Testing Smartpools in a Simulator

Question

Greetings,

I have some upcoming work in our prod cluster, I will be removing 9 nodes. This is the Entire smartpool (Cluster has 4 distinct pools)

I have not yet had the privilege of decommissioning an entire pool and ideally would like to test it in a simulator.

I have an ESX host with the 7.2 simulator running a cluster now, It would be nice to build an example environment in the simulator for testing.

Is it possible to have multiple pools in a simulator environment ? How would I configure that ?

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Peter_Sero · Accepted Answer

You need an eval license for SmartPools to begin with, of course.

Then you can give isi storagepool a shot:

isi storagepool nodepools

Actions:

create Create a node pool.

delete Delete a node pool.

list List node pools.

modify Modify a node pool.

view View details for a node pool.

This new isi command didn't exist when I ran my SmartPools experiments on a virtual cluster,

but I managed to create separate pools... by some other means (support would get outright dizzy).

Now with isi storagepool it should work much cleaner, check it out.

hth

-- Peter

carlilek · Answer

I can't speak specifically to the simulator question, but I have decommissioned entire node pools. Typically you end up with an empty node pool left behind, and you have to call support to have them do a disi command to remove it.

Adam_M1 · Answer

Thanks PeterThat did work, Created a seperate nodepool and moved ~100GB of data onto it.while I was removing nodes from the cluster (smartfail the node) I managed to get the remaining nodes to report 33GB used out of 23GB

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Testing Smartpools in a Simulator

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