I do not think collocate works for a replication target server. After
spending many hours removing over 300-filling volume by hand, as soon as
replication started from 2-source servers, over 100-new filling volumes
appeared!.
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Sasa Drnjevic <Sasa.Drnjevic AT srce DOT hr>
wrote:
> On 2017-04-24 19:24, Zoltan Forray wrote:
> > Collocation is also not a good choice. Since this is the replication
> > target and there are over 700-nodes, that would cause 700-filling volumes
> > at all times.
>
>
> No, if you collocate by group. So if for example you have 8 nodes in a
> group, they would all use a single volume to fill.
>
> But, of course - it all depends on the size of the nodes, size of the
> volumes, retention period, total capacity, etc
>
> And maybe you should consider converting your file pools to directory
> container pools since you are using dedupe... But, you better upgrade
> all servers to v7.1.7.x or v8.1 first...
>
>
> Regards.
>
> --
> Sasa Drnjevic
> www.srce.unizg.hr
>
>
>
>
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Sasa Drnjevic <Sasa.Drnjevic AT srce DOT
> > hr>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 24.4.2017. 15:29, Zoltan Forray wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 9:02 AM, Sasa Drnjevic <Sasa.Drnjevic AT srce DOT
> >>> hr>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> -are those volumes R/W ? if not, check ACTLOG
> >>>>
> >>>> -check MOUNTLimit for affected devclass(es)
> >>>>
> >>>> -check MAXSIze for affected stg pool(s)
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Hi Sasa,
> >>>
> >>> Thank you for the hints.
> >>>
> >>> Yes, all are R/W.
> >>>
> >>> How does MOUNTLimit and MAXSize (set to NOLIMIT) effect the fillings?
> >>
> >>
> >> In the case of disk which migrates to tape - if a disk volume is too
> >> small to hold a big file, data store process will mount and directly use
> >> tape instead of disk...
> >>
> >> Not, sure when only seq disk used...
> >>
> >> MOUNTLimit could make trouble if it's set too low, but it doesn't seem
> >> to be that in your case...
> >>
> >> the question is why it is not reusing 0,5% filling volumes... Can you
> >> try collocation on small group of nodes?
> >>
> >> Regards.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Sasa Drnjevic
> >> www.srce.unizg.hr
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
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