On 10/25/2019 03:25 PM, Ryan wrote:
Can you point me to the directions for the kernel mode iscsi backend. I was following these directions https://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/rbd/iscsi-target-cli/
If you just wanted to use the krbd device /dev/rbd$N and export it with iscsi from a single iscsi target, then you can use targetcli like described here: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/htm... Instead of /dev/sdb in the example you would just use /dev/rbd$N in the section "BLOCK (Linux BLOCK devices)". Maged and SUSE also have a special module but I am not sure where to get their kernels and manuals. Check out suse and petasan's sites for that.
Thanks, Ryan
On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 11:29 AM Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com <mailto:mchristi@redhat.com>> wrote:
On 10/25/2019 09:31 AM, Ryan wrote: > I'm not seeing the emulate_3pc setting under disks/rbd/diskname when
emulate_3pc is only for kernel based backends. tcmu-runner always has xcopy on.
> calling info. A google search shows that SUSE Enterprise Storage has it > available. I thought I had the latest packages, but maybe not. I'm using > tcmu-runner 1.5.2 and ceph-iscsi 3.3. Almost all of my VMs are currently > on Nimble iSCSI storage. I've actually tested from both and performance > is the same. Doing the math off the ceph status does show it using 64K > blocks in both cases. > > Control Values > - hw_max_sectors .. 1024 > - max_data_area_mb .. 256 (override) > - osd_op_timeout .. 30 > - qfull_timeout .. 5 > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 4:46 AM Maged Mokhtar <mmokhtar@petasan.org <mailto:mmokhtar@petasan.org> > <mailto:mmokhtar@petasan.org <mailto:mmokhtar@petasan.org>>> wrote: > > Actually this may not work if moving from a local datastore to Ceph. > For iSCSI xcopy, both the source and destination need to be > accessible by the target such as in moving vms across Ceph > datastores. So in your case, vmotion will be handled by VMWare data > mover which uses 64K block sizes. > > On 25/10/2019 10:28, Maged Mokhtar wrote: >> >> For vmotion speed, check "emulate_3pc" attribute on the LIO >> target. If 0 (default), VMWare will issue io in 64KB blocks which >> gives low speed. if set to 1 this will trigger VMWare to use vaai >> extended copy, which activates LIO's xcopy functionality which >> uses 512KB block sizes by default. We also bumped the xcopy block >> size to 4M (rbd object size) which gives around 400 MB/s vmotion >> speed, the same speed can also be achieved via Veeam backups. >> >> /Maged >> >> On 25/10/2019 06:47, Ryan wrote: >>> I'm using CentOS 7.7.1908 with kernel 3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64. >>> The workload was a VMware Storage Motion from a local SSD backed >>> datastore to the ceph backed datastore. Performance was measured >>> using dstat on the iscsi gateway for network traffic and ceph >>> status as this cluster is basically idle. I changed >>> max_data_area_mb to 256 and cmdsn_depth to 128. This appears to >>> have given a slight improvement of maybe 10MB/s. >>> >>> Moving VM to the ceph backed datastore >>> io: >>> client: 124 KiB/s rd, 76 MiB/s wr, 95 op/s rd, 1.26k op/s wr >>> >>> Moving VM off the ceph backed datastore >>> io: >>> client: 344 MiB/s rd, 625 KiB/s wr, 5.54k op/s rd, 62 op/s wr >>> >>> I'm going to test bonnie++ with an rbd volume mounted directly on >>> the iscsi gateway. Also will test bonnie++ inside a VM on a ceph >>> backed datastore. >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 7:15 PM Mike Christie >>> <mchristi@redhat.com <mailto:mchristi@redhat.com> <mailto:mchristi@redhat.com <mailto:mchristi@redhat.com>>> wrote: >>> >>> On 10/24/2019 12:22 PM, Ryan wrote: >>> > I'm in the process of testing the iscsi target feature of >>> ceph. The >>> > cluster is running ceph 14.2.4 and ceph-iscsi 3.3. It >>> consists of 5 >>> >>> What kernel are you using? >>> >>> > hosts with 12 SSD OSDs per host. Some basic testing moving >>> VMs to a ceph >>> > backed datastore is only showing 60MB/s transfers. However >>> moving these >>> > back off the datastore is fast at 200-300MB/s. >>> >>> What is the workload and what are you using to measure the >>> throughput? >>> >>> If you are using fio, what arguments are you using? And, >>> could you >>> change the ioengine to rbd and re-run the test from the >>> target system so >>> we can check if rbd is slow or iscsi? >>> >>> For small IOs, 60 is about right. >>> >>> For 128-512K IOs you should be able to get around 300 MB/s >>> for writes >>> and 600 for reads. >>> >>> 1. Increase max_data_area_mb. This is a kernel buffer >>> lio/tcmu uses to >>> pass data between the kernel and tcmu-runner. The default is >>> only 8MB. >>> >>> In gwcli cd to your disk and do: >>> >>> # reconfigure max_data_area_mb %N >>> >>> where N is between 8 and 2048 MBs. >>> >>> 2. The Linux kernel target only allows 64 commands per iscsi >>> session by >>> default. We increase that to 128, but you can increase this >>> to 512. >>> >>> In gwcli cd to the target dir and do >>> >>> reconfigure cmdsn_depth 512 >>> >>> 3. I think ceph-iscsi and lio work better with higher queue >>> depths so if >>> you are using fio you want higher numjobs and/or iodepths. >>> >>> > >>> > What should I be looking at to track down the write >>> performance issue? >>> > In comparison with the Nimble Storage arrays I can see >>> 200-300MB/s in >>> > both directions. >>> > >>> > Thanks, >>> > Ryan >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@ceph.io <mailto:ceph-users@ceph.io> >>> <mailto:ceph-users@ceph.io <mailto:ceph-users@ceph.io>> >>> > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@ceph.io <mailto:ceph-users-leave@ceph.io> >>> <mailto:ceph-users-leave@ceph.io <mailto:ceph-users-leave@ceph.io>> >>> > >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@ceph.io <mailto:ceph-users@ceph.io> <mailto:ceph-users@ceph.io <mailto:ceph-users@ceph.io>> >>> To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@ceph.io <mailto:ceph-users-leave@ceph.io> <mailto:ceph-users-leave@ceph.io <mailto:ceph-users-leave@ceph.io>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@ceph.io <mailto:ceph-users@ceph.io> <mailto:ceph-users@ceph.io <mailto:ceph-users@ceph.io>> >> To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@ceph.io <mailto:ceph-users-leave@ceph.io> <mailto:ceph-users-leave@ceph.io <mailto:ceph-users-leave@ceph.io>> >