[Openstack] [Swift] Question regarding global scaling

Adam Lawson alawson at aqorn.com
Fri Feb 21 21:50:50 UTC 2014


This is a first for me as well so I'm learning as I go here. But I'm
planning to build the rings with r1z100, r2z200 etc with each device. I
found help over at Swiftstack with their articles if that helps. More than
willing to share any/all successes we see along the way.


*Adam Lawson*
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On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Remo Mattei <remo at italy1.com> wrote:

> Just adding a question,
> what config options have you used to make the multi-region? I have done a
> few swift but none with multi.
>
> Thanks
> On Feb 14, 2014, at 15:59, Richard Raseley <richard at raseley.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Adam Lawson <alawson at aqorn.com> wrote:
>
>> Hola peoples.
>>
>> I'm working on a general purpose Swift deployment that needs to scale
>> globally. For example, nodes in West Coast, East Coast, EU and APAC. We
>> have a Swift PoC cluster that spans West Coast and EU and it works fine,
>> replicating using zones for now.
>>
>> For those who are scaling to that degree, are you building multiple
>> unique clusters and replicating between them somehow or using regions and
>> replicating within essentially one giant cluster and using affinity rules
>> like read_affinity and write_affinity*?
>>
>
> Utilizing the region capability of Swift is a good option depending on
> your use case (I've used a region-based configuration in one production
> deployment). Can you talk more about your data structure / access patterns
> in order to help myself (and others) give better advice?
>
>
>>
>> *Adam Lawson*
>> AQORN, Inc.
>> 427 North Tatnall Street
>> Ste. 58461
>> Wilmington, Delaware 19801-2230
>> Toll-free: (888) 406-7620
>>
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