4.06949 s, 503 MB/s<br>
><br>
><br>
> real 0m4.260s<br>
> user 0m0.176s<br>
> sys 0m3.991s<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> I've enabled nfs.trusted-sync<br>
> (<a href="http://gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.2:_Setting_Volume_Options#nfs.trusted-sync" target="_blank">http://gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.2:_Setting_Volume_Options#nfs.trusted-sync</a>) on the gluster volume, and the speed difference is immeasurable . Can anyone explain what this option does, and what the risks are with a 2 node gluster replica volume with quorum enabled?<br>
><br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
<br>
<br>
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