[CentOS-virt] 6.5 live migration speed

Fri Jan 10 09:35:29 UTC 2014
Ulrich Leodolter <ulrich.leodolter at obvsg.at>

hi,

we are using bonding interfaces and the the latest kernel solved
the problem, live migration runs stable at full bandwidth.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-0004.html

--
ulrich

On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 11:01 +0100, Ulrich Leodolter wrote:
> hello,
> 
> while upgrading a kvm virtualization cluster from c6.4 to c6.5
> and i am no longer able to control the migration speed.
> 
> in c6.4 the default speed was the maximum bandwidth (1g in my case)
> and the actual migration speed was about 100MB/s.
> 
> now in c6.5 the actual migration speed dropped down to about
> 25MB/s - 50MB/s,  it varies and sometimes during migration of
> huge machines (36GB) i was at 100MB/s, but only for seconds.
> 
> i tried also to set speed using this command:
> 
> virsh migrate-setspeed <domain> --bandwidth 1000
> 
> but it seems it has no affect,  i remember in c6.3 the default
> migration speed was 33% of total bandwidth and at that time
> the above command worked and 100% were used during migration.
> 
> can anyone confirm this ??
> 
> thanks
> ulrich
> 
> 
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