Re: [Xen-users] Poor Windows 2003 + GPLPV performance compared to VMWare

[James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is it AMD or Intel architecture?

You mention iSCSI... is your benchmark measuring disk activity or some 
combination of things to give a total performance benchmark?

If I understand correctly, you have iSCSI, then Xen, then GPLPV. Is there a way 
you could test iscsi performance in Dom0 without involving a DomU? The probably 
is that there are a few layers involved here so it's hard to know which one is 
letting you down.

James

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-users-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adam Goryachev
> Sent: Thursday, 13 September 2012 10:26 PM
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Xen-users] Poor Windows 2003 + GPLPV performance compared to
> VMWare
> 
> I have an application server running on MS Windows 2003, which was a clean
> install on VMWare last year (after a failed migration attempt to XenServer).
> 
> At this point, a benchmark (actually a live process run regularly on the
> machine) produced a result of 7800 to 7900 transactions per second
> 
> I've recently migrated this to Xen by:
> 1) Uninstall VMWare tools
> 2) Shutdown Windows
> 3) Use VMWare to download the vmdk
> 4) Write the VMDK file (dd) to the same LVM that contained the VMWare
> storage area (which was exported by iSCSI to VMWare
> 5) Installed Debian Testing with Xen 4.1
> 6) Using the exactl same iSCSI server/LVM config etc, started the VM
> 7) Installed the GPLPV drivers
> 
> Everything seemed to work, and all was good.
> 
> Then, the user ran the above process, and got consistently, results of approx
> 2500 transactions per second
> 
> I increased the vcpus from 2 to 4, but this didn't change the result at all.
> 
> I modifed the domU config for the disk line from hda to xvda, and the result
> increased slightly to 2560 / sec (these tests are just one off tests, no
> verification of actual performance increase etc...).
> 
> In any case, I seem to have a significant loss of performance on the domU
> when compared to VMWare.
> 
> The storage server/network is identical
> The dom0 machine is identical to the VMWare machine
> 
> Here is my current domU config file:
> 
> kernel        = "/usr/lib/xen-4.1/boot/hvmloader"
> builder        = 'hvm'
> memory        = 4096
> shadow_memory    = 12
> device_model    = '/usr/lib/xen-default/bin/qemu-dm'
> localtime    = 1
> name        = "vm1"
> cpus        = "2,3,4,5"    # Which physical CPU's to allow
> vcpus        = 4        # How many Virtual CPU's to present
> viridian    = 1
> disk = [
> 'phy:/dev/disk/by-path/ip-10.30.10.23:3260-iscsi-iqn.2012-06.domain:vm1-
> lun-0,xvda,w'
> ]
> vif        = ['bridge=xenbr0, mac=00:16:3e:39:10:1a']
> boot        = 'c'
> sdl        = 0
> vnc        = 1
> vncdisplay    = 10
> vncviewer    = 0
> vncconsole    = 0
> vncunused    = 0
> stdvga        = 1
> usb        = 1
> usbdevice    = 'tablet'
> acpi        = 1
> apic        = 1
> on_reboot    = 'restart'
> on_poweroff    = 'destroy'
> on_crash    = 'restart'
> audio        = 0
> 
> Any suggestions on how to improve performance would be greatly
> appreciated.
> 
> Thank you,
> Adam
> 
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> 
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