[openstack] how to speed up live migration?

Fabian Zimmermann dev.faz at gmail.com
Thu Aug 4 09:34:39 UTC 2022


Hi,

take a look at:
https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/admin/configuring-migrations.html#advanced-configuration-for-kvm-and-qemu

esp. Auto-convergence and Post-copy

 Fabian

Am Mi., 3. Aug. 2022 um 12:43 Uhr schrieb Ignazio Cassano
<ignaziocassano at gmail.com>:
>
> Hello All,
> I am looking for a solution to speed up live migration.
> Instances where ram is used heavily like java application servers, live migration take a long time (more than 20 minutes for 8GB ram instance) and converge mode is already set to True in nova.conf.
> I also tried with post_copy but it does not change.
> After the first live migration (very solow) if I try to migrate again it is very fast.
> I presume the first migration is slow because memory fragmentation when an instance is running on the same compute node for a long time.
> I am looking for a solution considering the on my computing node I can have
> a little ram overcommit. Any case I am increasing the number of compute nodes to reduce it.
> Thanks
> Ignazio
>



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