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How to improve the nova storage performance

If you are using KVM for virtualisation in OpenStack, you might notice some big slowness with the virtual storage. You can improve the performance by using the hypervisor’s volume group directly.

You just need to create a volume group and specify that in /etc/nova/nova.conf.

libvirt_images_type=lvm
libvirt_images_volume_group=


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