Yes Wido, it is exactly like you said. The more space you use the more IOPS are allocated to you. For managed storage like SolidFire, where you guarantee IOPS performance, we have to set it for each volume on the backend hence you need some kind of ratio to calculate the appropriate IOPS.
Thanks, -Syed On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 2:37 AM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: > > > Op 27 juli 2017 om 17:33 schreef Syed Ahmed <sah...@cloudops.com>: > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > I am planning to add 4 new parameters to the disk offering. The use case > > for this is as follows: > > > > We want to provide a provisioned IOPS style offering to our customers > with > > managed storage like SolidFire. The model is similar to GCE where we have > > IOPS scale with the size based on a predefined ratio. So for this I want > to > > add two options. minIOPSPerGB and maxIOPSPerGB. Now, based on what > storage > > you have, you have limits on the highest values for your min and max IOPS > > and after which you don't want to scale your IOPS (SolidFire for example > > can do 10k minIOPS and 20k max IOPS). To support this, I have to add two > > more parameters, highestMinIOPS, highestMaxIOPS. This should work with > > existing disk offerings without problem. I am looking for comments on > this > > approach. Would really appreciate your reviews. > > > > To clarify, this is where users can select the exact amount of GBs/TBs > they want, right? Like a slider, I want X GB. > > Since we already use this, but we have fixed Disk Offerings with IOps set > accordingly in our public cloud. The more space you take, the more IOps you > get. > > Just to clarify this for myself. > > Wido > > > Thanks, > > -Syed >
