➢ I have a very similar setup as you and have just very recently started 
testing OVA exports for backup purposes to NFS attached storage.
➢ I have a three node HCI on GlusterFS (SSD backed) with 10Gbit and my ovirt 
management network is 10Gbit as well.  My NFS storage server is an 8 x 8Tb 7200 
RPM drives in RAID10 running CentOS 8x with 10Gbit link.

Our setups are indeed similar, the main difference being, that my management 
network including the connection to the NFS server is only 1Gbit. Only 
GlusterFS has 10Gbit here.

➢ I haven't done specific measurement yet as I just setup the storage today but 
a test export of a 50Gb VM took just about ~10 minutes start to finish.

Doing the maths this is ~80MiB/s and 20 times faster than in my setup. Lucky 
you 😊 
Much less than your 10Gbit link between NFS Server and nodes could provide, but 
maybe close to the limit of the drives in your NFS server.

The interesting thing is, that when setting up an export domain, stopping the 
VM and doing an export to the *same* NFS server, I'm getting write speeds as 
expected.
Only the OVA export is terribly slow.

The main difference I can see is the use of a loop device when exporting to OVA.
The export to the export domain does something like

        /usr/bin/qemu-img convert -p -t none -T none -f raw {source disk on 
GlusterFS} {target disk on NFS server}

whereas the OVA export will do

        /usr/bin/qemu-img convert -T none -O qcow2 {source snapshot on 
GlusterFS} /dev/loopX

with /dev/loopX pointing to the NFS OVA target image.

If you have the time and are willing to test, I would be interested in how fast 
your exports to an export domain are

-- 
       
     juergen

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