> On 26/03/2015, at 20.38, J-P Methot <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Lately I've been going back to work on one of my first ceph setup and now I 
> see that I have created way too many placement groups for the pools on that 
> setup (about 10 000 too many). I believe this may impact performances 
> negatively, as the performances on this ceph cluster are abysmal. Since it is 
> not possible to reduce the number of PGs in a pool, I was thinking of 
> creating new pools with a smaller number of PGs, moving the data from the old 
> pools to the new pools and then deleting the old pools.
> 
> I haven't seen any command to copy objects from one pool to another. Would 
> that be possible? I'm using ceph for block storage with openstack, so surely 
> there must be a way to move block devices from a pool to another, right?

What I did a one point was going one layer higher in my storage abstraction, 
and created new Ceph pools and used those for new storage resources/pool in my 
VM env. (ProxMox) on top of Ceph RBD and then did a live migration of virtual 
disks there, assume you could do the same in OpenStack.

My 0.02$

/Steffen 
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