Troubleshooting Fibrechannel LVM provisioning speed

Dec 11, 2025
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I am currently testing Proxmox VE v9.1 in an enterprise environment with fibrechannel storage. I am using LVM(-thick) on FC (tech preview?).
Everything seems to work fine, performance tests in running vms are ok. But provisioning a new vm out of a template (with an empty 100 GiB disk) or cloning a vm is somewhat slow (8min for 100 GiB disk ~210 MiB/s on an IBM enterprise storage seems too slow).

This is my multipath.conf based on the documentation of IBM.
Code:
defaults {
    user_friendly_names yes
    find_multipaths yes
    polling_interval 5
    no_path_retry fail
    fast_io_fail_tmo 5
    dev_loss_tmo 120
}

blacklist {
    devnode "^sda$"
    devnode "^ram"
    devnode "^raw"
    devnode "^loop"
}

devices {
    device {
        vendor "IBM"
         product "2145"
         path_grouping_policy "group_by_prio"
         path_selector "service-time 0"
         prio "alua"
         path_checker "tur"
         failback "immediate"
         no_path_retry 5
         retain_attached_hw_handler "yes"
         fast_io_fail_tmo 5
         rr_min_io 1000
         rr_min_io_rq 1
         rr_weight "uniform"
    }
}

What would be possible troubleshooting steps?

Thanks a lot