[ovirt-users] Re: VM bandwidth limitations
On 4/4/19 7:03 AM, Dominik Holler wrote:
On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 13:45:59 -0400
John Florian <jflorian(a)doubledog.org> wrote:
> In my oVirt deployment at home, I'm trying to minimize the amount of
> physical HW and its 24/7 power draw. As such I have the NFS server for
> my domain virtualized. This is not used for oVirt's SD, but rather the
> NFS server's back-end storage comes from oVirt's SD. To maximize the
> performance of my NFS server, do I still need to use bonded NICs to
> increase bandwidth like I would a physical server or does the
> VirtIO-SCSI stuff magically make this unnecessary?
This depends on the scenario.
Bonding two VirtIO vNICs connected to the same network would be not
increase the throughput, since a single vNIC has by default no
artificial bandwidth limit.
Thank you, this exactly what I wanted to know (and suspected).
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John Florian