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From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
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Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] pvmove speed
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> I'm doing pvmove of some rather large volumes from a Dell Equallogic system to
> Dell Compellent. Both are connected on iSCSI to vmware and the guest OS seems
> to do this well, but it's slow. I get around 50MB/s at most, even though the
> Equallogic is connected at 4x1Gbps and the Compellent is on 10Gbps. Without
> multipath, this should give me 100MB/s or so, but then, I get half of that.
> Interestingly, the "utilisation" reported by munin shows me a 100% in total of
> the two devices compared, as in https://karlsbakk.net/tmp/pvmove-dev-util.png
> 
> Any idea why this utilisation is so high, and what I can do to speed this thing
> up? I'm at a 14 days mark to move these 40TiB or so, and I'd like to reduce it
> if possible. The backend is obviously not a problem here.

Anyone with an idea on this? I just don't think it makes sense...

Vennlig hilsen / Best regards

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