Re: Using straw2 crush also with Hammer

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On 11/10/2015 09:49 PM, Vickey Singh wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Wido den Hollander <wido@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/09/2015 05:27 PM, Vickey Singh wrote:
>>> Hello Ceph Geeks
>>>
>>> Need your comments with my understanding on straw2.
>>>
>>>    - Is Straw2 better than straw ?
>>
>> It is not persé better then straw(1).
>>
>> straw2 distributes data better when not all OSDs are equally
>> sized/weighted.
>>
>>>    - Is it straw2 recommended  for production usage ?
>>>
>>
>> I'm using it in multiple clusters and it works fine.
>>
> 
> Yes i followed your update on twitter  :)
> 
> 
>>
>>> I have a production Ceph Firefly cluster , that i am going to upgrade to
>>> Ceph hammer pretty soon. Should i use straw2 for all my ceph pools ?
>>>
>>
>> I would upgrade to Hammer first and make sure that ALL clients are updated.
>>
>> In case you are using KVM/Qemu, you will have to stop those processes
>> first and start them again before they are using the new code.
>>
> 
> Thanks a lot for this pointer, i didn't knew this. So restarting KVM / QEMU
> process effect running VMs ? ( some downtime )
> 

Yes. You can also (live) migrate to another host since that will spawn
Qemu with fresh code on the other host.

But you have to make sure all running/connected clients support straw2
before you enable straw2.

> 
>>
>>> Also how can i change from straw to straw2. ( should i decompile crush
>> map
>>> and replace all straw with straw2) ?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, that's it. Extract, decompile, replace, compile, inject.
>>
>> $ ceph osd getcrushmap -o crushmap
>> $ crushtool -d crushmap -o crushmap.txt
>> $ <edit crushmap.txt>
>> $ crushtool -c crushmap.txt -o crushmap.new
>> $ ceph osd setcrushmap -i crushmap.new
>>
>> In case stuff goes wrong, inject the original crushmap.
>>
>> Wido
>>
> 
> Thank You so much for your time in replying to my queries :)
> 
> 
>>
>>> Please suggest
>>>
>>> Thank You in advance.
>>>
>>> - Vickey -
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Wido den Hollander
>> 42on B.V.
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>>
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