Don't you also have the issue of having those nodes unavailable during the time 
when their IP changes and someone gets around to updating and re-propagating 
those rings right?  Depending on the size of that window and how much traffic 
is going on at the time you may very well end up with a lot of extra data 
movement as incoming data makes it to handoffs (assuming their  addresses 
didn't change) and then back again after the rings reflect the new addresses of 
the primary(ies).  

-Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: John Dickinson [mailto:m...@not.mn] 
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 11:54 AM
To: Jyoti Ranjan
Cc: openstack@lists.openstack.org
Subject: Re: [Openstack] [Swift] IP address of Swift nodes : need help

If the IP for a storage node changes, you'll need to update the rings where 
that server's drives are. You can update the IP with the `swift-ring-builder 
set_info ...` command and then use "write_ring" to serialize it. Doing this 
will not cause any data movement in the cluster. Removing the server and 
re-adding it to the ring will cause data movement.

So, no, it's not strictly necessary to use static IPs. You'll be saving 
yourself some management overhead if you do, though.

--John




On Aug 18, 2014, at 11:42 AM, Jyoti Ranjan <jran...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We are deploying Swift clusters where we do have IP addresses assigned to 
> Swift nodes via DHCP. Curious to know, what will happen if IP address of a 
> give node change that node is made part of Swift cluster. For e.g. let us 
> assume that Swift object node got IP 192.168.10.2 and later it changes to 
> 192.168.10.9 because of DHCP. Will running Swift cluster get affected?
> 
> In other words, is it necessary to use static IP for Swift nodes?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Jyoti Ranjan
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