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Status Not under consideration
Workspace AIX
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 5, 2015

AIX LVM "per node" preferred read option

Add a per node option to specify the logical volume preferred read method.
preferred read is currently a global LV setting. This is not optimal for failover in PowerHA environments. In a SAN environment it is necessary to choose the local LV copy independently on each node to get the best read performance.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Apr 18, 2023

    With a stretched cluster this is available. Assign a site to the mirror pools via smitty hacmp and change lvm prederred read to siteaffinity. Scheduling policy has to be parallel write / sequential read for each lv in the vg.

  • Guest
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    Sep 1, 2020

    It took you 5 years to find this out? I'm impressed.
    This RFE didn't say anything about not changing LVM to achieve the required functionality. Very sad. You're giving away a big possible performance gain.

  • Guest
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    Jul 15, 2020

    We save preferred copy value in LVM metadata to be persistent across varyoff/varyon. LVM (metdata) doesn't have any knowledge of which nodes the VG is varied on. Design limitation.

  • Guest
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    Jun 3, 2020

    It is good idea if we can setup preferred read per node. We save preferred copy value in LVM metadata to be persistent across varyoff/varyon. LVM (metdata) doesn't have any knowledge of which nodes the VG is varied on. From LVM design it is not possible to provide preferred read per node.

  • Guest
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    Feb 10, 2020

    It's 2020. How is it going?

  • Guest
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    Aug 29, 2016

    This is not going to be available in 2016 or 2017 fall plan. The earliest we can consider this is in 2018 fall plan, it is too early to decide.

  • Guest
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    Nov 6, 2015

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #79352 in product IBM AIX.

  • Guest
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    Nov 5, 2015

    I wanted to set this RFE public... the option was not selectable.
    Feel free to change the RFE to public, it might get a few votes more in this case :-)