Only updated one host in my pool so far, but it has my TrueNAS VM and network performance looks comparable

edit:

Actually quite an improvement in comparison to my results above

root@FILE001:~ # iperf -c 10.10.1.126
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 10.10.1.126, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 80.8 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  3] local 10.10.1.125 port 35576 connected with 10.10.1.126 port 5001
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  3]  0.0-10.1 sec  6.30 GBytes  5.36 Gbits/sec
root@FILE001:~ # iperf -s
------------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 64.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  4] local 10.10.1.125 port 5001 connected with 10.10.1.126 port 54773
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  4]  0.0-10.0 sec  3.57 GBytes  3.06 Gbits/sec

Also done a VM reboot now and no passthrough issues

@stormi Only updated my test host so far, but all looks good to me.... no passthrough issues!!!

Will try and update my pool over the weekend and run some FreeBSD speed tests before and after (been waiting for that patch to make it out into the world).

@stormi A bit late to the party again (must try harder ) as I have been moving my rack and my test host was not set up and main pool down to running on 2 hosts..... taking one more offline would make Ceph very unhappy!!!....

Anyway, both test updates applied to my test host and I haven't managed to break anything yet!!! So looks good from my point of view.

@stormi Security updates on April 1st

Updating my pool now.... quite a substantial speed increase on FreeBSD

root@FILE001:~ # iperf -s
------------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 64.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  4] local 10.10.1.125 port 5001 connected with 10.10.1.126 port 42952
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  4]  0.0-10.1 sec   694 MBytes   576 Mbits/sec
^Croot@FILE001:~ # iperf -c 10.10.1.126
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 10.10.1.126, TCP port 5001
TCP window size:  105 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  3] local 10.10.1.125 port 50605 connected with 10.10.1.126 port 5001
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec   202 MBytes   169 Mbits/sec
root@FILE001:~ # iperf -c 10.10.1.126
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 10.10.1.126, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 80.8 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  3] local 10.10.1.125 port 45072 connected with 10.10.1.126 port 5001
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  4.06 GBytes  3.49 Gbits/sec
root@FILE001:~ # iperf -s
------------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 64.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  4] local 10.10.1.125 port 5001 connected with 10.10.1.126 port 47101
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  4]  0.0-10.0 sec  2.17 GBytes  1.86 Gbits/sec
^Croot@FILE001:~ #

@stormi said in XCP-ng 8.2.0 RC now available!:

yum update uefistored

I could only get it (uefistored-0.2.6-1.xcpng8.2.x86_64) to update by yum update uefistored --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing

But it has done the trick. No toolstak restart or reboot needed either.

@stormi Nice to do something useful and give a little back, other than buying a XCP-ng cushion for my office!

Just got this working in my 3 host home setup..... But I'm looking to drop down to two hosts. Is it going to be usable with 2 hosts (I've seen the recommendation of 3+ at the top) and if so, what happens when you get down to 1 host whatever reason??? Are read / writes locked on the remaining host?

if this helps....

yum install --enablerepo=epel -y qemu-dp xenopsd xenopsd-cli xenopsd-xc xcp-ng-xapi-storage runx
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager

This system is not registered with an entitlement server. You can use subscription-manager to register.

Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * centos-ceph-nautilus: mirror.as29550.net
 * centos-nfs-ganesha28: mirrors.vinters.com
 * epel: mirror.freethought-internet.co.uk
Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
 * xcp-ng-base: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
 * xcp-ng-linstor: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
 * xcp-ng-runx: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
 * xcp-ng-updates: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
Package 2:qemu-dp-2.12.0-2.0.5.xcpng8.2.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package xenopsd-0.150.12-1.2.xcpng8.2.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package xenopsd-cli-0.150.12-1.2.xcpng8.2.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package xenopsd-xc-0.150.12-1.2.xcpng8.2.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package xcp-ng-xapi-storage-1.0.2-3.0.0.runx.1.xcpng8.2.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package runx-2021.1-1.0.0.runx.1.xcpng8.2.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

@olivierlambert ok, if its still planned to be a feature then I'm up for playing.... testing!!

@ronan-a is this the best way to get the template? The rest of the instructions look pretty simple to follow so I don't think I've got them wrong.....

xe vm-install template=Debian\ Buster\ 10 new-name-label=tempforrunx sr-uuid=7c5212f3-97b2-cdeb-b735-ad26638926e3 --minimal
this uuid is of the SR created by the step in the first post?

xe vm-param-set uuid=a2d46568-c9ab-7da2-57cb-d213ee9d8dfa HVM-boot-policy=""
uuid that is a result of the first step?

xe vm-param-set uuid=a2d46568-c9ab-7da2-57cb-d213ee9d8dfa PV-args=""
uuid that is a result of the first step?

xe vm-param-set VCPUs-max=2 uuid=14d91f2f-a103-da0e-51b3-21c8db307e5d
what is this uuid?

xe vm-param-set VCPUs-at-startup=2 uuid=14d91f2f-a103-da0e-51b3-21c8db307e5d
same again, where does this uuid come from?

xe vm-disk-remove device=0 uuid=cb5a6d67-07d5-b5ea-358a-7ee0d6e535af
and this one too?

xe template-param-set is-a-template=true uuid=a2d46568-c9ab-7da2-57cb-d213ee9d8dfa
uuid generated by the 1st step

Thanks.

It appears that the rollback worked, but doesn't appear to have an impact on my issue, which is good news in a way.

@stormi thanks as always. If I do find the issue I'll let you know..... if I break everything then I'll just get a

A bit late to the party....... Updated my pool and no oddities to report.

@stormi Applied ca-certificates along with the security patch and all is good in my pool.

Saw FreeBSD and got excited......

./install.sh 
Detected `FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p6' (FreeBSD version 12).

xe-guest-utilities-6.2.0_3 already installed
No updates required to this Virtual Machine.

At least the script now works.

@r1 Is this still in development; would like to get it working with 8.1?

Manually mounting the CephFS works, but the patch fails, probably not surprisingly; or is a GlusterFS approach a better option?

With Ceph Octopus and the cephadm approach setting Ceph up is really easy, so maybe this will become a more popular feature....?

@jjgg it would be great if we could get this working. My CPU utilisation is fine too, but when I shut down my Zoneminder VM things go a lot quieter (fans) so I'm sure there would be a benefit CPU and power wise.

Windows Home is 1 socket, Pro is 2 and Workstation / Enterprise is 4 apparently......

Windows Server is many more 64 apparently, currently I have 12 dual core sockets on my VM.

@wsciaroni just double checked, I see that too very early on and not for long, but then it boots.

Just downloaded this iso - http://releases.ubuntu.com/18.04.4/ubuntu-18.04.4-live-server-amd64.iso

Works on my E5-2697v3 and E5-2620 v4 both on a Supermicro X10DRi-T, (only one CPU in exch).