Hi,
As a rule of thumb how I worked around 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.
Regards,
Gabriel
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*From:* Pádraig Brady <P@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*To:* Balamurugan V G <balamuruganvg@xxxxxxxxx>
*Cc:* openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Sent:* Tuesday, March 5, 2013 1:20 PM
*Subject:* Re: [Openstack] [OpenStack] How to speed up the instance
launch time?
On 03/05/2013 11:03 AM, Balamurugan V G wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Folsom 2012.2 3 nodes setup like the one specified at
https://github.com/mseknibilel/OpenStack-Folsom-Install-guide/blob/master/OpenStack_Folsom_Install_Guide_WebVersion.rst.
Each node has a 1Tb hard disk with no raid.
>
> 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?
It sounds like you're using raw images throughout?
You might consider using qcow2 images in glance.
Then you can avoid the conversion to raw in the libvirt base
directory by setting force_raw_images=False in nova.conf
That will avoid some of the initial caching penalty.
Ensuring that you have use_cow_images=True set,
with use CoW images for the instances and improve
instance startup latency.
Details of the operations and tradeoffs involved are at:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/openstack_libvirt_images/
thanks,
Pádraig.
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