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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">After some benchmarking with random write loads we decided to go for RAW for a subset of hypervisors.<br>
These hypervisors run only flavors for heavy IO workloads (databases).<br>
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On SSDs I noticed a performance increase (IOPS) for RAW vs QCOW of a factor 8-10.<br>
I was somewhat surprised by the difference.<br>
There might be something fishy in our setup because the general consensus seems to be QCOW should not
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impact performance that much. <br>
Maybe it has something to do with SSDs or because we have no RAID controllers with caching..<br>
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For us, with QCOW, the hypervisor seem to be limited by (also) doing lots of reads when writing.<br>
( I'm running CentOS. )<br>
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I'd do some performance testing for your expected workload. <br>
Starting a vm and doing a fio benchmark is not that time intensive :)<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Robert van Leeuwen<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 08, 2014 5:27 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> openstack@lists.openstack.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Openstack] which image format you use for qemu?<br>
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<div dir="ltr">hi guys,
<div>i have a question.<br>
<div>which format to use for qemu hypervisor for performance - raw or qcow2?</div>
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<div>Thanks</div>
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