Move Disk lvmthin slow

toomanylogins

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I have been moving some legacy Windows virtual machines from hyper V. I convert the vhdx to qcow2 and import the disc to the dir backup storage.
Here is my config.
dir: local path /var/lib/vz content iso,vztmpl,images shared 0 lvmthin: local-lvm thinpool data vgname pve content rootdir,images lvmthin: tosh-thinpool thinpool tosh-thinpool vgname tosh-thinpool content images,rootdir nodes pve dir: backup path /mnt/pve/backup content vztmpl,snippets,iso,rootdir,backup,images is_mountpoint 1 nodes pve prune-backups keep-last=3 shared 0 cifs: Server2019 path /mnt/pve/Server2019 server 10.10.1.37 share Proxmox content images,backup,iso domain prune-backups keep-all=1 username

Once I have imported the disk and the virtual machine is working okay I want to move the disc to the tosh-thinpool which is SSD. As they are Windows clients the hard disks created by hyper V are usually 127Gb or 256GB although most cases they have less than 20GB of data. When I tried to move the disk using.

qm move 109 scsi0 tosh-thinpool

This process is very slow. For example last night I left it running to move a 256Gb raw file with 100Gb of data. It was still running this morning and in total it took 10 hours.

I have tried moving both qcow2 and raw with same result. The only warning is I get a message warning me that the tosh-thinpool could run out this space. This is because the total of the nominal capacity is greater than 1TB but only 20% of this is used.

The server is dual CPU Fujitsu with LSI raid and battery cache. This must be a problem with my configuration and would appreciate any assistance.
Thanks
Paul
 
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Is moving to local-lvm faster?
Can you create an additional regular LVM storage on the SSD and compare the speed to the thin volumes?
 

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