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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We need to remove a server node from our configuration (distributed volume). There is more than enough space on the remaining bricks to accept the data attached to the failing server; we didn’t know if
one process or the other would be significantly faster. We know shrinking the volume (remove-brick) rebalances as it moves the data; so moving 506G resuled in the rebalancing of 1.8T and took considerable time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Reading the documentation, it seems that replacing a brick is simplying introducing an empty brick to accept the displaced data, but it is the exact same process: remove-brick.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Is there anyway to migrate the data without rebalancing at the same time and then rebalancing once all data has been moved? I know that is not ideal, but it would allow us to remove the problem server much
quicker and resume production while rebalancing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Tami<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Tami McFarlin Greene<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Lab Technician<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">RF, Communications, and Intelligent Systems Group<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Electrical and Electronics System Research Division<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Oak Ridge National Laboratory<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Bldg. 3500, Rm. A15<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="mailto:greent@ornl.gov"><span style="color:#0563C1">greenet@ornl.gov</span></a> (865) 643-0401<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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