Re: [ceph-users] moving qcow2 image of a VM/guest (

2016-04-09 Thread Brian ::
If you have a qcow2 image on *local* type storage and move it to a ceph pool pmox will automatically convert the image to raw. Performance is entirely down to your particular setup - moving image to a ceph pool certainly won't guarantee performance increase - in fact the opposite could happen. Yo

Re: [ceph-users] moving qcow2 image of a VM/guest (

2016-04-09 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On 9/04/2016 11:01 PM, Mad Th wrote: After this move, does the qcow2 image get converted to some raw or rbd file format? raw (rbd block) Will moving vm/quest images to ceph storage pool after converting qcow2 to raw format first , improve performance? I doubt it. We still see some i/o

[ceph-users] moving qcow2 image of a VM/guest (

2016-04-09 Thread Mad Th
I was reading that raw format is faster than qcow2. We have few vm/guest images in qcow2 which we have moved to ceph storage pool ( using proxmox GUI disk move ). After this move, does the qcow2 image get converted to some raw or rbd file format? Will moving vm/quest images to ceph storage po