Improve speed of qm importovf

[martind]

Hi all,

Trying to run an qm importovf from a NAS (1gb, no network congestion) but it's taking forever. The source file is 132GB (so quite large) but even then, I left it running over night (almost 24 hours now) and it had only completed 15% of the import. The source machine/host is entirely SSD based too, importing to local_lvm.

Is there any way to run this faster? My plan is to move everything away from ESXi entirely but this really puts a spanner in the works.

Thanks.

 

[Dominic]

Hi,

this seems really long to me, too. There are not many options to tweak, however. You would have benchmark your source & target storage as well as the network connection and then compare to how fast all those things are during the import to get an idea of what's going wrong.

It might help to track the problem down if you first copy the files from your NAS to some local storage, if you have a big enough one, and then importovf from that local storage to your local-lvm.