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June 22nd, 2015 17:00

Hot spare support in ScaleIO

Hello experts

        Is hot spare supported in ScaleIO?

  • alexkh

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    Posted June 28th, 2015 05:00

    Regarding question 2:

    As long as you do not delete the unavailable SDS, it's unused (free) capacity will be marked as unused-unavailable and it's used capacity will be reduced from the spare.

    Once the SDS was powered on, a rebalance will take place, at the end of which, the spare capacity will be back ot it's original size.

  • chi_sox

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    Posted June 22nd, 2015 17:00

    Hot spare space is reserved across all nodes. By default it should reserve enough space for a single node failure within a Protection Domain. This can be increased if you desire to have added protection.

    Reserving HS space across all nodes results to very fast rebuilds. Think of a 100 node Protection Domain, if one node goes down 99 will work to rebuild the data. It's a very parallel process.

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    Posted June 23rd, 2015 00:00

    Thanks first,could you help answer the following question?

    how many nodes can fail at the same time ?

  • Dd-ScaleIO

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    Posted June 23rd, 2015 03:00

    You can lose one node in each Protection Domain without losing access to data. If you define Fault Sets (which are groups of nodes inside a PD that do not protect each other) you can lose a Fault Set (which consists of several node) in each PD simultaneously.

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    Posted June 26th, 2015 00:00

    Hello experts

    About rebuild ,there are two questions that needs your answer.

    Q1>

    If one SDS server shutdown (or reboot),rebuild process will start immediately ? or it has one timeout time,for example 30 second ,rebuild will start after timeout

    Q2>

    Shutdown SDS server,and rebuild process finished. power on SDS server,will the devices in the SDS become available space ?

    Thanks in advance.

  • Jono_A

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    Posted June 26th, 2015 02:00

    Hi,

    The answers to your questions are below:

    Q1) Rebuild will occur immediately.

    Q2) The chunks no longer in use will become free space.