Re: [Xen-users] Performance of network block devices (iSCSI)

[Longina Przybyszewska <longina@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Simon Hobson wrote:

> On 14/11/08, Javier Guerra wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Simon Hobson <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> > wrote:
> > >  I've deliberately not put the iSCSI initiator in Dom0 as I want to run 
> > > the
> > >  absolute minimum in Dom0. Also, putting the iSCSI initiator in Dom0 makes 
> > > it
> > >  harder to move a VM to another host - having it in the DomU means that 
> > > the
> > >  VM can be moved without any config changes.
> > you should really try that.  the different nature of net- and
> > block-devices means that there are a lot less context switches per MB
> > transferred, and the point of acknowledging makes a huge difference in
> > latency sensibility.
> OK, I've *finally* managed to scrounge another box to do some testing on. 
> I've setup open-iscsi in Dom0 and performance seems to be a lot better - I'm 
> getting about 20MB/s and the backup server isn't sat on 99% wio :-)
1. I wonder what test did you make to check performance?
I have the same concept with iscsi initiator directly on the domU via 
bonding interface-->dedicated vlan on top of bonding-->transparent 
bridge in Dom0-->DomU's eth1.
I would expect more advantages (performance, administration) with 
iscsi-->DomU model.
> I assume this is because the device name can change across restarts. Since 
> I'm not mounting the volume in Dom0, just passing it to the guest in a "disk 
> = [ 'phy:v ..." line, any suggestions on the best way to deal with this ?
2. how can you pass the storage without mounting it/having access to, in 
Dom0?
regards
Longina
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