Thanks John, Yes, I’ve read this article, but thanks for pointing me at it again.
/ross On Aug 22, 2014, at 2:29 PM, John Dickinson <m...@not.mn> wrote: > You've actually identified the issues involved. Here's a writeup on how you > can do it, and the general best-practice for capacity management in Swift: > > https://swiftstack.com/blog/2012/04/09/swift-capacity-management/ > > > --John > > > > > On Aug 22, 2014, at 11:50 AM, Lillie Ross-CDSR11 > <ross.lil...@motorolasolutions.com> wrote: > >> All, >> >> I want to reconfigure a number of disks in my Swift storage cluster to >> reside in different zones, and I’m unsure of the best way to accomplish this. >> >> One way would be to set the drive weights to 0 and wait for data to migrate >> off the drives, then remove the drive from their current zone and re-add the >> drive to the new zone, rebalance and push the new ring files out to the >> cluster. >> >> Or I could simply remove the drives, re-add the drives to their new zones, >> rebalance and push out the updated ring files. >> >> Is one approach better than the other, or is there a better way than I’ve >> outlined above? Since any approach would be performed over a weekend, I’m >> not concerned about the effects of cluster performance as partitions are >> shuffled around. >> >> Thoughts and inputs are welcome. >> >> Thanks, >> Ross >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack >> Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org >> Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack
