Search

5.2. Editing IO Threads

download PDF
If a virtual machine has more than one disk, you can enable or change the number of IO threads to improve performance.

Procedure 5.2. Editing IO Threads

  1. Select the virtual machine to be edited.
  2. Click Edit.
  3. Click the Resource Allocation tab.
  4. Select the IO Threads Enabled check box. Red Hat recommends using the default number of IO threads, which is 1.
  5. Click OK.
  6. Click the Reboot icon to restart the virtual machine.
    If you increased the number of IO threads, you must reactivate the disks so that the disks will be remapped according to the correct number of controllers:
    1. Click the Shutdown icon to stop the virtual machine.
    2. Click the Disks tab in the details pane.
    3. Select each disk and click Deactivate.
    4. Select each disk and click Activate.
    5. Click the Run icon to start the virtual machine.
You can view the IO threads by clicking Vm Devices in the details pane.
The assignment of disks to controllers displays only in the XML, not in the Administration Portal.

Procedure 5.3. Viewing Disk Controller Assignment

  1. Log in to the host machine.
  2. Use the dumpxml command to view the mapping of disks to controllers:
    # virsh -r dumpxml virtual_machine_name
Red Hat logoGithubRedditYoutubeTwitter

Learn

Try, buy, & sell

Communities

About Red Hat Documentation

We help Red Hat users innovate and achieve their goals with our products and services with content they can trust.

Making open source more inclusive

Red Hat is committed to replacing problematic language in our code, documentation, and web properties. For more details, see the Red Hat Blog.

About Red Hat

We deliver hardened solutions that make it easier for enterprises to work across platforms and environments, from the core datacenter to the network edge.

© 2024 Red Hat, Inc.