[Openstack] [OpenStack][Swift] Calculating necessary disk space with replication

Leander Bessa Beernaert leanderbb at gmail.com
Sat Jan 5 18:20:46 UTC 2013


Thanks for the info!

Regards,

Leander


On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Samuel Merritt <sam at swiftstack.com> wrote:

> On 1/3/13 7:07 AM, Leander Bessa Beernaert wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Could some please confirm my analysis of the ring creation in swift?
>>
>> I need to run a few benchmarks on a set of data (200GB) total and need
>> it to be replicated at least 3 times.
>>
>>  From the Swift docs [1], I understood that the command below create the
>>
>> ring for a partition sized 2^18 and 3 replicas.
>>
>> swift-ring-builder account.builder create 18 3 1
>> # swift-ring-builder container.builder create 18 3 1
>> # swift-ring-builder object.builder create 18 3 1
>>
>> Now, in my case i should use the values 28 3 1 right, or should i factor
>> in the replication and instead use 30 3 1?
>>
>
> Neither one. The partitions in the Swift ring are subsets of the range of
> a hash function; they don't have anything to do with the number of bytes of
> storage in your cluster.
>
> General rule of thumb is to figure out how many drives your cluster will
> ever have at its largest, and then choose the smallest part_power that
> gives you ~100 partitions per drive.
>
>
>  I have at the moment 1 proxy node and 5 storage nodes with a 200GB
>> storage partition. This won't be enough to accomodate everything right?
>>
>
> I don't see why not. You've got 200GB stored data * 3 replicas = 600GB raw
> data used, and you've got 1000GB of disk. Even with a little bit of
> overhead for accounts and containers, that's still plenty of disk.
>
>
>
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