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The setup is 3 clustered Proxmox for computations, 3 clustered Ceph storage nodes,

ceph01 8*150GB ssds (1 used for OS, 7 for storage)
ceph02 8*150GB ssds (1 used for OS, 7 for storage)
ceph03 8*250GB ssds (1 used for OS, 7 for storage)

When I create a VM on proxmox node using ceph storage, I get below speed (network bandwidth is NOT the bottleneck)

Writing to VM where hdd in Ceph

[root@localhost ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=./here bs=1M count=1024 oflag=direct
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 46.7814 s, 23.0 MB/s

[root@localhost ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=./here bs=1G count=1 oflag=direct
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 15.5484 s, 69.1 MB/s

Writing to VM where hdd in proxmox
for comparison, below is on a VM on proxmox, ssd same modal,

[root@localhost ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=./here bs=1M count=1024 oflag=direct
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 10.301 s, 104 MB/s

[root@localhost ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=./here bs=1G count=1 oflag=direct
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 7.22211 s, 149 MB/s

I have below ceph pool

size/min = 3/2
pg_num = 2048
ruleset = 0

Running 3 monitors on same hosts, Journals are stored on each own OSD Running latest proxmox with Ceph Hammer

Any suggestions on where should we look at for improvements? Is it the Ceph pool? Is it the Journals? Does it matter if Journal is in same drive as OS (/dev/sda) or OSD (/dev/sdX)?

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  • Large linear reads is not the best testcase for Ceph but there should be some improvements possible. What ssd are These? (SATA?) and what does the network look like? You might want to try 1/1 for size as with 3 hosts and triple redundancy there is no load distribution.
    – eckes
    Oct 13, 2017 at 2:26
  • Is Proxmox using a client lib to access a rdb or is this a kernel rdb device on the host or is it using a file image in cephfs?
    – eckes
    Oct 13, 2017 at 10:18

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You can increase disk throughput (MB/s) by set MTU to 9000 and change the I/O scheduler to noop.

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I am running the cluster with CEPH Hammer too. If you run OSD in Filestore format you have to use NVMe for journal, even if you are using SSDs as OSD.

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