Chapter 5. Placement group auto-scaling

How the auto-scaler works

The auto-scaler analyzes pools and adjusts on a per-subtree basis. Because each pool can map to a different CRUSH rule, and each rule can distribute data across different devices, Ceph considers utilization of each subtree of the hierarchy independently. For example, a pool that maps to OSDs of class ssd, and a pool that maps to OSDs of class hdd, will each have optimal PG counts that depend on the number of those respective device types.