Configuring Balancer Settings

Provides an overview of the HPE Data Fabric disk space and replication role balancers.

You can use the disk space balancer and the replication role balancer to redistribute data and containers in the HPE Data Fabric storage layer to ensure maximum performance and efficient use of space. The disk space balancer works to ensure that the percentage of space utilized on all storage pools in the cluster is similar and prevent nodes from being overloaded. The replication role balancer changes the replication roles of containers so that the replication process uses network bandwidth evenly.

You can pipe the maprcli config load command through grep to view the balancer configuration values.

Example:
maprcli config load -json | grep balancer
         "cldb.balancer.disk.deltaToRepopulateStoragePoolsBins":"5",
         "cldb.balancer.disk.deltatorepopulatestoragepoolsbins":"5",
         "cldb.balancer.disk.max.switches.in.nodes.percentage":"10",
         "cldb.balancer.disk.overused.threshold":"90",
         "cldb.balancer.disk.sleep.interval.sec":"120",
         "cldb.balancer.disk.threshold.percentage":"70",
         "cldb.balancer.logging":"0",
         "cldb.balancer.role.max.switches.in.nodes.percentage":"10",
         "cldb.balancer.role.paused":"1",
         "cldb.balancer.role.skip.container.active.sec":"600",
         "cldb.balancer.role.sleep.interval.sec":"900",
         "cldb.balancer.startup.interval.sec":"1800",
         "cldb.disk.balancer.enable":"0",
         "cldb.role.balancer.replicascount.tolerance":"1",
         "cldb.role.balancer.replicassize.tolerance":"5",
         "cldb.role.balancer.strategy":"BySize",
        "prevent.volume.skew.by.diskbalancer":"0",

You can use the config save command to set the appropriate balancer configuration values.

Example:
maprcli config save -values {"cldb.balancer.disk.max.switches.in.nodes.percentage":"20"}
NOTE
By default, the balancers are turned off.
  • To turn on the disk space balancer, use config save to set cldb.disk.balancer.enable to 1.
  • To turn on the replication role balancer, use config save to set cldb.balancer.role.paused to 0.