Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

[Muhammad Yousuf Khan <sirtcp@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
> On 6/25/2012 3:08 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
>
>> agreed, KVM backup is is one of them. i am facing this problem most
>> often so as a workaround i need to backup all the VMs locally and then
>> i have to scp them to other network storage.
>
> scp is not the proper application for this due to overhead, and the fact
> that VM image files don't have security issues requiring encryption on
> the wire.  You should be using ftp or some other file transfer program
> that doesn't use encryption.

Thanks for the advice now i will create an ftp share for the VM database.

>
> With VM images you'll need to snapshot them anyway due to state.  And I
> suppose that you've tried to snapshot directly to a Samba share will
> poor performance.  Snapping to an iSCSI target should help here,
> assuming you do a god job with your self made storage host exposing the
> LUNs.

Yes snapping is the problem due to which i have to make the snapshot
on local drive and further i have to copy the whole stuff via SCP.
 do you think iSCSI LUNs are faster as FTP. or i should first make a
local copy then FTP to Storage?



Thanks


>
> --
> Stan