Enabling and Configuring Replication Role Balancer

Describes how to use the Control System or the CLI to enable and configure the Replication Role Balancer.

Enabling and Configuring the Replication Role Balancer Using the Control System

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Procedure

  1. Log in to the Control System and click Admin > Cluster Settings > Balancer.
  2. From the Role Balancer section, set the Enabled slider to Yes .
  3. Select one of the presets or specify a custom value for the Concurrent Role Rebalancer and Delay for Active Data in Seconds settings. You can choose:
    • Presets:
      Default
      • Concurrent Role Rebalancer — 20%
      • Delay for Active Data in Seconds — 600 sec
      Rapid
      • Concurrent Role Rebalancer — 5%
      • Delay for Active Data in Seconds — 300 sec
      Moderate
      • Concurrent Role Rebalancer — 10%
      • Delay for Active Data in Seconds — 600 sec
      Relaxed
      • Concurrent Role Rebalancer — 25%
      • Delay for Active Data in Seconds — 1800 sec
    • Custom, use the slider to set the concurrent role rebalancer percentage and delay for active data in seconds.
    Here:
    Concurrent Role Rebalancer Specifies the maximum percentage of data affected by concurrent role rebalancer operations. The cluster will wait until the number of rebalancing operations affects less than this percentage of total data eligible for rebalancing.
    Delay for Active Data in Seconds At the time of calculation, the role rebalancer will skip any data that is active within this time interval. This prevents unnecessary tampering with data used in recent or ongoing computations.
  4. Click Save Changes for the changes to take effect.

Enabling and Configuring Replication Role Balancer Using the CLI

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You can use the config save command to modify the replication role balancer parameter values.

Example: # maprcli config save -values {"cldb.role.balancer.strategy":"BySize"}

The following table lists the replication role balancer configuration parameters with their default values and descriptions:

Parameter

Value

Description

cldb.balancer.role.paused

1

Specifies whether the role balancer runs:

  • 0 - Not paused (normal operation)
  • 1 - Paused (does not perform any container replication role switches)

cldb.role.balancer.strategy

 "BySize"

Specifies how the replication role balancer balances containers, either by size or count.

Use "BySize" or "ByCount" to indicate how role balancer balances containers.

cldb.balancer.role.max.switches.in.nodes.percentage

10

This can be used to throttle the role balancer. If it is set to 10, the balancer will throttle the number of concurrent role switches to 10% of the total nodes in the cluster (minimum 2).