[PDF] Parallels Server 5 Bare Metal
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Configuring the Disk I/O Bandwidth<br />
Managing Resources<br />
In <strong>Parallels</strong> <strong>Server</strong> <strong>Bare</strong> <strong>Metal</strong>, you can configure the bandwidth virtual machines and Containers<br />
are allowed to use for their disk input and output (I/O) operations. Limiting the disk I/O bandwidth<br />
can help you prevent the situations when high disk activities in one virtual machine or Container<br />
(generated, for example, by transferring huge amounts of data to/from the virtual machine or<br />
Container) can slow down the performance of other virtual machines and Containers on the<br />
<strong>Parallels</strong> server.<br />
By default, the I/O bandwidth limit for all newly created virtual machines and Containers is set to 0,<br />
which means that no limits are applied to any virtual machines and Containers. To limit the disk I/O<br />
bandwidth for a virtual machine or Container, you can use the --iolimit option of the pctl<br />
set command. For example, the following command sets the I/O bandwidth limit for the MyVM<br />
virtual machine to 10 megabytes per second (MB/s):<br />
# pctl set MyVM --iolimit 10<br />
Set up iolimit: 10<br />
The VM has been successfully configured.<br />
To set the limit for a Container, just specify its ID instead of the virtual machine name and the -save<br />
option to save the changes to the Container configuration file, for example:<br />
# pctl set 101 --iolimit 10 --save<br />
Set up iolimit: 10485760<br />
Saved parameters for Container 101<br />
By default, the limit is set in megabytes per second. However, you can use the following suffixes to<br />
use other measurement units:<br />
• G: sets the limit in gigabytes per second (1G).<br />
• K: sets the limit in kilobytes per second (10K).<br />
• B: sets the limit in bytes per second (10B).<br />
Note: In the current version of <strong>Parallels</strong> Containers, the maximum I/O bandwidth limit you can set for a<br />
virtual machine and Container is 2 GB per second.<br />
To check that the I/O speed limit has been successfully applied to the MyVM virtual machine and<br />
Container 101, use the pctl list command:<br />
# pctl list MyVM -o iolimit<br />
10<br />
# pctl list 101 -o iolimit<br />
IOLIMIT<br />
10485760<br />
At any time, you can remove the I/O bandwidth limit set for the MyVM virtual machine and Container<br />
101 by running these commands:<br />
# pctl set MyVM --iolimit 0<br />
Set up iolimit: 0<br />
The VM has been successfully configured.<br />
# pctl set 101 --iolimit 0 --save<br />
Set up iolimit: 0<br />
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