Thanks for your reply. Some follow up questions below : On Mar 20, 2013, at 5:35 AM, Алексей Бабутин <zorlaxpokemon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > dfs.balance.bandwidthPerSec in hdfs-site.xml.I think balancer cant help > you,because it makes all the nodes equal.They can differ only on balancer > threshold.Threshold =10 by default.It means,that nodes can differ up to 350Tb > between each other in 3.5Pb cluster.If Threshold =1 up to 35Tb and so on.
If we use multiple racks, let's assume we have 10 racks now and they are equally divided in size (350 TB each). With a default threshold of 10, any two nodes on a given rack will have a maximum difference of 35 TB, is this correct ? Also, does this mean the difference between any two racks will also go down to 35 TB ? > In ideal case with replication factor 2 ,with two nodes 12Tb and 72Tb you > will be able to have only 12Tb replication data. Yes, this is true for exactly two nodes in the cluster with 12 TB and 72 TB, but not true for more than two nodes in the cluster. > > Best way,on my opinion,it is using multiple racks.Nodes in rack must be with > identical capacity.Racks must be identical capacity. > For example: > > rack1: 1 node with 72Tb > rack2: 6 nodes with 12Tb > rack3: 3 nodes with 24Tb > > It helps with balancing,because dublicated block must be another rack. > The same question I asked earlier in this message, does multiple racks with default threshold for the balancer minimizes the difference between racks ? > Why did you select hdfs?May be lustre,cephfs and other is better choise. It wasn't my decision, and I probably can't change it now. I am new to this cluster and trying to understand few issues. I will explore other options as you mentioned.
