[gpfsug-discuss] AFM gateway node scaling

[Matt Weil]

thank you thank you... I would like to see that in IBM documentation
somewhere.

On 3/25/20 11:50 AM, Venkateswara R Puvvada wrote:
> Matt,
>
> It is recommended to have dedicated AFM gateway nodes. Memory and CPU
> requirements for AFM gateway node depends on the number of filesets
> handled by the node and the inode usage of those filesets. Since AFM
> keeps track of changes in the memory, any network disturbance can
> cause the memory utilization to go high and which eventually leads to
> in-memory queue to be dropped. After the queue is dropped, AFM runs
> recovery to recover the lost operations which is expensive as it
> involves creating the snapshot, running policy scan, doing readdir
> from home/secondary and build the list of  lost operations. When the
> gateway node goes down, all the filesets handled by that node
> distributed to the remaining active gateway nodes. After the gateway
> node comes back, filesets are transferred back to the original gateway
> node. When designing the gateway node, make sure that it have enough
> memory , CPU resources for handling the incoming and outgoing data
> based on the bandwidth. Limit the filesets per gateway(ex. less than
> 20 filesets per gateway)  so that number of AFM recoveries triggered
> will be minimal when the queues are lost. Also limit the total number
> of inodes handled by the gateway node across all the filesets (ex.
> less than 400 million inodes per gateway).  AFM gateway nodes are
> licensed as server nodes.
>
>
> ~Venkat (vpuvvada at in.ibm.com)
>
>
>
> From:        Matt Weil <mweil at wustl.edu>
> To:        gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org
> Date:        03/23/2020 11:39 PM
> Subject:        [EXTERNAL] [gpfsug-discuss] AFM gateway node scaling
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> Hello all,
>
> Is there any guide and or recommendation as to how to scale this.
>
> filesets per gateway node?  Is it necessary to separate NSD server and
> gateway roles.  Are dedicated gateway nodes licensed as clients?
>
> Thanks for any guidance.
>
> Matt
>
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