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Chapter 7. Management of ceph-immutable-object-cache daemons
As a storage administrator, use the ceph-immutable-object-cache
daemons to cache the parent image content on the local disk. This cache is in the local caching directory. Future reads on that data use the local cache.
Figure 7.1. Ceph immutable cache daemon
7.1. Explanation of ceph-immutable-object-cache
daemons
Cloned Block device images usually modify only a small fraction of the parent image. For example, in a virtual desktop interface (VDI), the virtual machines are cloned from the same base image and initially differ only by the hostname and the IP address. During the bootup, if you use a local cache of the parent image, this speeds up reads on the caching host. This change reduces the client to cluster network traffic.
Reasons to use ceph-immutable-object-cache
daemons
The ceph-immutable-object-cache
daemon is a part of Red Hat Ceph Storage. It is a scalable, open-source, and distributed storage system. It connects to local clusters with the RADOS protocol, relying on default search paths to find ceph.conf
files, monitor addresses and authentication information for them such as /etc/ceph/CLUSTER.conf
, /etc/ceph/CLUSTER.keyring
, and /etc/ceph/CLUSTER.NAME.keyring
, where CLUSTER is the human-friendly name of the cluster, and NAME is the RADOS user to connect as an example, client.ceph-immutable-object-cache
.
Key components of the daemon
The ceph-immutable-object-cache
daemon has the following parts:
-
Domain socket based inter-process communication (IPC): The daemon listens on a local domain socket on start-up and waits for connections from
librbd
clients. - Least recently used (LRU) based promotion or demotion policy: The daemon maintains in-memory statistics of cache-hits on each cache file. It demotes the cold cache if capacity reaches to the configured threshold.
- File-based caching store: The daemon maintains a simple file based cache store. On promotion the RADOS objects are fetched from RADOS cluster and stored in the local caching directory.
When you open each cloned RBD image, librbd
tries to connect to the cache daemon through its Unix domain socket. Once successfully connected, librbd
coordinates with the daemon on the subsequent reads. If there is a read that is not cached, the daemon promotes the RADOS object to the local caching directory, so the next read on that object is serviced from cache. The daemon also maintains simple LRU statistics so that under capacity pressure it evicts cold cache files as needed.
For better performance, use SSDs as the underlying storage.
7.2. Configuring the ceph-immutable-object-cache
daemon
The ceph-immutable-object-cache
is a daemon for object cache of RADOS objects among Ceph clusters.
To use the ceph-immutable-object-cache
daemon, you must be able to connect RADOS clusters.
The daemon promotes the objects to a local directory. These cache objects service the future reads. You can configure the daemon by installing the ceph-immutable-object-cache
package.
Prerequisites
- A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
- At least one SSD for the cache.
Procedure
Enable the RBD shared read only parent image cache. Add the following parameters under
[client]
in the/etc/ceph/ceph.conf
file:Example
[root@ceph-host01 ~]# vi /etc/ceph/ceph.conf [client] rbd parent cache enabled = true rbd plugins = parent_cache
Restart the cluster.
Install the
ceph-immutable-object-cache
package:Example
[root@ceph-host1 ~]# dnf install ceph-immutable-object-cache
Create a unique Ceph user ID, the keyring:
Syntax
ceph auth get-or-create client.ceph-immutable-object-cache.USER_NAME mon 'profile rbd' osd 'profile rbd-read-only'
Example
[root@ceph-host1 ~]# ceph auth get-or-create client.ceph-immutable-object-cache.user mon 'profile rbd' osd 'profile rbd-read-only' [client.ceph-immutable-object-cache.user] key = AQCVPH1gFgHRAhAAp8ExRIsoxQK4QSYSRoVJLw==
Copy this keyring.
In the
/etc/ceph
directory, create a file and paste the keyring:Example
[root@ceph-host1 ]# vi /etc/ceph/ceph.client.ceph-immutable-object-cache.user.keyring [client.ceph-immutable-object-cache.user] key = AQCVPH1gFgHRAhAAp8ExRIsoxQK4QSYSRoVJLw
Enable the daemon:
Syntax
systemctl enable ceph-immutable-object-cache@ceph-immutable-object-cache.USER_NAME
Specify the USER_NAME as the daemon instance.
Example
[root@ceph-host1 ~]# systemctl enable ceph-immutable-object-cache@ceph-immutable-object-cache.user Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/ceph-immutable-object-cache.target.wants/ceph-immutable-object-cache@ceph-immutable-object-cache.user.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ceph-immutable-object-cache@.service. Start the
ceph-immutable-object-cache
daemon:Syntax
systemctl start ceph-immutable-object-cache@ceph-immutable-object-cache.USER_NAME
Example
[root@ceph-host1 ~]# systemctl start ceph-immutable-object-cache@ceph-immutable-object-cache.user
Verification
Check the status of the configuration:
Syntax
systemctl status ceph-immutable-object-cache@ceph-immutable-object-cache.USER_NAME
Example
[root@ceph-host1 ~]# systemctl status ceph-immutable-object-cache@ceph-immutable-object-cache.user ● ceph-immutable-object-cache@ceph-immutable-object-cache.user> Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ceph-immutable-objec> Active: active (running) since Mon 2021-04-19 13:49:06 IST; > Main PID: 85020 (ceph-immutable-) Tasks: 15 (limit: 49451) Memory: 8.3M CGroup: /system.slice/system-ceph\x2dimmutable\x2dobject\x2d> └─85020 /usr/bin/ceph-immutable-object-cache -f --cl>
7.3. Generic settings of ceph-immutable-object-cache
daemons
A few important generic settings of ceph-immutable-object-cache
daemons are listed.
immutable_object_cache_sock
- Description
- The path to the domain socket used for communication between librbd clients and the ceph-immutable-object-cache daemon.
- Type
- String
- Default
-
/var/run/ceph/immutable_object_cache_sock
immutable_object_cache_path
- Description
- The immutable object cache data directory.
- Type
- String
- Default
-
/tmp/ceph_immutable_object_cache
immutable_object_cache_max_size
- Description
- The maximum size for immutable cache.
- Type
- Size
- Default
-
1G
immutable_object_cache_watermark
- Description
- The high-water mark for the cache. The value is between zero and one. If the cache size reaches this threshold the daemon starts to delete cold cache based on LRU statistics.
- Type
- Float
- Default
-
0.9
7.4. QOS settings of ceph-immutable-object-cache
daemons
The ceph-immutable-object-cache
daemons supports throttling which supports the settings described.
immutable_object_cache_qos_schedule_tick_min
- Description
- Minimum schedule tick for immutable object cache.
- Type
- Milliseconds
- Default
-
50
immutable_object_cache_qos_iops_limit
- Description
- User-defined immutable object cache IO operations limit per second.
- Type
- Integer
- Default
-
0
immutable_object_cache_qos_iops_burst
- Description
- User-defined burst limit of immutable object cache IO operations.
- Type
- Integer
- Default
-
0
immutable_object_cache_qos_iops_burst_seconds
- Description
- User-defined burst duration in seconds of immutable object cache IO operations.
- Type
- Seconds
- Default
-
1
immutable_object_cache_qos_bps_limit
- Description
- User-defined immutable object cache IO bytes limit per second.
- Type
- Integer
- Default
-
0
immutable_object_cache_qos_bps_burst
- Description
- User-defined burst limit of immutable object cache IO bytes.
- Type
- Integer
- Default
-
0
immutable_object_cache_qos_bps_burst_seconds
- Description
- The desired burst limit of read operations.
- Type
- Seconds
- Default
-
1