Virtual HD Slow speed (NFS on hypervisor possible ?)

Computer Hardware & Server Infrastructure Builds
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Hello,

I have been using XCP-NG for 4 months and I am facing a read/write speed issue.
When I created my hypervisor physical server, I decided to build a RAID 10 array to improve speed and redundancy. Unfortunately, I discover that what was the bottleneck on my infrastructure was Virtual Drives. I made different tests in order to come to that conclusion. (Network, with/without RAID, local copies).
It might sound evident for you but was not the case for me :slight_smile:

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My question is :

Is it possible to install an NFS server directly on xcp-ng (not on a VM) in order to avoid this virtual drive speed issue ? If yes, is it not recommended for security issues for example ?

If you have other ideas to solve my problem don’t hesitate !

I think I could build a second machine only for my NFS but I would have to spend money again. And it would result in having 2 physical servers in my house…

Thank you very much for your help :slight_smile:

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I’d be interested to see what performance looks like for a VM with it’s VHD on SSD only and HDD only. Also, what OS is the VM running?

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You need a separate storage server that runs NFS.

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Thank you for your reply. I managed to get a physical machine and install a “RAID 10” with ZFS. I am now trying to configure NFS with Kerberos correctly.

But I have just one more question, sometime in Lawrence Systems YouTube videos, VM’s disks are stored on NFS via XOA, but result with this is the same as if I store the VM on local hard drives right ? Because what I will store on NFS is still Virtual hard drives, so I will still have this virtual hard drives speed issues ?
(I’m currently planning to mount NFS storage from my VM system directly)

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If you are using a NAS with NFS the speed is limited by the server and or by the network connection between the NAS server and XCP-NG.

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Thank you for your reply.
But you still have this hard drive virtualization layer ? If you look at your files in your NAS, it’s all virtual drives, not files right ?

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They are VHD files on the NFS share which are “Virtual Hard Drives”