Virtual Machines running Windows get very slow and/or write a lot of data to Storage when doing trim/discard/unmap/defragmentation operations
Issue
- Running defrag command causes a high cpu load
- Runs for a very long time
- Causes all the data to be rewritten again instead of just trimming the drive
Environment
- Microsoft Windows Guests with virtio disks
- Red Hat Virtualization 4.4
- OpenShift Virtualization 4.11
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and 9
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