Ce contenu n'est pas disponible dans la langue sélectionnée.
Chapter 8. Scaling storage capacity of GCP OpenShift Data Foundation cluster
To scale the storage capacity of your configured Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation worker nodes on GCP cluster, you can increase the capacity by adding three disks at a time. Three disks are needed since OpenShift Data Foundation uses a replica count of 3 to maintain the high availability. So the amount of storage consumed is three times the usable space.
Usable space might vary when encryption is enabled or replica 2 pools are being used.
8.1. Scaling up storage capacity on a cluster
To increase the storage capacity in a dynamically created storage cluster on an user-provisioned infrastructure, you can add storage capacity and performance to your configured Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation worker nodes.
Prerequisites
- You have administrative privilege to the OpenShift Container Platform Console.
- You have a running OpenShift Data Foundation Storage Cluster.
- The disk should be of the same size and type as used during initial deployment.
Procedure
- Log in to the OpenShift Web Console.
-
Click Operators
Installed Operators. - Click OpenShift Data Foundation Operator.
Click the Storage Systems tab.
- Click the Action Menu (⋮) on the far right of the storage system name to extend the options menu.
- Select Add Capacity from the options menu.
- Select the Storage Class. Choose the storage class which you wish to use to provision new storage devices.
- Click Add.
-
To check the status, navigate to Storage
Data Foundation and verify that the Storage System
in the Status card has a green tick.
Verification steps
Verify the Raw Capacity card.
-
In the OpenShift Web Console, click Storage
Data Foundation. - In the Status card of the Overview tab, click Storage System and then click the storage system link from the pop up that appears.
In the Block and File tab, check the Raw Capacity card.
Note that the capacity increases based on your selections.
NoteThe raw capacity does not take replication into account and shows the full capacity.
-
In the OpenShift Web Console, click Storage
Verify that the new OSDs and their corresponding new Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs) are created.
To view the state of the newly created OSDs:
-
Click Workloads
Pods from the OpenShift Web Console. Select
openshift-storage
from the Project drop-down list.NoteIf the Show default projects option is disabled, use the toggle button to list all the default projects.
-
Click Workloads
To view the state of the PVCs:
-
Click Storage
Persistent Volume Claims from the OpenShift Web Console. Select
openshift-storage
from the Project drop-down list.NoteIf the Show default projects option is disabled, use the toggle button to list all the default projects.
-
Click Storage
Optional: If cluster-wide encryption is enabled on the cluster, verify that the new OSD devices are encrypted.
Identify the nodes where the new OSD pods are running.
$ oc get -n openshift-storage -o=custom-columns=NODE:.spec.nodeName pod/<OSD-pod-name>
<OSD-pod-name>
Is the name of the OSD pod.
For example:
$ oc get -n openshift-storage -o=custom-columns=NODE:.spec.nodeName pod/rook-ceph-osd-0-544db49d7f-qrgqm
Example output:
NODE compute-1
For each of the nodes identified in the previous step, do the following:
Create a debug pod and open a chroot environment for the selected hosts.
$ oc debug node/<node-name>
<node-name>
Is the name of the node.
$ chroot /host
Check for the
crypt
keyword beside theocs-deviceset
names.$ lsblk
Cluster reduction is supported only with the Red Hat Support Team’s assistance.
8.2. Scaling out storage capacity on a GCP cluster
OpenShift Data Foundation is highly scalable. It can be scaled out by adding new nodes with required storage and enough hardware resources in terms of CPU and RAM. Practically there is no limit on the number of nodes which can be added but from the support perspective 2000 nodes is the limit for OpenShift Data Foundation.
Scaling out storage capacity can be broken down into two steps
- Adding new node
- Scaling up the storage capacity
OpenShift Data Foundation does not support heterogeneous OSD/Disk sizes.
8.2.1. Adding a node
You can add nodes to increase the storage capacity when existing worker nodes are already running at their maximum supported OSDs or there are not enough resources to add new OSDs on the existing nodes. It is always recommended to add nodes in the multiple of three, each of them in different failure domains.
While we recommend adding nodes in the multiple of three, you still get the flexibility of adding one node at a time in the flexible scaling deployment. Refer to the Knowledgebase article Verify if flexible scaling is enabled.
OpenShift Data Foundation does not support heterogeneous disk size and types. The new nodes to be added should have the disk of the same type and size which was used during OpenShift Data Foundation deployment.
8.2.1.1. Adding a node to an installer-provisioned infrastructure
Prerequisites
- You have administrative privilege to the OpenShift Container Platform Console.
- You have a running OpenShift Data Foundation Storage Cluster.
Procedure
-
Navigate to Compute
Machine Sets. On the machine set where you want to add nodes, select Edit Machine Count.
- Add the amount of nodes, and click Save.
-
Click Compute
Nodes and confirm if the new node is in Ready state.
Apply the OpenShift Data Foundation label to the new node.
-
For the new node, click Action menu (⋮)
Edit Labels. - Add cluster.ocs.openshift.io/openshift-storage, and click Save.
-
For the new node, click Action menu (⋮)
It is recommended to add 3 nodes, one each in different zones. You must add 3 nodes and perform this procedure for all of them. In case of bare metal installer-provisioned infrastructure deployment, you must expand the cluster first. For instructions, see Expanding the cluster.
Verification steps
Execute the following command the terminal and verify that the new node is present in the output:
$ oc get nodes --show-labels | grep cluster.ocs.openshift.io/openshift-storage= |cut -d' ' -f1
On the OpenShift web console, click Workloads
Pods, confirm that at least the following pods on the new node are in Running state: -
csi-cephfsplugin-*
-
csi-rbdplugin-*
-
8.2.2. Scaling up storage capacity
To scale up storage capacity, see Scaling up storage capacity on a cluster.