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Example


This example deploys a partitioned data grid across several machines. It demonstrates the Elastic PU elasticity, continuous high-availability and even data (primary) distribution across all existing resources available for the grid. As long as there is enough memory resources across the available machines, the data grid primary and backup instances will be provisioned , ensuring no data loss while spreading the instances evenly.

Setup

  • XAP 12
  • 4 VMs - XAP-1 , XAP-2 , XAP-3 , XAP-4
  • 8 GM RAM , 4 cores each

The Data-Grid cluster:
- 8 partitions with backup
- Offheap storage
- GSC size 500 MB heap

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Flow

  1. Start 4 VMs
  2. Start an agent on each machine. One machine acting as management machine running as well LUS and GSM.
  3. Deploy an Elastic PU. With our example we will deploy data grid using offheap storage mode.
  4. Shutdown one VM (XAP-4) to illustrate a full machine failure.
  5. IMDG Cluster rebalance automatically across 3 existing VMs. As 3 VMs can accommodate entire data set , no data loss. All primary and backup instances still running.
  6. Shutdown another VM (XAP-3). In this point half of the original grid failed.
  7. IMDG Cluster rebalance automatically across 2 existing VMs. As 2 VMs can accommodate entire data set , no data loss. All primary and backup instances still running.
  8. Start VM (XAP-3)
  9. IMDG Cluster rebalance automatically across 3 existing VMs. System increased its CPU capacity.
  10. Start another VM (XAP-4)
  11. IMDG Cluster rebalance automatically across 4 existing VMs. System increased its CPU capacity to the original size.

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Starting the agent

Management node (XAP-1)

./gs-agent.sh gsa.esm 1 gsa.gsc 0 gsa.lus 1 gsa.global.lus 0 gsa.global.gms 0 gsa.gsm 1

Other nodes (XAP-2, XAP-3 , XAP-4)

./gs-agent.sh gsa.esm 0 gsa.gsc 0 gsa.lus 0 gsa.global.lus 0 gsa.global.gms 0 gsa.gsm 0

Elastic PU

The Space pu.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:os-core="http://www.openspaces.org/schema/core"
       xmlns:blob-store="http://www.openspaces.org/schema/mapdb-blob-store"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.1.xsd
       http://www.openspaces.org/schema/core http://www.openspaces.org/schema/12.0/core/openspaces-core.xsd
       http://www.openspaces.org/schema/mapdb-blob-store http://www.openspaces.org/schema/12.0/mapdb-blob-store/openspaces-mapdb-blobstore.xsd">

    <blob-store:mapdb-blob-store id="offheapBlobstore"/>

    <os-core:embedded-space id="space" space-name="offheap-space">
       <os-core:blob-store-data-policy persistent="false" blob-store-handler="offheapBlobstore"/>
    </os-core:space>

    <os-core:giga-space id="gigaSpace" space="space"/>
</beans>

Deploying the elastic PU

The following command will start a stateful elastic PU with 8 partitions:

./gs.sh deploy-elastic-pu -type stateful -ha true -memory-capacity-per-container 500m -number-of-partitions 8 -puname offheap-space

You can see now in the Web Management Console that all machines and partitions are up and running:

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Shutting down XAP 4

Lets shut down instance 4. You will see in the web management console, that all instances have been distributed evenly across the rest of the available resources:

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PU Instances Distribution

You can see that all primary and backup instances have been provisioned into the other remaining VM’s:

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Shutting down XAP 3

Lets shut down instance 3. Again look at the web management console: image

You can see that all primary and backup instances have been provisioned into the other remaining VM’s:

PU Instances Distribution

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Restart XAP 3

Once you restart this instance, you will see that the existing primaries and backup instances are rebalanced over all three servers:

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PU Instances Distribution

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Restart XAP 4

Again, you will see that the existing primaries and backup instances are rebalanced over all four servers:

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PU Instances Distribution

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