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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Bruce,<br>
      <br>
      pveperf on the disk (/) ?<br>
      <br>
      If you haven't, I think it will help you a lot installing virtio
      drivers on the Windows guest, then changing VM disks from ide to
      virtio.<br>
      <br>
      On 22/09/13 22:20, Bruce B wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">Thanks for feedback Krzysztof and Alexandre. Below
        are the info:
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        <div>I am using 1x 500GB WD HDD. I can add another one if that
          helps - something like: WD5001AALS. Would that help? Where do
          you read the IOPS? and what is a good number of IOPS today?</div>
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        <div>For VM I am using LOCAL QCOW2 - not sure how virtio drives
          work.</div>
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        <div>Hoping following info help you tell me if I am hitting a
          controller bottleneck (meaning I can't help it) or if it is an
          HDD problem:</div>
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          <div><font color="#0000ff">        *-storage</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">             description: SATA
              controller</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">             product: 82801JI
              (ICH10 Family) SATA AHCI Controller</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">             vendor: Intel
              Corporation</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">             physical id: 1f.2</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">             bus info:
              <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pci@0000:00:1f.2">pci@0000:00:1f.2</a></font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">             logical name: scsi0</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">             version: 00</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">             width: 32 bits</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">             clock: 66MHz</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">             capabilities: storage
              msi pm ahci_1.0 bus_master cap_list emulated</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">             configuration:
              driver=ahci latency=0</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">             resources: irq:50
              ioport:d880(size=8) ioport:d800(size=4)
              ioport:d480(size=8) ioport:d400(size=4)
              ioport:d080(size=32) memory:faffc000-faffc7ff</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">           *-disk</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                description: ATA
              Disk</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                product: WDC
              WD5001AALS-0</font></div>
          <div>
            <font color="#0000ff">                vendor: Western
              Digital</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                physical id: 0.0.0</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                bus info:
              <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:scsi@0:0.0.0">scsi@0:0.0.0</a></font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                logical name:
              /dev/sda</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                version: 05.0</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                serial:
              WD-WCATR2413417</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                size: 465GiB
              (500GB)</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                capabilities:
              partitioned partitioned:dos</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                configuration:
              ansiversion=5 sectorsize=512 signature=00064f12</font></div>
          <div>
            <font color="#0000ff">              *-volume:0</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                   description:
              EXT3 volume</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                   vendor: Linux</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                   physical id: 1</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                   bus info:
              <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:scsi@0:0.0.0,1">scsi@0:0.0.0,1</a></font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                   logical name:
              /dev/sda1</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                   logical name:
              /boot</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                   version: 1.0</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                   serial:
              8fe2447e-4258-4d39-b7c7-450b66460abf</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                   size: 511MiB</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                   capacity: 511MiB</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                   capabilities:
              primary bootable journaled extended_attributes recover
              ext3 ext2 initialized</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                   configuration:
              created=2013-08-06 16:38:36 filesystem=ext3
              modified=2013-08-09 17:14:18 mount.fstype=ext3
              mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl,barrier=0,data=ordered
              mounted=2013-08-09 17:14:18 state=mounted</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">              *-volume:1</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                   description:
              Linux LVM Physical Volume partition</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                   physical id: 2</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                   bus info:
              <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:scsi@0:0.0.0,2">scsi@0:0.0.0,2</a></font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                   logical name:
              /dev/sda2</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                   serial:
              pqnaJf-WL5Q-kz2z-a3CJ-f6rS-Jxz4-LICwof</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                   size: 465GiB</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                   capacity: 465GiB</font></div>
          <div><font color="#0000ff">                   capabilities:
              primary multi lvm2</font></div>
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        <div class="gmail_extra">Thanks,<br>
          <br>
          <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 6:07 AM,
            Krzysztof Bloniarz <span dir="ltr"><<a
                moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:kb0spam@gmail.com"
                target="_blank">kb0spam@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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              <div dir="ltr">Hi Bruce,
                <div><br>
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                <div>Could you confirm that  you are using one 500GB
                  SATA drive as your storage ?</div>
                <div>How many VMs are running on this drive ?</div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>This SATA drive is capable of 60 IOPS maybe 70IOPS,
                  you can easily saturate this installing windows apps,
                  particularly if you run simultaneous VMs on that
                  drive </div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>To solve your 'performace' problems you have to
                  build RAID and add more spindles.</div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>Regards,</div>
                <div>KB</div>
                <div> </div>
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              <div class="gmail_extra"><br>
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                      On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Bruce B <span
                        dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                          href="mailto:bruceb444@gmail.com"
                          target="_blank">bruceb444@gmail.com</a>></span>
                      wrote:<br>
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                        <div dir="ltr">Hi Everyone,
                          <div><br>
                          </div>
                          <div>I am seeing very slow install of
                            applications within a Windows 2008R2 VM that
                            I built with 24Gbs of RAM (no users on it
                            yet) and the Proxmox server is a DL160 G6
                            with Dual L5520 Xeon quad core CPUs. I don't
                            see why this is acting so slow. I am looking
                            for suggestions on how to make this work
                            faster. </div>
                          <div><br>
                          </div>
                          <div>Below are my findings of IO stats and HDD
                            specifications. I would like to know if
                            there is any hope to this server. I am
                            running Windows 2008 R2 in IDE0 and QCOW
                            mode.</div>
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                          <div>
                            <div><font color="#ff0000"><b>root@hp:~#
                                  iostat -xkd 2     (util shows over 97%
                                  below as a program is being installed)</b></font></div>
                            <div>Linux 2.6.32-22-pve (hp)      
                               09/20/2013      _x86_64_        (16 CPU)</div>
                            <div><br>
                            </div>
                            <div>Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s
                                  w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s avgrq-sz
                              avgqu-sz   await r_await w_await  svctm
                               %util<br>
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                            <div>sda               0.00    13.50    0.00
                                94.50     0.00  9023.25   190.97    
                              2.41   25.43    0.00   25.43  10.32  97.50</div>
                            <div>dm-0              0.00     0.00    0.00
                                13.00     0.00    52.00     8.00    
                              0.70   54.15    0.00   54.15   6.77   8.80</div>
                            <div>dm-1              0.00     0.00    0.00
                                 0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    
                              0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00</div>
                            <div>dm-2              0.00     0.00    0.00
                                95.00     0.00  8913.25   187.65    
                              2.29   24.12    0.00   24.12  10.24  97.30</div>
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                          <div><font color="#ff0000"><b>hdparm output:</b></font></div>
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ATA device, with non-removable media
        Model Number:       WDC WD5001AALS-00E3A0                   
        Serial Number:      WD-WCATR2413417
        Firmware Revision:  05.01D05
        Transport:          Serial, SATA 1.0a, SATA II Extensions, SATA Rev 2.5, SATA Rev 2.6
Standards:
        Supported: 8 7 6 5 
        Likely used: 8
Configuration:
        Logical         max     current
        cylinders       16383   16383
        heads           16      16
        sectors/track   63      63
        --
        CHS current addressable sectors:   16514064
        LBA    user addressable sectors:  268435455
        LBA48  user addressable sectors:  976773168
        Logical/Physical Sector size:           512 bytes
        device size with M = 1024*1024:      476940 MBytes
        device size with M = 1000*1000:      500107 MBytes (500 GB)
        cache/buffer size  = unknown
Capabilities:
        LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
        Queue depth: 32
        Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, with device specific minimum
        R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16  Current = 0
        Recommended acoustic management value: 128, current value: 254
        DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6 
             Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
        PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 
             Cycle time: no flow control=120ns  IORDY flow control=120ns
Commands/features:
        Enabled Supported:
           *    SMART feature set
                Security Mode feature set
           *    Power Management feature set
                Write cache
           *    Look-ahead
           *    Host Protected Area feature set
           *    WRITE_BUFFER command
           *    READ_BUFFER command
           *    NOP cmd
           *    DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
                Power-Up In Standby feature set
           *    SET_FEATURES required to spinup after power up
                SET_MAX security extension
                Automatic Acoustic Management feature set
           *    48-bit Address feature set
           *    Device Configuration Overlay feature set
           *    Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE
           *    FLUSH_CACHE_EXT
           *    SMART error logging
           *    SMART self-test
           *    General Purpose Logging feature set
           *    64-bit World wide name
           *    {READ,WRITE}_DMA_EXT_GPL commands
           *    Segmented DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
           *    Gen1 signaling speed (1.5Gb/s)
           *    Gen2 signaling speed (3.0Gb/s)
           *    Native Command Queueing (NCQ)
           *    Host-initiated interface power management
           *    Phy event counters
           *    NCQ priority information
           *    DMA Setup Auto-Activate optimization
           *    Software settings preservation
           *    SMART Command Transport (SCT) feature set
           *    SCT Long Sector Access (AC1)
           *    SCT LBA Segment Access (AC2)
           *    SCT Features Control (AC4)
           *    SCT Data Tables (AC5)
                unknown 206[12] (vendor specific)
                unknown 206[13] (vendor specific)
Security: 
        Master password revision code = 65534
                supported
        not     enabled
        not     locked
        not     frozen
        not     expired: security count
                supported: enhanced erase
        102min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT. 102min for ENHANCED SECURITY ERASE UNIT. 
Logical Unit WWN Device Identifier: 50014ee2af8fec40
        NAA             : 5
        IEEE OUI        : 0014ee
        Unique ID       : 2af8fec40</pre>
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