Increase the initial size of LVM snapshots to prevent VM's from freezing

Hi all, Lately, I have been encountering an issue where VMs freeze during backups. From what I can gather, this happens because some of the VMs sometimes perform large writes during the backup window and the snapshots dose not grow fast enough. I use ISCSI storage with all VM disks preallocated. Is there a configuration value I can change in order to increase the initial size of snapshots and also maybe change the watermark trigger for the expansion of snapshots? Thanks.

Hi Gal, You can decrease the interval of checking the VM watermark, search for vm_watermark_interval in VDSM. In the engine, you have the InitialSizeInBytes parameter when creating a snapshot for a VM. *Regards,* *Shani Leviim* On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 3:35 PM Gal Villaret <gal.villaret@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Lately, I have been encountering an issue where VMs freeze during backups. From what I can gather, this happens because some of the VMs sometimes perform large writes during the backup window and the snapshots dose not grow fast enough. I use ISCSI storage with all VM disks preallocated.
Is there a configuration value I can change in order to increase the initial size of snapshots and also maybe change the watermark trigger for the expansion of snapshots?
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