[gpfsug-discuss] IO prioritisation / throttling?

Kumaran Rajaram kums at us.ibm.com
Fri Jun 23 14:36:34 BST 2017


Hi John,

>>We have a GPFS Setup using Fujitsu filers and Mellanox infiniband.
>>The desire it to set up an environment for test and development where if 
IO ‘runs wild’ it will not bring down
>>the production storage. 

You may use the Spectrum Scale Quality of Service for I/O "mmchqos" 
command (details in link below) to define IOPS limits for the "others" as 
well as the "maintenance" class for the Dev/Test file-system "pools" (for 
e.g., mmchqos tds_fs --enable  pool=*,other=10000IOPS, 
maintenance=5000IOPS).  This way, the Test and Dev 
file-system/storage-pools IOPS can be limited/controlled to specified IOPS 
, giving higher priority to the production GPFS file-system/storage (with 
production_fs pool=* other=unlimited,maintenance=unlimited - which is the 
default). 

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STXKQY_4.2.3/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v4r23.doc/bl1adm_mmchqos.htm
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STXKQY_4.2.3/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v4r23.doc/bl1adm_qosio_describe.htm#qosio_describe

My two cents.

Regards,
-Kums





From:   John Hearns <john.hearns at asml.com>
To:     gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org>
Date:   06/23/2017 04:14 AM
Subject:        [gpfsug-discuss] IO prioritisation / throttling?
Sent by:        gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org



I guess this is a rather ill-defined question, and I realise it will be 
open to a lot of interpretations.
We have a GPFS Setup using Fujitsu filers and Mellanox infiniband.
The desire it to set up an environment for test and development where if 
IO ‘runs wild’ it will not bring down
the production storage. If anyone has a setup like this I would be 
interested in chatting with you.
Is it feasible to create filesets which have higher/lower priority than 
others?
 
Thankyou for any insights or feedback
John Hearns
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