@irtaza9 Why iDRAC and XCP-ng Backups Are Slow (I hope this is helpful, assuming I understand your topology and configuration correctly): • iDRAC Virtual Media / HTML5 Limits: iDRAC virtual media or browser-based streaming sessions are heavily throttled by encryption overhead and are not designed for bulk high-speed data exports. Furthermore, if the iDRAC dedicated network port is negotiated at 100 Mbps instead of 1 Gbps (check for an orange link light), transfer speeds will crawl. • Xen Orchestra (XOA) / XAPI Bottlenecks: XCP-ng exports VM data through the XAPI stack by generating compressed .xva streams or full backups, which can heavily tax CPU cores on the XOA/dom0 appliance and cap throughput around 50–80 MiB/s even on fast networks. So, check with top or xentop what your dom0 load is when you have an active backup to see if the CPU and/ or memory are overburdened. • CPU Starvation on XOA: Backup worker processes (backupWorker.mjs) can saturate available vCPUs on the Xen Orchestra appliance if it is only allocated 2 vCPUs. Again, check with top or xentop whetgher your vCPUS are saturated.

@zorro I would advise not backing up the same vms with both XO and veeam. One or the other. No did not see the update yet. I will look and check. Edit - thanks or pointing out the new version. I was still on 13.1.0.411. Downloading update now.

For some reason, we have the same issue (missing disks / snapshot-of) on our environment. (XO from source commit a5077) This is a major issue for us. We use Terraform to manage our VMs, and the missing VDIs are causing Terraform to fail. As a result, we are currently unable to manage our VMs using Terraform. ➜ dacsvm-db02 git:(main) tofu plan -var-file="dacsvm-db02.tfvars" module.vm.xenorchestra_vm.vm: Refreshing state... [id=e36fcd8a-b88c-42f7-6d61-2aa639f63b4a] Planning failed. OpenTofu encountered an error while generating this plan. ╷ │ Error: Could not find client.VDI with query: {VDIId:cad7d739-35c2-4585-9991-4c2f3fc6531c SrId: NameLabel: NameDescription: Size:0 VBDs:[] Parent: PoolId: Tags:[]} │ │ with module.vm.xenorchestra_vm.vm, │ on ../modules/vm/main.tf line 16, in resource "xenorchestra_vm" "vm": │ 16: resource "xenorchestra_vm" "vm" { │ ╵

@Velocity1192 If you can wait a little, we are atively working on the new XO6 backup job uI, that will come with some changes : one schedule per job, but with conditionnal actions You will run an incremental job, and will be able to define that the schedule of sunday is a full,and even run a healthcheck on it The ETA is on 6.11 ( next month release )

@nick.lloyd I'll look into the HA support, need to dig into that whats needed to support that. keep you posted

@acebmxer I haven't run your script, so I can't vouch for the log lines, but the systemctl status check looks like the safer of the two to me. It shows the binary the service is really running. Whichever node comes first in your shell can be a different one if more than one Node is installed. For XOA I'd go with what @Danp said above.

@blueh2o thanks for the log. In that run 16 of the 56 VMs failed this way, and each one names a different missing base, so it doesn't look like one damaged chain to me. That's past what I can work out on my own, so @Team-XO-Backend, this one has a version and a full job log attached above now if someone can take a look.

For anyone else who steps through this, I've also installed the latest xen-guest-agent with the below process. Repeat for each host in the environment, 1 at a time from your Helper VM. ### ssh into your helper ### oc debug node/fedora-cmp-1/2/3 chroot /host cd /var/tmp curl -LO https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen-guest-agent/-/jobs/6041686376/artifacts/raw/RPMS/x86_64/xen-guest-agent-0.4.0-0.fc37.x86_64.rpm sudo rpm-ostree install /var/tmp/xen-guest-agent-0.4.0-0.fc37.x86_64.rpm mkdir /var/tmp/xga && cd /var/tmp/xga rpm2cpio ../xen-guest-agent-0.4.0-0.fc37.x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmv ### From your helper... DRAIN YOUR WORKERS ### oc adm drain fedora-cmp-1/2/3 --ignore-daemonsets --delete-emptydir-data ### log back into fedora-cmp-1/2/3... ### sudo systemctl reboot ### from helper ### oc adm uncordon fedora-cmp-1/2/3 ### login to fedora-cmp-1/2/3 ### chroot /host sudo systemctl enable --now xen-guest-agent And then from XO this is what your VMs will look like. [image: image.jpeg]

Good to hear block mode did it. If I'm reading XO's troubleshooting page right, that 5-minute wait is a setting you can raise: httpInactivityTimeout under [xapiOptions] in a file like /etc/xo-server/config.httpInactivityTimeout.toml, then a restart of xo-server (https://docs.xen-orchestra.com/backups-and-dr/backup_troubleshooting#error-http-connection-has-timed-out). That path is the XOA one, and I don't know where the ronivay installer keeps its config, so check that first. The page calls it a workaround and says the slow host is the real thing to look at, which could fit your SMR-disk theory, but I haven't tried anything close to a 3 TB qcow2 delta myself. For the close() error, unless I'm misreading the code, XO closes the source after the failed start and only logs a warning before falling back to a full, so I'd guess it's noise from the timeout and not a second bug. The stuck tapdisks look more like one for @Team-Storage, and I don't know if a keep-alive during the delta computation is planned.

Sharing some results. I enabled this on my homelab server, a Dell R630 with Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4 (Broadwell). No adverse impact noticed. The CDM results on Windows is higher than previous runs however, I do not go in depth with I/O benchmarking. (I am using the latest win-pv-drivers on Windows and the rust-based guest tools on Linux) Controller is in HBA mode. VM SR is using SMAPIv3 (ZFS, RAID-0, noop scheduler) [image: R630_XCP-ng_APICv.png] CDM results. Windows Server 2019 4 vCPU/8GB RAM/single VHD: [image: 2610_WIN2019_ZFS.png] I installed ScyllaDB on Alma Linux 10.2 (4 vCPU/8GB RAM & two VHDs, ScyllaDB uses a dedicated drive for data) with io_uring enabled and noop scheduler set on VM. Here are the IOTune results from the ScyllaDB installation: Measuring sequential write bandwidth: 826 MiB/s (deviation 13%) Measuring sequential read bandwidth: 1061 MiB/s (deviation 6%) Measuring random write IOPS: 50791 IOPS (deviation 11%) Measuring random read IOPS: 62977 IOPS (deviation 16%)

@MrQ said: @jr-m4 thank you so much for testing this updated driver. Just to make sure, I understand now that you confirm the driver is working as expected and the issues you had were not related to it? Or are there any problems still with this new driver? Many thanks again for spending the time to test and report. Hi Yes. I believe I was chasing a red herring of my own doing. I have not found anything actually problematic with this driver at all.

@poddingue Thank you!

Hello Christof, Swapping the disks between the two VMs shows the problem follows whatever runs inside, not the VM itself. Next I would run xe vm-param-list uuid=<vm-uuid> on the host once with HAOS booted and once with Debian booted, and diff the two outputs. Fields like os-version, PV-drivers-version and networks are reported back by the running OS, so they change with the guest. My guess, and it's only a guess, is that one of them comes back in a shape Commvault's parser doesn't expect: "input string has the wrong format" is what .NET says when it fails to read a number. If you find the field that differs, Commvault support would have something concrete to work with.

OK, marking this solved... It was the phantom reboots causing issues because the tools were not fully installed, only thing I can't understand is why only 2 out of 3 Windows servers would quit. Any way, got the Xen Tools updated and a couple reboots later, everything is working again. Also I can now report that a bug that was fixed maybe a year ago is confirmed to work in my system. The bug was backing up a Windows VM that had a lot of empty space in the drive (over 250GB free) and turning on compression. It would time out counting zeros because it thought the process wasn't doing work. Both of these VMs are now compressing with zstd, one of them is substantially smaller now, the other only shrunk about 20GB. Because of the way Windows uses the drive, these are all full backups. The differential never seemed to be small because Windows does a lot of changes on the drive (there is a post about this somewhere in here from Olivier).

The UEFI and possibly SecureBoot requirements on a lot of stuff and going to turn a lot of old systems into garbage. Also going to be an issue when more current stuff gets upgrade from 8.3 in BIOS mode to requiring UEFI for version 9. That's the boat I'm in for production. Alma and openSuse may be a few of the last holdouts allowing v2 and BIOS boot.

@Tristis-Oris said: @DustinB said: 14 year old controller it supported and has a driver. Whats wrong? I can't find that storage adapter on the HCL, were you able to? But the summary I have here is replace the old really old adapter. How reliable can't this card still be after working for so long?

Hi, This was fixed in Latest. But if you need to stay on Stable, you can open a ticket to have a patch.