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Virtualization workshop: Revision 40
Materijali za Virtualizacija na Linuxu -- jednostavan izbor zar ne? HardwareHave many disks. More disk spindles brings more than capacity alone! (Same as in databases) SpeedDisk platter transfer speedIf you think that disk has constant transfer speed, ZCAV has interesting graphs Individial disksSlow laptop 2.5" 5400 disk dpavlin@llin:~$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sda /dev/sda: Model=FUJITSU MHV2080BH , FwRev=00840028, SerialNo= NW05T6B29HM5 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=8192kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=?16? CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=156301488 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 AdvancedPM=yes: mode=0x80 (128) WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: unknown: ATA/ATAPI-3,4,5,6,7 * signifies the current active mode dpavlin@llin:~$ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 1566 MB in 2.00 seconds = 782.85 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 66 MB in 3.03 seconds = 21.79 MB/sec Interesting numbers are BuffSize (cache in disk) and MaxMultSect which we want to use for read-ahead param: hdparm -m 16 -a 16 /dev/sda This will decrease a bit speed of linerar buffer reads which hdparm uses, but we will pull from disk only blocks which are allready in cache, improving random read/write performance. To find optimal readahead for your drive using hdparm access pattern you can use hdparm-readahead.pl which will try different combinations for you. Faster (!) external 3.5 USB disk (no hdparm -i on USB), but just because it's another disk not loaded by system. dpavlin@llin:~$ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads: 1508 MB in 2.00 seconds = 753.72 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 56 MB in 3.03 seconds = 18.48 MB/sec Software RAIDHome-made software md RAID 5 array from SATA drives:
Note nice usage of construction metal stripes with holes which is usually used to hold fence. It has holes just the right size for screws to go through and hold disks nicely spaced (although a little bit more space would be ideal). It's soft enough to be bent at corners to produce nice and leveled space between it and case. Blog post RAID5 for home describes setup in some details. Drive info: dpavlin@brr:~$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sdd /dev/sdd: Model=WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA0 , FwRev=12.01C02, SerialNo= WD-WCAS80929678 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR>5Mbs FmtGapReq } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=50 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=16384kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=?16? CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=976773168 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: Unspecified: ATA/ATAPI-1,2,3,4,5,6,7 * signifies the current active mode Speed of individual drives in array: dpavlin@brr:~$ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdd /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 1982 MB in 2.00 seconds = 991.18 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 232 MB in 3.03 seconds = 76.67 MB/sec /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads: 2010 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1004.95 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 228 MB in 3.01 seconds = 75.85 MB/sec /dev/sdd: Timing cached reads: 2006 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1003.01 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 230 MB in 3.01 seconds = 76.47 MB/sec How are hey assembled into /dev/md0 RAID 5 array: dpavlin@brr:~$ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md0 : active raid5 sdd1[0] sda1[2] sdb1[1] 976767872 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU] Speed of array dpavlin@brr:~$ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Timing cached reads: 1986 MB in 2.00 seconds = 993.20 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 434 MB in 3.01 seconds = 144.41 MB/sec As expected RAID 5 speed is 75 + 75 + 0 (parity disk) ~ 144 MB/sec TemperatureDisks don't like it hot! root@brr:~# hddtemp /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdd /dev/sda: WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA0: 33°C /dev/sdb: WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA0: 32°C /dev/sdd: WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA0: 32°C On output above, middle disk is /dev/sda so it's 1° hotter than other two. I could mitigate this with additional fan on front of case, but it's making enough noise already, so I'll leave it as is. Data securitySmartroot@brr:~# smartctl --all /dev/sda | head -20 smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Caviar Second Generation Serial ATA family Device Model: WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA0 Serial Number: WD-WCAS80815866 Firmware Version: 12.01C02 User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Sat Oct 11 00:27:01 2008 CEST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED Before you start to beleve in SMART as solution to all disk health problems, read Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population
See also Bad block HOWTO for smartmontools if you ever get smart errors and don't just want to throw out your disk. RAIDAlso interesting is Some RAID Issues Read also Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009 CPUSupport for hardware virtualization: egrep '^flags.*(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo
How much CPU do I use? :-) dpavlin@brr:~$ cpufreq-info cpufrequtils 004: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2006 Report errors and bugs to cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk, please. analyzing CPU 0: driver: acpi-cpufreq CPUs which need to switch frequency at the same time: 0 hardware limits: 2.40 GHz - 3.20 GHz available frequency steps: 3.20 GHz, 2.80 GHz, 2.40 GHz available cpufreq governors: userspace, powersave, ondemand, conservative, performance current policy: frequency should be within 2.40 GHz and 3.20 GHz. The governor "ondemand" may decide which speed to use within this range. current CPU frequency is 2.40 GHz. cpufreq stats: 3.20 GHz:1.80%, 2.80 GHz:0.00%, 2.40 GHz:98.20% (17) KVMhttp://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/FAQ Installsudo apt-get install kvm Migrationhttp://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Migration
Prepare shared disk imageUsually, you will use nfs for this. Edit /etc/exports and add something like (if your local network is 192.168.1.x): /rest 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw) And start nfs server dpavlin@llin:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-user-server start New targetMount shared storage and run qemu which will receive running machine dpavlin@squeak:~$ mkdir mnt/rest dpavlin@squeak:~$ sudo mount 192.168.1.13:/rest mnt/rest/ dpavlin@squeak:~$ ls -al mnt/rest/iso/gparted-live-0.3.9-4.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 dpavlin dpavlin 98347008 Oct 9 17:31 mnt/rest/iso/gparted-live-0.3.9-4.iso dpavlin@squeak:~$ kvm -cdrom mnt/rest/iso/gparted-live-0.3.9-4.iso -incoming tcp://0:4444 -monitor stdio Running sourcedpavlin@llin:~$ kvm -m 128 -cdrom /rest/iso/gparted-live-0.3.9-4.iso -monitor stdio -no-kvm QEMU 0.9.1 monitor - type 'help' for more information (qemu) migrate tcp://192.168.1.30:4444 We use -no-kvm to disable kvm because our target machine doesn't have vmx|svm support! QEMU
Installationsudo apt-get install qemu kqemu-source kqemu module compilation on Debian: sudo module-assistant a-i kqemu VirtualBoxSeems to be best supported right now (package in Debian, optional drivers for Windows, starting unmodified VMWare machines -- after you guess right settings that is!)
OSE version (no USB!) comes in Debian, compile vboxdrv with: root@llin:~# module-assistant a-i virtualbox-ose OpenVZdisk speeddpavlin@zut:~$ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/cciss/c1d0 /dev/sda /dev/cciss/c1d0: Timing cached reads: 2184 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1092.39 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 324 MB in 3.02 seconds = 107.40 MB/sec /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 2144 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1071.89 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 136 MB in 3.02 seconds = 45.02 MB/sec Insert joke about enterprise storage Add disk space to VEFirst, resize logical volume: root@koha-hw:~# vgextend -L +80G /dev/vg/vz vgextend: invalid option -- L Error during parsing of command line. root@koha-hw:~# lvextend -L +80G /dev/vg/vz Extending logical volume vz to 100.00 GB Logical volume vz successfully resized root@koha-hw:~# resize2fs /dev/vg/vz resize2fs 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006) Filesystem at /dev/vg/vz is mounted on /vz; on-line resizing required old desc_blocks = 2, new_desc_blocks = 7 Performing an on-line resize of /dev/vg/vz to 26214400 (4k) blocks. The filesystem on /dev/vg/vz is now 26214400 blocks long. root@koha-hw:~# df -h /vz/ Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg-vz 99G 20G 79G 21% /vz Then, take a look how much space does VEs take: root@koha-hw:~# vzlist -o veid,diskspace,diskspace.s,diskspace.h,diskinodes,diskinodes.s,diskspace.h VEID DQBLOCKS DQBLOCKS.S DQBLOCKS.H DQINODES DQINODES.S DQBLOCKS.H 212052 11717220 15728640 20971520 61001 286527 20971520 212226 6407804 10485760 12582912 69011 435472 12582912 alternativly, you can also execute df inside VEs: root@koha-hw:~# vzlist -o veid -H | xargs -i sh -c "echo --{}-- ; vzctl exec {} df -h" --212052-- Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on simfs 15G 12G 3.9G 75% / tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm --212226-- Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on simfs 10G 6.2G 3.9G 62% / tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm next, we will set diskpace on both VEs (becase we want them to share all available resources) to new logical volume size: root@koha-hw:~# vzlist -o veid -H | xargs -i vzctl set {} --diskspace 100G:100G --save Saved parameters for VE 212052 Saved parameters for VE 212226 This VEs are not in production, and one is development version of another. When we move to production, we want to enforce more strict limit on disk usage, to protect production machine from running out of disk space in case the development one goes wild. VMWareConvert image to monolithic growable diskThis format is supported by other emulators, so it's a best choice. dpavlin@llin:/rest/vmware/winxp$ vmware-vdiskmanager -r Windows\ XP\ Professional.vmdk -t 0 /mnt/usb/vmware/win-xp.vmdk Using log file /tmp/vmware-dpavlin/vdiskmanager.log Creating a monolithic growable disk '/mnt/usb/vmware/win-xp.vmdk' Convert: 57% done. Resize disk imagedpavlin@llin:/mnt/usb/vmware$ qemu-img info win-xp.vmdk (VMDK) image open: flags=0x2 filename=win-xp.vmdk image: win-xp.vmdk file format: vmdk virtual size: 3.0G (3221225472 bytes) disk size: 3.0G There is a way to extend image using only qemu-img, but that involves converting image to raw and appending zeros at end to produce larger image. However, we will do that using VMWare's vmware-vdiskmanager dpavlin@llin:/mnt/usb/vmware$ vmware-vdiskmanager -x 6Gb win-xp.vmdk Using log file /tmp/vmware-dpavlin/vdiskmanager.log Grow: 100% done. The old geometry C/H/S of the disk is: 6241/16/63 The new geometry C/H/S of the disk is: 12483/16/63 Disk expansion completed successfully. WARNING: If the virtual disk is partitioned, you must use a third-party utility in the virtual machine to expand the size of the partitions. For more information, see: http://www.vmware.com/support/kb/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1647 This will make disk unbootable, so we will have to resize partition. Download GParted live CD and resize partition using it... kvm -m 512 -hda win-xp.vmdk -no-acpi -std-vga -cdrom /rest/iso/gparted-live-0.3.9-4.iso -boot d Convert vmdk to qcowdpavlin@llin:/mnt/usb/vmware$ qemu-img convert -O qcow win-xp.vmdk win-xp.qcow (VMDK) image open: flags=0x2 filename=win-xp.vmdk dpavlin@llin:/mnt/usb/vmware$ ls -al win-xp.* -rw-r--r-- 1 dpavlin dpavlin 3190906880 Oct 9 17:41 win-xp.qcow -rw------- 1 dpavlin dpavlin 3208577024 Oct 9 17:35 win-xp.vmdk Xendisk speedthis is domU root@vega:~# uname -a Linux vega 2.6.18-6-xen-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 16 23:42:47 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux root@vega:~# hdparm -tT /dev/hda1 /dev/hda1: Timing cached reads: 5488 MB in 2.00 seconds = 2750.74 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 318 MB in 3.00 seconds = 105.98 MB/sec Guest OSWindows
Remove them: cd c:\windows\system32\drivers del agp440.sys del intelppm.dll Startup script: # 3M RFID 810 usbdev=0403:6001 sudo chown -R $USER /proc/bus/usb/* kvm -m 512 -hda win-xp.vmdk -no-acpi -std-vga -monitor stdio -usb -usbdevice host:$usbdev USB sniffing: info usbhost SolarisIt will not boot pass "Loading Nexenta..." stage without kvm module loaded. # to install from iso image kvm -m 512 -hda solaris.vmdk -cdrom ../iso/nexenta-core-platform_1.0.1-b85-test4_x86.iso -boot d -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net user # run after installation kvm -m 512 -hda solaris.vmdk -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net user Darwin |