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Keep-balance

Keep-balance enforces policies and generates reports about storage resource usage. It interacts with the Keep server and the metadata database (through the API server). Clients/users do not interact with keep-balance directly.

See also: Responsibilities:
  • Garbage collector: decide what is eligible for deletion (and some partial order of preference)
  • Replication enforcer: copy and delete blocks in various backing stores to achieve desired replication level
  • Rebalancer: move blocks to redistribute free space and reduce client probes
Example reports/queries:
  • for managers: how much disk space is being conserved due to CAS
  • for managers: how much disk space is occupied in a given backing store service
  • for managers: how disk usage would be affected by modifying storage policy
  • for managers: how much disk space+time is used (per user, group, node, disk)
  • for users: when replication/policy specified for a collection is not currently satisfied (and why, for how long, etc)
  • for users: how much disk space is represented by a given set of collections
  • for users: how much disk space can be made available by garbage collection
  • for users: how soon they should expect their cached data to disappear
  • for users: performance statistics (how fast should I expect my job to read data?)
  • for ops: where each block was most recently read/written, in case data recovery is needed
  • for ops: how unbalanced the backing stores are across the cluster
  • for ops: activity level and performance statistics
  • for ops: activity level vs. amount of space (how much of the data is being accessed by users?)
  • for ops: disk performance/error/status trends (and SMART reports) to help identify bad hardware
  • for ops: history of disk adds, removals, moves
Basic kinds of data in the index:
  • Which blocks are used by which collections (and which collections are valued by which users/groups)
  • Which blocks are stored in which services (local Keep, remote Keep, other storage service)
  • Which blocks are stored on which disks
  • Which disks are attached to which nodes
  • Aggregate read/write activity per block and per disk (where applicable, e.g., block stored in local Keep)
  • Exceptions (checksum mismatch, IO error)

Implementation considerations

Overview
  • REST service for queries
    • All requests require authentication. Token validity verified against Metadata server, and cached locally.
  • Subscribes to system event log
  • Connects to metadata server (has a system_user token), at least periodically, to ensure eventual consistency with metadata DB's idea of what data is important
  • Persistent database
  • In-memory database
Distributed/asynchronous
  • Easy to run multiple keep index services.
  • Most features do not need synchronous operation / real time data.
  • Features that move or delete data should be tied to a single "primary" indexing service (failover event likely requires resetting some state).
  • Substantial disagreement between multiple index services should be easy to flag on admin dashboard.

Updated by Tom Clegg about 7 years ago · 7 revisions