[Openstack-operators] [Openstack] [SWIFT] Rack-awareness

Alejandro Comisario alejandro.comisario at mercadolibre.com
Thu Nov 1 16:49:45 UTC 2012


John, what i think would be terrific ( i hope is not implemented, if not im
gonna feel a dunce ) if, for latency matters, suppose you have 4 zones, 2
on each datacenter, and on each datacenter, you have 2 proxies for example.

De idea would be that there were some kind of mechanism to tell the ring,
what nodes are under what proxies, to give some kind of prefferece
regarding latency, and for example not having a proxy on DC1 to cross the
country to get an object from a datanode in DC2.

Have you thought anything like it?
If not, im wondering how, for example rackspace handles this kind of issues
( ignoring all the CDN thing )

Cheers.

*---------------*
*Alejandrito*

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 12:55 PM, John Dickinson <me at not.mn> wrote:

> This is already supported in Swift with the concept of availability zones.
> Swift will place each replica in different availability zones, if possible.
> If you only have one zone, Swift will place the replicas on different
> machines. If you only have one machine, Swift will place the replicas on
> different drives.
>
> There are active discussions right now about how Swift can support a tier
> above these availability zones: "regions". A region would be defined by a
> hogher latency link and can provide additional data durability, and,
> depending on your deployment details, better availability.
> http://swiftstack.com/blog/2012/09/16/globally-distributed-openstack-swift-cluster/has more info on the ideas we're talking about.
>
> --John
>
>
>
>
> On Nov 1, 2012, at 8:45 AM, Leandro Reox <leandro.reox at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > Any plans to implement something like hadoop rack-awareness where we can
> define "rack" spaces to guarantee that a copy of an object is stored for
> example on another datacenter, on another coast. Or should this be managed
> by container sync to the other datacenter
> >
> > I think that this can be a nice-to-have feature, i dont know if its on
> the dev roadmap
> >
> > Best
> > Lean
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