<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hi,<br><br>As a rule of thumb how I worked <span id="misspell-0" class="">around</span> this issue was to add a new hdd. I allocated this new hdd only to /var/lib/nova/instances/_base and the other hdd to /var/lib/nova/instances/ so in this manner to the first time a instance is spawn on server the process use the full capacity of a hdd.</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Regards,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Gabriel<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Balamurugan V G <balamuruganvg@gmail.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> openstack@lists.launchpad.net <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, March 5, 2013 1:20 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Openstack] [OpenStack] How to speed up the instance launch time?<br> </font> </div> <br>
On 03/05/2013 11:03 AM, Balamurugan V G wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>> <br>> I have a Folsom 2012.2 3 nodes setup like the one specified at <a href="https://github.com/mseknibilel/OpenStack-Folsom-Install-guide/blob/master/OpenStack_Folsom_Install_Guide_WebVersion.rst" target="_blank">https://github.com/mseknibilel/OpenStack-Folsom-Install-guide/blob/master/OpenStack_Folsom_Install_Guide_WebVersion.rst</a>. Each node has a 1Tb hard disk with no raid.<br>> <br>> Be it the image creation or the Instance creation, takes a long time(factor of the disk size of the image), about 15mins for a 20gb image. I can understand the slow image creation due to the http transfer of the file from a seperate web server hosting my images to the controller node. But even the instance creation takes that much or even a bit longer. I see that the image is copied from the Controller to Compute node and multiple copies are make in the compute node. So all this takes long an
dis proportional to the image size. Is there any way to speed up this process? Is a SAN based backend the only way to go?<br><br>It sounds like you're using raw images throughout?<br>You might consider using qcow2 images in glance.<br>Then you can avoid the conversion to raw in the libvirt base<br>directory by setting force_raw_images=False in nova.conf<br>That will avoid some of the initial caching penalty.<br><br>Ensuring that you have use_cow_images=True set,<br>with use CoW images for the instances and improve<br>instance startup latency.<br><br>Details of the operations and tradeoffs involved are at:<br>http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/openstack_libvirt_images/<br><br>thanks,<br>Pádraig.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Mailing list: <a href="https://launchpad.net/~openstack" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~openstack</a><br>Post to : <a ymailto="mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net"
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