[nova] local ssd disk performance

Budai Laszlo laszlo.budai at gmail.com
Mon Aug 5 08:54:41 UTC 2019


Hi,

well, we used the same command to measure the different storage possibilities (sudo iozone -e -I -t 32 -s 100M -r 4k -i 0 -i 1 -i 2), we have measured the disk mounted directly on the host, and we have used the same command to measure the performance in the guests using different ways to attach the storage to the VM.

for instance on the host we were able to measure 408MB/s initial writes, 420MB/s rewrites, 397MB/s Random writes, and 700MB/s random reads, on the guest we got the following, using the different technologies:

1. Ephemeral served by nova (SSD mounted on /var/lib/nova/instances, images type =raw, without preallocate images)
Initial writes 60Mb/s, rewrites 70Mb/s, random writes 73MB/s, random reads 427MB/s.

2. Ephemeral served by nova (images type = lvm, without preallocate images)
Initial writes 332Mb/s, rewrites 416Mb/s, random writes 417MB/s, random reads 550MB/s.

3. Cinder attached LVM with instance locality
Initial writes 148Mb/s, rewrites 151Mb/s, random writes 149MB/s, random reads 160MB/s.

4. Cinder attached LVM without instance locality
Initial writes 103Mb/s, rewrites 109Mb/s, random writes 103MB/s, random reads 105MB/s.

5. Ephemeral served by nova (SSD mounted on /var/lib/nova/instances, images type =raw, witht preallocate images)
Initial writes 348Mb/s, rewrites 400Mb/s, random writes 393MB/s, random reads 553MB/s


So points 3,4 are using ISCSI. As you can see those numbers are far below the local volume based or the local file based with preallocate images.

Could you share some nubers about the performance of your ISCSI based setup? that would allow us to see whether we are doing something wrong related to the iscsi. Thank you.

Kind regards,
Laszlo


On 8/3/19 8:41 PM, Donny Davis wrote:
> I am using the cinder-lvm backend right now and performance is quite good. My situation is similar without the migration parts. Prior to this arrangement I was using iscsi to mount a disk in /var/lib/nova/instances and that also worked quite well. 
> 
> If you don't mind me asking, what kind of i/o performance are you looking for?
> 
> On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 12:25 PM Budai Laszlo <laszlo.budai at gmail.com <mailto:laszlo.budai at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Thank you Daniel,
> 
>     My colleague found the same solution in the meantime. And that helped us as well.
> 
>     Kind regards,
>     Laszlo
> 
>     On 8/2/19 6:50 PM, Daniel Speichert wrote:
>     > For the case of simply using local disk mounted for /var/lib/nova and raw disk image type, you could try adding to nova.conf:
>     >
>     >     preallocate_images = space
>     >
>     > This implicitly changes the I/O method in libvirt from "threads" to "native", which in my case improved performance a lot (10 times) and generally is the best performance I could get.
>     >
>     > Best Regards
>     > Daniel
>     >
>     > On 8/2/2019 10:53, Budai Laszlo wrote:
>     >> Hello all,
>     >>
>     >> we have a problem with the performance of the disk IO in a KVM instance.
>     >> We are trying to provision VMs with high performance SSDs. we have investigated different possibilities with different results ...
>     >>
>     >> 1. configure Nova to use local LVM storage (images_types = lvm) - provided the best performance, but we could not migrate our instances (seems to be a bug).
>     >> 2. use cinder with lvm backend  and instance locality, we could migrate the instances, but the performance is less than half of the previous case
>     >> 3. mount the ssd on /var/lib/nova/instances and use the images_type = raw in nova. We could migrate, but the write performance dropped to ~20% of the images_types = lvm performance and read performance is ~65% of the lvm case.
>     >>
>     >> do you have any idea to improve the performance for any of the cases 2 or 3 which allows migration.
>     >>
>     >> Kind regards,
>     >> Laszlo
>     >>
> 
> 




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