proxmox only uses disk1 to proccess vms

DjMohsen

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proxmox only uses disk1 to proccess vms

hello;
i created 34 vm useing a template i created first, i selected disk2 for half of them,
when i power on all of vms, server with 48GB ram mostly hangs and io over 80,
now server has cool down and you can see only only disk #1 is read/write , but i want like vmware each vm proccess from their own disks,
vms has been set writeback ! and ext4 mounted with nobarrier. (<i know risk but i have to)


i want qemu uses half disk1 and disk2 same time to reduce io usage



iostat -dx 5
Linux 4.4.59-1-pve (ve) 05/13/2017 _x86_64_ (8 CPU)

Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await r_await w_await svctm %util
sda 0.90 5.48 139.47 53.64 3174.68 3994.95 74.25 11.71 60.64 45.15 100.93 2.13 41.06
sdb 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.09 0.00 14.86 0.00 0.55 0.50 6.40 0.54 0.00
dm-0 0.00 0.00 140.21 57.34 3173.94 3991.58 72.55 12.03 60.90 46.39 96.38 2.08 41.02
dm-1 0.00 0.00 0.17 0.84 0.67 3.37 8.01 0.02 23.70 18.72 24.68 3.38 0.34


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proxmox-ve: 4.4-87 (running kernel: 4.4.59-1-pve) pve-manager: 4.4-13 (running version: 4.4-13/7ea56165) pve-kernel-4.4.59-1-pve: 4.4.59-87 lvm2: 2.02.116-pve3 corosync-pve: 2.4.2-2~pve4+1 libqb0: 1.0.1-1 pve-cluster: 4.0-49 qemu-server: 4.0-110 pve-firmware: 1.1-11 libpve-common-perl: 4.0-94 libpve-access-control: 4.0-23 libpve-storage-perl: 4.0-76 pve-libspice-server1: 0.12.8-2 vncterm: 1.3-2 pve-docs: 4.4-4 pve-qemu-kvm: 2.7.1-4 pve-container: 1.0-99 pve-firewall: 2.0-33 pve-ha-manager: 1.0-40 ksm-control-daemon: not correctly installed glusterfs-client: 3.5.2-2+deb8u3 lxc-pve: 2.0.7-4 lxcfs: 2.0.6-pve1 criu: 1.6.0-1 novnc-pve: 0.5-9 smartmontools: 6.5+svn4324-1~pve80


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May 13 10:00:47 ve smartd[1049]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Prefailure Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed from 82 to 83
May 13 10:00:47 ve smartd[1049]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel changed from 57 to 58
May 13 10:00:47 ve smartd[1049]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 43 to 42
May 13 10:00:47 ve smartd[1049]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed from 55 to 56
May 13 10:01:11 ve systemd-timesyncd[569]: interval/delta/delay/jitter/drift 2048s/-0.000s/0.000s/0.000s/+2ppm

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win-srv2008

balloon: 416
bootdisk: ide0
cores: 1
cpuunits: 400
ide0: local:103/vm-103-disk-1.qcow2,cache=writeback,size=32G
memory: 544
name: ipv6-200
net0: e1000=CA:FE:7E:60:93:B7,bridge=vmbr0
numa: 0
ostype: win7
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=1cd21f9c-0535-4847-bca4-6f7ef886c4ce
sockets: 1
 
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i found why disk2 not used , because of wrong mount path.
now problem is this server hangs under 40 vm win srv 2008 , each has one google chrome browser running and no proccess,
what method can be better ? writeback or no cache ?? and default LSI??? ? or virtio?? (now is: writeback - virtio)