SolidFire Volume Options¶
The SolidFire driver options expose the size and quality of service (QoS) policies associated with the volume. When the volume is created, the QoS policy associated with it is specified using the -o type=service_level nomenclature.
The first step to defining a QoS service level with the SolidFire driver is to create at least one type and specify the minimum, maximum, and burst IOPS associated with a name in the configuration file.
Example SolidFire Configuration File with QoS Definitions
{
"...": "..."
"Types": [
{
"Type": "Bronze",
"Qos": {
"minIOPS": 1000,
"maxIOPS": 2000,
"burstIOPS": 4000
}
},
{
"Type": "Silver",
"Qos": {
"minIOPS": 4000,
"maxIOPS": 6000,
"burstIOPS": 8000
}
},
{
"Type": "Gold",
"Qos": {
"minIOPS": 6000,
"maxIOPS": 8000,
"burstIOPS": 10000
}
}
]
}
In the above configuration we have three policy definitions: Bronze, Silver, and Gold. These names are well known and fairly common, but we could have just as easily chosen: pig, horse, and cow, the names are arbitrary.
# create a 10GiB Gold volume
docker volume create -d solidfire --name sfGold -o type=Gold -o size=10G
# create a 100GiB Bronze volume
docker volume create -d solidfire --name sfBronze -o type=Bronze -o size=100G
Other SolidFire Create Options¶
Volume create options for SolidFire:
size- the size of the volume, defaults to 1GiB or config entry... "defaults": {"size": "5G"}blocksize- use either512or4096, defaults to 512 or config entryDefaultBockSize