ECS: High network bandwidth consumption observed where replication groups (RG) not shared between VDC's

Summary: High network bandwidth consumption observed where replication groups (RG) not shared between VDC's and target VDC has full capacity

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Symptoms

High bandwidth usage observed between source and target VDCs.

Cause

Target cluster is full which means the metadata that needs to be replicated cannot be sent across  is retried at 5 minute intervals causing high network Utlisation. The data is not application data since no RG created but rather  metadata with namespace information shared between clusters.

Resolution

You can confirm if a replication group exists between target and source VDC's by checking the GUI on target VDC as below
If no replication group exists, yet network bandwidth is  saturated and target VDC is full then this issue has been encountered.
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Affected Products

ECS Appliance Software with Encryption, Elastic Cloud Storage
Article Properties
Article Number: 000183164
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 22 Aug 2022
Version:  6
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