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Gary,
Thanks. Curretly, our upload speed is in the normal range?

Best Regards
-- Ray


On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Gary Kotton <gkotton at vmware.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> In order for the VM to be booted the image needs to be on a datastore
> accessible by the host. By default the data tore will not have the image.
> This is copied from glance tot he datastore. This is most probably where
> the problem is. This may take a while depending on the connectivity between
> the openstack setup and  your backbend datastore. Once you have done this
> you will see a directory on the datastore called vmware_base. This will
> contain that image. From then on it should be smooth sailing.
> Please note that we are working on a number of things to improve this:
>
>    1. Image cache aging (blueprint is implemented and pending review)
>    2. Adding a Vmware glance datastore – which will greatly improve the
>    copy process described above
>
> Thanks
> Gary
>
> From: Ray Sun <xiaoquqi at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <
> openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Date: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 4:30 AM
> To: OpenStack Dev <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Subject: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Vmware]Bad Performance when creating a
> new VM
>
> Stackers,
> I tried to create a new VM using the driver VMwareVCDriver, but I found
> it's very slow when I try to create a new VM, for example, 7GB Windows
> Image spent 3 hours.
>
> Then I tried to use curl to upload a iso to vcenter directly.
>
> curl -H "Expect:" -v --insecure --upload-file
> windows2012_server_cn_x64.iso "
> https://administrator:root123.@200.21.0.99/folder/iso/windows2012_server_cn_x64.iso?dcPath=dataCenter&dsName=datastore2<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=https://administrator:root123.%40200.21.0.99/folder/iso/windows2012_server_cn_x64.iso?dcPath%3DdataCenter%26dsName%3Ddatastore2&k=oIvRg1%2BdGAgOoM1BIlLLqw%3D%3D%0A&r=eH0pxTUZo8NPZyF6hgoMQu%2BfDtysg45MkPhCZFxPEq8%3D%0A&m=lhA2fUha%2FtHWjSl8QcZq5lQ9MSETFSwBcyKMNtXnhx0%3D%0A&s=e4e18c64b88329d7c54cdaef299e186aa13f2dd63f37654a0171a70d70b42cd3>
> "
>
> The average speed is 0.8 MB/s.
>
> Finally, I tried to use vSpere web client to upload it, it's only 250 KB/s.
>
> I am not sure if there any special configurations for web interface for
> vcenter. Please help.
>
> Best Regards
> -- Ray
>
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