LVM thin storage on SUSE Virtualization: chunk sizes, tuning knobs and encryption

What a summer of work on SUSE Virtualization’s LVM CSI driver taught me: why a thin pool’s chunk size can cost you 98% of your IOPS, what changed upstream, the new VM storage settings in 1.9.1, and what encryption at rest costs.

October 9, 2026 · 6 min · Alejandro Bonilla