Announcing the first public release of balance, an automated,
intelligent and extensible AFS volume balancing tool. Avaliable at
export.acs.cmu.edu:/pub/balance.tar.Z
Balance will balance a set of AFS servers and partitions by size and
number of volumes per partition simultaneously (and usage per week if
you have a source license - talk to me), and is suitable for
unattended, automatic operation. Runtime parameters are tuneable:
limited runtime, number of simultaneous moves, number of total
transactions, preview mode and more. I strongly recommend this tool
toward large sites who need control over server utilization.
As this is the first public release, there are almost certainly a few
minor remaining wrinkles to be worked out; however, this tool has been
well tested here at CMU. I recommend a certain degree of caution, but
only that which you would normally excercise when throwing an
automatic tool at production fileservers. Convince yourself it works.
Please get in touch with me if you pull it down and test it out. I am
extremely interested in feedback. Currently known-working platforms
are hp700_ux90, pmax_ul4, and sun4* with various compliers under AFS
3.2a.
I am scheduling a BOF/WIP at the UG so interested folk can get
together.
thanks,
dan lovinger
cmu comp services
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
