There are many variables around how you could run your virtual machines. How to locate those that affect I/O performance of your virtual machine? What does each of these options mean and how do they relate to each other? What are the newcomers in the family and how can they help? In this talk, Fam Zheng will take you through the configuration stack of virtual storage devices, decipher the parameters and give suggestions on how to tune for the best performance on your systems.
Fam Zheng is a senior software engineer in the Red Hat virtualization team. He worked on various aspects of QEMU and KVM in past years, and is now focused on VirtIO and block performance. and is a maintainer for a number of components of QEMU. Previously he has presented Userspace... Read More →