Balancer Settings

The Balancer Configuration dialog enables you to configure the behaviors of the disk space and role replication Configuring Balancer Settings.

The Balancer Configuration dialog has the following elements:

  • Balancer Controls: Contains toggle settings for the Disk Balancer and the Role Balancer. Set a balancer's toggle to ON to enable that balancer.
  • Disk Balancer Settings: Configures the behavior of the disk balancer.
    • Disk Balancer Presets: These preconfigured settings enable quick setting of policies for Rapid, Moderate, and Relaxed disk balancing. The default setting is Moderate.
    • Threshold: Move this slider to set a percentage usage of a storage pool that makes the storage pool eligible for rebalancing operations. The default value for this setting is 70%.
    • % Concurrent Disk Rebalancers: Move this slider to set the maximum percentage of data that is actively being rebalanced at a given time. Rebalancing operations will not affect more data than the value of this slider. The default value for this setting is 10%.
  • Role Balancer Settings: Configures the behavior of the role balancer.
    • Role Balancer Presets: These preconfigured settings enable quick setting of policies for Rapid, Moderate, and Relaxed role balancing. The default setting is Moderate.
    • % Concurrent Role Rebalancers: Move this slider to set the maximum percentage of data that is actively being rebalanced at a given time. Role rebalancing operations will not affect more data than the value of this slider. The default value for this setting is 10%.
    • Delay For Active Data: Move this slider to set a time frame in seconds. Role rebalancing operations skip any data that was active within the specified time frame. The default value for this setting is 600 seconds.

Buttons:

  • OK - saves the settings
  • Cancel - exits without saving the settings