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.
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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%.
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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