[Users] Template creation time is high.

[Itamar Heim]

On 06/14/2012 10:50 AM, Dafna Ron wrote:
> On 06/14/2012 10:49 AM, Itamar Heim wrote:
>> On 06/14/2012 10:48 AM, Dafna Ron wrote:
>>> NFS is always slower because we will always create a preallocated disk.
>>> I would say that 30 minutes for 10GB on NFS might be a little slow but
>>> not significantly.
>>>
>>
>> Dafna - it will create RAW, not pre-allocated, right?
>>
>
> yes, sorry, my mistake :)
> it will create RAW disk type which will always take longer

longer than what? it's not related to NFS.
creating a template requires to copy all relevant blocks, same as for 
other storage types.

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>>> On 06/14/2012 10:12 AM, Rahul Upadhyaya wrote:
>>>> The machine that is the SPM has 32Gb of RAM. My storage layout is on a
>>>> NFS. Is that the reason of the longer time taken, is 30mins for
>>>> template creation under expected time of a NFS ?
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Itamar Heim<iheim at redhat.com
>>>> <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>>       On 06/14/2012 09:28 AM, Rahul Upadhyaya wrote:
>>>>
>>>>           Hi Folks,
>>>>
>>>>           Template creation time for me is around 30mins for a 10 GB
>>>>           (Disk Space)
>>>>           VM. My oVirt Manager has 4GB RAM. Is this within expected
>>>> time for
>>>>           template creation, if not, then what could I check to possibly
>>>>           improve
>>>>           the performance in this regards ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       the template creation happens on the SPM, not on the manager
>>>>       (unless you are running all in one).
>>>>
>>>>       what's the storage layout you have?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>           --
>>>>           Regards,
>>>>           Rahul
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>>>> Rahul
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