Data Domain: How to verify large object conversion status after DDOS 6.1.2.5 or later version upgrade?
Summary: Data Domain: How to verify large object conversion status after DDOS 6.1.2.5 or later version upgrade?
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Issue:
Datadomain Cloud Tier customers are moving long-term retention data from their data centers to the cloud in order to reduce their costs. Cloud tier solution prior DD OS 6.1.2.5 version is not highly optimized. It is generating a large number of small objects results in higher transaction costs for the customer.
In addition, private cloud providers have expressed concerns about the metadata overhead caused by a large number of small objects. Data Domain generates objects of size 64K on average and in some instances, the metadata used to represent an object is larger than the object itself.
Solution:
In order to reduce the cost of tiering and metadata overhead large object size (LOS) support is introduced in DD OS 6.1.2.5 and later version
Requirements:
Process:
Allow system to complete first full cloud GC cycle
Review following information from daily autosupport reports for LOS conversion status after completing full cloud GC cycle
Cloud GC start and stop information
system.cloud_gc_start_date = 2018/11/28 08:40:34
system.cloud_gc_success_date = 2018/12/05 23:01:34
Check GC stats information
GC stats for Physical Cleaning on ECS Success 2 Aborted 2
GC select phase details: Recent Cumulative
Number of pre-LOS L0 containers selected: 28277944 66822319
Highlighted number shows number of container written with small object size prior to DD OS 6.1.2.5 or later upgrade
GC copy phase details: Recent Cumulative
Number of containers copied: 13607971 23906868
L0 copy forward container and region stats:
Number of L0 containers copied: 13362006 23371397
Number of pre-LOS L0 containers copied: 8278682 18288073
Highlighted number shows number of container written with large object size during this Cloud GC
Based on above information this system has (28277944-8278682) = 19999262 containers still pending for LOS conversion.
Following section of autosupport report shows commutative number of async request sent by Data Domain to ECS during this large object size conversion
CAL cloudunit-specific histogram for op latency with qdelay for small objects, unit: ECS, UUID: e5f628a176cd852b-755ce97d677xxxxx
op mean std-dev <100 ms <500ms <1s <5s <10s <30s >30s total max min
mc_async 6765.269ms 4401.129ms 0 170 91662 14206949 10135767 7926842 1108 32362498 533670.000 219.000
Datadomain Cloud Tier customers are moving long-term retention data from their data centers to the cloud in order to reduce their costs. Cloud tier solution prior DD OS 6.1.2.5 version is not highly optimized. It is generating a large number of small objects results in higher transaction costs for the customer.
In addition, private cloud providers have expressed concerns about the metadata overhead caused by a large number of small objects. Data Domain generates objects of size 64K on average and in some instances, the metadata used to represent an object is larger than the object itself.
Solution:
In order to reduce the cost of tiering and metadata overhead large object size (LOS) support is introduced in DD OS 6.1.2.5 and later version
Requirements:
- Data Domain system must be upgraded to DD OS 6.1.2.5 or later version
- ECS must be running minimum 3.2.1.0 version
- ECS usage will be inflated during Cloud GC due to copy forward phase. Hence it is recommended to ECS usable capacity under 70%.
- Multiple Cloud GC cycles will be required to convert current small objects to large object size
Process:
Allow system to complete first full cloud GC cycle
Review following information from daily autosupport reports for LOS conversion status after completing full cloud GC cycle
Cloud GC start and stop information
system.cloud_gc_start_date = 2018/11/28 08:40:34
system.cloud_gc_success_date = 2018/12/05 23:01:34
Check GC stats information
GC stats for Physical Cleaning on ECS Success 2 Aborted 2
GC select phase details: Recent Cumulative
Number of pre-LOS L0 containers selected: 28277944 66822319
Highlighted number shows number of container written with small object size prior to DD OS 6.1.2.5 or later upgrade
GC copy phase details: Recent Cumulative
Number of containers copied: 13607971 23906868
L0 copy forward container and region stats:
Number of L0 containers copied: 13362006 23371397
Number of pre-LOS L0 containers copied: 8278682 18288073
Highlighted number shows number of container written with large object size during this Cloud GC
Based on above information this system has (28277944-8278682) = 19999262 containers still pending for LOS conversion.
Following section of autosupport report shows commutative number of async request sent by Data Domain to ECS during this large object size conversion
CAL cloudunit-specific histogram for op latency with qdelay for small objects, unit: ECS, UUID: e5f628a176cd852b-755ce97d677xxxxx
op mean std-dev <100 ms <500ms <1s <5s <10s <30s >30s total max min
mc_async 6765.269ms 4401.129ms 0 170 91662 14206949 10135767 7926842 1108 32362498 533670.000 219.000
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Article Number: 000019583
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 26 Mar 2025
Version: 4
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