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

Leandro Reox leandro.reox at gmail.com
Thu Nov 1 17:07:38 UTC 2012


Ale,

Guess that what
http://swiftstack.com/blog/2012/09/16/globally-distributed-openstack-swift-cluster/
link
latency feature is meant to be ... but John can confirm that :)

Best
Lean


On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Alejandro Comisario <
alejandro.comisario at mercadolibre.com> wrote:

> 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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