Hello,

When I create virtual machine from a template (centos6.5, 2 cores, 8GB mem, 500GB hd)  this process takes almost 2 hours.   I click on "New VM" button and just select the template and click ok.

engine.log show me high network consumption (98%)  between  engine-server host and SPM host.

I tried to make my engine-server host a spm host too, but without sucess. 


Does SPM can run over on the same ovirt-engine machine ?

Am I make something wrong? Or create VM from template is really slow ?


my servers :
srv-0202  = ovirt-engine  , vdsm
srv-0203 = spm , vdsm 
srv-0204 = vdsm
These servers are dell blades connected on a 100GB switch.



thanks




= Storage Pool Manager (SPM) A role assigned to one host in a data center granting it sole authority over:

  • Creation, deletion, an dmanipulation of virtula disk images, snapshots and templates
    • Templates: you can create on VM as a golden image and provision to multiple VMs (QCOW layers)
  • Allocation of storage for sparse block devices (on SAN)
    • Thin provisinoing (see below)
  • Single metadata writer:
    • SPM lease mechanism (Chockler and Malkhi 2004, Light-Weight Leases for Storage-Cnntric Coordination)
    • Storage-centric mailbox
  • This role can be migrated to any host in data center