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Re: [Xen-users] domUs with iSCSI disks... connect in dom0 or domU?
xenusers wrote:
I don't know if this is something that is a simple matter of opinion
or if there are strong reasons to take one route or the other.
There are good performance reasons ...
Currently I have a few domUs running that have large-ish volumes on
the iSCSI SAN, and to present the volumes I'm connecting the dom0s
to the storage, then in the domU config I give it the iSCSI volumes
as 'phy:/dev/disk/by-path/ip-10.10.10.5-iqn....:volume1' and so on.
I'm wondering if instead it's considered better to simply have the
domU make those iSCSI connections, by giving it a second interface
that connects to a bridge with access to the iSCSI VLAN? I set one
up that way instead, and it works as expected though it seems to
perform less well in some admittedly simple tests using dd with
'oflag=direct' set.
It's been a topic of discussion here on and off in the past.
Basically, as you found, attaching the iSCSI volume in the DomU
results in a big performance hit, although IMO it is a much
preferable setup as it isolates the guest requirements from the host
and simplifies moving a guest.
AIUI, the networking in Xen is single threaded, and so your iSCSI
traffic competes for this single thread with all the other traffic. I
don't know about disks, but I strongly suspect support for them is
multi-threaded.
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