Re: [libvirt-users] How to best I/O performance for Window2008 and MSSQL guest VM

Hi There, I've moved some Windows2012 with MSSQL VMs from an hold ESXi 5.5 machine to a more recent and powerful machine running Fedora 24 x86_64 and related libvirt + KVM virtualization. I've moved the VMs filesystem to LVM slices and installed the VirtIO drivers in to all Windows VMs. I've also set both Disk and Network interface to work using VirtIO. So far so good everything works pretty fine. Now I would like to tune at best the MSSQL VM for both Disk and Network interfaces in order to get the best performance possible. Regarding network interface I've set it to work as bridge instead to go through to macvtap, so I'm not sure what is the best in this case. Regarding disk, since it's LVM I've chosen to go to cache mode none and IO mode native. Also here cannot judge what's the best setup for the workload. I'm undecided to use IO mode threads along directsync cache mode. Finally I've set "ionice -c 1 -p <qemu-pid> -n 0" and "renice -n -10 <qemu-pid>" for the interested VM that I want to get best performance possible. Even with the above setup, the MSSQL VM has performance similar to the old machine running ESXi 5.5, so does anyone can suggest where too look at and/or what would be the right setup? Thanks in advance. Roberto Fichera _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users