BTW the centos machine below is a 1 core machine and the ubuntu one is a 2 core 
machine.  Not sure if that makes a difference.  You may want to experiment.

On Mar 6, 2014, at 8:32 PM, Carlos Reátegui <[email protected]> wrote:

> Nishan,
> How did you originally setup your networks?  Did you do it all through 
> XenCenter, xe CLI, OS?  I believe I did it all through XC.  I am running XS 
> 6.0.2 with CS 4.1.  Did you switch to bridge networking?  I did not as it 
> only supports 2 nic bonds.
> 
> My hosts are set up with 4x1Gbe bond for NAS network (storage label) and 
> 4x1Gbe bond for CS Management/CS Storage/CS Guest (cloud-public label).  Both 
> bonds are active active.  I am using basic networking but without security 
> groups since that requires bridge networking.  Security is not really an 
> issue for this setup as it is used internally by QA and dev.
> 
> On one of my hosts:
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=test.dmp bs=1M conv=fdatasync count=1000
> 1000+0 records in
> 1000+0 records out
> 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 9.97504 seconds, 105 MB/s
> 
> On a CentOS 5 guest:
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/test.dmp bs=1M conv=fdatasync count=1000
> 1000+0 records in
> 1000+0 records out
> 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 13.1997 seconds, 79.4 MB/s
> 
> On an ubuntu 12.04 guest:
> $ dd if=/dev/zero of=test.dmp bs=1M conv=fdatasync count=1000
> 1000+0 records in
> 1000+0 records out
> 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 9.85764 s, 106 MB/s
> 
> I tried the above a handful of times on each and they were within a couple % 
> of each other every time.  Both of the guests are on the same host I tested 
> above.  The SR is on NFS on the same machine as the CS Management stack 
> (Ubuntu 12.04).  That machine is connected to the storage via 10Gbe and a 
> 2x1Gbe bond to the cloud-public network.  No routes exist between these 2 
> networks.  MTU is 1500 for both networks.  I have another setup at a 
> different location where I set the MTU to 9000 and I seem to remember getting 
> a bit faster throughput at least on the hosts.  I’ll check later and let you 
> know.
> 
> Let me know if there is anything you want me to check in my setup to compare.
> 
> Carlos
> 
> 
> On Mar 6, 2014, at 5:14 PM, Nishan Sanjeewa Gunasekara 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Shankar,
>> 
>> 10% overhead for virtual disk seems reasonable.
>> My VM is PV and I've installed xenserver tools as well. But still getting
>> 20Mbps where as on the host its 150Mbps.
>> 
>> Have you tuned up your VM or changed any parameters?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Nishan
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Shanker Balan
>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>> 
>>> Comments inline.
>>> 
>>> On 05-Mar-2014, at 10:01 am, Nishan Sanjeewa Gunasekara <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I'm running CS 4.2.1 on XenServer 6.2 hosts.
>>>> 
>>>> My primary storage is a ZFS file system provided via NFS.
>>>> 
>>>> When I do a dd test directly from one of the hosts on the NFS mount I
>>> get a
>>>> write speed of about 150MBps
>>>> 
>>>> dd if=/dev/zero of=test.dmp bs=1M conv=fdatasync count=1000
>>>> 1000+0 records in
>>>> 1000+0 records out
>>>> 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 6.99829 seconds, 150 MB/s
>>>> 
>>>> But when I do the same test on a Cloudstack VM running on the same host
>>>> (root disk on the same nfs mount ofcourse) I get a very low write speed.
>>>> 20MBps.
>>>> 
>>>> dd if=/dev/zero of=test.dmp bs=1M conv=fdatasync count=1000
>>>> 1000+0 records in
>>>> 1000+0 records out
>>>> 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 44.6171 s, 23.5 MB/s
>>>> 
>>>> Any ideas how I can improve this ?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Is this a PV VM?
>>> 
>>> I just did a unscientific test in my lab on a PV VM. Results below:
>>> 
>>> On the XenServer:
>>> 
>>> [root@vxen1-1 ebb66062-d46f-7b3a-07be-b9ec583ec1a9]# dd if=/dev/zero
>>> of=test.dmp bs=1M conv=fdatasync count=1000
>>> 1000+0 records in
>>> 1000+0 records out
>>> 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 26.1396 seconds, 40.1 MB/s
>>> 
>>> On a VM:
>>> 
>>> [root@scan1 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test.dmp bs=1M conv=fdatasync
>>> count=1000
>>> 1000+0 records in
>>> 1000+0 records out
>>> 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 29.4688 s, 35.6 MB/s
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I guess 10% is the virtual disk overhead.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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