<div dir="ltr">We are in very similar situation. VT - ARC has a layer of SSD for metadata only, another layer of SSD for "hot" data, and a layer of 8TB HDDs for capacity. We just now in the process of getting it all into production.<div><br></div><div>On this topic:</div><div><br></div><div>What is everyone's favorite migration policy to move data from SSD to HDD (and vice versa)?</div><div><br></div><div>Do you nightly move large/old files to HDD or wait until the fast tier hit some capacity limit?</div><div><br></div><div>Do you use QOS to limit the migration from SSD to HDD i.e. try not to kill the file system with migration work?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Brian Marshall</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Buterbaugh, Kevin L <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Kevin.Buterbaugh@vanderbilt.edu" target="_blank">Kevin.Buterbaugh@vanderbilt.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>We just use an 8 Gb FC SAN. For the data pool we typically have a dual active-active controller storage array fronting two big RAID 6 LUNs and 1 RAID 1 (for /home). For the capacity pool, it might be the same exact model of controller, but the
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Kevin, out of curiosity, what type of disk does your data pool use? SAS or just some SAN attached system?<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family:Calibri">From:<span class="m_-4095158022254147304Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri"><<a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@<wbr>spectrumscale.org</a>>
on behalf of "Buterbaugh, Kevin L" <<a href="mailto:Kevin.Buterbaugh@Vanderbilt.Edu" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Kevin.Buterbaugh@Vanderbilt.<wbr>Edu</a>><br>
<b>Reply-To:<span class="m_-4095158022254147304Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>gpfsug main discussion list <<a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.<wbr>org</a>><br>
<b>Date:<span class="m_-4095158022254147304Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Thursday, December 15, 2016 at 2:47 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:<span class="m_-4095158022254147304Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Tiers<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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We’re a “traditional” university HPC center with a very untraditional policy on our scratch filesystem … we don’t purge it and we sell quota there. Ultimately, a lot of that disk space is taken up by stuff that, let’s just say, isn’t exactly in active use.<u></u><u></u></div>
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So what we’ve done, for example, is buy a 60-bay storage array and stuff it with 8 TB drives. It wouldn’t offer good enough performance for actively used files, but we use GPFS policies to migrate files to the “capacity” pool based on file atime. So we have
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1. the system pool with metadata only (on SSDs)<u></u><u></u></div>
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2. the data pool, which is where actively used files are stored and which offers decent performance<u></u><u></u></div>
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3. the capacity pool, for data which hasn’t been accessed “recently”, and which is on slower storage<u></u><u></u></div>
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I would imagine others do similar things. HTHAL…<u></u><u></u></div>
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On Dec 15, 2016, at 2:32 PM,<span class="m_-4095158022254147304Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:Mark.Bush@siriuscom.com" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Mark.Bush@siriuscom.com</a><span class="m_-4095158022254147304Apple-converted-space"> </span>wr<wbr>ote:<u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Just curious how many of you out there deploy SS with various tiers? It seems like a lot are doing the system pool with SSD’s but do you routinely have clusters that have more than system pool and
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">I know if you are doing Archive in connection that’s an obvious choice for another tier but I’m struggling with knowing why someone needs more than two tiers really.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">I’ve read all the fine manuals as to how to do such a thing and some of the marketing as to maybe why. I’m still scratching my head on this though. In fact, my understanding is in the ESS there
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">It does make sense to me know with TCT and I could create an ILM policy to get some of my data into the cloud.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">But in the real world I would like to know what yall do in this regard.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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